Sitella

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Cista[1] sive sitella[2] sive urna[3] est capsa in quam schedulae suffragiorum inter comitia mittuntur.

Vitrea ligneaque sitella.

Historia

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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]

  1. "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.
  2. Felix Gaffiot, Lexicon Gaffiot.
  3. Cicero, Ad Quintum fratrem II.4.
  4. Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, et Esther Eidinow, eds., The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxoniae: Oxford University Press, 2014), 267.