[878] Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 307, n. 1. This is the only function discovered for the calata comitia centuriata, mentioned by Labeo, in Gell. xv. 27. 2. The origin of the inauguration must have preceded that of the centuriate assembly; it must therefore have taken place for a time in some other form of meeting. Kübler, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. iii. 1331, objects to this interpretation but finds nothing better.
[879] Cic. Brut. 1 (of an augur); Phil. ii. 43. 110 (of a flamen); Leg. ii. 8. 21 (of sacerdotes); Macrob. Sat. iii. 13. 11 (of the flamen Martialis); Livy. i. 18. 6 (of the king).
[880] Fest. 343. 8; Wissowa, Relig. u. Kult. d. Römer, 420, n. 5, 421, n. 1.
[881] Gell. i. 12. 11, citing the lex Papia. Gellius calls this assembly a contio, which includes the calata comitia; cf. xv. 27. 3: “Calatiis comitiis in populi contione.”
[882] P. 161, 163, 165.
[883] P. 157 f.
[884] P. 170.
[885] Quint. Inst. viii. 3. 3: fragor here signifies “thunders of applause.”
[886] Cic. Fam. xi. 13. 3; Livy xxviii. 26. 12; xl. 36. 4; xlii. 53. 1.
[887] P. 135.