Agrarian Laws

(a-gra're-an.) [From L. agrarius, belonging to land.] (Roman Hist.) Itis probable, says Michelet, that under the vague title of A. L., two very different propositions have been confounded; first, that of permitting the plebeians to share the sacred territory of primitive Rome, to the po e ion of which all the rights of the city belonged. Second, that of sharing equally the lands conquered by the people, and usurped by the patricians. An A. L. was first heard of in connection with a half mythical person, one Spurius Ca ius, 484 B. c. The A. L. brought forward by Tiberius Gracchus cost him his life in 133 B. c. [s. 14]