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Updated: May 18, 2025
In the comment on Canto XIX. of the "Purgatory" occurs the following striking passage: "Summus Pontificatus, si bene geritur, est summus honor, summum onus, summa servitus, summus labor. Si vero male, est summum periculum animae, summum malum, summa miseria, summus pudor. Ergo dubium est ex omni parte negotium.
"At ego qui, ut dixi, Harpocraticus sum dicebam: Summus Pont: decrepitus est: murus ruinosus, certa pro incertis derelinquam?" De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 15. It is quite possible that Paul III. may have desired to have Cardan about him on account of his reputation as an astrologer, the Pope being a firm believer in the influence of the stars. Vide Ranke, History of the Popes i. 166.
The lectus at which the cup began to circulate was summus, the next medius, the last imus. Asin. 5, 2, 41. See Becker's Gallus, p. 471 et seq. SICUT ... EST: 'as we find'; so Off. 1, 32 ut in fabulis est, and often. MINUTA: see n. on 52.
He is arguing on the word dignus, from which dignitas is derived. The original knights, to distinguish them from these latter, are often called equites equo publico, sometimes also ficus vanes or trossuli Vide Smith, Dict. Ant. P. 394-396, v. It was divided into summus, nedus and imus Horace says
It is addressed "Ad Guillielmus Strachæum." In it Campion tells Strachey that although he has very few verses to give to his "old comrade," the man "who rejoiced in and made many competent verses," he will always be dear to him. He ends by calling him "summus pieridem unicusque cultor." The poem concludes almost as it began: "Strachaeo, veteri meo sodali" To Strachey, my old comrade.
Brucker, in speaking of him in his History of Philosophy, has no words strong enough to express his admiration for his abilities and learning. "Seculi sui indolem multum superavit," "vir summus, tantaque occultioris philosophiae cognitione et experientia nobilis, ut merito Doctoris Mirabilis titulum reportaverit."
In one passage Cicero writes of having seen him looking so wild and gesticulating so excitedly, that he seemed almost to have lost command of himself. In the description, already quoted from the speech pro Sestio, of the scene in the theatre before his recall from exile, he speaks of this "summus artifex" as delivering his allusions to the exile with infinite force and passion.
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