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TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF ROMAN CITIZENS
[From Philip Van Ness Myers, General History for College and High Schools, Revised ed. (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1906), p. 280] |
| These figures embody what is perhaps the most important matter in Roman history, namely, the gradual admission of unprivileged commoners and of aliens to the full rights of the city until every freeman in the civilized world had become a citizen of Rome. This movement we have endeavored to trace in the text. |
|
Citizens of Military Age |
| Under the later kings (Mommsen's estimate) |
20,000---- |
| 338 B.C. |
165,000 [1] |
| 293 B.C. |
262,322--- |
| 251 B.C. |
279,797--- |
| 220 B.C. |
270,213---- |
| 204 B.C. |
214,000 [2] |
| 164 B.C. |
327,022---- |
| 115 B.C. |
394,336---- |
| 70 B.C. |
900,000(?)- |
| 27 B.C. |
4,063,000 [3] |
| 8 B.C. |
4,233,000---- |
| 13 A.D. |
4,937,000---- |
| 47 A.D. (under Claudius) |
6,944,000---- |
[1] These figures do not include the inhabitants of the Latin colonies nor of the allied states.
[2] The falling off from the number of the preceding census of 220 B.C. was a result Of the Hannibalic war.
[3] These figures and those of the enumerations for 8 B.C. and 13 A.D. are from the Monumentum Ancyranum. The increased number given by the census of 70 B.C. Over that of 115 B.C. registers the result of the admission to the city of the Italians at the end of the Social war.