Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

SI! 0COGNATl, COILLEGIU M.
vi. the distance of the two parties from the colrimonl
Tritaviua ancestor; but in the civil law, the degree of re6. lationship is ascertained by counting from either of
I the two persons to the other through the common
Atavu. ancestor. All those words on which the same
Atavia.- Roman, or the same Arabic, numerals occur, reAt~tvia5. present persons who are in the same degree of
Piv. cognatio, according to these respective laws, to the
-Abpatrutua, person is eave, &c. (Hugo, Lehlibuch, &c.; MareAbavus, Abammita, zoll, Lehrlsuch, &c.; Dig. 38. tit. 10, De G(radibus,
Abavia.- Abavun. ulus,
Abmatertera. &c.; Ulpianus, Frag. ed. Bicking; Bdcking, /c -
A4..stitztionen.) [ G. L.]
CO'GNITOR. [ACTiO.]
-Propatruus, COGNO'MEN. [NOMEN.]
PTroavia, Prounuita, COHERES. [HERFS.]
Proavia.- Proavunculus
Promatert.- COHORS. [ExERcITUs.]
3. 5. COLA'CRETAE (KwcoxaKcp&r, also called
I. o. iv s KowXa'ypE'Ta), the name of very ancient magistrates
A -_ Vatrulus,. at Aths,, who had the management of all financial
Avus, Amita, -Horum, matters in the time of the kings. They are said
Aviater. AvunceEs, Filius, to have derived their name from collecting certain
Mater. SMag.-. Filia.
2. 4. 6. parts of the victims at sacrifices (e -roa &'yiE[pElv
i TaS KIcoas). The legislature of Solon left the
- Patre S, Colacretae untouched; but Cleisthenes deprived
Pater, Ainita, — Propior, them of the charge of the finances, which he transMater. - Aruncldus, Soabrino, ferred to the Apodectae, who were established in
Matertera. —, Sobrinave-.!
Matertera. Sobrnae their stead. [APoDEcTAxE.] From this time the
_._________~i Colacretae had only to provide for the meals in the
ds EAVE s-Frater, Cossetaus -SoEbrians, Prytaleium, and subsequently had likewise to pay
d:e ckijs — Frater, Consot-rinus —Sobrin-u,
eogniationel Sorer, Consobrina. Sobrina. the fees to the dicasts, when the practice of paying
qua-rimr. 2. 4. 6. the dicasts was introduced by Pericles. (Aristoph.
Vesp. 693, 724, with:Schol..; Etym. M. Phot. HeL. ii. iii. sych. Suid. Tim.; Rauhnk. ead Tims. flat. Lex. p. 17 1;
Filius, HForum, olrum, Bdckh, Publ. Econ. of'A thens, p. 173. &c., 2nd ed.)
Filia. Filia. COLLA'TIO BONOSRUM. [BoNoRaUM CoLo. 3. 5. LATIO.]! 1, IV. COLLEGATA'RIUS. [LEGATUM.]
it. iii. iv.
Nepos, HIorum,. Horum, COLLEGIUI M. The persons who formed a
Neptis. Nepos, Nepos, collegium, were called college or sodales. The
Neptis. Neptis. word collegium properly expressed the notion of
2. 4. 6.
I several persons being united in any office or for
Pronepos, HrmI. any common purpose (Liv. x. 13, 22; Tacit. Ann.
Prouleptis. Pronepos, iii. 31); it afterwards came to signify a body of
Proneptis. persons, and the union which bound theln together.
3. 5. The collegium was the rmalpia of the Greeks.
iv. v. The notionof a collegium was as follows: --
Abnepos, Horum, A collegium or corpus, as it was'also called, must
Abneptis. RAbmeptiso. consist of three persons'at least. (Dig. 50. tit. 16.
4. 6. s. 85.) Persons who legally formed such an association were said copzus hatere, which is equivaAdke'pos, lent to our phrase of being incorporated; and in
Adneptis. later times they were said to be corporati, and the
5. body was called a corporatio. Those who farmed
the public revenues, mines, or salt works (SClince)
Trinepos, might have a corpus. The power of forming such
Trilleptis. a collegium or socictas (for this term also was
used), was limited by various leges, senatusconThis table shows all the degrees of cognatio. sulta, and imperial constitutions. (Dig. 3. tit. 4.)'ihe degree of relationship of any given person in Associations of individuals, who were entitled
this stenlma, to the person with respect to whom to have a corpus, could hold property in conmthe r lationship is inquired after (is eave, &c.), is mon; they could hold it, as the Roman jurists
indicated by the figures attached to the several remark, just as the state held property (res corn'words. The Roman numerals denote the degree munes). These collegia had a common chest, and
of cognatio in the canon law; and the Arabic could sue anId be sued by their syndicus or actor.
numerals, the degrees in the Roman or Civil law. That which was due to the collegiu-m or univeisitas
The latter mode of reckoning is adopted in Eiig- (for this was a still more general term), was not
land, in ascertaining the persons who are entitled due to the individuals of it; and that which the
as next o kin to the personal estate of an intestate. collegilum owed, was not the debt of the individuals.
In the canon law, the number which expresses the The property of the collegium was liable to be
collateral degree is always the greater of the two seized and sold for its debts. The collegium or
numbers (when they are different) which express Imiversitas was governed by its own regulations,