Q. Aelius Paetus asked a law in time of his Consulship,* 1.1 vt quoties cum populo ageretur .i. as oftē as any Romane Magistrate did assemble the people to giue their voices, the Augures shoulde obserue signes and tokens in the firma∣ment, and the magistrates should haue power obnunciandi, & intercedendi .i. to gainesay and hinder their proceedings.
Ageretur cum populo.] Here we may note the difference betweene these two phrases, Agere cum populo, and Agere ad populum.f 1.2 He was said Agere ad populum, whosoever made any speech or oration vnto the people, & this might be done vpon any day indifferently: But then onely was it said Agi cum populo, when the people were assembled to the giving of their voices by a lawfull magistrate, and this could not be done,g 1.3 but vpō one of those daies, which they called Dies Comitiales.