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IN the first book of the work of Laelius Felix addressed To Quintus Mucius it is said Frag. I ff., i. p. 70, Bremer. that Labeo wrote Frag. 22, Huschke; inc. 187, Bremer. that the comitia calata, or convoked assembly, was held on behalf of the college of pontiffs for the purpose of installing the king That is, the rex sacrorum; see note on x. 15. 21. or the flames. Of these assemblies some were those of the curies, others those of the centuries; the former were called together (calari being used in the sense of convoke) by the curiate lictor, the latter by a horn blower.
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In that same assembly, which we have said was called calata, or convoked, wills were customarily made and sacrifices annulled. For we learn that there were three kinds of wills: one which was made in the convoked assembly before the collected people, a second on the battle-field, See Mommsen, Staatsr. iii, p. 307, n. 2. when the men were called into line for the purpose of fighting, a third the symbolic sale of a householder's property by means of the coin and balance. See note on xv. 13. 11.
