20.1
The city thus doubled in its numbers, a hundred of the Sabines were added by election to the Patricii, Cf. chapter xiii. 1. and the legions were enlarged to six thousand footmen and six hundred horsemen. Cf. chapter xiii. 1. The people, too, were arranged in three bodies, the first called Ramnenses, from Romulus; the second Tatienses, from Tatius; and the third Lucerenses, from the grove into which many betook themselves for refuge, when a general asylum was offered, Cf. chapter ix. 3. and then became citizens. Now the Roman word for grove is lucus.
20.2
That these bodies were three in number, their very name testifies, for to this day they call them tribes, and their chief officers, tribunes. And each tribe had ten phratries, or brotherhoods, which, as some say, were named after the thirty Sabine women; Cf. chapter xiv. 6. but this seems to be false, since many of them bear the names of places.
20.3
However, they did make many other concessions to the women, to do them honour, some of which are as follow: to give them the right of way when walking; not to utter any indecent word in the presence of a woman; that no man should be seen naked by them, or else that he be liable to prosecution before the judges of homicide; and that their children should wear a sort of necklace, the bulla, so called from its shape (which was that of a bubble), and a robe bordered with purple.
20.4
The two kings did not at once hold council in common with one another, but each at first sat with his own hundred councillors apart, then afterwards they united them all into one body, as at the present time. Tatius dwelt where now is the temple of Moneta, and Romulus beside the so-called Steps of Fair Shore;The Greek text is probably corrupt. The scalae Caci or Steps of Cacus must be meant. these are near the descent into the Circus Maximus from the Palatine.
