The census being now completed, which he had expedited by the terror of a law passed on those not rated, with threats of imprisonment and death, he issued a proclamation that all the Roman citizens, horse and foot, should attend at the dawn of day in the Campus Martius, each in his century.

There he drew up his army and performed a lustration of it by the sacrifices called suovetaurilia, and that was called the closing of the lustrum, because that was the conclusion of the census.

Eighty thousand citizens are said to have been rated in that survey.

Fabius Pictor, the oldest of our historians, adds, that such was the number of those who were able to bear arms.

To accommodate that number the city seemed to require enlargement.