[1277] p. 164.
[1278] p. 38.
[1279] Varro L.L. vi. 91 “comitiatum praeco populum vocet ad te, et eum de muris vocet praeco.”
[1280] The herald is not mentioned in connexion with the concilium plebis. The comitia curiata were summoned by a lictor curiatius. See Momms. Staatsr. iii. p. 386.
[1281] Gell. xv. 27; Dio Cass. xxxvii. 27.
[1282] Varro L.L. vi. 92; Plut. C. Gracch. 3.
[1283] “Sollemne carmen precationis” (Liv. xxxix. 15).
[1284] Cic. de Leg. iii. 4, 11 “qui agent ... rem populum docento”; Quintil. Inst. Or. ii. 4, 33 “Romanis pro contione suadere ac dissuadere moris fuit.”
[1285] Except perhaps at the comitia centuriata (Momms. iii. p. 395), but this body had almost ceased to be a legislative assembly.
[1286] p. 247.