Lex Servilia Agraria
Lex Servilia Agraria brought forward by the tribune P. Servilius Rullus, B.C. 63: it proposed to divide the ager campanus and campus stellatis among the poorer citizens (Cic. in Rull. 2, 28), to compensate all who had been robbed of their property by Sulla by the sale of all the ager publicus in Italy and the provinces (Cic. ib. 2, 15, 38), and to purchase lands in Italy for the, poor otherwise unprovided for from the wealth which had poured into the treasury from the recent conquests of Pompeius. It was successfully opposed by Cicero as consul, but was in substance carried by Julius Caesar, B.C. 59 (Cic. in Pison. 2, 4; ad Fam. 8, 6, 5: see JULIA AGRARIA).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.