[378] The property qualification for the first class was 100,000 asses; for the second class, 75,000 asses; for the third, 50,000; for the fourth, 25,000; and for the fifth, 11,000 asses.—Livy, i, 43.

[379] Dionysius, iv, 20.

[380] Ib., iv, 16, 17, 18.

[381] Livy, i, 43.

[382] De Rep., ii, 20.

[383] Dionysius, iv, 16.

[384] Livy, i, 43.

[385] Livy, i, 43. But Dionysius places the equites in the first class, and remarks that this class was first called.—Dionys., iv, 20.

[386] Livy, i, 44; Dionysius states the number at 84,700.—iv, 22.

[387] Cicero, De Rep., ii, 20.