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The Roman Collegia.
THE ROMAN COLLEGIA .
THE MASONIC MONTHLY . New Series- of tlie " Masonic Magazine . "
No . III . BY MASONIC STUDENT . Con-tin tied from page 200 .
MR . COOTE is of opinion that we may look to the " Collegia " of tire " Cultores Dei" for an analogy as regards the trading and operative Collegia ; but upon this point I cannot quite agree with him at least , not to the extent that he goes . We have so far , as he admits , no axithentic rules or laws of the operative Collegia , but there
were , as we know , " Societates " and " Sodalitates " of all kinds , and for all purposes , but we have yet to learn that all these ranked as Collegia , which may be greatly doubted . Still , as Mr . Coote fairly enough puts it , we may judge of the general nature of the laws of the Collegia by those which refer to a legal Collegium , instituted , say , for funerals ,
" Funerum Causa , " and under the sanction of the religion of the State . And as Mr . Coote gives us , in his interesting book already mentioned , * the rules of one of these " Funeral Collegia , " I transcribe it to-day , as it proves many points of interest to us as Masonic students . Let us therefore listen carefully to the words of the writer at page 390 of
this valuable work : — " . . . . It is a college founded at Lauuvium in . the time of Hadrian , and dedicated to Antinous and Diana Its lex or rules were inscribed upon the interior of the portico of the temple of Antinous in that town ( sub tetrastilo Antinoi parte interiori ) f
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The Roman Collegia.
THE ROMAN COLLEGIA .
THE MASONIC MONTHLY . New Series- of tlie " Masonic Magazine . "
No . III . BY MASONIC STUDENT . Con-tin tied from page 200 .
MR . COOTE is of opinion that we may look to the " Collegia " of tire " Cultores Dei" for an analogy as regards the trading and operative Collegia ; but upon this point I cannot quite agree with him at least , not to the extent that he goes . We have so far , as he admits , no axithentic rules or laws of the operative Collegia , but there
were , as we know , " Societates " and " Sodalitates " of all kinds , and for all purposes , but we have yet to learn that all these ranked as Collegia , which may be greatly doubted . Still , as Mr . Coote fairly enough puts it , we may judge of the general nature of the laws of the Collegia by those which refer to a legal Collegium , instituted , say , for funerals ,
" Funerum Causa , " and under the sanction of the religion of the State . And as Mr . Coote gives us , in his interesting book already mentioned , * the rules of one of these " Funeral Collegia , " I transcribe it to-day , as it proves many points of interest to us as Masonic students . Let us therefore listen carefully to the words of the writer at page 390 of
this valuable work : — " . . . . It is a college founded at Lauuvium in . the time of Hadrian , and dedicated to Antinous and Diana Its lex or rules were inscribed upon the interior of the portico of the temple of Antinous in that town ( sub tetrastilo Antinoi parte interiori ) f