Meaning of sensus communis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. tact, manners, discretion
   declension-4
2. the basic faculty of human perception and discrimination between different qualities, shared by all the specific senses and preceding rational judgement
   Medieval-Latin, declension-4

Equivalents

Examples

“Odium aut est ex offensa: hoc vitabis neminem lacessendo; aut gratuitum: a quo te sensus communis tuebitur.”

Hatred is either the result of an offence—and you shall avoid this by never provoking anyone—or else it is gratuitous, in which case tact will protect you from it.

“rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa / fortuna.”

For manners are typically rare in people of that sort.

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