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Collegium Armariorum


James Lawrie

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Society of the Cupboards? I haven't come across that before and can't find any reference to it. I suspect you were hoping for something about weaponry which is the meaning of the root Arma, but the inflection is rather different. Do you have any context that would help?

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4 hours ago, caldrail said:

Society of the Cupboards? I haven't come across that before and can't find any reference to it. I suspect you were hoping for something about weaponry which is the meaning of the root Arma, but the inflection is rather different. Do you have any context that would help?

According to a single source it was a collegium for gladiators. I was wondering how such a thing could exist, the bulk of gladiators being unfree. It's from the mid to late Republican period

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I see. I would question whether such a collegium would happen since gladiators within a familia already had all the fraternity they needed. There's no mention of such a collegium in anything I've come across and if you think about it, Rome is not going to let slaves and trained fighters organise themselves. They wouldn't let fighters who spoke the same language stay together, and  from the sources I gather there was a sort of status thing going on between different classes of gladiators that would mitigate against a collegium as well.

If I find anything I'll revise my opinions, but for now, I would treat this Collegium Armariorum with raised eyebrows.

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