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Look up Omnibus, omnibus, or omnibuses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Omnibus is the Latin for for all , and refers to a passenger-carrying vehicle, originally an enclosed horse-drawn one.
Mr Burd points out that this passage is imitated directly from Cicero's De Officiis: Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum; confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.