ted out four of their number,
in the choice whereof such care was taken that they offered none that
was not a citizen, no citizen that was not of the youth, no youth that
was not of some one of the five classes, nor any one of the five classes
that was not expert at his exercises. Moreover, they used such diligence
in matching them for age and stature, that the officers of the legion,
except they happened to be acquainted with the youth so bolted, were
forced to put themselves upon fortune, while they of the first legion
chose one, they of the second the next, they of the third another and
the fourth youth fell to the last legion; and thus was the election (the
legions and the tribes varying according to their lots) carried on till
the foot were complete.

"The like course with little alteration was taken by the horse officers
till the horse also were complete. This was called giving of names,
which the children of Israel did also by lot; and if any man refused to
give his name, he was sold for a slave, or his estate confiscated to the
commonwealth. 'When Marcus Curius the Consul was forced to make a sudden
levy, and none of the youth would give in their names, all the tribes
being put to the lot, he commanded the first name drawn out of the urn
of the Pollian tribe (which happened to come first) to be called; but
the youth not answering, he ordered his goods to be sold; which was
conformable to the law in Israel, according to which Saul took a yoke
of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout the tribes,
saying, 'Whosoever comes not forth to battle after Saul and Samuel, so
shall it be done to his oxen.' By which you may observe also that they
who had no cattle were not of the militia in Israel. But the age of
the Roman youth by the Tullian law determined at thirty; and by the law
(though it should seem by Machiavel and others that this was not
well observed) a man could not stand for magistracy till he was miles
emeritus, or had fulfilled the full term of his militia, which was
complete in his tenth stipend or service, nor was he afterward obliged
under any penalty to give his name, except the commonwealth were
invaded, in which case the elders were as well obliged as the youth. The
Consul might also levy milites evocatos, or soldiers, commanded men
out of such as had served their turn, and this at his discretion. The
legions being thus complete, were divided by two to each consul, and
in these no man h