dendrophori
frequentia hominum multiplicari expedireait Constantinus Imper. in leg. 1. C. Th. de Centonariis et Dendrophoris (14, 8.), in qua junguntur
Centonariiset
Fabris: sed quæ eorum fuerit ars, non omnino constat, tametsi videntur fuisse occupati rei militari. Nam Centonarii creduntur fuisse
centonum, vel tentoriorum confectores,
Fabri,
Dendrophoros
arboresconficiebant : nisi fuerint qui ligna, arbores, et materias ligneas ad ædificia construenda vendebant, quod quidam opinati sunt.
Χορεύειν δὴ τῷ Θεῷ, ἢ τυρσοφορεῖν ἢ δενδροφορεῖν, ἢ ἄλλο τι τῶν κεχαριουμένων τῷ Θεῷ πράττειν πᾶσι πονηρὸν, πλὴν δούλων.Quam quidem
Scaliger lib. 3. Ep. 205. dictos putat Dendrophoros a Silvano Dendrophoro, cujus mentio est in vett. Inscriptionibus, intexto in vexillis illorum Corporatorum. Vide Oct. Ferrarium in Origin. Linguæ Italicæ voceEgregios proceros, currum servare Cybellæ, Quem traheret conducta manus Megalensibus actis, Arboris excissæ truncum portare per urbem.
DENDRO´PHORIa collegium or corporation of carpenters, frequently mentioned in inscriptions in imperial times. They formed originally a religious corporation, carrying the sacred tree in the worship of the Magna Mater (collegium dendrophorum Matris magnae), and were under the Quindecimviri. (See inscriptions quoted by Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverw. iii. pp. 356, 380.) Some modern critics have supposed that there were two collegia of Dendrophori, one religious, and the other of artificers; but it is more probable that they were in later times a college of carpenters under the protection and in the service of the Magna Mater. In an ordinance issued by Constantine in 315 they are mentioned along with the centonarii and fabri (Cod. Theod. 14.8). They were suppressed by Honorius and Theodosius in 415 as a heathen collegium (Cod. Theod. 16.10, 20.2), after which time their name does not appear. (Bossieu, Inscr. de Lyon, p. 412; Marquardt, Privatl. d. Römer p. 698.)
[W.S]A Roman collegium or corporation of carpenters, frequently mentioned in inscriptions in imperial times. They formed originally a religious corporation, carrying the sacred tree in the worship of the Magna Mater (collegium dendrophorum Matris magnae), and were under the Quindecimviri. See inscriptions quoted by Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverw. iii. pp. 356, 380.