Lexicographical Neighbors of Comitias
Literary usage of Comitias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Rome, from the Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D. by Robert Franklin Pennell (1890)
"The Senate, not the comitias, ruled Rome. Moreover, the Senate was controlled by
a class who ... The comitias were rarely called upon to decide a question. ..."
2. Ancient Rome: From the Earliest Times Down to 476 A.D. by Robert F. Pennell (1890)
"The Senate, not the comitias, ruled Rome. Moreover, the Senate was controlled by
a class who ... The comitias were rarely called upon to decide a question. ..."
3. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"... character as secret councils composed of one section of the people; but they
are more frequently designated as comitia tributa, comitias by tribes. ..."
4. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"comitias, and dictatorships. He can govern in idea two or three thousand leagues
of country, whilst he is incapable of governing his servant girl. ..."
5. America and Europe by Adam G. De Gurowski (1857)
"In ancient societies and states, the people in the forum or in comitias—or
oligarchical and aristocratical councils, under various denominations, ..."
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