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