Just so, in the story of the builders one finds a gap of like length, between the collegia of Rome and the cathedral artists. |
These corporations were ruined by slave labour, and becoming secret societies, in the time of Augustus were The collegia. |
In all these points the collegia of Roman closely resemble the corporations of English law. |
The evidence seems to be that a whole category of collegia or associations was thus exempt from compliance with the requirement of special approval, coire licet. |
University towns established a number of collegia musica, and concert societies came into being. |
We thus arrive by a second channel at the collegia of the empire. |