v.] [Footnote 136: See the two titles, De Veteranis and De Filiis Veteranorum, in the seventh book of the Theodosian Code.

The age at which their military service was required, varied from twenty-five to sixteen.

If the sons of the veterans appeared with a horse, they had a right to serve in the cavalry; two horses gave them some valuable privileges] [Footnote 137: Cod.Theod.l.vii.tit.

xiii.leg.7.According to the historian Socrates, (see Godefroy ad loc.,) the same emperor Valens sometimes required eighty pieces of gold for a recruit.

In the following law it is faintly expressed, that slaves shall not be admitted inter optimas lectissimorum militum turmas.] [Footnote 138: The person and property of a Roman knight, who had mutilated his two sons, were sold at public auction by order of Augustus.