Note 1292 — Chapter X · THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMITIA CENTURIATA

Cic. Planc. 20. 49: “Unius tribus pars” (i.e. the prerogative century); Pseudacr. Schol. Cruq. ad Hor. Poet. 341: “Singulae tribus certas habebant centurias seniorum et iuniorum”; Livy i. 43. 12 f. implies that the number of centuries was a multiple of the number of tribes, in other words that the century was an integral part of the tribe; cf. Q. Cic. Petit. 5. 17 f.; 8. 32; Mommsen, Röm. Trib. 74. The most convincing evidence is that of inscriptions of the imperial period (p. 220) which prove the urban tribes to have comprised each an integral number of centuries. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. iii. 274, has therefore failed in his attempt to limit to the first class the division of the tribes into centuries.