And when he, too, had procured the passing of a law respecting his authority, he commenced his reign by doubling the original number of the senators.
The ancient senators he called patricians of the major families (_patres majorum gentium_), and he asked their votes first; and those new senators whom he himself had added, he entitled patricians of minor families.

After this, he established the order of knights, on the plan which we maintain to this day.

He would not, however, change the denomination of the Tatian, Rhamnensian, and Lucerian orders, though he wished to do so, because Attus Naevius, an augur of the highest reputation, would not sanction it.

And, indeed, I am aware that the Corinthians were remarkably attentive to provide for the maintenance and good condition of their cavalry by taxes levied on the inheritance of widows and orphans.

To the first equestrian orders Lucius also added new ones, composing a body of three hundred knights.