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The curiate assembly (Latin: comitia curiata) was one of the assemblies of the Roman Republic and the oldest assembly at Rome. It was organised on the basis of curiae and is said to have been the main legislative and electoral assembly of the regal and early republican periods. Little concrete is known of its origins and early operation.[1]
By the late republic, the curiae only met for limited pro forma purposes related to public religion;[2] the historical thirty curiae were each represented by a single lictor rather than actual groups of citizens. The foremost of these purposes was the lex curiata de imperio, passed as a matter of course in the presence of three augurs, which related to the quality of a curule magistrate's auspices.[3] When it met under the presidency of the pontifex maximus, the assembly was instead called the comitia calata to deal with matters relating to wills and selection of priests.[4]
- ^ Mouritsen 2017, p. 26. "In the late republic the comitia curiata had very limited functions, and its original responsibilities are largely a matter of speculation".
- ^ Lintott 1999, p. 49, noting the curiate assembly "existed only in a symbolic and ritualised form".
- ^ Vervaet 2015, pp. 215–16.
- ^ Lintott 1999, p. 49.