Praeceptum
From TTT
Latin-English
praecept|um, -ī. (preˈtʃep.tum) neut.
- A rule; a command; an instruction; a precept.
[praecipio.]
Loci
- αʹ Cicero, Academica 1.2:
| Nos autem praeceptis dialecticorum et oratorum etiam, quoniam utramque vim virtutem esse nostri putant, sic parentes ut legibus verbis quoque novis cogimur uti, quae docti ut dixi a Graecis petere malent, indocti ne a nobis quidem accipient, ut frustra omnis suscipiatur labor. | On the other hand we, obedient to the maxims of logicians and even public speakers as law, because our people consider either ability to be a virtue, are forced even to use new words, which educated people, as I have said, will prefer to get from the Greeks; the uneducated will not pick them up from us either, so our work would all be undertaken in vain. |
