Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Depontani

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DEPONTA'NI. Roman citizens who had passed the age of sixty, and thence became incapacitated from voting at elections and in the public assemblies; so termed, because in reality they were excluded from the bridge (pons suffragiorum), which the voter passed over as he entered the enclosure (septum) to cast his ballot into the box. Festus, s. v.