- missions" to the
effect that a
Jesuit is
expected to be
directed by the pope "
perinde ac cadaver" ("as if he was a
lifeless body") and to
accept orders to go...
- From Ovid, Amores, Book III,
Elegy XI
periculum in mora
danger in
delay perinde ac [si]
cadaver [essent] [well-disciplined] like a
corpse Phrase written...
- form of the
fuller 18th-century formulation: qui
facit per alium, est
perinde ac si
facit per se ipsum: "whoever acts
through another acts as if he were...
- to
superiors in the
Church hierarchy. This was
summarised in the
motto perinde ac
cadaver – "as if a dead body",
meaning that a
Jesuit should be as empty...
- as "
Perinde ac valere" if the
favour has
already been granted. If
after all this a
further material error is discovered,
letters known as "
Perinde ac valere...
-
gentis conditore,
Aramo nimirum (Gen. X 22)
desumptum est, & complectitur,
perinde ut
Lingua Sclavonica, Bohemican, Polonican,
Vandalicam &c.
Dialectos plures...
- From Ovid, Amores, Book III,
Elegy XI
periculum in mora
danger in
delay perinde ac [si]
cadaver [essent] [well-disciplined] like a
corpse Phrase written...
- se
ferri ac regi a
divina Providentia per
Superiores suos
sinere debent perinde, ac si
cadaver essent"
which can be
translated as "We
should be
aware that...
-
quaedam notae stultitiae, quae
solita sit ad
speculum ****
imagine sua,
perinde atque **** alia muliere, confabulari; ut hinc vulgo, quae
stultius aut ineptius...
- Cicero,
Tusculan Dis****tions, iii. 62 , "In quo
facetum illud Bionis,
perinde stultissimum regem in
luctu ca****m sibi
evellere quasi calvitio maeror...
