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

Question #63334. Asked by defier.

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lanfranco
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lanfranco
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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:

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


Mar 10 2006, 8:02 PM
xfacilitatorx
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xfacilitatorx

Answer has 2 votes.
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 2006, 10:29 AM
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