Agrarian Laws
in the ancient Roman republic, were laws of which the most important were those carried by C.
Licinius Stolo, when tribune of the people, in B. C. 367. The second rogation, among other enactments, provided (1) (1) that no one should occupy more than 500 jugera (by one calculation, about 280, and by another, 333, English acres) of the public lands, or have more than 100 large, and 500 small, cattle grazing upon them; (2) that such portion of the public lands above 500 jugera as was in possession of individuals should be divided among all the plebeians, in lots of seven jugera, as property; (3) that the occupiers of public land were bound to employ free laborers, in a certain fixed proportion to the extent of their occupation. When, at a later period, efforts were made to revive the Licinian rogations, such opposition was excited that the two Gracchi lost their lives in consequence, and this, with their other projects, proved abortive.