in Roman Antiquity, officers appointed to distribute the tablets used by the people when they voted in the comitia. Wunder, however, in the preface to his Codex Erfurtensis, is of opinion that their office was to divide the votes afterwards, in order to determine the result; and this opinion he founds partly on the etymology of the word diribere, from dis and habere. See Comitia, vol. vii., p. 183.