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beyond the Picentine country on this side of Ari- 

 minum, was portioned out to settlers. In that land 

 occasionally ten cullei of wine are made to the 

 iugerumy And the same remarkable yield is ob- 

 served in the country about Faventia, for there the 

 vines are called trecenariae, on the ground that 

 the iugerum is reported to yield 300 amphorae, ^ 

 At this point, with a glance at me, he said. At any 

 rate, your head engineer, Libo Marcius, used to 

 assert that the vines on his farm at Faenza pro- 

 duced this quantity. 

 8 Two points above all others the inhabitants of 

 Italy seem to have considered in farming: Could 

 they get back a return proportionate to the labour 

 and expense? And was the situation healthy? If 

 either question has to be answered in the negative, 

 and a man still wishes to farm, he is mentally de- 

 fective, and had better be put in charge of his legal 

 guardians.'^ For no sane man should be willing to 



quered by Curius Dentatus. In 283 B.C. the Roman colony of 

 Sena Gallica was founded, and in 268 the Latin colony of 

 Arlminum. The Ager Gallicus remained ager puhlicus until 

 232, when, on the passing of the Lex Flaminia, proposed by 

 G. Flaminius in order to relieve over-crowding and distress at 

 Rome, it was portioned out to Roman colonists. 



' See note 2, p. 9. 



2 Ad agnatoset gentiles. G^w^/'/^^- were members of the same 

 gens who bore the same nomen and were supposed to be 

 descended from a common ancestor. Agnati were gentiles 

 on the male side who could prove their relationship. When a 

 man died without heirs of his body, his property devolved on 

 the agnati — failing these the gentiles divided it. 



If a man were mad, the agnatic or, failing them, the 



