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|lnetxt=sententia sententiae N F :: opinion, feeling, way of thinking; thought, meaning, sentence/period; purpose
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|lshtext=<b>sententĭa</b>: ae, f. for sentientia, from [[sentio]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[way]] of [[thinking]], [[opinion]], [[judgment]], [[sentiment]]; a [[purpose]], [[determination]], [[decision]], [[will]], etc.<br /><b>I</b> Lit. (cf.: [[opinio]], [[voluntas]], [[studium]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: [[quoniam]] sententiae [[atque]] opinionis meae voluistis esse participes, [[nihil]] occultabo et [[quoad]] potero, [[vobis]] exponam, [[quid]] de quāque re sentiam, Cic. de Or. 1, 37, 172: [[sententia]] et [[opinio]] mea, id. ib. 2, 34, 146: senis [[sententia]] de nuptiis, Ter. And. 1, 3, 2: de aliquā re, id. Ad. 3, 5, 5; id. Phorm. 2, 4, 4; cf.: de diis immortalibus habere non errantem et vagam, sed stabilem certamque sententiam, Cic. N. D. 2, 1, 2: de hac sententiā Non demovebor, Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 45; cf. Cic. Verr. 1, 17, 52: de sententiā deducere, deicere, depellere, deterrere, decedere, desistere, etc., v. h. vv.: [[nisi]] [[quid]] tua [[secus]] [[sententia]] est, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 95; cf.: mihi [[sententia]] [[eadem]] est, id. Trin. 2, 4, 44: [[adhuc]] in hac [[sum]] sententiā, [[nihil]] ut faciamus [[nisi]], etc., Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 5: eā omnes stant sententiā, Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 35; cf.: perstat in sententiā Saturius, Cic. Rosc. Com. 18, 56; so, in sententiā manere, permanere, etc., v. h. vv.: non prima sed [[melior]] vicit [[sententia]], Plin. [[Pan]]. 76, 2.—Plur.: variis dictis sententiis, quarum [[pars]] censebant, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 77: erant sententiae, quae censerent, id. B. C. 2, 30: sententiae numerantur, non ponderantur, Plin. Ep. 2, 12, 5: nos quibus [[Cotta]] [[tantum]] [[modo]] locos ac sententias hujus disputationis tradidisset, the [[leading]] thoughts, Cic. de Or. 3, 4, 16.—Prov.: [[quot]] homines, tot sententiae, [[many]] men, [[many]] minds, Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 14; Cic. Fin. 1, 5, 15. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the phrases,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sententia est, [[with]] subj.-[[clause]], it is my [[purpose]], [[will]], [[opinion]], etc., Auct. Her. 3, 24, 40: si honestatem tueri ac retinere [[sententia]] est, if one's [[purpose]] be, if one be [[determined]], Cic. Off. 3, 33, 116; and: stat [[sententia]], [[with]] obj.[[clause]], Ov. M. 8, 67; cf., parenthetically: sic stat [[sententia]], id. ib. 1, 243.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; De sententiā alicujus aliquid facere, Cic. Cael. 29, 68: [[neque]] ego [[haud]] committam, ut si [[quid]] [[peccatum]] siet, Fecisse dicas de meā sententiā, according to my [[wish]], to [[suit]] me, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 115: gerere, Cic. Sull. 19 fin.; cf. id. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53; id. Att. 16, 16, C, § 11; 7, 5 fin.; Liv. 38, 45, 5 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Meā [[quidem]] sententiā, in my [[opinion]] or [[judgment]], as I [[think]]: [[nimis]] [[stulte]] faciunt, meā [[quidem]] sententiā, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 5: meā [[quidem]] sententiā, id. Cas. 3, 3, 1; id. Poen. 5, 6, 1; Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 40; 5, 9, 2; id. Phorm. 