[PatrickHenry]

So -- now we're back to "stercus tauri."

I prefer sentina, a word I learned from Cicero. Anyway, using the dative or ablative case (which are conveniently the same for these words), we can subtly distinguish between:

res incepti -- origin studies involving rational conclusions based on objectively verifiable data; and

rebus inceptis -- all other beliefs about origins, from whatever source derived (e.g., authoritarian mandate, communitarian consensus, revelation, or voices from Uranus).

I post; you decide.

[Almagest]

<< res incepti -- origin studies involving rational conclusions based on objectively verifiable data; and

rebus inceptis -- all other beliefs about origins, from whatever source derived (e.g., authoritarian mandate, communitarian consensus, revelation, or voices from Uranus). >>


I do like the dative better than the genitive of the first go-round. "Things ABOUT....." instead of "the matter OF...."

So -- I second your nomination for these two. Anyone else disagree -- I'll drag out my pitiful understanding of Greek, and sign off as:

Paedagogos