In that war, both the valour and good fortune of Tullius were conspicuous, and he returned to Rome, after routing a great army of the enemy, now unquestionably king, whether he tried the dispositions of the fathers or the people.

He then sets about a work of peace of the utmost importance; that, as Numa had been the author of religious institutions, so posterity might celebrate Servius as the founder of all distinction among the members of the state, and of those orders by which a limitation is established between the degrees of rank and fortune.

For he instituted the census, a most salutary measure for an empire destined to become so great, according to which the services of war and peace were to be performed, not by every person, (indiscriminately,) as formerly, but in proportion to the amount of property.

Then he formed, according to the census, the classes and centuries, and the arrangement as it now exists, eminently suited either to peace or war.
[Footnote 53: By _public_--_private_.

The "public" were the steps taken by Servius to establish his political ascendency, whilst the "private" refer to those intended to strengthen his family connexions.] [Footnote 54: _The truce had now expired._ If the truce concluded with them by Romulus be here meant, it was long since expired, since about 140 years had now elapsed.