Excerpt from The Plebs in Cicero's Day: A Study of Their Provenance and of Their EmploymentAfter this brief summary of the requirements of military service, we proceed to try to form an idea of the proportion of men who were actually serving at a given time. The figures for ten successive years are given below. They err on the side of understatement. Anyone looking over the sections in Livy devoted to the yearly assigning of troops will notice that the statements are fuller and more accurate for the Roman legions than for the Allies. Clearly Livy often fails to enumerate the official contingents of the latter, although in his narrative of the year's campaigns he may refer to their presence. The total number of troops for any one year, therefore, must often fall short of the truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.