Centurions in Early Rome

[Michael J. Taylor]

Livy has the three original centuries, derived from the Archaic tribes doubled to six at 1.36 and then claimed Servius Tullius added 12 more centuries at 1.43, and seems to reduplicate the doubling of the three to six already introduced above. His exact regal chronology and antiquarian reconstruction need not be reliable, but the "sex suffragia" centuries did bear the names of Archaic tribes, suggesting that these came first before the other 12.