Nullius in verba and cited elsewhere. Nullius in verba The Royal Society website explains the motto thus: It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment. The phrase came from Horace's "Epistle" to his benefactor Maecenas, where he claims not to be devoted to any particular sect but is rather an eclectic by nature. These are the words, forming two hexameters in the original context: The minor planet known as 11059 Nulliusinverba in the asteroid belt is named after the expression. The phrase is
Glossary of ancient Roman religion with the "pomerium" as sacred boundary and the "arx" (citadel), and Quirinal and Palatine hills as reference points whenever a specially dedicated "templum" was created within. Augurs had authority to establish multiple "templa" beyond the pomerium, using the same augural principles. "Verba certa" (also found nearly as often with the word order "certa verba") are the "exact words" of a legal or religious formula, that is, the words as "set once and for ever, immutable and unchangeable." Compare "certae precationes", fixed prayers of invocation, and "verba concepta", which in both Roman civil law and augural law described a verbal formula