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The Roman Collegia.
had share and share alike ( p . 824 *) . It seems , as the law _ says , that no Collegium or any similar body could meet together without the authority of a Senatus Consultum or the Emperor , nor could any such assembly " celebrare Collegium" that is , act and meet , or transact work , as a Collegium . Members were not to belong to more
than one College , and not more than one Collegium was apparently to be established in one place , and Colleges were lawful unless they came under the law of " Illicita Collegia . " Heineccius tells us that the Colleges were " publica et privata , " a " Societas Publica" or Collegium , or a " Societas Privatorum , " and
, that they from their own order could appoint a " Magister , " who presided over the society , and could summon it for any business . The word corpus seem to be used synonymously with Collegium . Private persons could enter the various societies , though some might be of a particular trade , and they seem , when entered , to have had a
sort of community of interests , goods , & c , called by the Greeks " Koinopraxian , " based apparently on that of the Pythagorean societies , termed " Koinobious . It seems that in the societies some of the members gave money , others gave work for money , and which " custom is supposedrightly or wrongly , to be alluded to in the line
, of Plautus , in the ' Asinaria , '" ( line 158 ) "Par pari datum hostimentu-st , opera pro pecunia conterret , " and which in a French translation I have , thus reads , " Nous ne vous devoins rien . On t'a servipour ton argent . " This allusion , however , is doubtfuL
A Societas or Collegium could be dissolved by authority or consent for division , or in fact , for almost any other needful cause ; and a form of renunciation of a society , is preserved which runs very much " on all fours " with our Masonic law of to-day : " Si tibi denique societas ista displicit possumus omnia quidem cetera fratres manere , ab isto
tamen nexu communionis discedere . " Thus we obtain a new expression , " nexus communionis . " The Collegia were stated to bring about " arctissimam amicitiam , " and that the reception of members into the College made them equal , socii , fratres , as it was said , " pares aut acceperuntautfaciunt . " Some
parts of Mr . Coote's clear statement I have not been able to verify , such as that the Collegium had a " senate , " or a " day carae cognationis . " The Roman festivals of personal and intimate affection seem to have been four : the Dies Natalis , the Parentalia or Inferise . The Feralia in February , beginning on the 17 th and lasting several days ; the Dies ,
Violaris , on the eleventh before the Kalends of April , 17 th of February , thus commingled with the Parentalia ; and remembrance of the Cognati and the Rosatio on the twelfth before the Kalends of
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The Roman Collegia.
had share and share alike ( p . 824 *) . It seems , as the law _ says , that no Collegium or any similar body could meet together without the authority of a Senatus Consultum or the Emperor , nor could any such assembly " celebrare Collegium" that is , act and meet , or transact work , as a Collegium . Members were not to belong to more
than one College , and not more than one Collegium was apparently to be established in one place , and Colleges were lawful unless they came under the law of " Illicita Collegia . " Heineccius tells us that the Colleges were " publica et privata , " a " Societas Publica" or Collegium , or a " Societas Privatorum , " and
, that they from their own order could appoint a " Magister , " who presided over the society , and could summon it for any business . The word corpus seem to be used synonymously with Collegium . Private persons could enter the various societies , though some might be of a particular trade , and they seem , when entered , to have had a
sort of community of interests , goods , & c , called by the Greeks " Koinopraxian , " based apparently on that of the Pythagorean societies , termed " Koinobious . It seems that in the societies some of the members gave money , others gave work for money , and which " custom is supposedrightly or wrongly , to be alluded to in the line
, of Plautus , in the ' Asinaria , '" ( line 158 ) "Par pari datum hostimentu-st , opera pro pecunia conterret , " and which in a French translation I have , thus reads , " Nous ne vous devoins rien . On t'a servipour ton argent . " This allusion , however , is doubtfuL
A Societas or Collegium could be dissolved by authority or consent for division , or in fact , for almost any other needful cause ; and a form of renunciation of a society , is preserved which runs very much " on all fours " with our Masonic law of to-day : " Si tibi denique societas ista displicit possumus omnia quidem cetera fratres manere , ab isto
tamen nexu communionis discedere . " Thus we obtain a new expression , " nexus communionis . " The Collegia were stated to bring about " arctissimam amicitiam , " and that the reception of members into the College made them equal , socii , fratres , as it was said , " pares aut acceperuntautfaciunt . " Some
parts of Mr . Coote's clear statement I have not been able to verify , such as that the Collegium had a " senate , " or a " day carae cognationis . " The Roman festivals of personal and intimate affection seem to have been four : the Dies Natalis , the Parentalia or Inferise . The Feralia in February , beginning on the 17 th and lasting several days ; the Dies ,
Violaris , on the eleventh before the Kalends of April , 17 th of February , thus commingled with the Parentalia ; and remembrance of the Cognati and the Rosatio on the twelfth before the Kalends of