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1 comitium
cŏm-ĭtĭum, ii, n. [locus a coëundo, id est insimul veniendo, est dictus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 38, 12 Müll.; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 155 id.: comitium ab eo quod coibant eo comitiis curiatis, et litium causā].I.In sing., the place for the assembling of the Romans voting by the curiœ situated near the Forum, and separated from it by the ancient Rostra, but sometimes considered as a part of the Forum in a more extended sense (hence, in Dion. Halic. ho kratistos and o epiphanestatos tês agoras topos: IN COMITIO AVT IN FORO, XII. Tab. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 13, 20; Cic. Sest. 35, 75; id. Verr. 2, 1, 22, § 58; id. Brut. 84, 289; Liv. 1, 36, 5; 27, 36, 8; 10, 24, 18; Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 9 et saep.; cf. Dict. of Antiq.—B.Transf., any place of assembly out of Rome;C.so of the Ephoreum at Sparta,
Nep. Ages. 4, 2.—Trop.:II.quod (es) esset animi vestibulum et orationis janua et cogitationum comitium,
App. Mag. 7, p. 278, 1; so, sacri pectoris, Mam. Grat. Act. ad Jul. 15.—Plur.: cŏmĭtĭa (access. form cŏmĭtĭae, Fratr. Arval. ap. Marin. p. 43; Gloss. Labb. p. 33), the assembly of the Romans for electing magistrates, etc., the comitia. —The comitia were of three kinds.1.Comitia curiata, the most ancient, voting by curiæ, held in the comitium (v. I.), gradually restricted by,2.The Comitia centuriata, the proper assembly of the populus Romanus, voting by centuries, instituted by Servius Tullius, continuing through the whole time of the republic, commonly held in the Campus Martius (not in the comitium, as is asserted by many from the similarity of the name; cf.3.campus, II.),
Gell. 15, 27, 2 sqq.; Cic. Agr. 2, 11, 27; id. Dom. 14, 38; Liv. 5, 52, 15; cf. Cic. Leg. 3, 19, 44.—Comitia tributa, voting by tribes, and commonly held in the Forum, but in choosing magistrates, freq. in the Campus Martius, convened for the first time in the trial of Coriolanus, two years after the introduction of the office of tribune of the people. In them the inferior magistrates (ædiles, tribunes of the people, quæstors), and, later, the Pontifex Maximus also, were chosen, Cic. Leg. 3, 19, 45; id. Agr. 2, 11, 27; Liv. 2, 58, 1; 2, 60, 4; Gell. 15, 27, 3; cf.B.Dict. of Antiq.—Upon the comitia calata, v. 1, calo.—The usual t. t. for holding such comitia is: comitia habere,
Cic. Div. 2, 18, 43; freq. in all periods;they were designated according to the magistrates who were to be chosen in them, as consularia,
Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 17; id. Mur. 18, 38:praetoria,
Liv. 10, 22, 8:tribunicia,
Cic. Att. 1, 1, 1; Liv. 6, 39, 11:militaria,
Liv. 3, 51, 8:quaestoria,
Cic. Fam. 7, 30, 1; cf.also: comitia consulum,
Liv. 3, 20, 8; and:comitia fiunt regi creando,
id. 1, 35, 1:edicere comitia consulibus creandis,
id. 3, 37, 5:comitia conficere,
Cic. Fam. 10, 36, 12:differre,
Liv. 6, 37, 12:dimittere,
Cic. Att. 1, 14, 5:ducere,
id. ib. 4, 15, 7:inire,
Suet. Vesp. 5.—Transf., of other elections, out of Rome, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 52, § 129; Liv. 42, 43, 7; Tab. Heracl. v. 24 sq.—C.Trop.:ibo intro, ubi de capite meo sunt comitia, i. e.,
where my fate is deciding, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 20:Pseudulus mihi centuriata capitis habuit comitia,
