Author details/dating: M. Tullius Cicero ob. BCE 43

Instrument Cited: Cornu, Lituus

Citation Reference: De Re Publica 2, 22, 40

Citation Content: quin etiam accensis velatis liticinibus, cornicinibus, proletariis.

Cicero is talking about who has the vote, he says:

Thus, while no one was deprived of the suffrage, the majority of votes was in the hands of those to whom the highest welfare of the State was the most important. And indeed the official messengers, the auxiliary troops, the liticinem and cornicines, the proletarians . . , 

Recent Reference: Wille 1967: p.91 219 also Behn (1912) p 46