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22:10 Nov 8, 2009 |
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3 | sodalitas pecuniaria |
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foundation sodalitas pecuniaria Explanation: I suspect that this is about the closest equivilent that one can get in Latin. A 'sodalitas' commonly refers to a religious or fraternal association but is also used of any kind of association or organisation. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 hrs (2009-11-09 14:23:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- 'Societas auxiliaris' is very happy. The word may imply any kind of association, organisation, partnership, etc. Cicero and Caesar often use 'societas' of a commerical partnership or organisation, Caesar and Tacitus of a political partnership, organisation, alliance, etc. 'Auxiliaris', however, is used only in a military sense in classical prose, though Ovid uses it with its basic signification in the Metamorphoses. The sole non-militaray use of the word in prose that I've been able to find is in the Elder Pliny, Historia Naturalis, 23.4.40 § 32 al.: 'oleum auxiliare lethargicis'. Plautus uses the form 'auxiliarius' in its primary sense at Truculentus, 2.1.6 ('magis consiliarius amicus quam auxiliarius', 'more an advisory than a helpful friend'), though this form too is used only in military contexts in classical prose. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 hrs (2009-11-09 22:04:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I meant 'happy' in the sense of 'felicitous, apt, suitable'. |
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