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
In its single literary flourish, the report prefaced its chronology of the Iran and contra operations with an apt quotation from the 2nd century Roman poet Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
From Time Magazine Archive
Cantorem quoque, et succentorem, et rectorem scholarum, et custodes ecclesi�, clericos quoque pr�bendarios, aurifabros, fabrumque ferrarium, carpentarios et magistrum cœmentarium in opus ecclesi� constituit.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell
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