28/45 Indeed, the usual name given to the Latin magistrates (-praetores-) indicates that they were officers. Such a -- metoikos-- was not like an actual burgess assigned to a specific voting district once for all, but before each particular vote the district in which the -- metoeci-- were upon that occasion to vote was fixed by lot. In reality this probably amounted to the concession to the Latins of one vote in the Roman -comitia tributa-. As a place in some tribe was a preliminary condition of the ordinary centuriate suffrage, if the -- metoeci-- shared in the voting in the assembly of the centuries-which we do not know-a similar allotment must have been fixed for the latter. |