Note 316 — Chapter II · THE GROWTH OF THE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION

For the title praetores see Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 8 “regio imperio duo sunto iique a praeeundo judicando consulendo praetores judices consules appellamino”; for that of judices, Varro L.L. vi. 88, who quotes from the commentarii consulares the formula used in summoning the comitia centuriata, “qui exercitum imperaturus erit, accenso dicito: ‘C. Calpurni, voca in licium omnes Quirites huc ad me.’ Accensus dicito sic ‘Omnes Quirites in licium visite huc ad judices.’ ‘C. Calpurni,’ consul dicito, ‘voca ad conventionem omnes Quirites huc ad me.’ Accensus dicito sic ‘Omnes Quirites ite ad conventionem huc ad judices.’”