Colligo, cólligis, pen. cor. collêgi, pen. prod. colléctum, collígere. Plin. To gather or bring togither: to prepare: to number or count: to gather by proose or reason: to get or purchase.Carpere & colligere vndique.Cic.In vnum locum colligere.Cic.To gather into.Colligere in vas. Varro. To gather into a vessell.Arma nauis colligere.Virg.Capillos colligere in nodum.Ouid.To trusse vp.Equos colligere.Ouid.To bring togither.Exercitum colligere ex lenibus desperatis.Cic.To gather an army of olde men.Fontes colliguntur angustis fistulis. Quint. Fructus colligere Horat. Gradum colligere. Sil. To stay.Hostem colligere. Sil. To inclose his cnimie.Librum aut aliud aliquid colligere.Plin. iun.To take vp a booke.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
collēgĭum (conl-); in inscrr. sometimes corrupted COLLEGIVS, ii, m., Inscr. Orell. 2413; 4101 al.), ii, n. [collega]. I. Abstr., the connection of associates, colleagues, etc., colleagueship (rare): ita, quae nostra officia fuerunt, pro collegio et pro propinquitate et vivo et mortuo ei praestitimus, Serv. ad Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 3: Decium, expertum mihi concordi collegio virum, mecum consulem faciatis, Liv. 10, 13. 13; so id. 22, 3, and 24, 6: magister equitum ex collegio prioris anni, id. 4, 17, 9; so id. 5, 18, 2; cf. Plin. 7, 12, 10, 54; Tac. A. 3, 31; id. H. 1, 52 fin.: P. Decius consul per tot collegia expertus, Liv. 10, 26, 2.—B.Trop.: auxiliatur (noctuis) accipiter conlegio quodam naturae,
association
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partnership
, Plin. 10, 17, 19, 39; Manil. 2, 161.— II. Concr., persons united by the same office or calling, or living by some common rules, a college, guild, corporation, society, union, company, fraternity: e(tairi/a, sunarxi/a (so most freq.): nulla (erat) Romae societas vectigalium, nullum collegium aut concilium, etc., Cic. Sest. 14, 32: tribunorum plebis, id. Verr. 2, 2, 41, 100; Suet. Caes. 23: praetorum, Cic. Off. 3, 20, 80: pontificum, Caes. B. C. 1, 72; Liv. 31, 9, 8: sacerdotum, Suet. Calig. 16: Flavialium, id. Dom. 4: augurum, Cic. Brut. 1, 1 al.: mercatorum, Liv. 2, 27, 5: Mercurialium, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 5, 2: aerariūm fabrūm, Plin. 34, 1, 1, 1: poëtarum, Val. Max. 3, 7, 11: ambubaiarum, Hor. S. 1, 2, 1 et saep.: tribuni ... pro collegio pronuntiant, in the name of the (tribunitial) college, Liv. 4, 26, 9; cf. id. 44, 12, and ex collegii sententiā, id. 53, 7.