[1416] See Dig XIX 2 §§ 15³, 24², 25³, 51ᵖʳ, 54¹.
[1417] Later legislation to prevent this neglect of poorer land. Cod Th V 14 § 34 (394 AD), X 3 § 4 (383), XI 1 § 4 (337), etc.
[1418] Prof Buckland writes to me that he believes these squatters were to be owners, not coloni, owners in the only sense possible in non-Italic soil, paying tributum. The words frui possidere used to describe their right are the technical words for provincial ownership. Cf Gaius II 7.
[1419] In Hermes XXIX pp 215, 224.
[1420] Girard, part III chapter 6.
[1421] lege Manciana condicione saltus Neroniani vicini nobis.
[1422] It is tempting to identify these with the six mentioned in Nos (2) and (4) above.
[1423] For the vast extent of imperial estates, particularly in Africa, see Hirschfeld, der Grundbesitz der Römischen Kaiser, in his Kleine Schriften.
[1424] De Coulanges seems hardly to recognize how small was the amount of operae, a few days in the year. But in his tenth chapter he shews how vastly the system was extended (so many days a week) in the early Middle Age.
[1425] Mommsen in Hermes XV pp 391-6.