ELD4962571: Roman Antiquite “” Emperor Probus (232-282) allowing families of Germans, Francs and Alamans to settle on abandoned agricultural lands - these settlers are known as deditices, lets, gentiles vers 280” (Laeti, communities of barbari (“barbarians”) foreigners, or people from outside the Empire, allowed to settle on, and granted land in, imperial territory on condition that they provide recruits for the Roman military under the reign of Probus, 280 ca) Engraving from “Storia di Roma” by Francesco Bertolini / Bridgeman Images