II. (_a_) Concilium may apply to a non-political as well as to a political gathering; (_b_) comitia is wholly restricted to the political sphere. (_a_) Concilium is non-political in Cicero, _Div._ i. 24. 49 (deorum concilium); _Tusc._ iv. 32. 69; _N. D._ i. 8. 18; _Off._ iii. 5. 25; 9. 38: _Senec._ 23. 84; _Fin._ ii. 4. 12 (virtutum concilium); _Rep._ i. 17. 28 (doctissimorum hominum in concilio); _Sest._ 14. 32 (applied to the meeting of a collegium); Livy i. 21. 3 (Camenarum concilia); ii. 38. 4; xxvii. 35. 4.[742] III. Within the political sphere, again, (_a_) concilium is the more general term,—it suggests neither organization nor lack of organization; whereas (_b_) comitia is restricted to the organized assembly. (_a_) Concilium is the more general term in Cicero, _Fin._ iii. 19. 63; ii. 24. 77; _Rep._ vi. 13 (3). 13.[743] In all these citations concilia, denoting assemblies of the whole people, must certainly include organized meetings, without excluding the unorganized. In _Leg._ iii. 19. 42 (“Invito eo qui cum populo ageret, seditionem non posse fieri, quippe cui liceat concilium, simul atque intercessum turbarique coeptum sit, dimittere”) concilium is probably the organized assembly. On the other hand, the concilium of all the people mentioned by Livy, i. 8. 1, may have been unorganized. IV. Within the province of organized national gatherings, on the other hand, (_a_) comitia is the wider term, applying as it does to all assemblies of the kind, whatever their function; whereas (_b_) concilium as an organized national assembly is wholly restricted to legislative and judicial functions.[744] (_a_) Comitia is used in its most general sense in Cicero, _Div._ i. 45. 103; ii. 18. 42 f.; 35. 74; _Tusc._ iv. 1. 1.[745] V. (_a_) Applied to foreign institutions, comitia always designates electoral assemblies; (_b_) as at Rome, concilia are always legislative or judicial assemblies.[746] (_a_) Comitia is used of foreign states in: Caesar, _B. G._ vii. 67; Cicero, _Verr._ II. ii. 52. 128 (three occurrences), 129, 130; 53. 133; 54. 136; _Fam._ viii. 1. 2; Livy v. 1. 1; xxiv. 23. 1; 26. 16; 27. 1; xxxii. 25. 2; xxxiii. 27. 8; xxxiv. 51. 5. (_b_) Foreign concilia are mentioned by: