says Mr Musk.
Who is not familiar with the advice of Alcuin:
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
Alcuin said that to Charlemagne, some time between 772 and 804.
Old enough to know better
Vox populi, vox Deii.
says Mr Musk.
Who is not familiar with the advice of Alcuin:
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
Alcuin said that to Charlemagne, some time between 772 and 804.
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Grant S
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
How about a translation for a guy who didn't get far past Amo Amas Amat.Originally Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett
There is nothing quite as permanent as a good temporary repair.
Recalcitrant Heretic
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
Yeah. It's a bit ridiculous that Musk uses the quote unironically.
Occurred to me that Musk's uncritical use of unscientific polling on Twitter to these questions also shows how Aristotle could envision a positive form of "rule by the many" (which he called a "polity"), he was deeply suspicious of the tyrannical form of "rule by the many" (which he called "democracy").
I guess you don't get to be the richest guy in the world by reading classics, or reflecting on them.
If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
Senior Member
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
IIRC, Ted Turner majored in Classics.
Recalcitrant Heretic
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness."
If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott
Old enough to know better
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
Nec audiendi
We should not give hearing
qui solent dicere
to those who keep on saying
”Vox populi, vox Dei”
”the voice of the people (is) the voice of God”
quum tumultousitas vulgivagues
since the tumultuousness of the crowd
semper insaniae
(is) always very close to madness.
is always very close to madness.”
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Old enough to know better
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
Ted Turner was a whole different thing. Apart from the sailing, and Jane Fonda, I’m currently reading Maria Ressa’s book “Standing up to dictators” - she was an early hire by CNN and ran their Jakarta bureau; her admiration of Turner as a boss shines through.
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Senior Member
Re: Vox populi, vox Deii.
ACB for the win.
Senior Member
Vox populi, vox Deii.
I love the fact that I'm not the only person here who has studied Latin -- 3 years, mandatory, in my public (council) high school.
And I also love that people know the sources of things.
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse (Carry On, Jeeves)
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