id. Ps. 4, 7, 134:meo illic nunc sunt capiti comitia,
id. Truc. 4, 3, 45. -
2 A. a.
A. a. as an abbreviation, for the praenomen Aulus. for Absolvo, on the voting-tablet of a judge; hence C. calls A littera salutaris. for Antiquo on a voting-tablet in the Comitia. a. d. for ante diem. a.v.c. or a. u. c. for anno urbis conditae, or ab urbe conditā. in the Tusculan Disputations of Cicero probably for Audītor. -
3 calculus
calculus ī, m dim. [2 calx], a small stone, pebble: coniectis in os calculis. — Sing collect.: dumosis calculus arvis, in the fields, V.— A stone used in reckoning: calculis subductis, computed, cast up.—A counter used in playing draughts, O. —Fig.: amicitiam ad calculos vocare, hold to a strict account: si ad calculos eum res p. vocet, L. —A voting-pebble, ballot: calculus ater, i. e. for condemnation, O.: ad illos calculos revertamur, i. e. those principles of action.* * *pebble; (bladder) stone; piece for reckoning/voting/game; calculation; counter; small weight; live coal (Def) -
4 centuriātus
centuriātus adj. [P. of 1 centurio], divided into centuries: comitia centuriata, the assembled centuries of the people (held in the Campus Martius to choose the higher magistrates, to decree war or peace, etc.): quod ad populum centuriatis comitiis tulit: comitiis centuriatis alqm consulem renuntiare: lex, sanctioned by the Comitia Centuriata.* * *Icenturiata, centuriatum ADJvoting in centuriae; divided into centuriaeIIoffice of centurion; division into centuriae (land/voting) -
5 centuriātus
centuriātus ūs, m [1 centurio], a division into centuries: ad centuriatum convenire, L.* * *Icenturiata, centuriatum ADJvoting in centuriae; divided into centuriaeIIoffice of centurion; division into centuriae (land/voting) -
6 centuriātus
centuriātus ūs, m [2 centurio], the office of centurion.* * *Icenturiata, centuriatum ADJvoting in centuriae; divided into centuriaeIIoffice of centurion; division into centuriae (land/voting) -
7 suffrāgium
suffrāgium ī, n [FRAG-], a voting-tablet, ballot, vote, voice, suffrage: suffragia in magistratu mandando ferri: ferunt suffragia: ut competitores pares suffragiis essent: suffragium inire, L.: libera, Iu.— The right of voting, right of suffrage, elective franchise: quarum (tribuum) suā lege suffragium sustulit: populi esse ius suffragium, quibus velit, impertire, L.: ut populus R. suffragio privaretur.— A decision, judgment, opinion: suffragio tuo rhetor.— Assent, approbation, applause: ventosae plebis suffragia, H.* * *vote; judgement; applause -
8 urna
urna ae, f [1 VAS-], a vessel of baked clay, vessel for drawing water, water-pot, water-jar, urn: fictilis, O.: stetit urna Sicca, H.: Caelata (of a river-god), V.— A voting-urn, ballot-box: senatorum: leges minitatur et urnam, H.— An urn for lots, vessel for drawing lots: educit ex urnā trīs (iudices): stat ductis sortibus urna, V.: omnium Versatur urna, H.: Omne capax movet urna nomen, Cs.: nomina in urnam coicere, L.— A vessel for the ashes of the dead, cinerary urn: Quodque rogis superest unā requiescit in urnā, O.— A money-pot, money-jar: argenti, H.—As a liquid measure, an urna, half an amphora (about two and a half gallons): urnae crater capax, Iu.* * *pot; cinerary urn, urn used for drawing lots; voting urn; water jar, urna13 l. -
9 latio
lātĭo, ōnis, f. [fero], a bearing, bringing (only in the trop. signif.).* I.In gen.:II.auxilii,
a rendering of assistance, Liv. 2, 33. 1.—In partic. (cf. fero).A.Suffragii latio, a voting or right of voting, Liv. 9, 43, [p. 1040] 24; 38, 36, 7;* B.45, 15, 3: legis latio,
a proposing of a law, a bill, Cic. Att. 3, 26.—Expensi latio, a setting down of expenditures, entering of money paid, Gell. 14, 2, 7. -
10 suffragium
suffrāgĭum, ii, n. [perh. kindr. with suffrago, and therefore, prop., the pasternbone; cf. Wunder, Var. Lect. p. 169; hence, transf.], publicists' and jurid. t. t., a votingtablet, a ballot (syn. tabella), and in gen., a vote, voice, suffrage (freq. and class.).I.Lit.:II.dicam et versabor in re difficili, suffragia magistratu mandando aut reo judicando clam an palam ferre melius esset... Ego in istā sum sententia, quā te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut fuerit in suffragiis voce melius,
Cic. Leg. 3, 15, 33:comitiis aediliciis suffragium ferre,
Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 1; cf.:de ejus capite, liberis, fortunis omnibus, conductos et sicarios suffragium ferre et eam legem putare,
Cic. Dom. 18, 46:ferunt suffragia,
id. Rep. 1, 31, 47:te suffragium tulisse in illā lege,
