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- The jugerum or juger (Latin: iūgerum, iūgera, iūger, or iugus) was a Roman unit of area, equivalent to a rectangle 240 Roman feet in length and 120 feet...
- colonists, pedites received 50 iugera of land each, centuriones received 100 iugera each, and equites received 140 iugera each. Either at the founding or...
- were from 18–108 iugera. (One iugerum was equal to about 0.65 acres or a quarter of a hectare). Medium-sized farms were from 80–500 iugera. Large estates...
- introduced an extensive new tax system based on heads (capita) and land (iugera) – with one iugerum equal to approximately 0.65 acres – and tied to a new...
- limited the amount of the ager publicus to be held by any individual to 500 iugera, roughly 325 acres (1.32 km2). In the half century following the Battle...
- Small farms were from 18 to 88 iugera (one iugerum is equal to about 0.65 acre). Medium-sized farms were from 80 to 500 iugera (singular iugerum). Large estates...
- available labor and livestock (capita) as well as after the cultivated land (iugera) calculated by tax estimates (censitores). In this relatively complicated...
- closing the verse: dīvitiās alius fulvō sibi congerat aurō    et teneat cultī iūgera multa solī "Let another man pile up riches for himself with yellow gold...
- This law restricted individual ownership of public land in excess of 500 iugeras (300 acres) and forbade the grazing of more than 100 cattle on public land...
- soldiers proposed that each of his veterans should receive an allotment of 100 iugera of land in the Roman province of Africa. He was also chiefly instrumental...