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    What is the translation for the latin phrase "non civium ardor"?

    Question #63334. Asked by defier. (Mar 10 06 6:33 PM)


    lanfranco

    This is Horace, "Carmina," III, 3:

    Justum et tenacem propositi virum,
    Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
    Non vultis instantis tyranni ...

    Which means, more or less:


    The just man who is resolute
    will not be turned from his purpose
    either by the rage of the crowd or
    by an imperious tyrant.

    "Non civium ardor" in this context would mean "not by the rage of the crowd."


    Here is Robert Browning's take on Horace's concept:

    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Instans_Tyrannus



    Mar 10 06, 8:02 PM
    xfacilitatorx

    non
    Non., abb. N M
    Nones (plur)
    non ADV POS
    non ADV
    not, by no means, no; [non modo ... sed etiam => not only ... but also];

    civium
    civis, civis N
    fellow citizen; countryman/woman; citizen, free person; a Roman citizen;

    ardor
    ardor
    ardor, ardoris N
    fire, flame, heat; brightness, flash, gleam or color; ardor, love, intensity


    Literally :

    Not Citizen Intensity

    or as Lanfranco so poetically has put it, "not by the rage of the crowd"

    Mar 11 06, 10:29 AM


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