| Equites.—Centuriæ | 18 | ||
| First Class.—Census 100,000 asses and upward. | |||
| Centuriæ Seniorum | 40 | } | 82 |
| Centuriæ Juniorum | 40 | ||
| Centuriæ Fabrum (smiths and carpenters) | 2 | ||
| Second Class.—Census, 75,000 asses and upward. | |||
| Centuriæ Seniorum | 10 | } | 20 |
| Centuriæ Juniorum | 10 | ||
| Third Class.—Census, 50,000 asses and upward. | |||
| Centuriæ Seniorum | 10 | } | 20 |
| Centuriæ Juniorum | 10 | ||
| Fourth Class.—Census, 25,000 asses and upward. | |||
| Centuriæ Seniorum | 10 | } | 20 |
| Centuriæ Juniorum | 10 | ||
| Fifth Class.—Census, 12,500 asses and upward. | |||
| Centuriæ Seniorum | 15 | } | 32 |
| Centuriæ Juniorum | 15 | ||
| Centuriæ cornicinum, tubicinum | 2 | ||
| Centuriæ capita censorum | 1 | ||
| Sum total of the centuriæ | 198 |
[9] The celebrated seven hills upon which Rome stood were the Palatine, Aventine, Capitoline, Cælian, Quirinal, Viminal, and Esquilian. The Mons Pincius was not included within the Servian Wall.
[10] The following genealogical table exhibits the relationship of the family:
| Demaratus of Corinth. | ||||||||||||
| TARQUINIUS PRISCUS. | Aruns. | |||||||||||
| Tarquinia, | Tarquinia, | L. TARQUINIUS | Aruns. | Egerius, | ||||||||
| married | married | SUPERBUS. | commander of | |||||||||
| Servius Tullius. | M. Brutus. | Collatia. | ||||||||||
| M. Brutus, | L. Brutus, | Titus. | Sextus. | Aruns. | Tarquinius | |||||||
| put to | the | Collatinus, | ||||||||||
| death by | Consul. | married | ||||||||||
| Tarquinius. | Lucretia. | |||||||||||
[11] The Lictors were public officers who attended upon the Roman magistrate. Each consul had twelve lictors. They carried upon their shoulders fasces, which were rods bound in the form of a bundle, and containing an axe in the middle.
[12] There is, however, reason to believe that these brilliant stories conceal one of the earliest and greatest disasters of the city. It appears that Rome was really conquered by Porsena, and lost all the territory which the kings had gained on the right side of the Tiber. Hence we find the thirty tribes, established by Servius Tullius, reduced to twenty after the war with Porsena.
[13] The Dictator was an extraordinary magistrate appointed by one of the Consuls in seasons of great peril. He possessed absolute power. Twenty-four lictors attended him, bearing the axes in the fasces, even in the city; and from his decision there was no appeal. He could not hold the office longer than six months, and he usually laid it down much sooner. He appointed a Magister Equitum, or Master of the Horse, who acted as his lieutenant. From the time of the appointment of the Dictator, all the other magistrates, even the Consuls, ceased to exercise any power.
[14] Debtors thus given over to their creditors were called Addicti.
[15] This was called the right of intercession, from intercedo, "to come between."
[16] The Tribunes were originally elected at the Comitia of the Centuries, where the influence of the Patricians was predominant; but by the Publilian Law, proposed by the tribune Publilius Volero, and passed B.C. 471, the election was transferred to the Comitia of the Tribes, by which means the Plebeians obtained the uncontrolled election of their own officers.