[297] p. 41.
[298] It is not known when they ceased to be patrician; Mommsen (Staatsr. iii. p. 254) thinks on the reform of the Servian constitution, circa 220 B.C.
[299] Liv. i. 36.
[300] Cic. de Rep. ii. 22, 39.
[301] Festus p. 221 “paribus equis, id est duobus, Romani utebantur in proelio, ut sudante altero transirent in siccum. Pararium aes appellabatur id, quod equitibus duplex pro binis equis dabatur.”
[302] Liv. i. 43 “ita pedestri exercitu ornato distributoque equitum ex primoribus civitatis duodecim scripsit centurias. Sex item alias centurias ... sub isdem, quibus inauguratae erant, nominibus fecit: ad equos emendos dena millia aeris ex publico data [i.e., as Livy understands it, 10,000 asses sextantarii = 1000 denarii], et, quibus equos alerent, viduae adtributae, quae bina milia aeris in annos singulos penderent” [2000 asses = 200 denarii]. Cf. Gaius iv. 27.
[303] The number of the century was here fixed, and not, as in the case of the classici, expansive.
[304] Cf. Liv. i. 43 “neque eae tribus ad centuriarum distributionem numerumque quicquam pertinuere.” There is no evidence, e.g., that each tribe furnished a certain number of centuries.
[305] Tributum, however, cannot be derived from tribus (as by Varro quoted p. 40). The parallel words attribuere, contribuere, ultro tributa, etc., seem to show that it means something added to, conferred on, or collected for another.
[306] p. 48.