Literary notes about quorum (AI summary)
The term "quorum" has traversed a diverse range of literary contexts, shifting in nuance from its classical Latin roots to modern institutional jargon and poetic flair. In classical and Latin translations, as seen in Edmund Luce’s works ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]), "quorum" is often integrated into phrases that highlight collective qualities or actions, intermingling the literal sense of "of whom" with allegorical or descriptive purpose. In contrast, writers such as Montaigne ([12], [13]) and Congreve ([14]) employ it more playfully to evoke traditional or rhetorical gravitas, while contemporary uses in administrative contexts ([15], [16]) solidify its role as a technical term for meeting requirements. Moreover, popular literary figures like Robert Burns ([17], [18], [19]) and Alexander Pope ([20]) further embellish the term with creative, spirited imagery, thus reflecting the word’s evolution from a strictly procedural term to one imbued with rich literary connotations.
- Hernicus olim Vestinusque senex, ‘panem quaeramus aratro, Qui satis est mensis: laudant hoc numina ruris, Quorum ope
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - Quorum siquis earum afficit admiratione hunc domum suam ducit, eumque apud se hospitio excipit, eique benigne facit.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano - 1-3 quorum maiores .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - Macedonibus, qui iam fessos Romanos integri exciperent, in secunda acie collocatis, novissimos Italicos constituit, quorum et timebat
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - Quorum cum partem assentire, partem 5 animum mentemque perterritam atque in fugam destinatam habere intellexisset, amplius de ea
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - Scilicet milites, quorum sanguine Tarulae Scyrtoque, pessumis servorum, divitiae partae sunt!
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - ‘O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus;” [“Add the companions of the Muses, whose sceptre Homer has solely obtained.”—Lucretius, iii. 1050.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - quorum consiliis, sapientia, legibus multas esse video partes constitutas .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - quorum longe mihi maximus ille, Qui nostras inopes noluit esse vias.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius - Nam postquam Tiberius et C. Gracchus, quorum maiores
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - quorum gaudia crimen habent!”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - idem Hos sapere et solos aio bene vivere, quorum Conspicitur nitidis fundata pecunia villis.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - An he does not move me, would I may never be o’ the quorum.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve - A quorum at a regularly called Annual Meeting shall be fifteen (15) members and must include at least two of the elected officers.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - Four members, including at least two elected officers, shall be considered a quorum.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - And here's to them, we dare na tell, The dearest o' the quorum!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns - I've even join'd the honour'd jorum, When mighty Squireships of the quorum, Their hydra drouth did sloken.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns - And here's to them, we dare na tell, The dearest o' the quorum.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns - What could they more than knights and squires confound, Or water all the Quorum ten miles round?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope