36, and Beaufort, Republique Romaine, tom.i.

p.
325.) They did not consider that the second census was taken only at Rome, and that the numbers were diminished, not only by the death, but likewise by the absence, of many soldiers.

In the third census, Livy expressly affirms, that the legions were mustered by the care of particular commissaries.

From the numbers on the list we must always deduct one twelfth above threescore, and incapable of bearing arms.

See Population de la France, p.