Two hundred years passed away before the plebeians could obtain, not equality of political rights, but even a share in the ager publicus and an act of lenity in favour of debtors, overwhelmed with liabilities through incessant wars.
Gracchus persisted that the ager publicus belonged to the people, and that the race of yeomen, for whose protection the law had been originally passed, must be re-established on their farms.
They were parcels of the ager publicus, land belonging to the State, which, in spite of a law forbidding it, the great lords and commoners had appropriated and divided among themselves.
When Samnium and Tuscany were conquered, a third of the lands had been confiscated to the Roman State, under the name of Ager Publicus.
For two years the commissioners had continued to work, and in that time forty thousand families were settled on various parts of the ager publicus, which the patricians had been compelled to resign.
In this way large tracts of territory became Roman land, the property of the state or Ager Publicus.
Ager Publicus, and swallowed up the revenues due the treasury.
The smaller tenants on the 'Ager Publicus' in Roman provinces--The veterans 272 5.
The tendency towards a manorial management of the 'Ager Publicus,' or Imperial domain 300 9.
It was what we should now call "crown land,"--Ager Publicus.
It was then determined by the Emperor Vespasian that the ager publicus of Abonia should be colonized.
Colonization under the Roman empire meant the division solemnly made by the agrimensores, according to certain religious prescriptions, of a part of the ager publicus into shares.
The state possessed a large quantity of land called Ager Publicus, or the "Public Land.
He was the first to confiscate the lands of his political foes, and of communities which had resisted him, and treating them as ager publicus, assign them to his veterans as a prize.
Under this heading we deal with the disposal of the public land (ager publicus) of ancient Rome.
This measure finally settled the question of the Campanian land, which now passed out of the category of ager publicus.
They were parcels of the ager publicus, land belonging to the state, which, in spite of a law forbidding it, the great lords and commoners had appropriated and divided among themselves.
The explanation seems to be that for the ager publicus allotted under the Sempronian laws a small rent had been exacted, which was abolished by a law of B.
The ager publicus, taken from the Gauls then, was still mostly unoccupied.
He obtained for the soldiers large assignments of the Ager Publicus.
But comparatively few owned large estates as yet, or possessed large tracts of the Ager Publicus.
On his return home he passed through Tuscany where he was astonished to see large tracts of the ager publicus (see Chapter VII.
The poorer plebeian, therefore, always strove to have conquered lands divided, and not kept as ager publicus; while the landless men who got allotments at a distance were inclined to regard their migration as an almost equal grievance.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ager publicus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