2, 2, 21; and [[simply]] meā sententiā, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 11; id. Merc. 2, 3, 58; Cic. Rep. 1, 26, 42; 1, 45, 69; id. de Or. 2, 23, 95 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ex meā (tuā, etc.) sententiā, according to my ([[thy]], etc.) [[wish]]: [[quoniam]] haec evenerunt nostrā ex sententiā, Plaut. Men. 5, 9, 89; id. Cist. 1, 2, 7; id. Men. 2, 2, 1; 5, 7, 30; id. Truc. 5, 72; id. Capt. 2, 3, 87; Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 5; Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 3; 2, 15, 1; and [[more]] freq., [[simply]] ex sententiā, to one's [[mind]] or [[liking]], Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 18; id. Capt. 2, 2, 97; id. Mil. 4, 1, 1; id. Aul. 4, 1, 3; id. Truc. 5, 69; Ter. Heaut. 4, 5, 17; id. Hec. 5, 4, 32; id. Phorm. 2, 1, 26; Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 123; id. Att. 5, 21; id. Fam. 1, 7, 5; 12, 10, 2; Sall. J. 43, 5 et saep. (v. also [[infra]], B. 2.).—（ε) Praeter animi sententiam, [[against]] one's [[inclination]]: [[quam]] (crapulam) potavi [[praeter]] animi mei sententiam, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 29.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., publicists' and jurid. t.t., an [[official]] [[determination]], a [[decision]], [[sentence]], [[judgment]], [[vote]] (cf. [[suffragium]]): SENATVOS SENTENTIAM VTEI SCIENTES ESETIS, EORVM SENTENTIA ITA FVIT, S. C. de Bacch.: (L. [[Tarquinius]]) antiquos patres majorum gentium appellavit, quos priores sententiam rogabat, Cic. Rep. 2, 20, 35: non viribus ... res magnae geruntur, sed consilio, auctoritate, sententiā, id. Sen. 6, 17: (Marcellinus) sententiam dixit, ut, etc. ... [[postea]] [[Racilius]] de privatis me [[primum]] sententiam rogavit, etc., id. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 2: [[accurate]] sententiam dixi ... [[factum]] est [[senatusconsultum]] in meam sententiam, id. Att. 4, 1, 6: DE SENATVOS SENTENTIAD ... DE PR. VRBANI SENATVOSQVE SENTENTIAD, S. C. de Bacch.: ex [[senatus]] sententiā, Cic. Fam. 12, 4, 1: victos paucis sententiis, Liv. 22, 61, 8.—Hence, sententiam [[dare]], to [[vote]]: meae partes exquirendae [[magis]] sententiae [[quam]] dandae sunt, Liv. 8, 20, 12: omnes in eam sententiam ierunt, id. 23, 10, 4: cum in hanc sententiam pedibus omnes issent, id. 22, 56, 1: aliquem [[sequor]], aliquem jubebo sententiam dividere, to [[divide]] the [[question]], Sen. Vit. Beat. 3, 2; cf.: [[quod]] fieri in senatu solet ... cum censuit [[aliquis]] [[quod]] ex parte mihi placeat, jubeo illum dividere sententiam et [[sequor]], id. Ep. 21, 9.—Hence, de eventu [[fortuna]] judicat, cui de me sententiam non do, I [[give]] no [[vote]], Sen. Ep. 14, 16.—Of the [[people]] in the [[comitia]]: de singulis magistratibus sententiam ferre, Cic. Agr. 2, 11, 26: de quo foedere [[populus]] Romanus sententiam non tulit, id. Balb. 15, 34.