The city thus doubled in its numbers, a hundred of the Sabines were added by election to the Patricii,1 and the legions were enlarged to six thousand footmen and six hundred horsemen.2 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,3 and then became citizens. Now the Roman word for grove is
‘lucus.’
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