Comitia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comitia \Co*mi"ti*a\, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)
     A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers
     or passing laws.
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     Note: There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or


           assembly of the patricians, who voted in curi[ae];
           comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman
           people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or
           assembly of the plebeians according to their division
           into tribes.
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