club (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A cudgel1. clāva2. fustisII. A number of persons combined for some common object1. sŏdālĭtas (originally a mere friendly association)2. sŏdālĭtium or -ĭcium (i. q. sodalitas, which however appears to be the better form)3. collēgium4. hĕtaeria (Gr. ἑταιςία) • club (subs.): I. A cudgel: 1. clāva: a knotty c., (of Hercules), trinodis c., Ov.: to maul severely with c.s and cudgels, male mulcare c. ac fustibus, Cic. 2. fustis: v. cudgel, staff. The bearer of a c. (esp. of Hercules), clāvĭger, ĕri: Ov. II. A number of persons combined for some common object: 1. sŏdālĭtas (originally a mere friendly association): c.s were instituted during my quaestorship, s. me quaestore constitutae sunt, Cic. Esp. as afterwards became the case, for some secret illegal purpose: Cic. The members of such c.s, sŏdāles: Pl.: Cic. 2. sŏdālĭtium or -ĭcium (i. q. sodalitas, which however appears to be the better form): Plin. 3. collēgium: he (Caesar) broke up the c.s, except those established of old, cuncta c. praeter antiquitus constituta distraxit, Suet. (also dissolvere, in same sense, Suet.): Cic. (The term collegium was originally applied esp. to the body of quaestors, tribunes; the Capitoline artificers, and some other corporations: Forcell. s. v.) 4. hĕtaeria (Gr. ἑταιςία): Plin. Ep.; who applies the term to what we should call guilds or trades-unions. In a bad sense the term factio is used to stigmatise bodies of the above kind: Plin. Ep.: Suet.: v. society, circle.
CLUB Copy link • CLUB 1. as means of defence, or weapon, clava: club-bearer, qui clavam gerit (poetically, claviger): fustis (a long piece of wood for thrashing), fustibus tundere, but especially as instrument for corporeal punishment and inflicting death, as military punishment, Plaut., Cic., etc. [Vid: Lex. fustuarium], centurionem fusti percutere, Velleius: decimum quemque fusti necare or ferire, Tac.): baculum nodosum (after Val. Max., 2, 78, who has ictus nodosus, i. e., a stroke with it): baculum cum nodo (after Liv., 1, 18, who has the contrary to it, viz., baculum sine nodo). Society, circulus (general term, a social circle): factio (a political club or society, forming a party in the state, like that of the Jacobins in Paris, Vid: Trajan, Plin., Ep., 10, 36): globus consensionis (of conspirators): sodalitas: sodalitium (any society of friends or comrades; e.g. at Rome of certain priests to perform some secret worship attended by a feast, Greek ἑταιρεία, which Traj., Plin.., Ep., 10 36 (43), 1, also makes use of in Latin): collegium (a corporation; e.g., of mechanics, tradesmen, etc.): a litterary club, *societas doctorum hominum: coetns, conventus hominum or amicorum (general term for any assembly): consessus (for a given purpose): sessiuncula (o meeting, Cic., Fin., 5, 20, 56, where he joins the words circuli et sessiunculae): acroasis (club of litterary men, where one of the members reads anything aloud to the assembly) [Vid :, aiso. SOCIETY]: member of a club, sodalis (especially for the purpose of feasting. playing. etc.): vir factionis (of political party): socius (for serious purposes): homo ejusdem corporis (Liv., 4, 9): the members of our, his, etc., club, nostri or sui corporis homines (Vid: Liv., 6, 34), or nostri, sui. only (Vid: Liv., 4, 57), *homo de circulo. Share of a reckoning (especially incurred by feasting, etc.), *sumtus comissationis (not compotationis): to pay for the whole club, *comissationis sumtus facere (PROP.): symbola. e.g., to pay one’s club. *symbolam solvere: *pro hospitio solvere (at an inn). 2. v. conferre ad or in aliquid: pecuniam dare ad aliquid: pecuniam or stipem conferre: collationem facere: in commune, in publicum conferre.