The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

by George Willis Botsford

[2777] Varro, R. R. i. 2. 10; Cic. Att. ii. 6. 2; 7. 3; ix. 2 a. 1; Vell. ii. 45. 2; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 1. 6 f.; Suet. Aug. 4.

[2778] Dio Cass. ibid.

[2779] CIL. vi. 3826 (Elogium of M. Valerius Messala, consul in 61); Cic. Att. ii. 7. 4; Prov. Cons. 17. 41.

[2780] Röm. Staatsr. ii. 628, n. 4.

[2781] Dio Cass. xxxviii. 2.

[2782] Ibid. 3 f.; Plut. Caes. 14; App. B. C. ii. 10.

[2783] Dio Cass. xxxviii. 6. 1.

[2784] P. 116.

[2785] The assembly met in the Forum, and was therefore tribal; Suet. Caes. 20; Dio Cass. xxxviii. 6. 2; Plut. Cat. Min. 32.

[2786] Cic. Att. ii. 18. 2: “Ut ex legibus Iuliis” seems to be official language. The explanation of Marquardt, Röm. Staatsv. i. 114 f., which identifies one of the Julian laws with the lex Mamilia, Roscia, etc., is not satisfactory, though accepted by Drumann-Gröbe, Gesch. Roms, iii. 182. A plurality is also mentioned by Livy, ep. ciii; Schol. Bob. 302; Plut. Pomp. 47 f.; Caes. 14; App. B. C. ii. 10-2.