[706] Ibid 2 § 2, and § 4 viam publicam muniri.
[707] The account given in Greenidge’s History of Rome deserves special reference here. On pp 266-7 he well points out that it was not the Gracchan aim to revive the free labourer but the peasant proprietor.
[708] This is known from the lex agraria of which a large part is preserved. See text in Bruns’ Fontes or Wordsworth’s Specimens. Translated and explained in Dr E G Hardy’s Six Roman Laws.
[709] Perhaps some inference may be drawn from Sallust Iug 73 § 6 plebes sic accensa uti opifices agrestesque omnes, quorum res fidesque in manibus sitae erant, relictis operibus frequentarent Marium ... etc, though this refers directly to political support, not to the recruiting of troops.
[710] See the important paper by Dr E G Hardy Journ Phil 1913.
[711] Monum Ancyr III 22 [cap XVI].
[712] Varro RR I 2 §§ 3, 6. I find since writing this that Heisterbergk Entstehung des Colonats p 57 treats this utterance, rightly, as rhetorical.
[713] See Mr Storr-Best’s translation, Introduction pp xxvii-xxx.
[714] RR I 4 § 5. Surely in 49 Varro was in Spain.
[715] As in RR II praef § 6.