shield-striking

Updated: May 9, 2025

In the acclamation of the Hellenic and in the shield-striking of the Germanic assemblies there was involved an expression of the sovereign power of the community; but a wide interval separated forms such as these from the organized jurisdiction and the regulated declaration of opinion of the Latin assembly of curies.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy

In the acclamation of the Hellenic and in the shield-striking of the Germanic assemblies there was involved an expression of the sovereign power of the community; but a wide interval separated forms such as these from the organized jurisdiction and the regulated declaration of opinion of the Latin assembly of curies.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)