Show rome romes early population there gasn wasn t any painstaking gov eminent census in caesar caesars s day but there exist enumerations enumeration of houses house sand and various other reckonings upon which estimates of 0 the population of the an dent clent city have been based estimates which vary widely edward gibbon auti aud or of the decline and fall of the roman empire gave the city an estimated population ot of in the early days of the christian era other othe writers place the population of tie city at that time as high as 12 wa or 14 and the number at houses at 2 OW or 3 OW all calculations are liable to be hut but er eroneous I 1 because of the conjectural al lottrice lotti ice ce of the inhabitants to each house |