| | PAGES |
| [INTRODUCTORY] |
| I. | Evidence | [1-7] |
| II. | Land and labour | [7-15] |
| [AUTHORITIES IN DETAIL—GREEK] |
| III. | The Iliad and Odyssey | [16-22] |
| IV. | Hesiod, Works and Days | [22-24] |
| V. | Stray notes from early poets | [24-26] |
| VI. | Traces of serfdom in Greek states | [26-28] |
| VII. | Herodotus | [28-30] |
| VIII. | The Tragedians | |
| Aeschylus and Sophocles | [31-33] |
| Euripides | [33-37] |
| IX. | The ‘Constitution of Athens’ or ‘Old Oligarch’ | [37-40] |
| X. | Aristophanes | [40-48] |
| XI. | Thucydides | [48-52] |
| XII. | Xenophon | [53-61] |
| XIII. | The Comic fragments | [61-65] |
| XIV. | Early Lawgivers and Theorists | [65-70] |
| XV. | Plato | [70-80] |
| XVI. | The earlier Attic Orators | [80-85] |
| XVII. | Aristotle | [85-103] |
| XVIII. | The later Attic Orators | [103-112] |
| XIX. | The Macedonian period and the Leagues | [112-130] |
| Polybius etc—Theocritus—Plautus and Terence—Inscriptions—Letter of Philip V to Larisa—Evidence preserved by Plutarch, Diodorus, Livy, etc | |
| [ROME—EARLY PERIOD TO 200 BC] |
| XX. | The traditions combined and discussed | [131-149] |
| [No contemporary authors] | |
| XXI. | Abstract of conclusions | [149-150] |
| [ROME—MIDDLE PERIOD] |
| XXII. | Introductory general view of period 200 BC-180 AD | [151-164] |
| Growth of slavery—Slave risings, etc | |
| XXIII. | Cato | [164-173] |
| XXIV. | Agriculture in the revolutionary period | [174-177] |
| XXV. | Varro | [178-187] |
| XXVI. | Cicero | [187-199] |
| XXVII. | Sallust etc | [199-202] |
| [ROME—THE EMPIRE] |
| XXVIII. | Agriculture and agricultural labour under the Roman Empire. General introduction | [203-212] |
| [ROME—AUGUSTUS TO NERO] |
| XXIX. | Horace and Vergil | [213-241] |
| XXX. | The elder Seneca etc | [241-243] |
| XXXI. | Seneca the younger | [244-248] |
| XXXII. | Lucan, Petronius, etc | [248-250] |
| XXXIII. | Columella | [250-269] |
| [AGE OF THE FLAVIAN AND ANTONINE EMPERORS] |
| XXXIV. | General introduction | [270-274] |
| Note on emigration from Italy | [274-275] |
| XXXV. | Musonius | [275-280] |
| XXXVI. | Pliny the elder | [281-287] |
| XXXVII. | Tacitus | [287-292] |
| Note on an African inscription | [293] |
| XXXVIII. | Frontinus | [294-296] |
| XXXIX. | Inscriptions relative to alimenta | [296-300] |
| XL. | Dion Chrysostom | [300-303] |
| XLI. | New Testament writers | [303-305] |
| XLII. | Martial and Juvenal | [305-317] |
| XLIII. | Pliny the younger | [317-325] |
| XLIV. | Suetonius etc | [325-328] |
| XLV. | Apuleius | [328-335] |
| [COMMODUS TO DIOCLETIAN] |
| XLVI. | General introduction | [336-342] |
| XLVII. | The African inscriptions | [342-353] |
| XLVIII. | Discussion of the same | [353-361] |
| XLIX. | The Jurists of the Digest | [361-378] |
| L. | The later Colonate, its place in Roman history | [378-384] |
| Additional notes | [385] |
| [FROM DIOCLETIAN] |
| LI. | General introduction | [386-399] |
| LII. | Libanius | [399-402] |
| LIII. | Symmachus | [402-409] |
| LIV. | Ammianus | [409-415] |
| LV. | Claudian | [415-417] |
| LVI. | Vegetius | [417-419] |
| [Christian Writers] |
| LVII. | Lactantius | [420-422] |
| LVIII. | Sulpicius Severus | [422-423] |
| LIX. | Salvian | [423-426] |
| LX. | Apollinaris Sidonius | [426-432] |
| LXI. | Concluding Chapter | [432-459] |
| [APPENDIX] |
| Some Byzantine authorities |
| A. | The Geoponica | [460-462] |
| B. | The ‘Farmer’s Law’ | [462-464] |
| C. | Modern books, a few interesting extracts and references | [465-46] |
| D. | List of some of the works found useful in this inquiry | [468-471] |
| [INDICES] |
| I. | General | [472-479] |
| II. | Words and phrases | [479-482] |
| III. | Passages cited | [483-489] |
| IV. | Modern authorities | [489-490] |
| V. | Countries, places and peoples | [490-492] |