User:Helen Godshall/Notepad/'Rudis' V.S. 'Iustus'

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Note title 'Rudis' V.S. 'Iustus'
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These adjectives have very different meanings. 'Iustus' means fair, lawful, justified while 'rudis' means undeveloped, wild. 'Rudis' makes more sense in the context: 'et in omnes propitius non autem nimium rudis, ac austerus' (meaning And in everyone, however, [to act] too wild and austere is not favorable).

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