—Of the votes of judges: itur in [[consilium]]: [[servus]] [[ille]] [[innocens]] omnibus sententiis absolvitur, quo facilius vos hunc omnibus sententiis condemnare possitis, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 45, § 100; id. Clu. 26, 72: condemnatur [[enim]] perpaucis sententiis, id. Verr. 2, 1, 30, § 75: M. [[Cato]] (judex) sententiam dixit, [[pronounced]] the [[decision]] or [[sentence]], id. Off. 3, 16, 66: sententiis paribus [[reus]] absolvitur, Sen. Ep. 81, 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ex animi mei (tui) sententiā, in the [[formula]] of an [[oath]], to the [[best]] of my ([[your]]) [[knowledge]] and [[belief]], on my ([[your]]) [[conscience]]: (majores) jurare ex sui animi sententiā quemque voluerunt, Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 146: [[quod]] ex animi tui sententiā juraris, id non facere perjurium est, id. Off. 3, 29, 108; Liv. 22, 53, 10; 43, 15 fin.—In a [[play]] on this signif. and [[that]] of ex sententiā, [[supra]]: [[ridicule]] illud L. [[Nasica]] censori Catoni, cum [[ille]]: Ex tui animi sententiā tu uxorem habes? Non [[hercule]], inquit, ex animi mei sententiā, Cic. de Or. 2, 64, 260; cf. Quint. 8, 5 init.; Gell. 4, 20, 2 sqq.— Transf., as a [[formula]] of [[assurance]]: me [[quidem]], ex animi mei sententiā, nulla [[oratio]] laedere potest, by my [[faith]], Sall. J. 85, 27.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of words, [[discourse]], etc., [[sense]], [[meaning]], [[signification]], [[idea]], [[notion]], etc.: sonitum ut possis sentire, [[neque]] illam Internoscere, verborum sententiam quae [[sit]], Lucr. 4, 561: cum [[verbum]] potest in duas plurisve sententias accipi, Auct. Her. 4, 53, 67: cum [[continenter]] [[verbum]] non in eādem sententiā ponitur, Cic. Or. 39, 136: formantur et verba et sententiae [[paene]] [[innumerabiliter]], id. de Or. 3, 52, 201: cognitā sententiā verba [[subtiliter]] exquiri noluerunt, id. Caecin. 20, 57: [[quod]] summum [[bonum]] a Stoicis dicitur [[convenienter]] naturae vivere, id habet hanc, ut [[opinor]], sententiam: cum virtute congruere [[semper]], id. Off. 3, 3, 13: haec ([[philosophia]]) nos docuit, ut [[nosmet]] ipsos nosceremus: cujus praecepti tanta vis, tanta [[sententia]] est, ut ea non homini cuipiam, sed Delphico deo tribueretur, [[such]] [[depth]] of [[meaning]], id. Leg. 1, 22, 58: legis ([[with]] vis), id. ib. 2, 5, 11: de Domitio dixit [[versum]] Graecum eādem sententiā, quā [[etiam]] nos habemus Latinum: Pereant amici, etc., id. Deiot. 9, 25: est [[vitium]] in sententiā, si [[quid]] absurdum, aut alienum est, id. Opt. Gen. 3, 7; cf. id. de Or. 3, 52, 200.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Concr.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen., a [[thought]] expressed in words; a [[sentence]], [[period]]: dum de singulis sententiis [[breviter]] [[disputo]], Cic. Phil. 13, 10, 22: est brevitate [[opus]], ut currat [[sententia]], etc., Hor. S. 1, 10, 9: initia et clausulae sententiarum, Quint. 9, 3, 45; cf. id. 9, 3, 36; 11, 3, 135; 8, 4, 26; 9, 4, 18; 9, 4, 29; 10, 1, 130 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., a philosophical [[proposition]], an [[aphorism]], [[apophthegm]], [[maxim]], [[axiom]] (cf. [[praeceptum]]): selectae (Epicuri) brevesque sententiae, quas appellatis κυρίας δόξας, Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 85: [[quid]] est tam jucundum cognitu [[atque]] auditu, [[quam]] sapientibus sententiis gravibusque verbis ornata [[oratio]] et perpolita, id. de Or. 1, 8, 31: acutae, id. ib. 2, 8, 34: concinnae acutaeque, id. Brut. 78, 272; Quint. 8, 5, 2 sq.; 9, 3, 76; 10, 1, 60; 11, 3, 120 al.: ([[Sophocles]]) sententiis [[densus]], id. 10, 1, 68; cf. id. 10, 1, 90; 10, 1, 102: subiti ictūs sententiarum, Sen. Ep. 100, 8.