Before the distributions
made by the triumvirate, the public lands had been absorbed, or at least
the fragments remaining were in no way sufficient to recompense the service
of the veterans.
Upon the establishment of the empire, the public lands became a vast
manorial estate whose over-lord was the emperor himself.
[Footnote 1: L. Langii, Commentationis de Legibus Antoniis a Cicerone
Phil., V, 4, 10; Commemoratis particula prior et posterior; Lipsiae,
1882; Lange, _Roem. Alter._, III, 499, 503, 526; Marquardt u. Momm., _Roem.
Alter._, IV, 116.]
[Footnote 2: Lange, _Comm._, II, 14.]
[Footnote 3: Cicero, _Phil._, VI, 5, 14; XI, 6, 13.]
[Footnote 4: _Phil._, V, 7, 20.]
[Footnote 5: Langii, _Comm._, II, 14.]
[Footnote 6: Cic., _Phil._, II, 17, 43; II, 39, 101; III, 9, 22; VIII, 8,
26; Dio Cass., 45, 30; 46, S.]
[Footnote 7: Cic., _Phil._, V, 4, 10; V, 19, 53; X, 8, 17; VIII, 15, 31.]
[Footnote 8: [Greek: "Dosesi ton Italikon poleon oktokaideka ... osper
autois anti taes polemias dorilaeptoi genomenai.... Outo men ta kallista
taes Italias to strato diegrephon."] App., IV, 3.]
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