Look up ager or publicus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The ager publicus (Classical Latin: [ˈaɡɛr ˈpuːblɪkʊs]; lit. 'public land') is the Latin...

Publicus may refer to : The Ager publicus is the Latin language name for the public land of the Roman Republic and Empire. Cursus publicus was the courier...

close to market. Illegal occupation of the ager publicus for commercial production was unlikely due to the ager's inaccessibility by urban markets; if displacement...

land ceded by the subjugated Italian allies. Their former lands, the ager publicus, were not heavily exploited by the Roman state. Rather, the land "had...

laws (from the Latin ager, meaning "land") were laws among the Romans regulating the division of the public lands, or ager publicus. In its broader definition...

Graecia (the south of Italy including Sicilia) and Hispania, was the ager publicus (state-owned land) that accumulated from the spoils of war, confiscated...

Roman legal terminology, an ager. The law made a number of fine distinctions, but by ager it meant primarily ager publicus, "public territory", the land...

the problems which had arisen when the commission had wanted to take ager publicus away from the allies, tried to represent Tiberius' intentions as designed...

to raise money for the imperial treasury. Some would be retained as ager publicus (state-owned land), which in practice were managed as imperial estates...

list from Zarai. Vectigal was a tax on occupiers of Roman state land (ager publicus). Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1970. p. 263 Dilke, O.A.W. (1987)...