institution
Comitia Tributa
tribal assembly
also: comitia tributa
The assembly of the people voting by tribes, in which—by Volero's law—the plebeian magistrates were henceforth to be elected, free of patrician control through client votes.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 2 §57 tribal assembly
The comitia tributa, the people voting by tribes; Volero's law moved the election of plebeian magistrates into it, out of patrician reach.
- The History of Rome, Book 7 §15 two tribes, the Pomptine and the Publilian
Two new rural voting tribes (the 27th and 28th), enrolling fresh citizens in the recovered Pomptine country.