Roman Public LifeGreenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
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Roman Public Life
Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
Constitutional history -- Rome; Rome -- Politics and government
_5th Classis_—11,000 asses (Liv.), 12,500 (Dionys. 12½ minae).
Seniores, 15 cent. } 30
Juniores, 15 cent. }
_Fabri_—2 cent. (voting with 1st class, Liv.; }
with 2nd class, Dionys.) }
_Accensi_, _cornicines_, _tibicines_, 3 cent. } 6 cent. (Liv.).
(Liv.), 2 cent. (Dionys.) (voting with 4th } 5 cent. (Dionys.).
class, Dionys.). }
_Capite censi_, 1 cent. }
Total, 193 centuries (Dionys.), 194 (Liv.).
THE CENSUS
As interpreted by Mommsen,[290] who holds As interpreted by Belot,[291]
that the figures are given in _asses who holds that the
sextantarii_ [i.e. _asses_ of two ounces figures are given in
weight—⅙ of the libral _as_ (the later _asses librales_ (later
_sestertius_)]. _sestertii_).
The older _as_ Later (_circa_
(¼ denarius) 269 B.C.)
equivalent to
⅒ denarius
_1st Classis_ 40,000 100,000 100,000
_2nd ” _ 30,000 75,000 75,000
_3rd ” _ 20,000 50,000 50,000
_4th ” _ 10,000 25,000 25,000
_5th ” _ 4,400 11,000 12,500
Another century was formed by the _accensi_ or _velati_. These were
men with no heavy armour, who might be enrolled as occasion required
(_adscripticii_), or who marched to battle as light-armed troops ready at
any moment to take the armour and places of the fallen legionaries.[292]
No property qualification was required for these three groups, the
reason being that their place in the army did not demand it. But to
these Livy and Dionysius add another unpropertied class, the century of
_proletarii_, which included the whole mass of the people not registered
in the _classes_.[293] If, however, we believe in the originally military
character of the organisation, there seems no place for this class which
is not already filled by the _accensi_ and _velati_. At a later period
the _accensi_ became a more definite body, acting as assistants to the
magistrates and forming a corporation with certain immunities,[294]
and at this period the _proletarii_ may have been recognised as the
class liable to taxation, which fell below the minimum census. But they
probably do not belong to the original Servian organisation.
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