Certamen
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Latin-English
certām|en, -ĭnis. (tʃerˈta.men) neut.
- A contest.
[certo.]
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Loci
- αʹ Cicero, Academica 1.12:
| Tum ego "Cum Zenone," inquam, "ut accepimus Arcesilas sibi omne certamen instituit, non pertinacia aut studio vincendi ut mihi quidem videtur, sed earum rerum obscuritate, quae ad confessionem ignorationis adduxerant Socratem ut iam ante Socratem Democritum Anaxagoram Empedoclem omnis paene veteres, [...]" | And I said, "Arcesilaus, as we have been told, did not set up his whole debate with Zeno out of stubbornness or eagerness to come out on top (as it actually seems to me) but from the obscurity of these things, which brought Socrates, as they had brought the pre-Socratics Democritus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and nearly all the ancients, to admit their lack of knowledge." |
