[1057] p. 72.
[1058] Beloch der Italische Bund p. 78.
[1059] p. 73.
[1060] The change is put by tradition at the time of the siege of Veii (403 B.C., Liv. v. 7 “quibus census equester erat, equi publici non erant adsignati ... senatum adeunt factaque dicendi potestate equis se suis stipendia facturos promittunt”). Livy here assumes a census as existing for the equites equo publico, but it is questionable whether it was not transferred from these new equites (equo privato as they are called by modern historians) to the old equestrian centuries.
[1061] Polyb. vi. πλουτίνδην αὐτῶν γεγενημένης ὑπὸ τοῦ τιμητοῦ τῆς ἐκλογῆς.
[1062] There is no direct authority for this particular census earlier than the Principate. The fact that a census, approximating to or identical with the equestrian, was required for judices under the Gracchan law, and the specification that these should not be senators or members of senatorial families, led to these judges being called “knights.” They were selected from a class practically identical with that of the equites equo privato.
[1063] Cic. pro Cluent. 48, 134.
[1064] Suet. Claud. 16.
[1065] Val. Max. ii. 9, 7.
[1066] Cic. de Rep. iv. 2, 2. So Pompeius, a consul who had never been a senator (70 B.C.), claims and obtains his discharge before he enters on his office (Plut. Pomp. 22).