. A history of the cavalry from the earliest times [microform] : with lessons for the future. Horses; War; Military art and science; Chevaux; Guerre; Art et science militaires. 48 A HISTORY OF CAVALRY. [period I. more use of it, for he doubled its numbers by adding 100 men to the century of celeres of each tribe, who were known by the name of Ramnes, Titienses, and Litceres posteriores} The early records say that he made much use of these horsemen in his wars and derived great advantage from them.^ Servius Tullius reorganised the army and the state. The three double centuries became six; they
. A history of the cavalry from the earliest times [microform] : with lessons for the future. Horses; War; Military art and science; Chevaux; Guerre; Art et science militaires. 48 A HISTORY OF CAVALRY. [period I. more use of it, for he doubled its numbers by adding 100 men to the century of celeres of each tribe, who were known by the name of Ramnes, Titienses, and Litceres posteriores} The early records say that he made much use of these horsemen in his wars and derived great advantage from them.^ Servius Tullius reorganised the army and the state. The three double centuries became six; they were the six patrician centuries of equites often referred to under the name of the sex suffragii.^ To them were added twelve new centuries of knights formed from the richest members of the community, property, and not birth, being the qualification.^ These no doubt contained many plebeians, but must also have contained some patricians, for it is not probable that the whole body of the patri- cians were in the six old centuries. No one was admitted into the centuries of equites in the early times of the Republic unless his character was unblemished, his pro- perty qualification sufficient, and his father and his grandfather had both been born freemen. The eighteen centuries of knights, established under the constitution of Servius Tullius, were all furnished with horses at the expense of the state, and with an annual payment for their support. Afterwards, about the year 403 , another class of equites came into use in addition to the old force, and consisted of those citizens who had a sufficient fortune to serve in the equestrian ranks, but had no horses allotted to them by the state.^ This class furnished their own horses, and served in the cavalry in preference to the infantry, but do not seem to have been considered as holding the full rank of equites. The censors made a public inspection during their censorship of the equites who were intrusted with horses by the state.
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