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>sententĭa</b>,⁶ æ, f. ([[sentio]]),<br /><b>1</b> sentiment, opinion, idée, manière de voir : de [[aliqua]] re stabilem et certam sententiam habere Cic. Nat. 2, 2, avoir sur qqch. une opinion stable et précise ; de [[sententia]] deducere, dejicere, depellere, deterrere, decedere, desistere, etc., v. ces verbes ; in [[hac]] sum [[sententia]], ut subj. Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 5, mon [[avis]] [[est]] que ; [[quot]] homines, [[tot]] sententiæ Cic. Fin. 1, 15, autant d’hommes, autant d’opinions ; mea [[sententia]] Cic. Rep. 1, 42, à mon [[avis]] &#124;&#124; [avec l’idée de volonté, de désir] : [[sententia]] [[est]] Cic. Off. 3, 116, ou stat [[sententia]] Ov. M. 8, 67, avec inf., on se propose de ; de [[sententia]] alicujus facere [[aliquid]] Cic. Cæl. 68, faire qqch. sur (d’après) le désir de qqn ; ex [[sententia]] Cic. Fam. 12, 10, 2, selon les vœux, à souhait, cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 123, etc.; ex mea [[sententia]] Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 3, selon mes vœux<br /><b>2</b> [off<sup>t</sup>] <b> a)</b> [[avis]] [donné au sénat] : sententiam dicere, rogare Cic. Q. 2, 1, 2, donner son [[avis]], demander l’[[avis]] de qqn, v. rogare ; [[factum]] [[est]] [[senatus]] [[consultum]] in meam sententiam Cic. Att. 4, 1, 6, un sénatusconsulte fut pris conformément à mon [[avis]] ; ex [[senatus]] [[sententia]] Cic. Fam. 12, 4, 1, d’après l’[[avis]] du sénat ; in sententiam alicujus [[ire]] ou pedibus [[ire]] Liv. 23, 10, 4 ; 22, 56, 1, se ranger à l’[[avis]] de qqn ; <b> b)</b> vote, suffrage [dans les comices] : de [[aliqua]] re sententiam ferre Cic. Agr. 2, 26, voter sur une chose &#124;&#124; [en parl. des juges] sentence ; sententiam ferre, dicere Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77 ; Off. 3, 66, prononcer sa sentence ; omnibus sententiis absolvi Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 100, être absous à l’unanimité des suffrages ; [fig. en parl. d’un connaisseur] Cic. Br. 188 ; <b> c)</b> [formule] : jurare ex [[sui]] animi [[sententia]] Cic. Ac. 2, 146, jurer en son âme et conscience, cf. Cic. Off. 3, 108 ; Liv. 22, 53, 10, etc. &#124;&#124; [d’où, simple formule d’affirmation]: ex animi mei [[sententia]] Sall. J. 85, 27, en mon âme et conscience, franchement, en toute sincérité<br /><b>3</b> sens, signification, idée, pensée : <b> a)</b> in [[eam]] sententiam cum [[multa]] dixisset Cic. Att. 2, 22, 2, ayant dit beaucoup de choses en ce sens ; [[multa]] ab Cæsare in [[eam]] sententiam dicta sunt, [[quare]]... [[non]] posset Cæs. G. 1, 45, 1, César parla longuement en vue d’expliquer pourquoi il ne pouvait... ; <b> b)</b> [[verbum]] in [[eadem]] [[sententia]] ponitur Cic. Or. 135, le mot [[est]] pris dans le même sens ; id habet hanc sententiam... Cic. Off. 3, 13, cela veut [[dire]] que...; testamentorum sententiæ voluntatesque Cic. Br. 198, le sens et l’intention des testaments, cf. Cic. Leg. 2, 11 ; <b> c)</b> loci ac sententiæ disputationis Cic. de Or. 3, 16, les thèmes et les idées d’une discussion ; sapientibus sententiis gravibusque verbis ornata [[oratio]] Cic. de Or. 1, 31, un discours paré de sages pensées et de fortes expressions ; obscuræ, abditæ sententiæ Cic. Or. 30, pensées obscures et enveloppées ; <b> d)</b> pensée exprimée, phrase, période : Cic. Phil. 13, 22 ; Or. 199 ; Quint. 9, 3, 45 ; 10, 1, 130 ; etc. ; <b> e)</b> sentence, [[maxime]] : Cic. Nat. 1, 85 &#124;&#124; trait : Quint. 12, 10, 48, etc.; Sen. Ep. 100, 5 ; Tac. D. 20.
