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was called by the Romans the Comitial or Congress sickness (morbus comitiaʹlis), because the polling for the comitia centuriaʹta was null and void if any voter was seized with epilepsy while the votes were being taken.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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