Wealth is not yet a matter of land-owning--the main element of property is cattle;[21] and the bulk of the land is _ager occupatorius_, a great "common" on which all men's cattle feed. The voteless free plebeian has simply his home and homestead, "toft and croft," the latter being two yokes (= five roods) of land, on which he raises the grain and olives and vegetables that feed his household.[22] This goes to his heir. Here arises another problem. E.W. Robertson (as last cited) decides that the "two yokes" can have been only "the homestead, and could not have included the farm or property attached to it." The _heredium_, he holds, following Pliny (_Hist. Nat._, xix, 19), and citing Livy (vi, 36), was only in the _hortus_, the house and garden, "and not in the arable or pasture land." But surely the arable was on a different footing from the pasture land (_ager compascus_). Corn was not grown in common, unless it were by the _gentes_ (Mommsen, vol. i, pp. 38, 72, 193). The solution seems to be that given by Greenidge, that as "the _heredium_ consisted only of two _jugera_ (Festus, p. 53), an amount obviously insufficient for the maintenance of a family," "there must have been _ager privatus_ as well, owned by some larger unit, and this unit would naturally have been the gens" (_Roman Public Life_, p. 15). Among general historians of Rome Mommsen seems to be the first to note this circumstance, and he gives neither details nor evidence. Schwegler, discussing (i, 619) the theory of Puchta that there was no private property in Rome before the "arrival" of the plebs, admits that among the ancient Germans the land was yearly apportioned among the groups as such, but finds that "Roman tradition tells of nothing of the kind." (So Greenidge, p. 15.) In any case, Mommsen, while insisting that "the fields (_sic_) of the gentes (_Geschlechts-Genossen_) in the earliest period lay together" (_Staatsrecht_, III, i, 24; cp. p. 94), admits that such gentile ownership had at an early stage disappeared (_früh verschwundenen_). There was then no communal tillage in the historic period. Cincinnatus, in the legend, returns to the plough on his own croft. Further, the early complaints cited by Livy as to the "two yokes" being "hardly enough to raise a roof on or to make a grave in" were addressed by the tribunes on behalf of plebeians to patricians who each had above five hundred yokes. The non-client plebeians then had no share in the land of the _gentes_ or clans, being themselves in large part dispossessed by conquest.