[1287] Originally licium, later saepta or ovile.
[1288] Liv. ii. 56; cf. Asc. in Cornel. p. 70 “discedere, quod verbum ... significat ... [ut] in suam quisque tribum discedat, in qua est suffragium laturus.”
[1289] Hence the expression ferre punctum (Cic. pro Planc. 22, 53).
[1290] Liv. v. 13; iii. 21.
[1291] Cic. de Leg. iii. cc. 15, 16.
[1292] Hence the discovery of a fraud at an election through tablets being μιᾷ χειρὶ γεγραμμέναις (Plut. Cat. Min. 46).
[1293] Cic. cum Sen. Gr. eg. 11, 28; in Pis. 15, 36.
[1294] Plin. H.N. xxxiii. 2, 31; Cic. cum Sen. Gr. eg. 7, 17.
[1295] p. 253.
[1296] The first curia or tribe is the principium. See the prescription of the lex Quinctia (p. 242). Even after the ballot was introduced the name of the first voter in a division was specified (primus scivit, l.c.).