• Look up ager or publicus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The ager publicus (Classical Latin: [ˈaɡɛr ˈpuːblɪkʊs]; lit. 'public land') is the Latin...
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  • Publicus may refer to : The Ager publicus is the Latin language name for the public land of the Roman Republic and Empire. Cursus publicus was the courier...
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    close to market. Illegal occupation of the ager publicus for commercial production was unlikely due to the ager's inaccessibility by urban markets; if displacement...
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    land ceded by the subjugated Italian allies. Their former lands, the ager publicus, were not heavily exploited by the Roman state. Rather, the land "had...
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    to raise money for the imperial treasury. Some would be retained as ager publicus (state-owned land), which in practice were managed as imperial estates...
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  • list from Zarai. Vectigal was a tax on occupiers of Roman state land (ager publicus). Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1970. p. 263 Dilke, O.A.W. (1987)...
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  • laws (from the Latin ager, meaning "land") were laws among the Romans regulating the division of the public lands, or ager publicus. In its broader definition...
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    Roman legal terminology, an ager. The law made a number of fine distinctions, but by ager it meant primarily ager publicus, "public territory", the land...
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  • Graecia (the south of Italy including Sicilia) and Hispania was the ager publicus (state-owned land) that accumulated from the spoils of war, confiscated...
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    the problems which had arisen when the commission had wanted to take ager publicus away from the allies, tried to represent Tiberius' intentions as designed...
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    of the emperor that was purely private. Ager privatus, privately owned land as distinguished from ager publicus. Actiones privatae, actions protecting...
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  • epigraphically-attested Roman law on the distribution and holding of public land (ager publicus). It dealt with the confirmation of private title to formerly public...
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    plebeian aediles and paid for by fines collected when public lands (ager publicus) were encroached upon. Cicero mentions his role in organizing games...
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    territory occupied by Romans in "Latium vetus" came to be proclaimed ager publicus, equivalent to state lands today, which were held by the state and could...
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  • with the lists of citizens and the bronze tables with the maps of the ager publicus, two libraries and maybe a basilica (Basilica Asinia). The sources recall...
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    site in the future. The former site of the city was confiscated as ager publicus, public land. Scipio celebrated a triumph and took the agnomen "Africanus"...
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  • particularly when ager publicus was understood to be common property, to be used for whatever purpose seemed fit to its user. After ager publicus, minor, local...
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    been part of Picenum but was then annexed by the Romans and became an ager publicus (Roman state land) and they made the town at Sena Gallica a colony....
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    rebellion in 225. Approximately 2,580 square kilometres had been made ager publicus following the Roman victory, although not all the available territory...
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    the cursus publicus is shown in the Tabula Peutingeriana, a map of the Roman road network dating from around AD 400. The cursus publicus was only accessible...
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    intrinsically noble occupation. In law, land taken by conquest was ager publicus (public land). In practise, much of it was exploited by the nobility...
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    province of Asia. It was subsequently made a state-owned territory (ager publicus) and during the reign of the emperor Augustus it was imperial property...
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    weren't killed lost their civic rights, and its territory was declared ager publicus (Roman state domain). Parts of it were sold in 205 BC and 199 BC, another...
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    Sextiae (367 BC; which made restrictions on possession of public lands—ager publicus—and also made sure that one of the consuls was plebeian), Lex Ogulnia...
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    capital of Sicily from 212 BC. Their land was taken by the Romans as an ager publicus, state land. At the end of Sulla's civil war, in 82 BC, the young general...
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    probably lost their city and possessions and their land would have become Ager Publicus. The conquest of a territory, unless it had been given special conditions...
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  • superstitions. Aediles also punished those who had too large a share of the ager publicus, or kept too many cattle on the state pastures. Look up opera publica...
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  • that had been confiscated by the state in the laws prescribed under ager publicus, and to which the original Jewish owners of such property had not incurred...
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  • for the division of the lands. Their post allowed them to survey the ager publicus, publicly owned land that Tiberius wanted to distribute to citizens...
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  • depiction of the patriciate's domination over Roman public land (Latin: ager publicus), imply that inequality in land ownership forced peasants into exploitative...
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