[1406] Seneca ad Helviam 7 § 7 ubicumque vicit Romanus habitat.
[1407] Text in Girard, part III chapter 6.
[1408] From comparing the remains of the next inscription (5) it appears that the emperor is Hadrian.
[1409] Cf agrum rudem provincialem in Hyginus, Gromat I 203. In the later empire we find legislation to promote such cultivation. See cod Th V 11 § 8 (365 AD), § 12 (388-392), 14 § 30 (386).
[1410] Dig XLI 3 § 33¹. Of course the dominus could possess per colonum. See Buckland, Elementary Principles § 38 p 77.
[1411] quae venibunt a possessoribus.
[1412] For aridi fructus cf Digest XLIX 14 § 50.
[1413] in cuius conductione agrum occupaverit.
[1414] rationi (bus fisci) gives the sense. But rationi simply may be correct, cf Digest II 14 § 42, etc.
[1415] Girard cites Rostowzew’s opinion that the right to occupy abandoned land as well as old wastes was an extension of the lex Manciana by the lex Hadriana.