Old centuries of knights 6 New centuries of knights 12 =========+=====================+===========+================== CLASSES | JUNIOR CENTURIES | SENIOR | RATINGS IN ASSES | | CENTURIES | ACCORDING TO LIVY ---------+---------------------+---------—+------------------- I | 40 + 2 of artisans | 40 | 100,000 II | 10 | 10 | 75,000 III | 10 | 10 | 50,000 | | | IV | 10 + 2 of musicians | 10 | 25,000 V | 14 + 1 of accensi | | | + 1 of the tardy | 14 | 11,000 =========+=====================+===========+================== Below the classes: 1 century of proletarians SUMMARY Knights 18 Seniors and juniors 168 Supernumerary 7 --- Total 193 Before the reform this assembly met in military array with banners displayed, each company under its centurion.[1253] The voting was oral. Probably it was at first by acclamation; if so the suggestion of individual voting, as we find it in historical time, must have come from the orderly military array, which offered itself conveniently for the purpose.[1254] The centurions may originally have served as rogatores, to collect and report the votes.[1255] Each century cast a single vote, which in historical time the majority of its members decided.[1256] The voting proceeded according to classes; the equites were asked first, hence their centuries were termed prerogative (praerogativae), then the eighty centuries of the first class. If the votes of these two groups were unanimous, they decided the question at issue; as ninety-seven was a majority, they had one to spare from their total number. If they disagreed, the second class was called and then the third and so on to the proletarian century. But the voting ceased as soon as a majority was reached, which was often with the first class; and it rarely happened that the proletarians were called on to decide the issue.[1257] The announcement of the prerogative votes greatly influenced the action of those which followed.[1258] II. _The Reform_