Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
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[Footnote 1: M. Bureau de la Malle, _Ec. polit. des Romains,_ch. 15, p.
143; ch. 2, p.231.] [Footnote 2: Plutarch, _Cato the Censor,_6 and 7.] [Footnote 3: Horace, Sat. II, 7; v. 42-43: "Quid? si me stultior ipso quingentis empto drachmis, deprehenderis."] [Footnote 4: Diodorus, Siculus, Fg. of Bk. XXXIV.] [Footnote 5: Varro, _De R.R. Proem. _3, 4.] [Footnote 6: Livy, XXII, 15.] SEC. 11.--LEX SEMPRONIA TIBERIANA. In 133, more than two centuries after the enactment of the law of Licinius Stolo, Tiberius Gracchus, tribune of the people for that year, brought forward a bill which was in fact little less than a renewal of the old law. It provided that no one should occupy more than five hundred jugera of the _ager publicus, _with the proviso that any father could reserve[1] 250 jugera for each son.[2] This law differed from that of Licinius in that it guaranteed permanent possession of this amount to the occupier and his heirs forever.[3] Other clauses were subjoined providing for the payment[4] of some equivalent to the rich for the improvements and the buildings upon the surrendered estates, and ordering the division of the domain thus |
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