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History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD

CHAPTER XXIV
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All persons who had held these offices, or that of Tribune, were allowed to join in debate in the Senate, but not to vote.

No Senator could engage in business.

Hence he must be wealthy.
We saw in Chapter IV.

that Roman citizens were divided into six classes according to their property, and that these classes were subdivided into one hundred and ninety-three other classes called centuries.

About 225, the number was increased to three hundred and seventy-three.


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