Note 1354 — Chapter VI · THE SENATE
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Cic. ad Q. fr. ii. 3, 5 (56 B.C.) “senatus consultum factum est ut sodalitates decuriatique discederent lexque de iis ferretur ut, qui non discessissent, ea poena quae est de vi tenerentur.” The sodalitates were clubs of the type of the Greek ἑταιρεῖαι, the decuriati probably electioneering associations.