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88 , the annexed community was recognized after the union as at least a tribe (part) of the new burgess-body, and thus had in some sense a continued political existence; but no such course was followed in the case of the Hill-Romans, or in any of the later processes of annexation. After the union the Roman community continued to be divided as formerly into three tribes each containing ten wardships (curiæ), and the Hill-Romans (whether they were or were not previously distributed into tribes of their own) must have been inserted into the existing tribes and wardships. This insertion was probably so arranged, that while each tribe and wardship received its assigned proportion of the new burgesses, the new burgesses in these divisions were not amalgamated completely with the old; the tribes henceforth exhibit two ranks: the Tities, Ramnes, and Luceres being respectively subdivided into first and second (priores, posteriores). With this division was connected in all probability that arrangement of the organic institutions of the community in pairs, which meets us everywhere. The three pairs of Sacred Virgins are expressly indicated as representatives of tribes with their first and second ranks; and it may be conjectured that the six Argean chapels that belonged to each of the four urban regions (P. 54), and the pair of Lares worshipped in each street, had a similar origin. This arrangement is especially apparent in the army: after the union each half-tribe of the tripartite community furnished a hundred horse, and the Roman burgess-cavalry was thus raised to six "hundreds," and the number of the captains of horse (tribuni celerum) from three to six. There is no tradition of any corresponding increase in the infantry; but to this origin we may probably refer the subsequent custom of calling out the legions regularly two by two, and this doubling of the levy probably led to the rule of having not three, as was perhaps originally the case, but six leaders of division to command the legion. It is certain that no corresponding increase of seats in the senate took place: on the contrary, the primitive number of three hundred senators remained the normal number down to the seventh century. It may, however, be reasonably presumed that a number of the more prominent men of the newly annexed community would be received into the senate of the Palatine city. The same course was followed with the magistracies: a single king presided over the united community, and there was one