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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.
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 ...
words a foot and a half long: From Horace's Ars Poetica, "proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba " ("he throws down his high-flown language and his foot-and-a-half-long words"). A self-referential jab at long words and needlessly elaborate language in general. Si comprehendis [,] non est Deus: if you understand [something], it is not God
As "inspiration" had come to mean simply the gathering of a new idea, Cicero reiterated the idea of a rush of unexpected breath, a powerful force that would render the poet helpless and unaware of its origin. Literally, the Latin afflatus means "to blow upon/toward".
A request made to someone exercising some power, to show by what legal right they are exercising that power. A type of writ. quoad hoc: as to this Used to mean "with respect to" some named thing, such as when stating what the law is in regards to that named thing. R: Rex or Regina King or Queen.
Joint Task Force 2: Facta non verba (Latin for "deeds, not words") The Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Le corps du genie electric et mécanique royal canadien):’’ Arte Marte ’’(Latin for “ by skill and by fighting” “Latin pour “Par l’adresse et le combat”)
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").
reality involves a power to compel certain assent: A phrase used in modern Western philosophy on the nature of truth. eo ipso: by that very (act) Technical term in philosophy and law. Similar to ipso facto. Example: "The fact that I am does not eo ipso mean that I think." From the Latin ablative form of id ipsum ("that thing itself"). eo nomine ...