[1235] That there was a proletarian century, besides the accensi velati, in the comitia centuriata is proved by Livy i. 43. 8; Dion. Hal. iv. 18. 2; Cic. Rep. ii. 22. 40. Mommsen’s attempt (Röm. Staatsr. iii. 237 f., 285 f.) to rule this century out of existence has failed, notwithstanding the approval of some recent writers, as Domazewski, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1953. Cf. Kübler, ibid. iii. 1521 ff.
[1236] IV. 17. 2; vii. 59. 3.
[1237] Cf. Livy i. 43. 10.
[1238] Cf. p. 66, 77, n. 2.
[1239] P. 77 and n. 2.
[1240] 177. 21: “‘Niquis scivit’ centuria est, quae dicitur a Ser. Tullio rege constituta, in qua liceret ei suffragium ferre, qui non tulisset in sua, nequis civis suffragii iure privaretur.... Sed in ea centuria, neque censetur quisquam, neque centurio praeficitur, neque centurialis potest esse, quia nemo certus est eius centuriae. Est autem ni quis scivit nisi quis scivit.”
[1241] As does Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 285 f.
[1242] This view accords best with the words of Livy i. 43. 7: “In his accensi, cornicines tubicinesque, in tres centurias distributi” (they were reckoned among the thirty).
[1243] Accepted by Huschke, Verf. d. Serv. 152, but rejected by Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 283, n. 1.
[1244] P. 7, 62, 74 ff. 93, 96.