CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Curiate Assembly, Capite Censi, Tribune
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Voti(cid:374)g took pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374) various (cid:272)o(cid:373)itia => (cid:858)(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g together(cid:859) 193 (cid:272)e(cid:374)turies = voti(cid:374)g (cid:271)lo(cid:272)ks (cid:894)(cid:272)f. (cid:858) idi(cid:374)gs(cid:859)(cid:895); (cid:373)ajority i(cid:374) (cid:271)lo(cid:272)k de(cid:272)ided vote for whole block. Equites (18 + 80 + 20 + 20 +20), pedites (30 + 4), capite censi (1)=> based on wealth. Oldest assembly during monarch period; later mostly ceremonial/symbolic. Both patricians and plebeians could sit in assembly. Organized by 35 tribes (4 urban; 31 rural) which all romans belonged to; originally geographic but later inherited as the empire expanded. Created 449 bce, as a secession of the plebs. Enacted plebiscites (first only binding for plebs; from 3rd century bce on all. Where the voting took place, outside of the city soldiers and military always kept outside the city limits. 509: last king expelled and republic instituted. 504-400s: wars with latin states culminated in 338. 494, 471, 449: secessions of the plebs. 450-449: decemvirate and the laws of the twelve tables. 396: capture veii, a major etruscan city.
