Know thyself the opinion of the multitude. One work by the Medieval philosopher Peter Abelard is entitled "Scito te ipsum" (“know yourself”) or "Ethica". From 1539 onwards the phrase "nosce te ipsum" and its Latin variants were often used in the anonymous texts written for anatomical fugitive sheets printed in Venice as well as for later anatomical atlases printed throughout Europe. The 1530s fugitive sheets are the first instances in which the phrase was applied to knowledge of the human body attained through dissection. In 1651 Thomas Hobbes used the term "nosce teipsum" which he translated as 'read thyself' in his famous
Te lucis ante terminum Balfour Gardiner composed the anthem "Evening Hymn" on both the Latin text and an English translation, for mixed choir and organ. Te lucis ante terminum Te lucis ante terminum (English: "To Thee before the close of day") is an old Latin hymn in long metre. It is the hymn at Compline in the "Roman Breviary". The authorship of Ambrose of Milan, for which Pimont contends, is not admitted by the Benedictine editors or by Luigi Biraghi. The hymn is found in a hymnary in Irish script (described by Clemens Blume in his "Cursus", etc.) of the eighth or early ninth