Note 2255 — Chapter XVI · COMITIAL LEGISLATION From the Gracchi to Sulla 134-82
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In the earliest arrangement of the kind the part was one third, as the name indicates; Livy xxxi. 13. 9; CIL. i. 200. 31 f.; cf. Greenidge, Hist. of Rome, i. 113; Weber, Röm. Agrargesch. 149-51. The word is derived from trientare, as stabulum from stare; Mommsen, in CIL. i. p. 90.