A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

5i6 Period of the Five Good Emperors
do to Caesar. But they who are hired for pay swear to
regard the safety of Caesar before all things; and you who
have received so many and such great favors, will you not
swear, or when you have sworn, will you not abide by
your oath? And what shall you swear? Never to be
disobedient, never to make any charges, never to find
fault with anything that he has given, and never unwillingly
to do or to suffer anything that is necessary.
Is this
oath like the soldier's oath? The soldiers swear not to
prefer any man to Caesar: in this oath men swear to honor
themselves before all.
VI.
Regulations of a Burial Society
Decree
of the
senate cited.
From an
inscription.
Resolutions
of the society
itself.
Admissions.
About $4.
"Who may meet, assemble, and have a corporation;
those who shall be willing to pay a monthly contribution
for funerals, may meet in that association (collegium) and
may not convene more than once a month under guise of
that association, this session being for the sake of collecting
a fund from which the dead may be buried."
May
it be favorable, fortunate and wholesome to the emperor
Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus and to the entire house
of the same, to us and ours, and to our association—both
well and earnestly shall we engage ourselves honorably
to escort the departure of the dead. Therefore we one and
all of us must be harmonious in making proper contributions
in order that we may endure a long time.
Thou too
who wilt desire to enter this association as a novice, first
read through the statute and then enter, lest
thou complain
afterward or leave a controversy to thine heir.
It was unanimously adopted, that whosoever shall desire
to enter this association will give on score of entrancefee
one hundred sesterces and one amphora of good wine,
likewise per mont " five asses. Furthermore it was adopted,