Jugerum

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Jugerum

An ancient Roman unit of area approximately equivalent to 2,523 square meters.

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This concept can also be seen in the Roman iugerum and perhaps in the "old" donum of 2,500 [m.sup.2].

Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VI: administration and settlement in Venetian Navarino

To someone who asks "what sort of land have you bought?" the answer will contain a descriptive phrase such as "oblongum ab initio, deinde latiorem" (elongated at the beginning, then broader), "duorum iugerum longitudinis" (two iugera long), "incerte latitudinis" (of uncertain broadness).

William of Ockham and Lorenzo Valla: false friends. Semantics and ontological reduction *

si in illa pertica centuries ducenum iugerum fecerimus et accipientibus dabuntur iugera sexagena sena besses, unam centuriam tres [homines] accipere debebunt, in qua illis tres parses aequis frontibus determinabimus.