As interpreted by Mommsen,[290] who holds that the figures are given in asses sextantarii [i.e. asses of two ounces weight—⅙ of the libral as (the later sestertius)]. As interpreted by Belot,[291] who holds that the figures are given in asses librales (later sestertii). The older as (¼ denarius) Later (circa 269 B.C.) equivalent to ⅒ denarius 1st Classis 40,000 100,000 100,000 2nd ” 30,000 75,000 75,000 3rd ” 20,000 50,000 50,000 4th ” 10,000 25,000 25,000 5th ” 4,400 11,000 12,500

Another century was formed by the accensi or velati. These were men with no heavy armour, who might be enrolled as occasion required (adscripticii), or who marched to battle as light-armed troops ready at any moment to take the armour and places of the fallen legionaries.[292] No property qualification was required for these three groups, the reason being that their place in the army did not demand it. But to these Livy and Dionysius add another unpropertied class, the century of proletarii, which included the whole mass of the people not registered in the classes.[293] If, however, we believe in the originally military character of the organisation, there seems no place for this class which is not already filled by the accensi and velati. At a later period the accensi became a more definite body, acting as assistants to the magistrates and forming a corporation with certain immunities,[294] and at this period the proletarii may have been recognised as the class liable to taxation, which fell below the minimum census. But they probably do not belong to the original Servian organisation.