All such associations were duly licensed by the state, which at all times was vigilant in forbidding the maintenance of any which it deemed dangerous for religious or political reasons. In 186 BC the senate, by a decree of which part is preserved., made all combination for promoting the Bacchic religious rites strictly illegal. Legal "sodalitates" are frequent later; the temple of Venus Genetrix, begun by Julius Caesar and finished by Augustus, had its "collegium". "Sodalilates" were instituted for the cult of the deified emperors such as Augustus (see Augustales) and Claudius.