170. 0 Lycida, vivi pervenimus: advena nostri
(Quod nunquam veriti sumus) ut possessor agelli
Diceret: Haec mea sunt; veteres migrate coloni.
Nunc victi tristes, etc.
See the whole of the ninth eclogue, with the useful
Commentary of Servius. Fifteen miles of the Mantuan
territory were assigned to the veterans, with a reservation
in favour of the inhabitants of three miles round the city.
Even in this favour they were cheated by Alfenus Varus, a
famous lawyer and one of the commissioners, who measured
eight hundred paces of water and morass.