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Browsing named entities in Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 21-22 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.). You can also browse the collection for 460 BC or search for 460 BC in all documents.
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 22 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 38 (search)
When they had finished with the levy, the consuls waited a few days for the soldiers from the allies and the Latins to come in.
An oath was then administered to the soldiers by their tribunes — which was a thing that they had never done before.
For until that day there had only been the general oathLike the one mentioned in chap. xi. § 8 of the year before, or in III. xx. 3, of 460 B.C. to assemble at the bidding of the consuls and not depart without their orders; then, after assembling, they would exchange a voluntary pledge amongst themselves —the cavalrymen in their decuries and the infantry in their centuries —that
they would not abandon their ranks for flight or fear, but only to take up or seek a weapon, either to smite an enemy or to save a fellow citizen.
This voluntary agreement amongst the men themselves was replaced by an oath administered formally by the tribunes. Before the troops marched from the City, theB.C. 216 consul Varro uttered many trucule