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Webster 1913 Edition


Comitia

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Co-mi′ti-a

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Noun.
pl.
[L.]
(Rom. Antiq.)
A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.
☞ There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curiæ; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes.