[358] Cic. Rep. ii. 20. 36; Livy i. 43. 9; Plut. Cam. 2.
[359] Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 469, is of the opinion that before Servius all the plebeians had this standing, and that Servius left the newly conquered plebeians in that class, because if admitted to the army, they might revolt! Cf. Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. i. 95.
[360] On the meaning of the word, see Pseud. Ascon. 103: “Ut pro capite suo tributi nomine aera praeberet.” On the removal from the tribe into this class; Livy iv. 24. 7; xxiv. 18. 6, 8; 43. 3; xliv. 16. 8. The removal from the tribe is understood when it is not mentioned; Varro, in Non. Marc. 190; Livy ix. 34. 9; xxvii. 11. 15; Gell. iv. 12.
[361] Livy vii. 20. 7; Dio Cass. Frag. 33; Strabo v. 2. 3; Gell. xvi. 13. 7; Schol. Hor. Ep. i. 6. 62. On the aerarii and Caerites, see further Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 392-4, 401 ff., 406; Kubitschek, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. i. 674-6; iii. 1284 f.; Hülsen, ibid. iii. 1281 f.; see also the works of Herzog, Lange, Madvig, and Willems.
[362] P. 466, n. 2.
[363] It would be absurd to suppose that while the absolutely poor citizens could vote in the proletarian century, those who possessed considerable wealth, though not in land, were excluded.
[364] Unutterable confusion was brought into this subject by Varro, L. L. v. 181: “Tributum dictum a tribubus, quod ea pecunia, quae populo imperata erat, tributim a singulis pro portione census exigebatur;” cf. Livy i. 43. 13; Isid. Etym. xvi. 18. 7. Neither is tributum derived from tribus nor vice versa. Tribuere signifies “to divide,” “to apportion;” tributum, “that which is apportioned,” tribus being only indirectly connected with these words; Schlossmann, in Archiv f. lat. Lexicog. xiv (1905). 25-40.
[365] Livy vi. 14. 12.
[366] Ibid. 32. 1.
[367] Dion. Hal. v. 20; cf. iv. 11. 2; xi. 63. 2; Plut. Popl. 12.