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A collegium (pl.: collegia) or college was any association in ancient Rome that acted as a legal entity. Such associations could be civil or religious. The word collegium literally means "society", from collega ("colleague"). [1] They functioned as social clubs or religious collectives whose members worked towards their shared interests.
Collegium is the wider of the two in meaning, and may be used for associations of all kinds, public and private, while sodalitas is more especially a union for the purpose of maintaining a cult. Both words indicate the permanence of the object undertaken by the association, while a societas is a temporary combination without strictly permanent ...
In the late Roman Republic, bread shifted from a luxury good to an everyday staple. As supply increased, a guild of bakers was established to regulate and control the market. The Collegium became critical to the ancient Roman grain supply. [12] As a consequence, the Collegium was granted its own seat in the Senate. [12]
Thus "colleagues" are fellow members of a college, literally "persons who have been selected together". In ancient Rome a collegium was a "body, guild, corporation united in colleagueship; of magistrates, praetors, tribunes, priests, augurs; a political club or trade guild". [2]
A college, in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, is a collection (Latin: collegium) of persons united together for a common object so as to form one body. The members are consequently said to be incorporated, or to form a corporation.
The temple later became the home of the Roman poets' guild (collegium poetarum). [5] The Portico of Octavius (Porticus Octavia) was later built around the temple. Around 33–29 BC, Octavian and his stepbrother L. Marcius Philippus refurbished the portico and temple, after which the area was known as the Portico of Philippus (Porticus Philippi).
Marcus Laetorius, a centurion primi pili, described in history as the first plebeian magistrate, in 495 BC, the year before the first secession of the plebs.Chosen to establish a collegium mercatorum (merchants' guild), dedicate the Temple of Mercury, and superintend the corn market, he was probably plebeian aedile, although according to tradition this office was established along with that of ...
A guild (/ ɡ ɪ l d / GILD) is an ... A collegium was any association or corporation that acted as a legal entity. In 1816, an archeological excavation in Minya, ...