[338] Flaccus, in Gell. xvii. 7. 5. A list was kept of the estates comprising a tribe; Cic. ibid.
[339] Cf. the admission of new tribes; Livy vi. 5. 8: “Tribus quattuor ex novis civibus additae;” viii. 17. 11.
[340] Dion. Hal. iv. 14. 2.
[341] P. 64.
[342] Livy xxix. 37. 3 f.; Soltau, Altröm. Volksversamml. 379, n. 3.
[343] Somewhat different is the view of Mommsen, Röm. Trib. 2 f.; Röm. Forsch. i. 151; Röm. Staatsr. ii. 402; controverted by Soltau, ibid. 384 ff.
[344] The Romans had but two pursuits, agriculture and war, for the sedentary occupations were given to slaves and strangers; Dion. Hal. ii. 28; ix. 25. 2. It was assumed that those who were without property could take no interest in the state; ibid. iv. 9. 3 f.; Livy viii. 20. 4.
[345] Cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 630.
[346] It is well known too that freedmen were not regularly employed in military service; Livy x. 21. 4; p. 354 f. below.
[347] Widows and orphans were enrolled in a different list from that of the tribes, and hence were not included in the statistics of population which have come down to us; cf. Livy iii. 3. 9; ep. lix; Plut. Popl. 12; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 365 f., 401. Livy, ii. 56. 3, seems to exclude the clients. Only those lacked membership, however, who possessed no land. Clients of free birth were as liable to military service, according to their ratable property, as any other class of citizens; p. 22.