Comitia

The citizens assembled in the Comitia were the sovereign authority in the State, and they exercised their power immediately and not by representatives.

Caesar: a Sketch James Anthony Froude 1856

By skirmishes, meantime, in all of which he was superior, Marcellus gained himself such high repute, that, when the time of the Comitia at Rome was near at hand, the senate thought fit rather to recall the other consul from Sicily, than to withdraw Marcellus from his conflict with Hannibal; and on his arrival they bid him name Quintus Fulvius dictator.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

He has the services of the Senate and all the Comitia as advisory bodies, he has his Master of the Horse, and he has however many magistrates he chooses to see elected beneath him.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Young Gaius Cotta planted himself between them, one arm around each, and gazed at the throng in the well of the Comitia with tears streaming down his face.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Pushing his way through it without regard for the welfare of anyone in his path, Ofella stormed down the Senate steps and across the cobblestones to the well of the Comitia and the rostra set into its side.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Sweat standing on his brow, leaning more heavily on Young Caesar than anyone there knew save he and Young Caesar, he hauled himself around the lip of the Comitia.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

The Plebs were already convoked, but every last man in the well of the Comitia turned to face the Senate steps and cheered, after which the ten tribunes of the plebs on the rostra called for three vast hurrahs.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

"And I," cried Caepio, leaving the dais, "am going to the Comitia to assemble all the People, patrician and plebeian!"

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

And when it was all done about two hours before sunset, the consul-scrutineer read out the results to those voters who had lingered to hear, now standing in the ropeless Comitia well again.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

The obsequies over, business resumed in Senate and Comitia.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991