FOOT. HORSE. Two consular armies, each of two legions, of 5,200 foot and 300 cavalry 20,800 1,200 Allied troops 30,000 2,000 Sabines and Etruscans 50,000 more than 4,000 Umbrians and Sarsinates, inhabitants of the Apennines 20,000 -- Cenomani and Veneti 30,000 -- At Rome 20,000 1,500 Allies (of the reserve) 30,000 2,000 Latins 80,000 5,000 Samnites 70,000 7,000 Iapygians and Messapians 50,000 16,000 Lucanians 30,000 3,000 Marsi, Marrucini, Frentani, and Vestini 20,000 4,000 In Sicily and at Tarentum, two legions of 4,200 foot and 200 horse 8,400 400 Roman and Campanian citizens 250,000 23,000 ------- ------ 699,200 69,100 [508] See the Memoir of Zumpt, _Stand der Bevölkerung im Alterthum_. Berlin, 1841. [509] Polybius, III. 30. [510] Titus Livius, XXI. 7. [511] Appian, _Wars of Spain_, 10. [512] Polybius, III. 90.--“The allies had till then remained firm in their attachment.” (Titus Livius, XXII. 61.)--“This fidelity which they have preserved towards us in the midst of our reverses.” (_Speech of Fabius_, Titus Livius, XXII. 39.) [513] There were among the Roman troops Samnite cavalry. (Titus Livius, XXVII. 43.) [514] Titus Livius, XXII. 49; XXIII. 12.--“In the second Punic war, the use of rings had already become common; otherwise it would have been impossible for Hannibal to send three _modii_ of rings to Carthage.” (Pliny, XXXIII. 6.)--We read in Appian: “The tribunes of the soldiers wear the gold ring, their inferiors have it of ivory.” (_Punic Wars_, VIII. cv.) [515] “The Greek towns, inclined to maintain their alliance with Rome.” (Titus Livius, XXIV. 1.)--Even in Bruttium, the small town of Petelia defended itself against Hannibal with the greatest energy; the women fought like the men. (Appian, VII. 29.) [516] Eutropius, III. 6. [517] Titus Livius, XXVI. 1. [518] Titus Livius, XXIV. 14.