collegiateness

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For, although the different communities may very well have arrived at the abolition of royalty in itself independently of each other, the identity in the appellation of the new annual kings in the Roman and other commonwealths of Latium, and the comprehensive application of the peculiar principle of collegiateness, evidently point to some external connection.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book II : From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy

For, although the different communities may very well have arrived at the abolition of royalty in itself independently of each other, the identity in the appellation of the new annual kings in the Roman and other commonwealths of Latium, and the comprehensive application of the peculiar principle of collegiateness, evidently point to some external connection.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)