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"Sam Spade in a ratty toga," proclaims the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco, the hero of Lindsey Davis's bestselling series who has strode through the Eternal City like a colossus of a P.I. In this riveting new adventure, however, Falco may make a fatal misstep as he enters the halls of Roman law and finds that juris prudentia is anything but prudent.

The Accusers: Summary and book reviews of The Accusers by Lindsey Davis. 2004

The Latin motto is "audacia et prudentia" - courage and prudence.

Archive 2007-08-01 regina doman 2007

The Latin motto is "audacia et prudentia" - courage and prudence.

Joshua Memorial Stone: new regina doman 2007

Orations, directed "to the flower and stock of well-born young manhood," [5] where Vico makes a case for modern humanistic education and focuses on a certain kind of "practical wisdom" or prudentia which the human mind, with the appropriate discipline and diligence, is able to attain.

Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

Fortitudo et prudentia pulchritudinis laudem praecipue merentur.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Jovius hist.l. 1. vir singulari prudentia, sed profunda ambitione, ad exitium Italae natus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Latins did always distinguish between prudentia and sapientia; ascribing the former to experience, the latter to science.

Leviathan 2007

Second, as medicine is the art of health and navigation the art of guiding ships, so prudence (practical wisdom) is the art of how to live (vivendi ars est prudentia).

Episteme and Techne Parry, Richard 2007

Lipsius saith of himself, that he was [786] humani generis quidem paedagogus voce et stylo, a grand signior, a master, a tutor of us all, and for thirteen years he brags how he sowed wisdom in the Low Countries, as Ammonius the philosopher sometimes did in Alexandria, [787] cum humanitate literas et sapientiam cum prudentia: antistes sapientiae, he shall be Sapientum Octavus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Corpore exili et despecto, sed ingenio et prudentia longe aute se reges caeteros praeveniens.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007