Lex tam acerba: la sanzione per i trasgressori del modus agrorum nella Roma repubblicana

This article reconstructs the sanction provided by the lex de modo agrorum for those holding more than 500 iugera of land. A critical comparison between two sources, Cato Rhod. frg. 122 and Livy 7, 16, 9, affirms that the law quoted by Cato in his speech Pro Rhodiensibus contained a fine of 1,000 libral asses. So this passage may refer to an archaic context and a statute of the 4^th century BC, instead of the 2^nd century, as is often supposed.