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Adsidui
In ancient Rome, ''adsidui'' (also ''assidui''; sg. ''adsiduus'' or ''assiduus'', Latin for "diligent, loyal", and collectively, "tax-payers"〔(''Adsiduus'' in Charlton T. Lewis, ''An Elementary Latin Dictionary'' )〕) were the citizens who were liable to military service in the main line of battle, that is, for much of the history of the Roman republic, as legionaries. The ''adsidui'' were the members of the first five census classes, which were, according to the Roman historian Livy, created under the reign of Servius Tullius, the sixth legendary king of ancient Rome.〔Livy, ''History of Rome'', (Book I, chapter 42 ) and (Book I, chapter 43 )〕 Under Tullius' original organisation, the first class was made of the richest, and thus best-equipped citizens, with helmet, shield, greaves, cuirass, spear and sword. As one went down through the classes and the corresponding levels of wealth, equipment went lighter and lighter.〔Connolly, Peter, ''Greece and Rome at War'', pp95-96.〕 According to Peter Connolly, the goal of Tullius' reform was to base military service on wealth, and not race, thus better integrating the Etruscans, who at that time ruled Rome, and the Romans themselves ; he points out, however, that in the beginning most members of the richest first class must have been Etruscans.〔Connolly, Peter, ''Greece and Rome at War'', p95.〕
The ''adsidui'' were, as opposed to the ''proletarii'', eligible to serve in the legions. However, along the structural evolution of the Roman army, the ''census'' levels necessary to be an ''adsiduus'' were gradually lowered. The Marian reforms of Gaius Marius, allowing any Roman citizen to become a legionary, were only the last step in this evolution.〔Connolly, Peter, ''Greece and Rome at War'', p214.〕
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