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"A No. 1, ma'am positively first-class," replied the captain. "Hed good health no ager?" she continued. "Never was better, my dear woman healthy right to the top notch," he answered. "It must be," said good Mrs. Simmons, to herself "it can't be nothin' else. Bless the Lord!"
"I've slep' badly since I had that last touch of ager, and I thowt some un was broosting in the wall, and as soon as I jumped up and looked out, the plaace seemed alive, for all the birds in the fen were flying round and round, and you could hear their wings whistling as they flew away. I was scarred."
The three on the agrarian proposals of Rullus present him to us for the first time as discussing an important question of home politics, the disposal of the ager publicus, a question which had become again prominent owing to the great additions made to it by the confiscations of Sulla.
The speeches against Rullus were delivered at the beginning of the year, and commit Cicero pretty definitely to a policy as to the ager publicus which was, to his disgust, entirely reversed by the triumvirs in B.C. 59 but they do not shew any sense of coming trouble. Cicero, however, throughout his consulship took a very definite line against the populares.
"Them Yankees is runnin' back to their camps as fast as they'uns's legs 'll carry they'uns. If yo'uns 'd had any sand, and stood yer ground, you'd 'a seed 'em. But yo' yaller hammers allers git the ager when ever a cap's busted, and run yer rabbit-gizzards out." "Y're a liar," hotly responded another voice. "Thar was more'n 50 o' them Yankees, if thar was a man.
It was called the Ager Romanus, in which was a population of two hundred and ninety-three thousand men capable of bearing arms; and the citizens of the various conquered cities, who had served certain magistracies in them, were enrolled among Roman citizens, with all the rights to which the citizens of the capital were entitled, absolute authority over wife, children, and slaves, security from capital punishment except by a vote of the people, or under military authority in the camp, access to all the honors and employments of the state, the right of suffrage, and the possession of Quirinal property.
"You'll be worse for it some day." "Keeps out the cold and ager, mester," said the second man, thrusting the box back in his pocket. "Then you've been waiting at the Warren?" "Ay, mester. Me an' him waited till we see the fire, and thowt the house hed kitched, and then we come." "It was very good of you, my lads," said the squire warmly.
You have seen, my dear Skene, the Roman coursers urged to their speed by a loaded spur attached to their backs to whet the rusty metal of their ager ay! it is a leaden spur indeed, and it goads hard. "I added, 'But what do you think, Scott, of the bits of flaming paper that are pasted on the flanks of the poor jades?
Ay, they be tidy; but I'm nowt to Dave. He's cunning like. Always at it, you see. Straange and badly though." "What, Dave is?" cried Dick. "Ay, lad; he's got the shakes, same as John Warren. They two lay out together one night after a couple o' wild swans they seen, and it give 'em both ager."
But whether we translate by turns or by villages, it comes to the same thing. Cf. Caes. Camporum, arva, ager, soli, terrae, &c. These words differ from each other appropriately as follows: Terra is opposed to mare et coelum, viz. earth. Solum is the substratum of any thing, viz. solid ground or soil. Campus is an extensive plain or level surface, whether of land or water, here fields.
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