Iovem lapidem iurare
Latin
Alternative forms
- Iovem Lapidem iūrāre
- per Iovem Lapidem iūrāre
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈjo.wem ˈla.pi.dem juːˈraː.re/, [ˈjɔ.wẽ ˈɫa.pɪ.dẽ juːˈraː.rɛ]
Phrase
Iovem lapidem iūrāre
- to swear by the Jupiter Stone (Iuppiter Lapis), to make the most sacred of oaths
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.12:
- Quōmodo autem tibi placēbit Iovem lapidem iūrāre, cum sciās Iovem īrātum esse nēminī posse?
- Again, how will it please you to swear by the Jupiter Stone, when you know that Jupiter cannot be angry with anyone?
- Quōmodo autem tibi placēbit Iovem lapidem iūrāre, cum sciās Iovem īrātum esse nēminī posse?
- c. 125 BCE – c. 180 BCE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.21:
- “Iovem lapidem,” inquit “quod sānctissimum iūsiūrandum habitum est, parātus egō iūrāre sum Vergilium hoc numquam scrīpsisse, sed Hygīnum egō vērum dīcere arbitror.”
- He said, “I am ready to swear by the Jupiter Stone, which is considered the most sacred of oaths, that Virgil never wrote that, but (instead) I judge that Hyginus speaks the truth.”
- “Iovem lapidem,” inquit “quod sānctissimum iūsiūrandum habitum est, parātus egō iūrāre sum Vergilium hoc numquam scrīpsisse, sed Hygīnum egō vērum dīcere arbitror.”