Collegium (ancient Rome)

A collegium (plural collegia, "gathered together"; English "college") was any association in ancient Rome with a legal personality. Such associations had various functions, civil and religious.

Inscription (CIL 14.374) from Ostia Antica commemorating a Marcus Licinius Privatus, who was magister of a college of carpenters

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References

  1. Boatwright, Mary T.; Gargola, Daniel J.; Lenski, Noel; Talbert, Richard J.A. (2012). The Romans: From Village to Empire. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 434. ISBN 978-0-19-973057-5.


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