First of all he bound over the people, whilst still enraptured with their newly-acquired liberty, by an oath that they would suffer no one to be king in Rome, lest afterwards they might be perverted by the importunities or bribes of the royal family.

Next in order, that the fulness of the house might produce more of strength in the senate, he filled up the number of the senators, diminished by the king's murders, to the amount of three hundred, having elected the principal men of the equestrian rank; and from thence it is said the custom was derived of summoning into the senate both those who were patres and those who were conscripti.[65] Forsooth they styled those who were elected into the new senate Conscripti.

It is wonderful how much that contributed to the concord of the state, and to attach the affection of the commons to the patricians.
[Footnote 65: All were called _Patres conscripti_.Scil.Patres et Conscripti, the conjunction being omitted.Nieb.i.p.

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Then attention was paid to religious matters, and as some part of the public worship had been performed by the kings in person, that they might not be missed in any respect, they elect a king of the sacrifices.
This office they made subject to the pontiff, that honour being added to the name might be no infringement on their liberty, which was now their principal care.