comitia · censvs cogitationvm

the senate thinks of rome.

hodie est a.d. viii kal. septembres · anno mmxxvi 25 · viii · 2026

the comitia were the assemblies where the roman people voted. this is ours, and it asks a single question: have you thought about the roman empire today? one vote a day. the census of our collective imperial thought.

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the collective census of votes opens with the room · in fieri

⁕ comitia diurna · today’s vote ⁕ a.d. viii kal. septembres

have you thought about the roman empire today?

⁕ calendarivm · the tablet of the month ⁕

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each day is a roman arch. its interior fills with cinnabar in proportion to the part of the senate that declared it thought about rome. the hollow stone arches have not been voted yet.

previous month august next month
l m x j v s d
less thought
more hollow arch · pending vote
⁕ causae · why we think of rome ⁕

the triggers of the month.

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i
roman law
a legal heritage that still governs us
ii
a road or an aqueduct
the engineering still standing
iii
a film or a series
gladiator, almost always gladiator
iv
a meme
the roman empire of the feed
v
a latin quote
alea iacta est, and the like
vi
current politics
bread, circuses and news cycles
vii
roman concrete
that outlasts ours
viii
something else
the mind wanders to rome on its own
⁕ connexio ⁕

fasti measures the past. comitia, the present.

fasti tells what happened in rome on a day like today. comitia tells how much we thought about rome today. one looks back; the other, the reflection rome still casts on us.

i. every day

one question, one vote. the minimal ritual of the house.

ii. every vote

feeds the census: how much, and what reminded you.

iii. every trigger

links to the encyclopædia entry that explains it.