Had they come across what was later to be known as the ager romanus from the Latin stronghold of Alba Longa, or were they a mixed people, partly composed of those men from Etruria who were already settled in the country round?
Linkin ses Seward reminds him of fellers he's seen out West who had the ager and fever.
It takes him all the time to shake, and it takes all his money to buy his ager medicine.
I'm having hard enough dodging to keep clear of fever'n ager now," he told us.
The boundary of the Ager Romanus antiquus towards the north-west is similarly fixed by the festival of the Robigalia at the 5th milestone of the Via Clodia.
Each had its special limited sphere of action; and some were now localised within the pomoerium, or just outside it within the ager Romanus, and worshipped under a particular name.
The religious precautions thus taken in April were not renewed in May; but at the end of that month of ripening the whole of the ager Romanus was lustrated by the Fratres Arvales.
The rule seems to have been that no prodigia were accepted, and procurata by the authorities, which were announced from beyond the ager Romanus.
Massicus with the ager Falernus on its southern side, producing the Falernian wines, even more famous than the Caecuban.
A little farther south, near Terracina, was the ager Caecubus, where was produced the Caecuban wine, pronounced by Augustus the noblest of all.
The use of the third person adds to the emotive power of the tricolon 'ager .
This measure finally settled the question of the Campanian land, which now passed out of the category of ager publicus.
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.
The land which the state retained as ager publicus was always placed in the hands of individuals, who occupied it in some manner remunerative to the state.
They also punished those who had too large a share of the ager publicus, or kept too many cattle on the state pastures.
Under this heading we deal with the disposal of the public land (ager publicus) of ancient Rome.
We cannot suppose that the Leontines had any ager publicus acquired by conquest, nor are we entitled to presume that they had any at all, capable of being divided.
In the same spirit they possessed themselves of the ager publicus.
The teen-ager realized it was a make-talk question.
The boy was bright of eye, toothy of smile, gawky as only a teen-ager can be gawky, and obviously the proverbial apple of his father's eye.
If he was to deal with a teen-ager as an adult, he didn't believe in pulling punches any more than had he been dealing with a person of sixty.
They must doubtless have been only two branches of the river Barrady; and one of them was probably the same stream that now runs through the Ager Damascenus, directly to the city, which seems, by its serpentine way, to be a natural channel.
The first place we came to was the Ager Damascenus, a long, beautiful meadow, just without the city on the west side.
Thus there were positively two laws published at an interval of some months; and if the object of the second was the distribution of the ager Campanus, the first had without doubt a more general character.
The possessors of the ager publicus, supported by the Senate and the equestrian order, made the most of all these difficulties.
The limits of the ager publicus had never been well defined; few title-deeds existed, and those which could be produced were often unintelligible.
To purchase the lands, instead of apportioning the ager publicus, was monstrous, and he could not admit that they would engage the people to abandon the capital to go and languish in the fields.
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.
Finally, he proposed to buy private estates, and leave the ager publicus intact; whereas, in his speech against Rullus, he had blamed the establishment of colonies on private estates as a violation of all precedent.
Cæsar's agrarian law, by which some of the Campanian ager publicus was to be divided.
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.
Footnote 422: This refers to Cicero's attempts to exempt the ager publicus in Campania from being divided (see Letter XXIV, p.
When the teen-ager trapped her car the day before she had been the tool of another's will.
The teen-ager marched up to the platform and took the parade-rest position learned in some high-school debating society--in the days when there were debating societies and high schools.
Why, first she took the ager and fever, and took a ’bundance o’ doctor’r means for that.
Commissioners for establishing Colonies of Roman citizens on theager publicus.
This ager publicus was leased by the censors to farmers (aratores) who paid rent (vectigal) for it.
There, at the opening of the principate, outside of the municipal territories, the land fell into ager publicus, private estates of Roman senators and imperial domains.
But in 285, after suffering a severe blow at the hands of the Gallic Senones, the Romans took vigorous action and drove this people from the land between Ancona and the Rubicon--the ager Gallicus.
The rest was incorporated in the ager Romanus to the profit of both the rich proprietors and the landless citizens.
It is claimed that they became alarmed at the Roman assignment of the public land on their southern borders, called the Ager Gallicus, to individual colonists in 233 B.
They entered the Roman alliance, and a portion of their land was incorporated in the ager publicus of Rome.
This fact explains the senatorial opposition to the division and settlement of the ager Gallicus proposed and carried by the tribune Flaminius in 233 B.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ager" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
