Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic, by Andrew Stephenson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic Author: Andrew Stephenson Release Date: June 16, 2004 [EBook #12638] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUBLIC LANDS AND AGRARIAN *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Lesley Halamek and PG Distributed Proofreaders JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics present History—Freeman NINTH SERIES VII-VIII PUBLIC LANDS AND AGRARIAN LAWS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC BY ANDREW STEPHENSON, PH.D. Professor of History, Wesleyan University BALTIMORE THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS JULY-AUGUST, 1891 Copyright, 1891, BY THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS. PREFACE. In the following pages it has been my object to trace the history of the domain lands of Rome from the earliest times to the establishment of the Empire.