chapter XXIX

. Professor Housman called my attention to the ‘Farmer’s Law,’ and kindly lent me Mr Ashburner’s articles, to which I have referred in Appendix B. To all these, and to the Syndics of the University Press for undertaking the publication of this unconventional work, I hereby express my sincere gratitude. My reasons for adopting the method followed in this book are given on pages 5-6 and 468.

W E HEITLAND

CAMBRIDGE

_August 1920_

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGES

INTRODUCTORY

I. EVIDENCE 1-7

II. LAND AND LABOUR 7-15

AUTHORITIES IN DETAIL—GREEK

III. THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY 16-22

IV. HESIOD, WORKS AND DAYS 22-24

V. STRAY NOTES FROM EARLY POETS 24-26

VI. TRACES OF SERFDOM IN GREEK STATES 26-28

VII. HERODOTUS 28-30

VIII. THE TRAGEDIANS

Aeschylus and Sophocles 31-33

Euripides 33-37

IX. THE ‘CONSTITUTION OF ATHENS’ OR ‘OLD OLIGARCH’ 37-40

X. ARISTOPHANES 40-48

XI. THUCYDIDES 48-52

XII. XENOPHON 53-61

XIII. THE COMIC FRAGMENTS 61-65

XIV. EARLY LAWGIVERS AND THEORISTS 65-70

XV. PLATO 70-80

XVI. THE EARLIER ATTIC ORATORS 80-85

XVII. ARISTOTLE 85-103

XVIII. THE LATER ATTIC ORATORS 103-112

XIX. THE MACEDONIAN PERIOD AND THE LEAGUES 112-130

Polybius etc—Theocritus—Plautus and Terence—Inscriptions—Letter of Philip V to Larisa—Evidence preserved by Plutarch, Diodorus, Livy, etc

ROME—EARLY PERIOD TO 200 BC

XX. THE TRADITIONS COMBINED AND DISCUSSED 131-149

[No contemporary authors]

XXI. ABSTRACT OF CONCLUSIONS 149-150

ROME—MIDDLE PERIOD

XXII. INTRODUCTORY GENERAL VIEW OF PERIOD 200 BC-180 AD 151-164

Growth of slavery—Slave risings, etc

XXIII. CATO 164-173

XXIV. AGRICULTURE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD 174-177

XXV. VARRO 178-187

XXVI. CICERO 187-199

XXVII. SALLUST ETC 199-202

ROME—THE EMPIRE

XXVIII. AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL LABOUR UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 203-212

ROME—AUGUSTUS TO NERO

XXIX. HORACE AND VERGIL 213-241

XXX. THE ELDER SENECA ETC 241-243

XXXI. SENECA THE YOUNGER 244-248

XXXII. LUCAN, PETRONIUS, ETC 248-250

XXXIII. COLUMELLA 250-269

AGE OF THE FLAVIAN AND ANTONINE EMPERORS

XXXIV. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 270-274

Note on emigration from Italy 274-275

XXXV. MUSONIUS 275-280

XXXVI. PLINY THE ELDER 281-287

XXXVII. TACITUS 287-292

Note on an African inscription 293

XXXVIII. FRONTINUS 294-296

XXXIX. INSCRIPTIONS RELATIVE TO _ALIMENTA_ 296-300

XL. DION CHRYSOSTOM 300-303

XLI. NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS 303-305

XLII. MARTIAL AND JUVENAL 305-317

XLIII. PLINY THE YOUNGER 317-325

XLIV. SUETONIUS ETC 325-328

XLV. APULEIUS 328-335

COMMODUS TO DIOCLETIAN

XLVI. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 336-342

XLVII. THE AFRICAN INSCRIPTIONS 342-353

XLVIII. DISCUSSION OF THE SAME 353-361

XLIX. THE JURISTS OF THE _DIGEST_ 361-378

L. THE LATER COLONATE, ITS PLACE IN ROMAN HISTORY 378-384

Additional notes 385

FROM DIOCLETIAN

LI. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 386-399

LII. LIBANIUS 399-402

LIII. SYMMACHUS 402-409

LIV. AMMIANUS 409-415

LV. CLAUDIAN 415-417

LVI. VEGETIUS 417-419

CHRISTIAN WRITERS

LVII. LACTANTIUS 420-422

LVIII. SULPICIUS SEVERUS 422-423

LIX. SALVIAN 423-426

LX. APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS 426-432

LXI. CONCLUDING