4.1277 Primus inter pares (2/24)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 23 Apr 91 21:50:19 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1277. Tuesday, 23 Apr 1991.


(1) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 09:29 EDT (13 lines)
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: Primus inter pares

(2) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 14:21 EST (11 lines)
From: <DACOLEMAN@FAIR1>
Subject: RE: 4.1261 Rs: Primus inter pares; S. Bernard &

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 09:29 EDT
From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U"
Subject: Primus inter pares

I have no sources at hand with which to check this, but I remember
reading somewhere that primus inter pares was first used early in the
19th Century to refer to Canning, the English cabinet minister who
dominated what had been, until that time, a body of equals.

Ed <HARRIS@CTSTATEU.BITNET>
Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA
Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-4207

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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 14:21 EST
From: <DACOLEMAN@FAIR1>
Subject: RE: 4.1261 Rs: Primus inter pares; S. Bernard &

I may be speaking a little impertinently here, but I do seem to recall
that the Pope has long been said to be _primus inter paresamong Roman
Catholic prelates. If true, I suppose my recollection gives a small bit
of support to the notion that someone as far back in time as Bernard
could have coined the expression.

Don Coleman (DACOLEMAN@FAIR1.BITNET