Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 396.
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:48:46 +0000
From: Neven Jovanovic <neven.jovanovic@zg.htnet.hr>
Subject: Re: 17.391 transcorporate? non _nobis_ sed omnibus?
An incidental further search on _non nobis sed omnibus_ turned out the
following:
Sed quoniam, ut praeclare scriptum est a Platone, non nobis solum nati
sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici, atque, ut
placet Stoicis, quae in terris gignantur, ad usum hominum omnia creari,
homines autem hominum causa esse generatos, ut ipsi inter se aliis alii
prodesse possent, in hoc naturam debemus ducem sequi, communes utilitates
in medium adferre, mutatione officiorum, dando accipiendo, tum artibus, tum
opera, tum facultatibus devincire hominum inter homines societatem.
(Cic. De officiis 1,22)
--- what can be of interest here even for the non-latinists is how the
ideas evolve, almost independently, on their own: somebody reads _non nobis
solum nati sumus_ followed by _homines autem hominum causa_ etc, and
translates / transforms it in the mind into _non nobis, sed omnibus_
(perhaps contaminating this with the Lucan I quoted earlier). Are not there
programmers who dream of creating programs which will evolve independently,
even using for their evolution cycles spare time on various machines all
over the net?
neven
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