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Comitia

the elections

also: comitia, comitiis

The Roman popular assemblies that formally elected magistrates; by Pliny's day a vestige, but Trajan honored it by appearing in person as a candidate on the Campus Martius.

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Panegyric to Trajan speeches · 3 mentions
The Letters letters · 2 mentions

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