Abstract
In Rome during the Republican period, all the diverse comitial spaces – at the Capitol or at the Arx, at the Comitium or on the Campus Martius – were from the start “ inaugurated” places, that is to say “political templa”. This augural restraint was linked to the need of taking auspices before assemblies, in order to get gods’ agreement for decisions engaging the civic community. All along the period, the evolution of institutional practices – as well within the structure of the diverse people assemblies (the Calate, Curiate, Century and Tribal Assemblies) as in the vote organisation – didn’t make the augural restraints to vanish : their weight worked as much on space as on time. This aupiscious primacy on time and space of the Assemblies was giving to the Senate and the augural college the possibility of controlling magistrates’ powers, including citizen’s vote that was depending on their action.
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