Meanwhile the city increased by their taking in various lots of ground for buildings, whilst they built rather with a view to future numbers, than for the population[15] which they then had.

Then, lest the size of the city might be of no avail, in order to augment the population, according to the ancient policy of the founders of cities, who, after drawing together to them an obscure and mean multitude, used to feign that their offspring sprung out of the earth, he opened as a sanctuary, a place which is now enclosed as you go down "to the two groves."[16] Hither fled from the neighbouring states, without distinction whether freemen or slaves, crowds of all sorts, desirous of change: and this was the first accession of strength to their rising greatness.

When he was now not dissatisfied with his strength, he next sets about forming some means of directing that strength.

He creates one hundred senators, either because that number was sufficient, or because there were only one hundred who could name their fathers.

They certainly were called Fathers, through respect, and their descendants, Patricians.[17] [Footnote 14: _Apparitores hoc genus_.