Note 338 — Chapter XII · - THE ROMAN CURIA, TRIBE AND POPULUS.
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The thirty curiones, as a body, were organized into a college of priests, one of their number holding the office of curio maximus. He was elected by the assembly of the gentes. Besides this was the college of augurs, consisting under the Ogulnian law (300 B. C.) of nine members, including their chief officer (magister collegii); and the college of pontiffs, composed under the same law of nine members, including the pontifex maximus.