Note 1159 — Chapter VIII · Rome
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Dion. Hal. IV. 13, “immediately upon securing the throne he (Servius) distributed the public land to the poorer class of Romans (τοῖς θητεύουσι Ῥωμαίων)”: Livy I. 46, “Servius, ... having first conciliated the goodwill of the plebeians by dividing among them individually land taken from the enemy, dared to put to the people the question whether they wished and bade him to be king”; cp. Varro ap. Non. p. 43, “uiritim: et extra urbem in regiones XXVI. agros uiritim liberis attribuit”; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill. VII. 7, “he distributed corn to the plebs.”