RAMNES

The name of the first century of the 300 horsemen who constituted the cnvalry of Rome under the early kings. Most probably the name also applied at first to the original century of patrician houses established by Romulus, and distinguished them from the Tatienses and Luceres; whose names, in like manner, must he supposed to extend not merely to the two remaining centuries of cavalry, but to the two centuries of tribes respect ively instituted bv Romulus, on the acce ion of the Sabines Arnold.)and Tarquinius Priscus. (See the histories of Niebuhr and [s. 1043]