custodes
Americannoun
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Interesting developments in America’s elect-your-id experiment, as the shining city upon a hill runs up against that age-old political question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2020
Independent policing of the news has a natural appeal, but it raises the question posed in Juvenal’s Satires: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2018
His critics would say that another piece of Latin would be appropriate in view of the Bank’s new powers: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes – Who guards the guards themselves?
From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2015
The House Week Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From Time Magazine Archive
Quodque dicta libraria, hostiis ipsius per pr�fatos capellanos custodes ejusdem, et eorum successores, aut alterum ipsorum, apertis singulis diebus profestis annuatim � festo Nativ. beat.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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