Note 954 — Chapter VIII · THE CALATA COMITIA
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Neither the pontifical examination nor the curiate law is noticed by the authorities, who refer briefly to the two acts. Lange, Röm. Alt. iii. 472, and Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. ii. 1101, suppose that Caesar as supreme pontiff made the adlectio, although, as Mommsen notices, Octavianus had not yet attained to that office when he attended to the same function. Both writers (cf. Lange, ibid. i. 412) understand the curiate assembly to have been a factor in the process. On these late adlectiones, see also Herzog, Röm. Staatsverf. ii. 38 f., 130; Drumann-Gröbe, Gesch. Roms, iii. 602; Büdinger, in Denkschr. d. kaiserl. Akad. d. Wiss. Phil.-hist. Cl. xxxi (1881). 211-73; xxxvi (1888). 81-125.