Modern scholarship frequently applies the term prisca theologia to the learning of these thinkers, especially to Pythagoras and the ancient sages who supposedly preceded him. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Originally the Roman people spoke the old tongue of Latium known as prisca latinitas. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
To Agrippa and many of his contemporaries, the prisca theologia paralleled the wisdom of the Bible and was harmonious with it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This was true not only of the Jewish Cabala but also of the prisca theologia and the philosophical writings of the Platonists. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From the Florentines, he took the concept of a prisca theologia, the body of books by ancient sages who were believed to antedate even the Greek philosophers and to record divine revelations that paralleled God's revelation to the ancient Hebrews in the Bible. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Pricesant ops sorry prisca... welcome back i have missed you plenty. ❋ Princesa (2008)
I moved to wwwpriscaandquila.blogspot no period between the www and prisca part. ❋ Seeking Solace (2007)
I will add my sentiment, along with prisca and justme- better things are coming your way. ❋ Seeking Solace (2007)
Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:47:00 PM prisca said... ❋ Unknown (2006)
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:47:00 PM prisca said... ❋ Unknown (2006)
It looks like it was hit by a Pleistocene monster named Megalania prisca. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
But Diamond offhandedly mentioned another fact that holds me transfixed: “A clue to the evolution of oras on the Flores island group is the former existence in Australia of an even larger monitor lizard, Megalania prisca, which was up to 6m long and 2,000 kg in weight.” ❋ David Quammen (2004)
His insistence that his great discoveries had been anticipated by the ancients picks up the idea of the Hermetic philosophers that there had been a prisca theologia, an esoteric wisdom handed down from magus to magus. ❋ Hill, Christopher (1973)
Minus enim prisca patrum virtus in pretio esse coeperat, permanente nihilominus vetere gloriae cupiditate. ❋ Robert S. Rait (N/A)
'Illi, scripta quibus comoedia prisca viris est, hoc stabant, hoc sunt imitandi: quos neque pulcher ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
Now the fifth stanza of the Donec gratus eram runs as follows: Quid si prisca redit Venus ❋ Unknown (1914)
The latter is, it is true, proportionate in its vastness; but the symmetry of mere bulk is not the symmetria prisca of ideal sculpture. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
It has, more than any other long composition by its author, that quality of symmetry, that symmetria prisca recorded of Leonardo da Vinci in the Latin epitaph of Platino Piatto; and, as might be expected, its mental basis, what Rossetti called fundamental brain-work, is as luminous, depth within depth, as the morning air. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
