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Vox Populi
/ˈvɒks ˈpɒpjuːlaɪ/
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What does Vox Populi mean?
noun
- Voice of the people.
- The public comment portion of a public meeting.
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/ˈvɒks ˈpɒpjuːlaɪ/
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The vox populi wore itself hoarse by singing the praises of "The Sea, the Sea!"
It is called vox populi and is really rot.
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Then surely, if ever, vox populi is vox coeli.
“Vox populi, vox Dei. You are acquitted, Captain Crocker. So long as the law does not find some other victim you are safe from me. Come back to this lady in a year, and may her future and yours justify us in the judgment which we have pronounced this night!”
God appeared to man, then, as a me, as a pure and permanent essence, placing himself before him as a monarch before his servant, and expressing himself now through the mouth of poets, legislators, and soothsayers, musa, nomos, numen; now through the popular voice, vox populi vox Dei.