[*] 170.26. agri culturae: as to this chapter, cf. what is said in the general Introduction to the volume and in Bk. iv. ch. 1, where it is shown that the soil was tilled, not by the labor of old men, women, or slaves, but by that of the fighting men. In other words, the Germans were, though "barbarians," not （in one sense） a barbarous people. [*] 170.27. neque quisquam, etc: this temporary and shifting occupation of land, as well as the holding of it by the family or clan （cognationinbus） is characteristic of a primitive society. Cf. the Introduction, as above. [*] 171.1. finis proprios, private lands. [*] 171.2. gentibus, etc.: in the general gathering for this assignment, each clan must have met by itself, and have been represented by its chief. [*] 171.3. quantum agri, as much land; agri is part. gen. [*] 171.6. agri culturā: notice the use of the abl. （§ 416 (252); B. 225; G. 404; H. 478. 4 (422. N. 2); H-B. 427. 1, cf. 431）, here to be rendered "for."—ne … expellant: this was flagrant evil in Italy, which Caesar had attempted in his own consulship to check （by the lex agraria）, following the precedent of the Gracchi. There the potentiores had already succeeded in ousting the humiliores from their estates, and creating enormous plantations, latifundia, cultivated by slaves in place of the earlier peasant freeholds. [*] 171.11. cum … videat: this looks as if the land was portioned in equal shares to rich and poor alike. But on this question there are many and various opinions, and, at any rate, the words do not prove a division to each man as a freehold.
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Caesar's Gallic War. J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge and M. Grant Daniell. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1898.
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