[392.] Varro, De Re Rustica, i. 44. Columella, ii. 9. Guerard, Irminon, i. 1.
[393.] Siculus Flaccus, De Condicionibus Agrorum. Lachmann and Rudorff, i. pp. 154–6.
[394.] In the division of the land between the Romans and Visigoths the amount allotted 'per singula aratra' was to be 50 aripennes (i.e. 25 jugera). Lex Visigothorum, x. 1, 14 (A.D. 650 or thereabouts).
The Liber Coloniarum I. describes the 'ager jugarius' as 'in quinquagenis jugeribus,' the 'ager meridianus in xxv. jugeribus.' Lachmann, i. 247. Here we have the normal divisions of the centuria of 200 jugera into holdings of 25 and 50 jugera. On the other hand, the Lex Thoria, B.C. 111, fixed 30 jugera as the largest holding to be recognised on the public lands. Rudorff, p. 213 (Corp. Jur. Lat. 200, 1. 14).
[395.] P. 142. 'Quam maxime secundum consuetudinem regionum omnia intuenda sunt.'
[396.] P. 143. See also Frontinus, p. 43, and Hyginus, p. 115, and p. 128 on the same point.
[397.] P. 152.
[398.] Siculus Flaccus, Lachmann, p. 152. 'Præterea et in multis regionibus comperimus quosdam possessores non continuas habere terras, sed particulas quasdam in diversis locis, intervenientibus complurium possessionibus: propter quod etiam complures vicinales viæ sint, ut unusquisque possit ad particulas suas jure pervenire. Sed et de viarum conditionibus locuti sumus. Quorundam agri servitutem possessoribus ad particulas suas eundi redeundique præstant. Quorundam etiam vicinorum aliquas silvas quasi publicas, immo proprias quasi vicinorum, esse comperimus, nec quemquam in eis cedendi pascendique jus habere nisi vicinos quorum sint: ad quas itinera sæpe, ut supra diximus, per alienos agros dantur.'
[399.] Teams of six and of eight oxen in the plough are mentioned in the Vedas. 'Altindisches Leben,' H. Zimmer. Berlin, 1879, p. 237.
[400.] Hyginus, Lachmann and Rudorff, i. 113.