Fulvius Lippinus is said to have forty jugera enclosed in the neighbourhood of Tarquinii[192] where he keeps not only those animals I have named but wild sheep as well.
I pass over the fact that Cato's example of a farm of two hundred and forty jugera is neither a fair nor a comparable unit.
Cato's unit of 240 jugera was based on the duodecimal system of weights and measures which the Romans had originally derived from Babylon but afterwards modified by the use of a decimal system.
If you cultivate less than two hundred and forty jugera of olives you cannot get along with less than one overseer, while if you cultivate twice or more as much land you will not require two or three overseers.
Again, considering the outcry made, it is hard to imagine that only those possessing above 500 jugera were interfered with.
The words, per tota novem cui jugera corpus Porrigitur, relate to a garden of so many acres.
For the general measurement of all these wonderful beings by [319]jugera or acres proves that such an estimate could not relate to any thing of solid contents; but to an inclosure of that superficies.
Sometimes the garden might be extended into a park, with fishponds and great abundance of game; Hortensius had such a park near Laurentum, fifty jugera enclosed in a ring-fence, and full of wild beasts of all sorts and kinds.
Licinius and Sextius introduced into their laws, for the promotion of the privileges of the plebs, a clause enacting that no more than 500 jugera of land should be occupied by a single cultivator.
Pastoral husbandry was practiced on a great scale, and at least eight hundred jugera were required.
He cultivated a little farm of four jugera with his own hands, and lived with great simplicity.
Varro and Dionysius both state that Romulus allotted two jugera (about two and a quarter acres) to each man.
He merely says that for each year of service in Spain or Africa the soldiers were to receive two jugera each, and that[17] the distributions should be made by the decenvirs.
Instead of the allurements of wealth he received some six jugera of land, free from taxation it is true, but barely enough to reward the hardest labor with scanty subsistence.
Domitius seeing his troops wavering, promised to each of them four jugera out of his own possessions, and a proportionate part to the centurians and veterans.
It is easy enough to see that the gift on the part of the government of 30 jugera (24 acres) of land to each poor citizen, would raise him from the ranks of the proletariate and make him liable to military service.
Atilius, was authorized to appoint decemvirs, whose names Livy gives, to assign ten jugera to Roman citizens and three jugera to Latin[19] allies.
No general recovery of the public land from those occupying more than five hundred[25] jugera ever took place.
The same author speaks of four jugera being given by Curius, "Quaterna dono agri jugera viritim populo dividit.
The centuria of 200 jugera would be divisible into holdings of fifty and twenty-five jugera respectively.
Instead of the usual boundaries of the whole township there is the statement that the estate is 'the less distinctly defined by boundaries, quia jugera altrinsecus copulata adjacent'--because the acres are intermixed.
We have also seen that the twenty-five or thirty jugera of the single yoke were probably fixed as an eighth of the Roman centuria, as the yard-land was the eighth of a double hide.
Curius Dentatus, who seems to have been a curiosity in his way; for, having been offered a house with seven hundred jugera as his share of booty, he refused to accept more than seven, which was the portion allotted to his comrades.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jugera" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
