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A magistrate with the jus contionandi could call a contio, an informal assembly of the people, before which he could announce new legislation. A bill's proposer was its lator; a supporter was an auctor. After a magistrate promulgated a bill, under the [[lex Caecilia Didia]] of 98 BC, a trinundium had to elapse. A trinundium meant three market days. Immediately before an assembly was called to vote on a bill, a special contio was called so that

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