 The Graecostasis was, as Niebuhr remarks, like privileged seats in the hall of a parliamentary assembly.The Stationes Municipiorum, of which Pliny speaks, appear to have been places allotted to municipals for the same purpose.When the sun was seen from the Curia coming out between the Rostra and the Graecostasis, it was mid-day; and an accensus of the consul announced the time with a clear loud voice.