coloni

But elsewhere some other scribe has seen people in a similar state and knows that such persons farming their own land for a lord are called coloni, whatever the restrictions on their movement and their ancestry may be like.

A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe 2009

Advenae autem primi fuere Phoenicum coloni aliique ex

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

At Suetonius mira constantia medios inter hostes Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem coloni� non insigne, sed copia negociatorum & commeatu maxime celebre.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In agriculture, the labor of slaves tended to be replaced by that of coloni (tenant-farmers), whose status was originally free but fell over time to that of being tied to the land.

5. The Later Empire, 284-527 C.E 2001

By 400, the legal codes refer to coloni as servi terrae (slaves of the land).

5. The Later Empire, 284-527 C.E 2001

A colony is therefore denominated because they should be coloni, the tillers of the earth and stewards of fertility.

The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton

Some of these estates were worked on the true "villa" system, by which the lord occupied the "great house," and cultivated the land close round it by slaves, while he let the rest to half-free _coloni_.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Many of the poor peasants scattered through Italy were coloni of this type and they doubtless suffered severely in the evictions.

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

Paris, and there they would sit and do justice in the open square before the church and from all the district round great men and small, nobles and freemen and _coloni_, would bring their grievances and demand redress.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

Slaves were to be reproved by their masters, coloni were to be constrained by repeated beatings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913