Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Comitium

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

COMIT'IUM. An enclosed place abutting on the Roman Forum, and near the Curia, where the Comitia Centuriata were held and causes tried. (Varro, L. L. v. 155.) It was originally uncovered, in consequence of which the assemblies were often obliged to be dissolved when the weather was bad; but was roofed in, to obviate this inconvenience, during the second Punic war. (Liv. xxvii. 36.) Some lofty walls, still remaining under the Palatine hill, are supposed to be vestiges of this building.