Note 1207 — Chapter V · CONSULSHIP OF CÆSAR AND BIBULUS. (695.)
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These clubs (collegia compitalitia) had an organisation which was almost military, divided into districts, and composed exclusively of the proletaries. (See Mommsen, Roman History, III. 290.)—“The slaves enrolled under pretence of forming corporations.” (Cicero, Oration after his return in the Senate, 13.)