Comitia Centuriata

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §60 centuriate assembly

  The property-based assembly that elected the first consuls.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §2 comitia centuriata

  The assembly of the Roman people voting by centuries (military divisions), which elected the consuls.

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §34 comitia centuriata

  The assembly of the people voting by centuries (military-property classes), which formally enacted the tables of law.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §52 the centuriate assembly

  The Roman assembly voting by Servius's property centuries, which elected the first consuls.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §20 the people was being called up by centuries

  The assembly of the people voting by property-classed centuries, which elected the higher magistrates and tried capital cases on appeal.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §12 the comitia centuriata

  The assembly of the people voting by centuries, which elected the chief magistrates and passed laws.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §6 the elections

  The centuriate assembly, which elected the consuls and praetors; its prerogative century voted first.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §6 centuries

  The comitia centuriata, the assembly voting by centuries, which first rejected and then approved the Macedonian war.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §34 in the centuriate comitia

  The comitia centuriata, the Roman assembly organized by military centuries that voted on war, elections of senior magistrates, and major laws.