Reflections On the Rise And Fall of the Ancient Republicks Adapted to the Pres
Reflections On the Rise And Fall of the Ancient Republicks Adapted to the Pres
Edward Wortley Montagu
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But as he did mofl; fignal fervices to his country, during a glorious reign of four and forty years, I cannot help taking notice of fome of his inftitutions, without the knowledge of which it is hardly poffible to form a perfedl idea of the Roman conftitution. Tullius ordered all the Romans to regifler their names and ages, with thofe of their pa- rents, wives and children, and the place of their abode, either in the city or the country. At the fame time he enjoined them to give in upon oath a ...juft valuation of their effects, on pain of being whipped and fold for flaves if they failed in regiftering all thefe particu- lars. From this regifter he formed his plan for a regular and general militia, which was invariably followed by the Romans, 'till the time of Marius. To effed: this he divided the whole body of the citiziens into fix claf- fes. The firft clafs confided of thofe whofe pofiefiions amounted to a hundred ^ Mince. Thcfe he armed in the compleatefi: manner, and divided into eighty centuries ; forty of which, compofed of the younger men, were appointed to take the field in time of war ; the other forty were afiigned for the defence a About three hundred pounds, of Ancient Republicks.
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