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The Roman Collegia.
ful as all the various forms of deposit were to the Pagans , but of sacrifices made to appease an angry or capricious ghost the Church ' s prayers for the rest and refrigerium of a departed brother had more efficiently taken the place . " What Roman colleges were the following precis will best show .
"Under the empire , and before it , private colleges ( collegiaprivata ) were corporations composed of men voluntarily bound together for a common lawful purpose * " They were established by a legal act , f either a senatus consultum or a decree of the emperor .
" The number of the sodales or collegae could not be less than three . It might be any larger number , unless it was restricted by the authority which gave the college existence , t
" In its constitution the college was divided into decnriae and ceniuriae—bodies of ten and a hundred men . § " It was presided over by a master and by decuriones—a president and a senate , jj " It had a quaestor and arcarnis— a treasurer and sub-treasurer . ^[
" It was a corporation , and could hold property as such . ** " It had a common cult and common sacrifices at stated times . It had its priests and temple . ft " It had its lares and its genii . " It had a curia ( or meeting-house ) where the ordo collegii ( its
senators ) met to consult and to determine . "At the same curia also the whole sodality met at their general meetings and to feast . JJ
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Roman Collegia.
ful as all the various forms of deposit were to the Pagans , but of sacrifices made to appease an angry or capricious ghost the Church ' s prayers for the rest and refrigerium of a departed brother had more efficiently taken the place . " What Roman colleges were the following precis will best show .
"Under the empire , and before it , private colleges ( collegiaprivata ) were corporations composed of men voluntarily bound together for a common lawful purpose * " They were established by a legal act , f either a senatus consultum or a decree of the emperor .
" The number of the sodales or collegae could not be less than three . It might be any larger number , unless it was restricted by the authority which gave the college existence , t
" In its constitution the college was divided into decnriae and ceniuriae—bodies of ten and a hundred men . § " It was presided over by a master and by decuriones—a president and a senate , jj " It had a quaestor and arcarnis— a treasurer and sub-treasurer . ^[
" It was a corporation , and could hold property as such . ** " It had a common cult and common sacrifices at stated times . It had its priests and temple . ft " It had its lares and its genii . " It had a curia ( or meeting-house ) where the ordo collegii ( its
senators ) met to consult and to determine . "At the same curia also the whole sodality met at their general meetings and to feast . JJ