id. Fam. 11, 27, 7:dum diribentur suffragia,
Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 1:suffragia aut scita multitudinis,
Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 43:sine suffragio populi aedilitatem gerere,
Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 28:suffragiis tres ex tribus generibus creati sunt,
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 51, § 127:alii suffragium ineunt,
Liv. 3, 17:centurias in suffragium mittere,
id. 31, 7:vobismet ipsis per suffragia uti praesides olim, nunc dominos destinatis,
Sall. H. 3, 61, 6 Dietsch:ut suffragia non in multitudinis, sed in locupletium potestate essent,
Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39; cf. Fest. p. 334 Müll.:libera,
Juv. 8, 211:tacita,
i. e. secret voting, Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 7; 4, 25, 1 et saep.—Transf.A.The right of voting right of suffrage: populi esse, non senatus, [p. 1793] suffragium, quibus velit, impartiri, Liv. 38, 36, 8:B.si suffragium detur,
id. 4, 49 fin.:ut populus Romanus suffragio privaretur,
Cic. Agr. 2, 7, 17:quod interrogem, quem nemo congressu, nemo suffragio, nemo luce dignum putet,
id. Vatin. 1, 2:suffragia populo reddere,
the elections, Suet. Calig. 16. —In gen., a decision, judgment, opinion:2.rhetor suffragio tuo et compotorum tuorum,
Cic. Phil. 2, 17, 42:(apes) concorde suffragio deterrimos (reges) necant,
Plin. 11, 16, 16, § 51.—In partic., a favorable decision, assent, approbation, applause (post-Aug.):ventosae plebis suffragia,
Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 37; 2, 2, 103:voto et suffragio prosequor,
Plin. Ep. 10, 18, 1; Dig. 24, 1, 24 al.:Dentatus vel numerosissima suffragia habet,
i.e. very many authors who award to him the palm of bravery, Plin. 7, 28, 29, § 101. -
11 tabellarius
I. A. B.Subst.: tăbellārĭus, ii, m., a lettercarrier, courier:II.epistulam, quam attulerat Phileros tabellarius,
Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 1; 10, 31, 4; 15, 18, 2; id. Phil. 2, 31, 77; id. Prov. Cons. 7, 15; Cass. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 12, 1; Liv. 45, 1, 6 al.—(Acc. to tabella, II. B.) Of or relating to voting-tablets: lex, regulating voting:sunt enim quattuor leges tabellariae, quarum prima de magistratibus mandandis, ea est tabellaria Gabinia, etc.,
Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 35; id. Sest. 48, 103; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 1. -
12 urna
urna, ae, f. [prop. a vessel of burnt clay; root uro], a vessel for drawing water, a water-pot, water-jar, urn.I.Lit.:II.urnae dictae, quod urinant in aquā hauriendā ut urinator,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 126 Müll.; Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24; Prop. 4 (5), 4, 16; 4 (5), 11, 28; Ov. F. 3, 14; id. M. 3, 37; 3, 172; Hor. C. 3, 11, 22; id. S. 1, 5, 91; 1, 1, 54.—As an attribute of personified rivers, Verg. A. 7, 792; Sil. 1, 407.—Of the constellation Aquarius, Ov. F. 2, 457; Sen. Thyest. 865.—Transf., in gen., an urn used for any purpose.A.Most freq., a vessel into which were thrown the voting-tablets or lots of any kind.1.A voting-urn (syn. sitella):2.senatorum urna copiose absolvit, equitum adaequavit,
Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 6; Ov. M. 15, 44; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 49; Hor. S. 2, 1, 47; Sil. 9, 27; Juv. 13, 4:educit ex urnā tres (judices),
Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 17, § 42; Suet. Ner. 21; Verg. A. 6, 22; Val. Fl. 2, 484; Sen. Contr. 1, 2, § 7; Just. 22, 3, 6; Plin. Ep. 10, 20, 2; Sen. Troad. 974; Tert. Spect. 16.—The urn of fate, from which is drawn the lot of every one's destiny:B.omnium Versatur urna serius ocius Sors exitura,
Hor. C. 2, 3, 26:omne capax movet urna nomen,
id. ib. 3, 1, 16; Verg. A. 6, 432; Stat. S. 2, 1, 219:nomina in urnam coicere,
Liv. 23, 3, 7; Plin. Ep. 10, 3, 2.—A vessel to hold the ashes of the dead, a cinerary urn, Ov. H. 11, 124; id. M. 4, 166; 11, 706; 12, 616; 14, 441; id. Tr. 3, 3, 65; Suet. Calig. 15; Luc. 7, 819; Sen. Troad. 375.—C. D.A liquid measure containing half an amphora, an urn, Cato, R. R. 148, 1; Col. 12, 41; Plin. 17, 28, 47, § 263; Pers. 5, 144.—2.A measure in gen., Cato, R. R. 10, 2; 13, 3; Juv. 15, 25. -
13 centuria
