Aquileia. | " | 181 | 4,500 | 6 | 27,000 | 16,875
------------+-----------------+--------+-------+---------+---------+-------
Total ...................|226,000 |141,250
Civic Colonies ..........| 38,900 | 30,500
|---------|-------
Grand Total .............|264,900 |171,750
| | or
| | 268.36
| |Sq. Mi.
---------------------------------------------------------+---------+-------


[Footnote 1: I have not here added Roman conquests outside of the peninsula
of Italy, as these conquests were not treated as Roman territory until
nearly a century later.]




SEC. 9.--LATIFUNDIA.


"After having pillaged the world as praetors or consuls during time of war,
the nobles again pillaged their subjects as governors in time of peace;[1]
and upon their return to Rome with immense riches they employed them
in changing the modest heritage of their fathers into domains vast as
provinces. In villas, which they were wont to surround with forests, lakes
and mountains ... where formerly a hundred families lived at ease, a single
one found itself restrained. In order to increase his park, the noble
bought at a small price the farm of an old wounded soldier or peasant