comitia

comitia (plural noun), name given to a (political) assembly of the Roman people to vote on business presented to them by magistrates. The resolutions of the comitia had to be ratified by the senate. The meetings had to be held on the proper day, after the auspices had been taken, on an inaugurated site (see COMITIUM). (When the people were summoned as a whole and not by particular groups, the assembly was called a contio; when only a part of the people was summoned, the assembly was properly called a concilium). The comitia continued to exist at least formally until the third century AD. See REPUBLIC, ROMAN.