[56]. “Incunabula et rudimenta virtutis.” Cic. de Off.
[57]. “Agri, pro numero cultorum, ab universis per vices occupantur, quos mox inter se, secundum dignationem, partiuntur; facilitatem partiendi camporum spatia praestant.” Tac. Germ. 26.
[58]. “Sola terrae seges imperatur,” they raise corn, but not fruits or vegetables. Tac. Germ. 26. “>Frumenti modum dominus, aut pecoris, aut vestis, ut colono, iniungit; et servus hactenus paret.” Ibid. 25. Hordeum, and frumentum. Ibid. 23.
[59]. “Colunt discreti ac diversi, ut fons, ut campus, ut nemus placuit. Vicos locant, non in nostrum morem, connexis et cohaerentibus aedificiis; suam quisque domum spatio circumdat.” Tac. Germ. 16. When Tacitus speaks of caverns dug in the earth, it is as granaries (which may to this day be seen in Hungary) or as places of refuge from sudden invasion.
[60]. On xii mónðum ðú scealt sillan ðínum þeówan men vii hund hláfa ⁊ xx hláfa, bútan morgemettum ⁊ nónmettum: in the course of twelve months thou shalt give thy þeów or serf, seven hundred and twenty loaves, besides morning meals and noon meals. Sal. and Sat. p. 192. We should perhaps read seven hundred and thirty, which would give daily two loaves, probably of rye or barley. Compare the allowances mentioned in the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum. Anc. Laws. Thorpe, i. 432 seq.
[61]. So from the earliest times: “Potui humor ex hordeo aut frumento, in quandam similitudinem vini corruptus.” Tac. Germ. 23.
[62]. “Agriculturae non student: maiorque pars victus eorum in lacte, caseo, carne consistit: neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum, qui una coierint, quantum, et quo loco visum est, agri adtribuunt, atque anno post alio transire cogunt. Eius rei multas adferunt causas; ne, adsidua consuetudine capti, studium belli gerundi agricultura commutent;” etc. Bell. Gall. vi. 22.
[63]. The administration of Oran. Times newspaper, Aug. 24th, 1844.
[64]. Fifth Rep., Committee, 1810, p. 723, cited in Mill’s Brit. India, i. 315.
[65]. Elphinstone’s Caubul, ii. 17, 18, 19.