[1267] Macrob. Sat. i. 16, 29 “Julius Caesar XVI auspiciorum libro negat nundinis contionem advocari posse, id est cum populo agi ideoque nundinis Romanorum haberi comitia non posse.”
[1268] Varro L.L. v. 155 “comitium ab eo quod coibant eo comitiis curiatis et litium causa.”
[1269] Liv. vi. 20; Plin. H.N. xvi. 10, 37.
[1270] Liv. vii. 16.
[1271] The change to the Forum is perhaps post-Gracchan; see Momms. Staatsr. iii. p. 385. Cf. the prescription of the lex Quinctia de aquaeductibus (p. 242).
[1272] Gell. xiii. 15, 1 “In edicto consulum, quo edicunt quis dies comitiis centuriatis futurus sit.” “Comitia edicere” (Liv. xxiii. 31) and “comitia indicere” (Liv. iv. 6) are employed as descriptive of this act.
[1273] Festus p. 224 “promulgari leges dicuntur cum primum in vulgus eduntur, quasi provulgari.”
[1274] Momms. Staatsr. iii. p. 370.
[1275] Schol. Bob. to Cic. pro Sest. 64, 135 (p. 310) “(lex) Licinia et Junia ... illud cavebat ne clam aerario legem ferri liceret.” For registration in the aerarium at the time of promulgation cf. Cic. de Leg. iii. 4, 11. Clodius’ law exiling Cicero in 58 B.C. was amended (Cic. ad Att. iii. 2 “praesertim nondum rogatione correcta”), but whether before or after promulgation is not clear.
[1276] Dionysius, Plutarch, and Priscian explain trinum nundinum as the third market-day, an interval of trinarum nundinarum, i.e. seventeen days; but Mommsen has made out a good case for its being three nundina, i.e. intervals of eight days (Staatsr. iii. p. 375).