comitia
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Origin of comitia
1615–25; < Latin, plural of comitium assembly, equivalent to com- com- + -it-, noun derivative of īre to go ( cf. comes) + -ium -ium
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Among other measures calculated to win popularity, he proposed a modification of the lex Ælia Fufia, declaring it illegal for a magistrate to stop legislative comitia by "watching the sky."
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
At that time they lived on the land itself, in rustic tribes, the most honorable of all, and they only saw Rome on market days and on days of comitia.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
He was now liable to military service and qualified to attend the comitia.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The organization which gave rise to the comitia centuriata was the result of the earliest steps in the political emancipation of the plebs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
From this time on, too, the comitia tributa, now embracing all the tribes, the rural as well as the urban, was a regular institution of the state.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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