Ab urbe condita

He then begged the Quirites to grant him one request, which was that no one should ever either in jest or earnest bring that matter up against any one. A military Lex Sacrata [*](See note 15 on p. 358, Vol. I.) was also passed, enacting that no soldier's name should be struck off the muster-roll without his consent.[*]( “They deprecated the power of striking their names off the list of soldiers, partly because it degraded them to an inferior rank, that of the capite censi, who were considered unfit to bear arms, and partly because whilst they were on military service they were protected from being personally attached for debts; and partly, also, because service in Campania bore an agreeable aspect and might furnish a poor man with the means of relieving himself from his embarrassments.”—Arnold, I. p. 123.)

An additional provision was subsequently embodied in it, forbidding any one who had once been military tribune from being made to serve afterwards as a