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Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
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Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett
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eco-Latin world ; and as isalways the case when manners are in opposition to the law, it isthe former which conquer: the old usages had triumphed overthe reluctance of the government. This custom had moreover, been 1 Digest, iii. 4,1. - The scribes of whom Martial speaks (viii. 38) formed one of the colleges at Rome. 3 The widow of a rich freedman left to a college a site for a chapel, a marble statue ofthe god, a terrace sheltered by a roof with a gallery, where the fellows could hold their collegi-ate repasts (Orelli, No. 2,417). * Digest, xlvii. 22, 1, sect. 2 ; xxxiv. 5, 20, and xl. 3, 1 and 2. 6 Lamprid., Alex. Sen. 32. Hadrian had established something similar for the artisanswhom he took with him in his travels. THE CITY. 97 strengthened by the example of the companies authorized bygovernment for the service of the state or the public nerds. Thenmen of the same trade, of the same district, of the same street.the freedmen of the same master, the worshippers of the same ::: III :
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m«-t-!5-tS2S iiii PRACTICE OF SINGING, OR MUSIC.1 Lares at the nearest cross-roads, those adoring the same divinityat a neighboring temple, the merchants from the same country,2or the Romans (collegium urhanorum) and the veterans settled ina foreign city, many others also,3 associated together for thepurpose of rendering mutual help, for religion, or for pleasure. 1 Mosaic in the Museum of Naples. - Colli </» / regrinorum. Thus at Tomi existed o ot^os, or the chamber of the Alexan-drine armorers, etc. Cf. Perrot, p. ii. An inscription (Orelli, No. 1,246) reads : The peo-ple of Berytus, worshippers of Jupiter of Heliopolis, established at Puteoli; and there are many similar to 11 iis. 8 For example, corporations of artists, musicians, and actors. Cf. Egger, Mem. tFhist.anc. p. 31. Slaws could no! enter a college without the consent of their masters, dominisvolentibus (Digest, xlvii. 1G. :S. sect. 2). vol. vr. 7 J8 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. Men formed associations for feastings

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