The Comitia lost even the shadow of constitutional power in the following reign.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
"Article 3. The French people are convoked in their Comitia.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo
Thus in ancient Greece and Italy the primitive clan-assembly or township-meeting did not grow by aggregation into the assembly of the shire, but it developed into the Comitia or ecclesia of the city.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske