Ager Campanus

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 2.16 §1 the Campanian land

  The ager Campanus, fertile public land around Capua that Rome had leased out as a steady source of revenue. Caesar's second agrarian law of 59 BC distributed it in allotments to Pompey's veterans and the poor, ending the rents it brought the treasury and outraging the senatorial "good men."

• Ad Atticum 2.17 §1 the Campanian land

  The fertile public land of Campania, distributed to settlers under Caesar's second agrarian law (the lex Campana) of 59 BC. Its alienation, long resisted as a last reserve of state revenue, was a flashpoint of the year.

• Ad Familiares 1.9 §8 the Campanian land should be brought forward

  The ager Campanus, rich public land that Caesar's agrarian law of 59 BC had distributed; Cicero's move to reopen the question on 5 April 56 BC struck at the heart of Caesar's settlement and helped provoke the conference of Luca.

• Ad Familiares 8.10 §4 the Campanian land

  The ager Campanus, rich public land round Capua distributed under Caesar's law of 59 BC; control of its remaining allotments was a live political prize that Pompey now wished to deny Caesar.

• Ad Familiares 11.20 §3 the Sullan lands and the Campanian district

  Two reserves of public land available for veteran settlement: territory confiscated and redistributed under Sulla's dictatorship (82-79 BC), and the ager Campanus, the rich state land around Capua long contested in Roman politics.

• Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.1 §1 the case of the Campanian land

  The fertile public land of Campania, distributed to Caesar's veterans and the urban poor under his agrarian law of 59 BC. Reopening the question struck at the heart of the triumvirs' settlement, which is why the Senate fell silent rather than provoke the absent Pompey.

• Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.6 §1 the Campanian-land affair would be brought on

  The recurring fight over the public land of Campania, distributed under Caesar's law of 59 BC; reopening it threatened the triumvirs' settlement, so its repeated postponement was politically charged.

• On the Agrarian Law, First Speech §20 the Campanian land

  Ager Campanus, the exceptionally fertile public land around Capua, confiscated after the city's defection to Hannibal and leased out as one of Rome's surest revenues; its proposed distribution is the emotional centre of all three agrarian speeches.

• On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech §76 the Campanian land

  Ager Campanus, the prime public land around Capua, leased out as Rome's surest revenue and untouched even by the Gracchi and Sulla; its division and a colony at Capua are the bill's most alluring and (to Cicero) most dangerous provisions.

• Second Philippic §101 the Campanian land

  The ager Campanus, fertile public land around Capua, was a prized state asset; Cicero protests that Antony parcelled it out among his mime-actors and fellow gamblers.