[1195] Livy vii. 35. 1 f.
[1196] Livy v. 46. 5 ff.
[1197] Livy vii. 16. 7; p. 297.
[1198] Livy xxvi. 2. 2 (211 B.C.). On the military contio, see also p. 140.
[1199] Laelius Felix, Lib. ad. Muc. in Gell. xv. 27. 5: “Centuriata autem comitia intra pomerium fieri nefas esse, quia exercitum extra urbem imperari oporteat, intra urbem imperari ius non sit.”
[1200] Dion. Hal. vii. 59. 3: Συνῄει δὲ τὸ πλῆθος εἰς τὸ πρὸ τῆς πόλεως Ἄρειον πεδίον ὑπὸ λοχαγοῖς καὶ σημείοις τεταγμένον ὥσπερ ἐν πολέμῳ; p. 211. During the session Janiculum was occupied by a garrison, above which, in view of the Campus Martius, waved a flag; Dio Cass. xxxvii. 27; cf. Gell. xv. 27. 5.
[1201] P. 104, 140 f., 244.
[1202] Comm. Consular. in Varro, L. L. vi. 88; Livy xxxix. 15. 11; Laelius Felix, in Gell. xv. 27. 5; Fest. ep. 103; Macrob. Sat. i. 16. 15; Serv. in Aen. viii. 1. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 216, 294, n. 2, is of the opinion that the centuriate assembly was termed exercitus because it met for military exercise on the Campus Martius. But we have no evidence that the assembly ever took such exercise; in fact the drill of the proletarian mob would be hardly less ridiculous than that of the nonagenarians, both of whom had a right to vote in the assembly.
[1203] IV. 84. 5.
[1204] Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 216 and n. 3.