Augustus was a member of all four "collegia", but limited membership for any other senator to one.
The only exceptions seem to be the military "collegia", which, though strictly forbidden as dangerous to discipline, continued to increase in number in spite of the law.
Public priests were appointed by the "collegia".
There is also some evidence that she may have been involved with the organization of the "collegia".
Though closed amateur societies in concept, collegia frequently included professionals to fill out the music and admitted non-members to performances.
Gladiators could subscribe to a union ("collegia") which ensured proper burial, with compensation for wives and children.
They were regarded as subversive along with all the other collegia.
Both "exceptores" and "tabelliones" were organized into civil guilds ("collegia, scholae") to ensure the official recording of both public and private acts.
