Vishnia 2012, p. 121; Mouritsen 2017, p. 50, noting also that the principium was not a tribal analogue to the centuria praerogativa. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Mouritsen, Henrik (2017). Politics in the Roman republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-1-107-03188-3. OCLC961266598.
Staveley, Eastland Stuart; Levick, Barbara (2012). "destinatio". In Hornblower, Simon; et al. (eds.). The Oxford classical dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 442. ISBN978-0-19-954556-8. OCLC959667246. Stavely and Levick very favourably cite Holladay 1978 ("Hollday's view that it was intended to secure orderly elections is most convincing"). Holladay, A J (1978). "The election of magistrates in the early Principate". Latomus. 37 (4): 874–893. ISSN0023-8856. JSTOR41531092.
Mouritsen 2017, pp. 17–18, noting "the power of the people was expressed via – and only via – the actions of its elected officials"; Yakobson 2022, p. 102; Millar 1998, pp. 209–10. Mouritsen, Henrik (2017). Politics in the Roman republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-1-107-03188-3. OCLC961266598. Yakobson, Alexander. "The political culture of the republic since Syme's The Roman revolution: a story of a debate". In Arena & Prag (2022), pp. 93–106. Millar, Fergus (1998). The crowd in Rome in the late republic. Jerome Lectures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN978-0-472-10892-3.
Vishnia 2012, p. 111; Lintott 1990, p. 8, noting that candidates in 54 BC borrowed so much for bribes that interest rates at Rome doubled from four to eight per cent. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Lintott, Andrew (1990). "Electoral bribery in the Roman republic". Journal of Roman Studies. 80: 1–16. doi:10.2307/300277. ISSN1753-528X.
Morstein-Marx 2024, p. 148: "It is hard to imagine a voter participation rate of more than about 10% even for the largest turnouts". See also Mouritsen 2001, pp. 27–32, preferring turnout estimates between 1–3 per cent of eligible voters Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669. Mouritsen, Henrik (2001). Plebs and politics in the late Roman republic. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511482885. ISBN978-0-521-79100-7.
Paterson 2012, p. 106; Vishnia 2012. Paterson, Jeremy (2012). "elections and voting, Roman". Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.7196. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9.
Vishnia 2012, p. 123, saying "members of the third property rank and below only rarely took part in elections"; Rafferty 2021, p. 135, believing elections regularly extended into the fourth class. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Rafferty, David (2021). "Rural voters in Roman elections". TAPA. 151 (1): 127–153. doi:10.1353/apa.2021.0004. ISSN2575-7199.
Vishnia 2012, p. 110; Yakobson 2012. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Yakobson, Alexander (2012). "elections, Roman". In Bagnall, Roger S; et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia of ancient history. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah20053. ISBN978-1405179355.
Vishnia 2012, p. 111; Yakobson 2012. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Yakobson, Alexander (2012). "elections, Roman". In Bagnall, Roger S; et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia of ancient history. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah20053. ISBN978-1405179355.
Vishnia 2012, p. 111; Lintott 1990, p. 8, noting that candidates in 54 BC borrowed so much for bribes that interest rates at Rome doubled from four to eight per cent. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Lintott, Andrew (1990). "Electoral bribery in the Roman republic". Journal of Roman Studies. 80: 1–16. doi:10.2307/300277. ISSN1753-528X.
Enrolment of the new citizens into the existing tribes had previously been proposed by Publius Sulpicius Rufus, plebeian tribune of 88 BC, before his demise amid Sulla's march on Rome. Actual enrolment took until 70 BC. Mouritsen 1998, p. 168; Santangelo 2018, p. 248. Mouritsen, Henrik (1998). Italian unification. BICS Supplement 70. London: Institute of Classical Studies. ISBN0-9005-8781-4. Santangelo, Federico (2018). "The Social war". In Farney, Gary D.; Bradley, Guy (eds.). The peoples of ancient Italy. De Gruyter. pp. 231–254. doi:10.1515/9781614513001-013. ISBN978-1-61451-300-1.
