[The History of Rome, Book I by Theodor Mommsen]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Rome, Book I CHAPTER VI 24/25
3, ii; Plin.
H.N.xviii.
3, 18: fourteen -jugera-, Victor, 33; Plutarch, Apophth.Reg.et Imp.p.
235 Dubner, in accordance with which Plutarch, Crass.
2, is to be corrected). A comparison of the Germanic proportions gives the same result. The -jugerum- and the -morgen- [nearly 5/8 of an English acre], both originally measures rather of labour than of surface, may be looked upon as originally identical.
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