sb. pl. Obs. rare. [Fr. comices, ad. L. comitia (cf. notice, etc.): the form comites is probably a scribal error or misprint; in Blount it stands in the alphabetic place of Comices.] = COMITIΑ 1.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. (1822), 57. Quhen this regent had maid his comites … the pepill chesit Ancus Marcius to be king.
1600. Holland, Livy, III. liv. 124. The chiefe priest immediatly held the Comices.
1681. Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 5), Comites (Comitia) solemn Assemblies of the people at Rome.
