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The History of Rome, Book I

CHAPTER VI
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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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