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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."—neexpellant: 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.


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