[467] Delbrück, Gesch. d. Kriegsk. i. 229; Smith, Röm. Timokr. 45 ff. That the second and third divisions of the phalanx were sometimes withdrawn to operate on the flanks (Soltau, Altröm. Volksversamml. 249) is possible, though we have no proof of it.
[468] P. 76. From early times the Greek and Italian states kept arsenals with which to arm the poor in crises; Liers, Kriegsw. d. Alten, 36 f.
[469] P. 84.
[470] Fest. ep. 14, 18, 369; Varro, L. L. vii. 56-58. From them the centurions and decurions engaged their servants; Cato, in Varro, L. L. vii. 58; Varro, Vit. pop. rom. iii, in Non. Marc. 520; Veget. ii. 19. Hence they served the civil magistrates as attendants; cf. Censoriae Tabulae, in Varro, L. L. vi. 88; Livy iii. 33. 8; Suet. Caes. 20; Non. Marc. 59. They must have corresponded with the squires of the Greek and Roman cavalry; p. 73. They were sometimes called adscriptivi, or as carriers ferentarii. If, as has been suggested, the secretaries and other attendants of the higher officers were also drawn from them, this circumstance would help explain the honor attaching to the collegium accensorum velatorum of imperial time; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 289; Delbrück, Gesch. d. Kriegsk. i. 233.
[471] Notwithstanding Kubitschek, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. i. 135 f.
[472] Livy viii. 8. 8. Leinveber, in Philol. N. F. xv (1902). 36, estimates 558 accensi to the legion.
[473] The cornicines tubicinesque; Livy i. 43. 7.
[474] The cornicines marched in front of the banners; Joseph. Bell. Iud. v. 48; Fiebiger, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iv. 1602.
[475] The number is unknown. In the legio III Augusta there were thirty-six cornicines; CIL. vii. 2557; Fiebiger, ibid. 1603.
[476] Livy i. 43. 3.