These areas, often built by upper class property owners to rent, were often centred upon collegia or taberna.
Finally, the list includes the civil officials of each region, including the curators, the heads of the associations ("collegia") and the heads of neighbourhoods ("vicomagistri").
Inscriptions are organized within chapters ("capita", singular "caput") by topic, such as funerary inscriptions, or inscriptions pertaining to "collegia".
The inscriptions provide no evidence of whether the "collegia" also provided assistance to sick or infirm members.
While other subdivisions within tribes were possible, such as professional guilds (colleges or "collegia"), the tribe always remained the fundamental organizing unit.
Both "exceptores" and "tabelliones" were organized into civil guilds ("collegia, scholae") to ensure the official recording of both public and private acts.
They were regarded as subversive along with all the other collegia.
Gladiators could subscribe to a union ("collegia") which ensured proper burial, with compensation for wives and children.
