comitial

Other sources state that on some days the king held a comitial assembly similar to those of the republican period.

A preliminary meeting to discuss the promulgation of a law or any other comitial business.

"It replaces all normal comitial and public activities."

How then to get around this frustrating edict of Bibulus's making all comitial days holidays?

The next comitial day is the fourth day before the Nones of March.

The preliminary meetings of all the comitial assemblies, whether to debate promulgated legislation or establish a trial at law, were called contiones.

"Then," said Scaevola, "the only thing to do is to declare all the Comitial days between now and whenever you wish as feriae."

"That was a clever trick, to declare the rest of the year's comitial days feriae, Marcus Bibulus."

You can never watch senatorial politics in action, and there's a vast difference between senatorial politics and comitial politics.

DAMNO The word employed by a comitial Assembly to indicate a verdict of "guilty."

Built in 221 B.C., it sometimes served as a place for a comitial meeting, when the Plebs or the People had to meet outside the pomerium.

Every comitial day Metellus Nepos kept trying to fire Hybrida, and Cato kept vetoing him.

First you inform us that you intend to invoke your Senatus Consultum Ultimum to overturn normal comitial procedure!

By a neat bit of maneuvering he summoned the Senate to meet on a comitial day toward the end of January, perfectly legal unless an Assembly was meeting.

Women didn't frequent the Forum; women didn't listen to comitial meetings from a prominent place; women didn't raise their voices to shout encouragement and bawdy abuse.

Two years earlier the then consul Pupius Piso Frugi had passed a law, a lex Pupia, forbidding the Senate to meet on a comitial day.

In one way Bibulus's declaration that every comitial day for the rest of the year was a holiday (holidays, however, did not forbid normal business, from market days to courts) was useful.

The result of all this was that Bibulus was deemed to have overstepped his authority as an augur; the comitial days could not be religiously abolished on one man's say-so.

All this notwithstanding, of public servants there were many-clerks, scribes, secretaries, accountants, general factotums, religious attendants, public slaves, electoral officers, comitial officers, lictors-not to mention the legions.

He can't vote in the Centuries and his urban tribe makes his comitial vote worthless, but he can serve in our legions and he can lodge his will."

Sessions could go on only between sunrise and sunset, and could not take place on days when any of the Assemblies met, though were permissible on comitial days if no Assembly did meet.

"So you need a law to make one of the coming comitial days nefasti, and you are asking the Pontifex Maximus to procure it from the Religious Assembly of seventeen tribes?"

He called the College of Pontifices into session, and directed the quindecimviri sacris faciundis to search the sacred prophetic Books for evidence that this year warranted its comitial days' being changed to holidays.

"I had hoped," said the junior consul, "that my ploy to make all comitial days feriae would answer, though I should have known that Caesar would use his authority as Pontifex Maximus.

Sessions could go on only between sunrise and sunset, and could not continue if the Comitia went into session, though meetings could be convoked on comitial days of the calendar if no Comitia met.