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To: frithguild

“parium suorum” translates to “their peers”


10 posted on 09/21/2015 12:22:10 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild
Latin par (plural pares) means "equal," but the English word "peer" comes ultimately from that Latin word (via French). So parium suorum can mean "of their peers" or "of their equals."
16 posted on 09/21/2015 1:46:41 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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