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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 ...
Potestas strongly contrasts with the power of the Senate and the prudentes, a common way to refer to Roman jurists. While the magistrates had potestas , the prudentes exercised auctoritas . It is said that auctoritas is a manifestation of socially recognized knowledge, while potestas is a manifestation of socially recognized power.
sum or totality of power: It refers to the final authority of power in government. For example, power of the Sovereign. summa summarum: all in all: Literally "sum of sums". When a short conclusion is rounded up at the end of some elaboration. summum bonum: the supreme good: Literally "highest good". Also summum malum ("the supreme evil ...
The power of an executive to prevent an action, ... A compilation of Latin words and phrases generally used in law with English translations. Bryanston, South Africa ...
Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Australian, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Mayan, Slavic, Latter-day Saint: Legislative Elected/ Appointed Tribal, Institutional (Latter-day Saint Movement) Emeritus: Latin: Ceremonial Retired from office Various, a retired chair, professor, or other person who retains an honorary title. Used as suffix, e.g. Professor Emeritus
Said of a word, fact or notion that occurs several times in a cited text. Also used in proofreading, where it refers to a change that is to be repeated everywhere needed. See also et passim. pater familias: father of the family: Or "master of the house". The eldest male in a family, who held patria potestas ("paternal power").
A distinction may be had between delegated powers and the additional power to re-delegate them. delirant isti Romani: They are mad, those Romans[!] A Latin translation of René Goscinny's phrase in French ils sont fous, ces romains! or Italian Sono pazzi questi Romani. Cf. SPQR, which Obelix frequently used in the Asterix comics. Deo ac veritati
Common Latin honor, above cum laude and below summa cum laude: magna di curant, parva neglegunt: The gods care about great matters, but they neglect small ones: Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2:167 magna est vis consuetudinis: great is the power of habit: Magna Europa est patria nostra: Greater Europe is Our Fatherland: Political motto of pan ...