οὐ τῷ πλήθει ἀλλὰ τῷ ἀξιώματι → not in numbers but in quality
Ămāta: ae, f.I The wife of King Latinus, and mother of Lavinia, Verg. A. 7, 343.—II The name of a vestal virgin, Gell. 1, 12, 19.