[368] Livy ii. 9. 6; xxiii. 48. 8; xxxiii. 42. 4; xxxix. 7. 5; Pliny, N. H. xxxiv. 6. 23; Marquardt, Röm. Staatsv. ii. 162, n. 4.
[369] Instances of public expenditure for the equipment or pay of troops before this date (Dion. Hal. v. 47. 1; viii. 68. 3; ix. 59. 4; Livy iv. 36. 2) are either exceptional or more probably historical anticipations of later usage. That before 406 the soldiers drew pay from their tribes (Mommsen, Röm. Trib. 32; Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 540) is disproved by Soltau, Altröm Volksversamml. 407 f.
[370] Marquardt, ibid. 164-7.
[371] Cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 392.
[372] Varro, L. L. v. 181.
[373] The function of the tribuni aerarii was to pay the soldiers; Cato, Epist. Quaest. i, in Gell. vi (vii). 10. 2; Varro, v. 181; Fest. ep. 2; Pliny, N. H. xxxiv. 1. 1. Perhaps they also collected money into the treasury; Cic. Att. i. 16. 3. From Cato’s statement they appear to have been financially responsible; and we are informed that as early as 100 they constituted a rank (ordo) evidently next below the equites; Cic. Rab. Perd. 9. 27. Under the Aurelian law of 70 they made up a decury of jurors; Cic. Att. i. 16. 3; Pliny, N. H. xxxiii. 1. 31. From these facts it is clear that the aerarian tribunes were officers of the aerarium, but no connection with the tribes can be discovered; Soltau, Altröm. Volksversamml. 409-12.
[374] Diod. xx. 46; Livy ix. 46. 10 f.; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 403.
[375] Mommsen, ibid. This class came to an end in the Social War; Kubitschek, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1285.
[376] In Mommsen’s opinion (Röm. Staatsr. ii. 403) these censors transferred to the country tribes as many landholding members of the urban tribes as possible.
[377] Livy ix. 46. 13 f.