Ingenium tuum

Latin Construction

ingenium tuum. neut.

1. ‘Your genius,’ ‘your talent.’

Loci

• αʹ Brutus, ap. Cicero, Ad Brutum 2.3:

Nescio animi an ingeni tui maior in his libellis laus contineatur.

I don't know whether greater praise for your spirit or for your genius would be supported by these pamphlets.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 12.24:

Te tamen hortor, ut omni cura in rem publicam incumbas: hoc est animi, hoc est ingenii tui, hoc eius spei, quam habere debes, amplificandae dignitatis tuae.

Nevertheless I encourage you to invest all your energy in the republic: this is the duty of your spirit, this is the duty of your genius; this is for his hope, which you ought to have, of amplifying your authority.