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{{Georges
|georg=sententia, ae, f. ([[sentio]]), I) die [[Meinung]], [[Willensmeinung]], 1) im allg., der [[Wille]], [[Sinn]], die [[Gesinnung]], der [[Gedanke]], die [[Ansicht]], die [[Idee]] (dem Ausdrucke [[entgegengesetzt]]), [[abundans]] sententiis, ideenreich, Cic.: sententiam fronte tegere, Cic.: sententiam aperire Cic.: in [[hac]] [[sum]] [[sententia]], ut etc., Cic.: in [[sententia]] manere od. permanere od. perstare, Cic.: alqm de [[sententia]] deducere, Cic.: de [[sententia]] decedere, Cic.: sententiā od. de [[sententia]] desistere, Cic.: sententiam mutare, Cic.: de [[sententia]] deici, deterreri, Cic.: si honestatem tueri [[sententia]] est, Cic.: [[sententia]] stat Hannibali, Liv.: u. bl. stat [[sententia]], Ter.; [[mit]] folg. Infin., Liv. u. Ov.: [[sic]] stat [[sententia]] ([[als]] [[Parenthese]]), Ov.: sicinest [[sententia]]? ist das [[dein]] [[Beschluß]]? Ter.: [[quoniam]] sententiae ([[Ansicht]]) [[atque]] opinionis ([[Meinung]]) meae voluistis [[esse]] [[participes]], Cic.: [[haec]] [[sententia]] vincit, Liv.: ea [[sententia]] valuit, Tac. – ex [[sententia]], [[nach]] [[Wunsch]], [[von]] Herzen, Cic.: de [[sententia]], [[nach]] der [[Meinung]], alcis, Cic.: meā sententiā, [[nach]] [[meiner]] [[Meinung]], Cic. – 2) insbes.: a) die amtliche [[Meinung]], die [[Stimme]], α) der Beschlußantrag, das [[Votum]], der Senatoren in der [[Kurie]] usw., sententiam dicere, Cic., ferre, Cic., dare, Liv.: in sententiam alcis discedere, jmds. [[Meinung]] [[beipflichten]], Liv.: u. so (pedibus) [[ire]] in sententiam, Liv.: sententiam referre, [[vortragen]], Cic.: sententiae [[loco]] dicere, in der [[Reihe]] der Abstimmung, [[wenn]] die [[Reihe]], [[sein]] [[Votum]] abzugeben, an ihn kommt, Sen., Tac. u. Plin. ep. (s. Nipperd. Tac. ann. 14, 42): so [[pro]] [[sententia]] dicere (seine [[Stimme]] [[dahin]] [[abgeben]]), ut etc., Tac.: [[ego]] [[pro]] [[sententia]] mea [[hoc]] [[censeo]], [[ich]] gebe meine [[Stimme]] [[dahin]] ab, Sen.: ex [[sententia]] [[senatus]], Cic. – β) das [[Votum]], der [[Ausspruch]], das [[Urteil]], sententiam dicere, Cic.: sententiam ferre, seine [[Stimme]] [[abgeben]], v. Richtern u. v. Volke in den [[Komitien]], Cic.: [[ubi]] [[paris]] numeri sententiae fuissent, praeponi [[absolutio]] damnationi solebat, [[bei]] [[Stimmengleichheit]] pflegte usw., Augustin. de civ. dei 18, 10: [[sex]] sententiis [[absolutus]] est, ibid.: mares [[pro]] Neptuno, feminae [[pro]] [[Minerva]] tulere sententias (stimmten [[für]] M.), et [[quia]] [[una]] [[plus]] inventa est feminarum, [[Minerva]] vicit, ibid. 18, 9. – de eventu [[fortuna]] iudicat, [[cui]] de me sententiam [[non]] do, [[ich]] keine [[Stimme]] einräume, Sen. ep. 14, 16. – b) [[als]] [[Eidesformel]]: ex animi mei (tui, [[sui]]) [[sententia]], [[nach]] [[meiner]] [[wahren]] [[Herzensmeinung]] = [[nach]] bestem [[Wissen]] und [[Gewissen]], [[auf]] [[mein]] ([[dein]]) [[Gewissen]], iurare, Cic. u.a. (s. Fabri Liv. 22, 53, 10). – dah. [[jener]] [[Doppelsinn]] [[des]] L. [[Porcius]] Nasika, [[als]] ihn Kato fragte: ex tui animi [[sententia]] ([[auf]] [[dein]] [[Gewissen]]) tu uxorem habes? Non [[hercle]], inquit, ex anini mei [[sententia]] (= [[auf]] [[mein]] [[Gewissen]] [[nicht]], [[aber]] [[auch]] = [[nicht]] [[nach]] [[Wunsch]]), Cic. de or. 2, 260; vgl. Quint. 8, 5 in. Gell. 4, 20. § 2 sqq. – [[als]] Beteuerungsformel übh., me [[quidem]] ex animi mei [[sententia]] ([[nach]] [[meiner]] [[Herzensmeinung]] = [[nach]] [[meiner]] innersten [[Überzeugung]]) nulla [[oratio]] laedere potest, Sall. Iug. 85, 27. – II) übtr.: 1) abstr.: a) der [[Verstand]], [[Sinn]] eines Wortes, der [[Begriff]], den [[man]] [[damit]] [[verbinden]] muß, die [[Bedeutung]], [[sub]] voce sententiam subicere, [[damit]] [[verbinden]], Cic.: id habet hanc sententiam, Cic. – b) der [[Inhalt]] [[einer]] [[Rede]], contionis, Cic.: in hanc sententiam, dieses Inhaltes, [[folgendermaßen]], loqui, respondere, Cic. u. Liv. – 2) [[konkret]]: a) [[ein]] in Worten ausgedrückter [[Gedanke]], [[Satz]], eine [[Periode]], Cic. Phil. 13, 22. Hor. [[sat]]. 1, 10, 9. – b) [[bes]]. [[ein]] Denkspruch, denkwürdiger [[Gedanke]], eine [[Sentenz]], [[ein]] [[Spruch]], [[Kernspruch]], acuta, Cic.: [[gravis]], Cic.: [[Euripides]] sententiis [[densus]], Quint. – / Abl. Sing. sententiad, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 196, 21.
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{{LaZh
|lnztxt=sententia, ae. f. (''sentio''.) :: 意見。意思。見識。定之案。保舉。字義。主意。格言。Stat sententia 已定妥。Sententia ''vel'' de sententia decedere 改意。De sententia alius id facere 隨人之意見行此。De sua sententia id facere 逞己意行此。 Mea sententia 據吾言。Ex sententia 如意。順然。Ex animi sententia 從心中。出於心。Sententiis omnibus 齊聲。衆人一意。Siccine est sententia? 汝意卽如是乎。Pars utraque sententias habet 各家有其說。In eamdem sententiam loquitur Paulus 保錄亦從此意而言。
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