law
Lex Agraria
agrarian law
The proposal of Spurius Cassius to distribute conquered public land—the first agrarian bill at Rome, and the model of the land-laws that convulsed the Republic for centuries.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 2 §41 agrarian law
The first lex agraria, Cassius's proposal to distribute conquered public land; the prototype of the land-bills that convulsed the later Republic.
- The History of Rome, Book 5 §12 an agrarian law
The proposal of Spurius Cassius to distribute conquered public land—the first agrarian bill at Rome, and the model of the land-laws that convulsed the Republic for centuries.
- The History of Rome, Book 6 §5 agrarian laws
Bills to distribute public land to the plebs, a recurring object of tribunician agitation.