A colony was the reward of a victorious legion.

But it was no longer the ager publicus only; it was all Italy that lay at the mercy of the legions.

The ager publicus disappeared almost entirely,...

but the cause of the evil--accumulated property--became more potent than ever." (Laboulaye: History of Property.) The author whom I quote does not tell us why this division of territory which followed civil wars did not arrest the encroachments of accumulated property; the omission is easily supplied.

Land is not the only requisite for cultivation; a working-stock is also necessary,--animals, tools, harnesses, a house, an advance, &c.