[1237] See Appendix on the comitia tributa.
[1238] p. 49.
[1239] Messala ap. Gell. xiii. 15, 4 “Minoribus creatis magistratibus tributis comitiis magistratus, sed justus curiata datur lege.”
[1240] Dio Cass. xxxix. 19.
[1241] ib. xli. 43.
[1242] Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 12, 30 “consuli, si legem curiatam non habet, attingere rem militarem non licet.”
[1243] Sulla’s law had said that the magistrate should retain imperium until he re-entered the city, apparently without mentioning the lex curiata. App. Claudius, consul for 54 B.C., who had been prevented by the tribunician veto from getting his lex curiata passed, presumed on this silence and said “legem curiatam consuli ferri opus esse, necesse non esse; se, quoniam ex senatus consulto provinciam haberet, lege Cornelia imperium habiturum quoad in urbem introisset” (Cic. ad Fam. i. 9, 25).
[1244] Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 12, 31.
[1245] p. 26.
[1246] Gell. xv. 27, 1 “‘calata’ comitia esse, quae pro conlegio pontificum habentur aut regis aut flaminum inaugurandorum causa. Eorum autem alia esse ‘curiata,’ alia ‘centuriata’ ... Isdem comitiis, quae ‘calata’ appellari diximus, et sacrorum detestatio et testamenta fieri solebant.” It is not known what particular acts were reserved for the “comitia calata” assembled centuriatim; Mommsen thinks the inauguration of the Flamen Martialis outside the city (Staatsr. iii. p. 307).