![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
We know that Buchanan was not a minister, but do we know if he was an elder? If so, please add him to:
Thanks. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 06:36, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Twice in the lede, sentences begin "Brown says..." without giving any indication who or what "Brown" is. -current Labour Party leader Gordon Brown? -Charles Shultz' beloved comic strip character Charlie Brown? -the color? Who knows? Could someone please disambiguate this? Thanks. Occam's Shaver ( talk) 18:08, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Is a proper translation to be found anywhere? Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 03:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
"Austin Seal and Steve Philp translate this as: 'Just as Scotland was at the apex of the Roman Empire, so Scotland shall be at the apex of Roman eloquence'. (Not only is Buchanan's Latin scholarship extolled, a congratulatory reference to Scotland retaining Scottish law – quintessentially an improved version of Roman law – as the foundation of its legal system is also implied.)"
'Apex' is a peculiar word to use for 'limes', which in the Roman Empire marked a boundary. One could understand the epigram as'this is how far the Roman Empire (post-Hadrian, of course) has gone; is this how far Roman eloquence will go ?'
In the parenthesis sentence one would normally expect a 'but also' after the initial 'not only'. The sentence has a curiously lopsided appearance.
How do we know that 'eloquium' here has anything to with law ? Pamour ( talk) 13:14, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Buchanan was already dead when the king James II was deposed in 1688. Claudio Pistilli ( talk) 18:01, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
![]() | This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
We know that Buchanan was not a minister, but do we know if he was an elder? If so, please add him to:
Thanks. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 06:36, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Twice in the lede, sentences begin "Brown says..." without giving any indication who or what "Brown" is. -current Labour Party leader Gordon Brown? -Charles Shultz' beloved comic strip character Charlie Brown? -the color? Who knows? Could someone please disambiguate this? Thanks. Occam's Shaver ( talk) 18:08, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Is a proper translation to be found anywhere? Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 03:43, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
"Austin Seal and Steve Philp translate this as: 'Just as Scotland was at the apex of the Roman Empire, so Scotland shall be at the apex of Roman eloquence'. (Not only is Buchanan's Latin scholarship extolled, a congratulatory reference to Scotland retaining Scottish law – quintessentially an improved version of Roman law – as the foundation of its legal system is also implied.)"
'Apex' is a peculiar word to use for 'limes', which in the Roman Empire marked a boundary. One could understand the epigram as'this is how far the Roman Empire (post-Hadrian, of course) has gone; is this how far Roman eloquence will go ?'
In the parenthesis sentence one would normally expect a 'but also' after the initial 'not only'. The sentence has a curiously lopsided appearance.
How do we know that 'eloquium' here has anything to with law ? Pamour ( talk) 13:14, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
Buchanan was already dead when the king James II was deposed in 1688. Claudio Pistilli ( talk) 18:01, 9 October 2021 (UTC)