[751] “Turmæ.” Squadrons of thirty “equites” or horsemen; ten of which squadrons were attached to each legion.
[752] Before the time of Augustus, there were but three decuries.
[753] A law introduced by Aurelius Cotta, B.C. 70, enacted that the Judices should be chosen from the three classes—of Senators, Equites, and Tribuni ærarii, or Tribunes of the treasury, these last being taken from the body of the people, and being persons possessed of some property.
[754] Members selected by lot.
[755] “Nongenti.”
[756] Tacitus says that this took place the year before, in the consulship of C. Sulpicius, and D. Haterius. See the Annales, B. iii. c. 86.
[757] Brother of the Emperor Galba.
[758] “Aucupatus.”
[759] Suetonius says that Tiberius instructed the ædiles to prohibit stews and eating-houses: from which we may conclude, Hardouin says, that C. Sulpicius Galba was an ædile.
[760] Or, in other words, belonging to the equestrian order. The Roman equites often followed the pursuits of bankers, and farmers of the public revenues.