Incredibilis multitudo, non solum ex eo oppido
(Tours), sed etiam ex vicinis urbibus ad suffragia ferenda
convenerat, etc. Sulpicius Severus, in Vit. Martin. c. 7.
The council of Laodicea (canon xiii.) prohibits mobs and tumults; and Justinian confines the right of election to the nobility. Novell. cxxiii. 1.