Crossword-Solution: LATIFUNDIA
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with LATIFUNDIA (5)
This was especially the case in the more remote parts of the Kingdom of Naples, where the barbarism dated probably from the days of the Roman ‘latifundia,’ and when the stranger and the enemy (‘hospes’ and ‘hostis’) were in all good faith held to be one and the same.
Pliny declared that to the creation of vast _latifundia_ (aggregated estates) Italy owed its downfall.
The owners of the so-called _latifundia_, mostly German or Hungarian noblemen, lost very little; for their wide domains were cultivated mostly by hired labour, not by peasants settled on the land.
Their _latifundia_ seem to have been universally cultivated by slave-gangs, under bailiffs who were themselves slaves or freedmen; and the only organisation attempted appears to have consisted in dividing the inferior slaves into small bodies, and making them the _peculium_ of the better and trustier sort, who thus acquired a kind of interest in the efficiency of their labour.
The greatest sufferer was the small freeman.[759] There is a story in Diodorus,[760] of Damophilos, an owner of great _latifundia_, whose slaves came to him to beg clothes.