Note 470 — Chapter IV · THE CENTURIES AND THE CLASSES

Fest. ep. 14, 18, 369; Varro, L. L. vii. 56-58. From them the centurions and decurions engaged their servants; Cato, in Varro, L. L. vii. 58; Varro, Vit. pop. rom. iii, in Non. Marc. 520; Veget. ii. 19. Hence they served the civil magistrates as attendants; cf. Censoriae Tabulae, in Varro, L. L. vi. 88; Livy iii. 33. 8; Suet. Caes. 20; Non. Marc. 59. They must have corresponded with the squires of the Greek and Roman cavalry; p. 73. They were sometimes called adscriptivi, or as carriers ferentarii. If, as has been suggested, the secretaries and other attendants of the higher officers were also drawn from them, this circumstance would help explain the honor attaching to the collegium accensorum velatorum of imperial time; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 289; Delbrück, Gesch. d. Kriegsk. i. 233.