If a consul died during his term ( not uncommon when consuls were in the forefront of battle ) or was removed from office, another would be elected by the Comitia Centuriata to serve the remainder of the term as " consul suffectus " ( " suffect consul " ).
32.
The " comitia curiata " continued to function through the Regal and Republican eras, but the Servian reform had reduced its powers to those of a largely symbolic " upper house " whose noble members were expected to do no more than ratify decisions of the " comitia centuriata ".
33.
The " comitia curiata " continued to function through the Regal and Republican eras, but the Servian reform had reduced its powers to those of a largely symbolic " upper house "; its noble members were expected to do no more than ratify decisions of the " comitia centuriata ".
34.
Although Rome's envoys played a critical role in convincing Athens to join the anti-Macedonian alliance with Pergamon and Rhodes in 200 BC, the " comitia centuriata " ( i . e . people's assembly ) rejected the Roman Senate's proposal for a declaration of war on Macedonia.
35.
The " comitia curiata " retained the power to confer imperium on magistrates elected by the " comitia centuriata ", and to confirm alterations in the Roman constitution decided upon by the other two comitia; both of these, however, required the senate to propose them before the " comitia " could act.
36.
They do not trust the accuracy of these sources : for one thing they believe Pomponius's account was influenced by the model of voting method of the assemblies of the people of the republic ( Comitia tributa, Comitia centuriata ) in which the voting of the law proposed by a tribunus was voted by groupings named " units ".
37.
After the censors had received the names of all the citizens with the amount of their property, they then had to make out the lists of the tribes, and also of the classes and centuries; for by the legislation of Servius Tullius the position of each citizen in the state was determined by the amount of his property ( Comitia Centuriata ).
38.
Apart from the traditional association of the aristocracy with horsemanship, the evidence for this view is the fact that, during the Republic, 6 " centuriae " ( voting constituencies ) of " equites " in the " comitia centuriata " ( electoral assembly ) retained the names of the original 6 royal cavalry " centuriae ".
39.
In 451 BC, Iulus was a member of the first decemvirate, and it is recorded as an instance of the moderation of the first college of decemvirs, that, though there was no appeal from their sentence, Iulus brought before the " comitia centuriata " an accusation against Publius Sestius, a man of patrician rank, in whose house the corpse of a murdered man had been found, when he might have himself passed sentence upon the criminal.
40.
Uncertainty continues over several corruptions in the text that affect key data, such as the structure and size of the Comitia Centuriata in early Rome as described by Scipio in Book II . Another key area of debate is the one corrective hand present in Vat Lat 5757; some scholars believe the corrective hand was a more skilled copyist, perhaps a supervisor, who had access to the same text as the copyist and was correcting the first work; others have concluded that the corrective hand had access to a different version of the text.
