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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor
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History is past Politics and Politics present History--_Freeman_
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NINTH SERIES
VII-VIII
PUBLIC LANDS AND AGRARIAN LAWS
OF THE
ROMAN REPUBLIC
BY ANDREW STEPHENSON, PH.D.
_Professor of History, Wesleyan University_
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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. The plan of the work has been to sketch the origin and growth of
the idea of private property in land, the expansion of the _ager publicus_
by the conquest of neighboring territories, and its absorption by means of
sale, by gift to the people, and by the establishment of colonies, until
wholly merged in private property.
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