Royal Society a compliment to Lord Brouncker, a peer and the first President of the Royal Society. The society's motto, "Nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's "Epistles", where he compares himself to a gladiator who, having retired, is free from control. The society's core members are the fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". Fellows
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