10-05-2007, 06:28 AM
Quote:Well done Steve, I know that moment!
Cool.
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You wouldn't know what happened to the "sex suffragia" would you? The missing 600 cavalry, leaving 1200 equites. They are listed in the Servian reform but I cannot find evidence of their existence during the beginning of the Republic. Not one battle account would suggest 1800 cavalry were present. Some scholars believe they still voted in the centuriate assembly but for how long?
I asked some professors today about the disappearance of the sex suffragia but they replied it was too difficult. They could be right. But disappear they did. I have references to six glans disappearing during the throw of the monarchy but this number does not reconcile with the tribes and the levy arrangement, of which the sex suffragia are apart. At one point I thought they could have become cavalry officers for the equites but the numbers do not match. The only conclusion is because once they were the king's bodyguard, they were disbanded with the overthrow of the monarchy.
Has anyone been down this road before?