Agrarian

[Lat.] Relating to fields or grounds. Agrarian law . The A. law was enacted to distribute among the Roman people all the lands which they had gained by conquest, and for limiting the quantity of ground po e ed by each person to a certain number of acres. For full examination of this important element in the history of the Roman republic, see Niebuhr's History, translation by Hare and Thirl wall, vol. ii., pp. 129-173; Plutarch's Lives of the Gracchi, and Cicero's speech against Rullus.