the curiate assembly

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §52 The curiate assembly

  The oldest Roman assembly, voting by curiae; it conferred military command (imperium) and confirmed the naming of a dictator.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §41 the centuriate nor the curiate assemblies

  The oldest Roman assembly, voting by curiae, which conferred military command; with the centuriate assembly it needed the fathers' ratification.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §38 curia

  The ancient voting divisions of the Roman people; the Faucian curia, voting first, was held unlucky.