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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348), a work of the 1st–2nd century Roman poet Juvenal.It may be translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" or "Who will watch the watchmen?
Custos is the Latin word for guard. Titles. Custos rotulorum ("keeper of the rolls"), a civic post in parts of the United Kingdom and in Jamaica;
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
An ostiarius, a Latin word sometimes anglicized as ostiary but often literally translated as porter or doorman, originally was an enslaved person or guard posted at the entrance of a building, similarly to a gatekeeper. In the Roman Catholic Church, this "porter" became the lowest of the four minor orders prescribed by the Council of Trent.
Guardia di Finanza (Financial Guard): Nec recisa recedit (Latin for "does not retreat even if broken") Polizia di Stato (State Police): Sub lege libertas ( Latin for "under the law, freedom") Polizia Penitenziaria (Penitentiary Police): Despondere spem munus nostrum ( Latin for "to ensure hope is our role")
Cap badge of the Royal Ulster Rifles Quis separabit? - Irish Guards Drummers - Full Dress Quis separabit? (Who will separate [us]?) is a Latin motto derived from the Vulgate translation of Romans 8:35 (τίς ἡμᾶς χωρίσει ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Χριστοῦ, tís hēmâs chōrísei apò tês agápēs toû Christoû):
Tutelary deities who guard and preserve a place or a person are fundamental to ancient Roman religion. The tutelary deity of a man was his Genius , that of a woman her Juno . [ 3 ] In the Imperial era , the Genius of the Emperor was a focus of Imperial cult .
The word "palatine" evolved from the Latin word palatinus, asserting a connection to the Palatine Hill, where the house of the Roman emperor was situated since Augustus (hence "palace"). [3] The meaning of the term hardly changed, since Latin was the dominant language in medieval writing.