FOOTNOTES:
The Licinian law provided that no one should rent at a time more than 500 acres of public land.
The league by which the Latin states were bound (jus Latii) was more favourable than that granted to the other Italians (jus Italicum.)
CHAPTER VI.
THE ROMAN RELIGION.
First to the gods 'tis fitting to prepare
The due libation, and the solemn prayer;
For all mankind alike require their grace,
All born to want; a miserable race.—Homer.