Vishnia 2012, p. 124; cf Morstein-Marx 2024, arguing against the "almost universally supposed" view that voters residing far from Rome were effectively disenfranchised by logistical challenges. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669.
Morstein-Marx 2024, p. 101, relating the conventional view. Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669.
Morstein-Marx 2024, pp. 146–49, giving a 10% upper bound. Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669.
Vishnia 2012, p. 123, saying "members of the third property rank and below only rarely took part in elections"; Rafferty 2021, p. 135, believing elections regularly extended into the fourth class. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Rafferty, David (2021). "Rural voters in Roman elections". TAPA. 151 (1): 127–153. doi:10.1353/apa.2021.0004. ISSN2575-7199.
Grieve 1985, p. 309. Grieve, Lucy J (1985). "The reform of the "comitia centuriata"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 34 (3): 278–309. ISSN0018-2311. JSTOR4435929.
Mackie, Nicola (1992). ""Popularis" ideology and popular politics at Rome in the first century". Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 135 (1): 49–73. ISSN0035-449X. JSTOR41233843. See also Vishnia 2012, pp. 114–15. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9.
Cornell 2022, p. 225, citing Grieve 1985 and Yakobson, A (1993). "Dionysius of Halicarnassus on a democratic change in the centuriate assembly". Scripta Classica Israelica. 12: 139–55. Grieve, Lucy J (1985). "The reform of the "comitia centuriata"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 34 (3): 278–309. ISSN0018-2311. JSTOR4435929.
Levick 1967, p. 228. Levick, B M (1967). "Imperial control of the elections under the early principate: commendatio, suffragatio, and "nominatio"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 16 (2): 207–230. ISSN0018-2311. JSTOR4434982.
Holladay 1978, pp. 886–87. Holladay, A J (1978). "The election of magistrates in the early Principate". Latomus. 37 (4): 874–893. ISSN0023-8856. JSTOR41531092.
Staveley, Eastland Stuart; Levick, Barbara (2012). "destinatio". In Hornblower, Simon; et al. (eds.). The Oxford classical dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 442. ISBN978-0-19-954556-8. OCLC959667246. Stavely and Levick very favourably cite Holladay 1978 ("Hollday's view that it was intended to secure orderly elections is most convincing"). Holladay, A J (1978). "The election of magistrates in the early Principate". Latomus. 37 (4): 874–893. ISSN0023-8856. JSTOR41531092.
Millar 1998, p. 199, with modifications, citing Ausonius, Gratiarum Actio, 3. Millar, Fergus (1998). The crowd in Rome in the late republic. Jerome Lectures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN978-0-472-10892-3.
Pelling 1996, pp. 25, 26–27. See also Broughton 1952, p. 391, noting the service of 67 praetors in 38 BC per Dio, 48.43.2, due to a (short-lived) political settlement with Sextus Pompey's faction. Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association. Cassius Dio (1914–27) [c. AD 230]. Roman history. Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Cary, Earnest – via LacusCurtius. (Nine volumes.)
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Grieve 1985, p. 309. Grieve, Lucy J (1985). "The reform of the "comitia centuriata"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 34 (3): 278–309. ISSN0018-2311. JSTOR4435929.
Morstein-Marx 2024, p. 148: "It is hard to imagine a voter participation rate of more than about 10% even for the largest turnouts". See also Mouritsen 2001, pp. 27–32, preferring turnout estimates between 1–3 per cent of eligible voters Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669. Mouritsen, Henrik (2001). Plebs and politics in the late Roman republic. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511482885. ISBN978-0-521-79100-7.
Vishnia 2012, p. 123, saying "members of the third property rank and below only rarely took part in elections"; Rafferty 2021, p. 135, believing elections regularly extended into the fourth class. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Rafferty, David (2021). "Rural voters in Roman elections". TAPA. 151 (1): 127–153. doi:10.1353/apa.2021.0004. ISSN2575-7199.
Taylor & Linderski 2013, p. 149, noting imperial-era evidence that an urban tribes had some 34 times more voters than a rural one. Taylor, L R; Linderski, Jerzy (2013) [First ed. published 1960]. The voting districts of the Roman republic: the thirty-five urban and rural tribes (Updated ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN978-0-472-11869-4. OCLC793581620.
