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After the military reforms of 107 B.C. Romans soldiers did not own anything. They were poor people. On discharge, after 16 and later 20 years of service, they received the grant of a plot of land to farm. Prior to that you had to be a peasant farmer who owned his plot of land to serve in the army.

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