[428] Tubero, in Gell. x. 28. 1; Non. Marc. 523. 24. From this fact it appears that military conditions made a far greater demand upon the early Romans than upon the Lacedaemonians.
[429] Helbig, in Comptes rendus de l’acad. des inscr. 1900. 516 ff.; Mém. de l’acad. etc. xxxvii¹ (1904). 157 ff.; Hermes xl (1905). 109. The objection of Smith, Röm. Timokr. 37, n. 3, is not well founded.
[430] Incertus Auctor (Huschke), p. 1.
[431] Ined. Vat., in Hermes xxvii (1892). 121; Helbig, ibid, xl (1905). 114. The transvectio equitum was instituted in 304; Livy ix. 46. 15. On the close connection of the Roman cavalry with that of the Greeks of southern Italy, see Pais, Storia di Roma, I. ii. 607, n. 1.
[432] The priores had each two horses; Granius Licinianus xxvi, p. 29: “Verum de equitibus non omittam, quos Tarquinius ita constituit, ut priores equites binos equos in proelium ducerent;” cf. Fest. ep. 221. On the Tarentine cavalry, see Livy xxxiii. 29, 5. The inference is that the posteriores had one horse each.
[433] Helbig, in Hermes xl (1905). 107. Notizie degli Scavi, 1899. 167, fig. 17 (cf. p. 157); 1900. 325, fig. 28; Pellegrini, in Milani, Studi e materiali, i. 106.
[434] Pellegrini, ibid. i. 97, fig. 5; 104, fig. 10.
[435] P. 75.
[436] P. 3, n. 8.
[437] VI. 13. 4.