HST325

Question 1

EX OPERE OPERATO

Answer 1

from the deed done
from the work worked
LATIN

Question 2

CUR DEUS HOMO

Answer 2

Why was God a man?
Why God became a man
LATIN

Question 3

CREDO

Answer 3

I believe

LATIN

Question 4

HAIRESIS

Answer 4

choice, opinion, stressing subjective

GREEK

Question 5

PAX DEORUM

Answer 5

peace of the gods

LATIN

Question 6

DIES FASTI
DIES NE FASTI
(dee-ace)

Answer 6

business day
holiday
days determined by pagan priests

Question 7

CIVITAS DEI

Answer 7

city of God

LATIN

Question 8

CIVITAS TERENA

Answer 8

city of earth

LATIN

Question 9

ROMA AETERNA

Answer 9

Rome eternal

LATIN

Question 10

FIDES QUARENS INTELLECTUM

Answer 10

faith seeks understanding

LATIN

Question 11

SANCTUS

Answer 11

holy

LATIN

Question 12

OPUS DEI

Answer 12

the work of God

LATIN

Question 13

ORA ET LABORA

Answer 13

prayer and work

LATIN

Question 14

AD GLORIAM DEI

Answer 14

for the glory of God

LATIN

Question 15

SERVUS SERVORUM DEI

Answer 15

servant of all servants of God
more literally, slave of all slaves of God
LATIN

Question 16

SIC ET NON

Answer 16

yes and no

LATIN

Question 17

MOS MAIORUM

Answer 17

the valued traditions of Rome’s heritage
ancestral custom
way of the ancestors

Question 18

LAISSEZ FAIRE

Answer 18

“let do” - French lit.
Free trade in economics
Usually means leave it alone/let go

Question 19

AD LECTOREM

Answer 19

To the reader

LATIN

Question 20

IN HOC SIGNO VINCE

Answer 20

In this sign conquer

LATIN

Question 21

CIVIS ROMANUS SUM

Answer 21

I am a Roman citizen

LATIN

Question 22

IPSE DIXIT

Answer 22

"He said it himself" - Latin
an assertion without proof
dogmatic expression of opinion
coined by Cicero
used by Pythagoras and his followers
unproven statement that is assumed

Question 23

SOMA SEMA

Answer 23

the body is a tomb

Question 24

SCIENTIA

skee ent ee uh

Answer 24

knowledge

Latin

Question 25

TOLLE LEGE

Answer 25

take up and read!
influential in Augustine’s conversion
LATIN

Question 26

HOMO UNIVERSALIS

Answer 26

universal man
polymath - knows everything
LATIN

Question 27

INSULA SANCTORUM ET DOCTORUM

Answer 27

Island of saints and scholars (Ireland)
LATIN
Golden Age -> 500-800 after Patrick

Question 28

TERTIUM QUID

Answer 28

third alternative

borrow things from both sides (doesn’t have to be one or the other)

Question 29

POTENTIA DEI ABSOLUTA

Answer 29

absolute power of God

LATIN

Question 30

POTENTIA DEI ORDINATA

Answer 30

the ordinary/ordained power of God

LATIN

Question 31

A POSTERIORI

Answer 31

after the fact
empirical evidence
LATIN

Question 32

A PRIORI

Answer 32

what we know of beforehand
presuppositions
axioms
assumptions
LATIN

Question 33

PRIMUM MOBILE

Answer 33

“first moved”
outermost sphere of the Ptolemaic system
caused movement of stars/etc.

Question 34

EMPYRUS

Answer 34

“in the fire” - Greek
Empyreus - Medieval Latin
highest heaven

Question 35

CUI BONO

Answer 35

who benefits?
used often in crime solving
LATIN

Question 36

NOLENS VOLENS

Answer 36

willy-nilly
wishy-woshy
LATIN

Question 37

ALMAGEST

Answer 37

Ptolemy’s famous work on astronomy

Question 38

TIMAEUS

Answer 38

Plato’s famous work on cosmology.

the most famous book on natural philosophy for 1500 years

Question 39

METAPHYSICA

Answer 39

metaphysics (plural) because multiple of Aristotle’s scrolls

Question 40

PERIPATETIC

Answer 40

walk a lot

Aristotlelian