centuria ae, f [centum], a division of a hundred, century, company: centuriae tres equitum, L.: milites eiusdem centuriae, Cs.: pecus exercitui per centurias distribuere, S.—A division of the people, century (the constitution, ascribed to Servius Tullius, divided the people according to wealth into 193 centuries), L. They voted by centuries in the comitia centuriata: praetor centuriis cunctis renuntiatus: praerogativa. — A division of land, tract.* * *century, company of 60-100 men in legion; voting unit; land unit (200 jugera) -
14 centuriātim
centuriātim adv. [centuria], by companies: iurare, Cs.—By centuries, in centuries: citare populum, L.: descriptis ordinibus.* * *by centuries; (citizens for voting/soldiers in companies) -
15 centurionātus
centurionātus ūs, m [2 centurio], an election of centurions, Ta.* * *office of centurion; revision of list of centurions; election of centurion; division into centuriae (land/voting) -
16 cūriātus
cūriātus adj. [curia], of the curiae: comitia, the assembly of patrician tribes, voting by curiae: lex, passed by the curiae, L.* * *curiata, curiatum ADJof curiae; (w/Comitia) (pl.) assembly in which people voted according to curia -
17 custōs
custōs ōdis, m and f [SCV-], a guard, watch, preserver, keeper, overseer, protector, defender, attendant: corporis, a body-guard, L.: nostri, Cs.: portae: pontis, N.: cum custodibus venire, under guard, S.: gregis, V.: pecuniae quam regni melior, L.: puellae, O.: custos Quoi commendavi filium, tutor, T.: custodis eges, a guardian, H.: Virtutis, H.: dei custodes urbis: rerum Caesar, H.—Of dogs, V.: finīs custode tueri, outposts, V. —A keeper of the ballot-box, inspector (in charge of the voting-tablets): tabellarum: tribūs nullo custode sortitus.—A watch, spy: Dumnorigi custodes ponit, ut, etc., Cs.: custodem Tullio me apponite: num nam hic relictu's custos, Nequis clam curset, etc., T.—A jailer, keeper: praefectus custodum, chief jailer, N.: te sub custode tenebo, H.—Fig., a keeper, guardian: dignitatis (fortitudo): sapientia totius hominis.—A receptacle, safe, holder: eburnea Telorum, quiver, O.: turis, an incense-box, O.* * *guard; sentry/watch; guardian/protector/keeper; doorkeeper/watchman/janitor; jailer, warden; poll watcher; spy; garrison; container; replacement vine shoot -
18 dē-cernō
dē-cernō crēvī (often decrēram, decrērim, etc.), crētus, ere.—Officially, to decide, determine, pronounce a decision, judge, decree, resolve, vote: inter quos iam decreverat decretumque mutabat, alias, etc.: si caedes facta, īdem (Druides) decernunt, i. e. pass judgment, Cs.: non decrevi solum, sed etiam ut vos decerneretis laboravi: qui ordo decrevit invitus, on compulsion: dierum viginti supplicationem, Cs.: vindicias secundum servitutem, in favor of slavery, i. e. restore the slave to his master, L.: triumphum Africano: praemium servo libertatem, S.: tres legatos: id quod senatus me auctore decrevit: provinciae privatis decernuntur, Cs.: meā diligentiā patefactam esse coniurationem decrevistis: supplicium sumendum decreverat, had voted, S.: senatus Romae decrevit, ut, etc., L.: mea sententia tibi decernit, ut regem reducas, etc.: senatus decrevit, darent operam consules, ut, etc., S.: ita censeo decernendum: acerbissime decernitur, Cs.: in parricidas rei p. decretum esse, S.: libere decernendi potestas, of voting freely, Cs.—In gen., to decide, determine, judge, fix, settle: rem dubiam decrevit vox opportune emissa, L.: utri utris imperent, sine magnā clade, L.: Duo talenta pro re nostrā ego esse decrevi satis, T.: in quo omnia mea posita esse decrevi: mihi decretum est, with acc. and inf, I am fully convinced, Ta.: alqm hostem, to proclaim an enemy: omnibus quae postulaverat decretis, S.: pauci ferocius decernunt, insist on harsher measures, S.—Of battle, to decide by combat, fight out, fight, combat, contend: Samnis Romanusne Italiam regant, decernamus, L.: gladiatorium certamen ferro decernitur: ne armis decernatur: cornibus inter se, V.: acie, L.: classe decreturi, N.: integriore exercitu, N.: lacessere ad decernendum, L. — In gen., to contend, compete, struggle: decernite criminibus, mox ferro decreturi, L.: cursibus et crudo caestu, V.: de salute rei p.: pro meā famā.—To decide, determine, form a purpose, resolve: num quis quicquam decernit invitus?: Rhenum transire decreverat, Cs.: decretumst pati, T.: certum atque decretum est non dare signum, L.: aetatem a rei p. procul habendam, S.: praetoris imperio parendum esse: hic decernit ut miser sit: quā suis opem ferrent, L. -
19 diribitiō
diribitiō ōnis, f [diribeo], a separation, sorting, canvass (of ballots).* * * -
20 diribitor
diribitor ōris, m a sorter, canvasser (of ballots): tabellarum.* * *
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