burgess-domain

Updated: May 3, 2025

The old burgess-domain had hitherto been enlarged chiefly by individual assignation in such a way that southern Etruria as far as towards Caere and Falerii, the districts taken from the Hernici on the Sacco and on the Anio the largest part of the Sabine country and large tracts of the territory formerly Volscian, especially the Pomptine plain were converted into land for Roman farmers, and new burgess-districts were instituted mostly for their inhabitants.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book II : From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy

At the very beginning of the fifth century, Rome had in similar circumstances sent to the field a burgess-army equally strong; after the great extensions of the burgess-domain in the course of that century the number of full burgesses capable of bearing arms must at least have doubled.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

At the very beginning of the fifth century, Rome had in similar circumstances sent to the field a burgess-army equally strong; after the great extensions of the burgess-domain in the course of that century the number of full burgesses capable of bearing arms must at least have doubled.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States

The old burgess-domain had hitherto been enlarged chiefly by individual assignation in such a way that southern Etruria as far as towards Caere and Falerii, the districts taken from the Hernici on the Sacco and on the Anio the largest part of the Sabine country and large tracts of the territory formerly Volscian, especially the Pomptine plain were converted into land for Roman farmers, and new burgess-districts were instituted mostly for their inhabitants.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)