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Campania
also: Campanus, Campano, ager Campanus, the Campanian land
The fertile coastal region of west-central Italy around Capua and the Bay of Naples; its rich public land (the ager Campanus) was distributed to veterans and the poor under Caesar's agrarian law of 59 BC. Cicero owned villas along its coast and sheltered there in 49 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.7 §6 the loss of the Campanian land
The fertile public land of Campania (the ager Campanus), distributed to Pompey's veterans and the urban poor under Caesar's agrarian law of 59 BC; Cicero lists it among the chain of concessions that followed from indulging Caesar.
- Eleventh Philippic §12 the Campanian land
The fertile public land around Capua in Campania, long a prize in Roman land-distributions; Antony lavished it on Saxa and Cafo as a reward beyond their original allotments.
- Eighth Philippic §26 the Campanian land and the Leontine
Two exceptionally fertile public domains (the ager Campanus in Italy and the plain of Leontini in Sicily) long reserved to secure Rome's grain supply. Antony's land law parcelled them out to his followers.