Note 39 — ITALY. (continued 3)
Leonhard Schmitz translation
Our authorities state 20,000; but Niebuhr seems to mean families, as only fathers of three children were admitted. Cicero, however, thinks that the ager Campanus was not sufficient for more than 5000 persons. The most important passages relating to this subject are collected in Orelli, Index Leg. s.v., Lex Julia Agraria p. 188.—Ed.