TABLE OF CONTENTS

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]