Taylor & Linderski 2013, pp. 99, 116–17, noting that Romilia, Pupinia, and Sabatina remained relatively small and over-weighted. Taylor, L R; Linderski, Jerzy (2013) [First ed. published 1960]. The voting districts of the Roman republic: the thirty-five urban and rural tribes (Updated ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN978-0-472-11869-4. OCLC793581620.
Vishnia 2012, p. 121; Mouritsen 2017, p. 50, noting also that the principium was not a tribal analogue to the centuria praerogativa. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Mouritsen, Henrik (2017). Politics in the Roman republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-1-107-03188-3. OCLC961266598.
See also Alexander, Michael Charles (1990). Trials in the late Roman Republic, 149 BC to 50 BC. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Trials 200, 201. ISBN0-8020-5787-X. OCLC41156621.
Mackie, Nicola (1992). ""Popularis" ideology and popular politics at Rome in the first century". Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. 135 (1): 49–73. ISSN0035-449X. JSTOR41233843. See also Vishnia 2012, pp. 114–15. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9.
Vishnia 2012, p. 111; Lintott 1990, p. 8, noting that candidates in 54 BC borrowed so much for bribes that interest rates at Rome doubled from four to eight per cent. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Lintott, Andrew (1990). "Electoral bribery in the Roman republic". Journal of Roman Studies. 80: 1–16. doi:10.2307/300277. ISSN1753-528X.
Cornell 2022, p. 225, citing Grieve 1985 and Yakobson, A (1993). "Dionysius of Halicarnassus on a democratic change in the centuriate assembly". Scripta Classica Israelica. 12: 139–55. Grieve, Lucy J (1985). "The reform of the "comitia centuriata"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 34 (3): 278–309. ISSN0018-2311. JSTOR4435929.
Levick 1967, p. 228. Levick, B M (1967). "Imperial control of the elections under the early principate: commendatio, suffragatio, and "nominatio"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 16 (2): 207–230. ISSN0018-2311. JSTOR4434982.
Holladay 1978, pp. 886–87. Holladay, A J (1978). "The election of magistrates in the early Principate". Latomus. 37 (4): 874–893. ISSN0023-8856. JSTOR41531092.
Staveley, Eastland Stuart; Levick, Barbara (2012). "destinatio". In Hornblower, Simon; et al. (eds.). The Oxford classical dictionary (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 442. ISBN978-0-19-954556-8. OCLC959667246. Stavely and Levick very favourably cite Holladay 1978 ("Hollday's view that it was intended to secure orderly elections is most convincing"). Holladay, A J (1978). "The election of magistrates in the early Principate". Latomus. 37 (4): 874–893. ISSN0023-8856. JSTOR41531092.
Mouritsen 2017, pp. 17–18, noting "the power of the people was expressed via – and only via – the actions of its elected officials"; Yakobson 2022, p. 102; Millar 1998, pp. 209–10. Mouritsen, Henrik (2017). Politics in the Roman republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-1-107-03188-3. OCLC961266598. Yakobson, Alexander. "The political culture of the republic since Syme's The Roman revolution: a story of a debate". In Arena & Prag (2022), pp. 93–106. Millar, Fergus (1998). The crowd in Rome in the late republic. Jerome Lectures. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN978-0-472-10892-3.
Vishnia 2012, p. 124; cf Morstein-Marx 2024, arguing against the "almost universally supposed" view that voters residing far from Rome were effectively disenfranchised by logistical challenges. Vishnia, Rachel Feig (2012). Roman elections in the age of Cicero: society, government, and voting. Routledge Studies in Ancient History. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-0-415-87969-9. Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669.
Morstein-Marx 2024, p. 101, relating the conventional view. Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669.
Morstein-Marx 2024, pp. 146–49, giving a 10% upper bound. Morstein-Marx, Robert (June 2024). "Paradox of voting: extra-urban voters in the late Roman republic". Klio. 106 (1): 100–159. doi:10.1515/klio-2023-0021. ISSN2192-7669.