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Definition of Comitia
1. n. pl. A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.
Definition of Comitia
1. Noun. (historical) A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comitia
1. a public assembly in ancient Rome [n COMITIA] : COMITIAL [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comitia
Literary usage of Comitia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"(4) CoMiTiA TRIBUTA. This was the collective assembly of the people arranged
according to the ... The right of summoning the comitia Tributa lay chiefly, ..."
2. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1842)
"Those citizens only had a right to vote at the comitia ... S After the institution
of the comitia Centuriata and Tributa, the comitia ..."
3. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"The comitia centuriata, in which the citizens were divided into five classes and
divisions of classes, according to Increased property and age, ..."
4. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"Now its jurisdiction was so enlarged that it exercised nearly the same functions
which had formerly belonged to the comitia ..."
5. Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1819)
"The comitia were always summoned by some magistrate, who presided in them, ...
Persons guilty of certain crimes were also tried in the comitia, Polyb. ..."
6. A Manual of Roman Antiquities by William Ramsay (1870)
"It is true that, theoretically, those matters alone ought to have been submitted
to the comitia Tributa which were conceived to affect peculiarly the ..."
7. The Roman Assemblies from Their Origin to the End of the Republic by George Willis Botsford (1909)
"comitia and concilium is not a difference between the whole people and a part of
the people.1 The plebeian tribal assembly is termed comitia in Livy ii. ..."
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