Sitella
Appearance
Cista[1] sive sitella[2] sive urna[3] est capsa in quam schedulae suffragiorum inter comitia mittuntur.
Historia
[recensere | fontem recensere]Dierum Imperii Romani initio, quisque elector publico adscriptori qui ea notabant suffragium suum voce dabat; posterius autem schedulis scrutinii utebantur RomanI, quas cives in amphoras deiciebant, urnas vocatas.[4]
Notae
[recensere | fontem recensere]- ↑ "A ballot-box, Cista, in quam suffragia mittuntur."—Robert Ainsworth, Thomas Morell, et John Carey, An Abridgment of Ainsworth's Dictionary: English and Latin: Designed for the Use of Schools (1837), p. 9. Item, "Cista, a ballot-box" (opere citato), 508.
- ↑ Felix Gaffiot, Lexicon Gaffiot.
- ↑ Cicero, Ad Quintum fratrem II.4.
- ↑ Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, et Esther Eidinow, eds., The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxoniae: Oxford University Press, 2014), 267.