Converse of object

• work: The labor needed to work these latifundia ( estates ) was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.

Adjective modifier

• vast: Slaves replaced free laborers on the vast latifundia that took over as usury ruined the small farmers.

Modifies a noun

• perdidere: Pliny presents the whole drama to us in one sentence, which explains all ancient history: Latifundia perdidere Italiam.