Pierre Battifol is correct in supposing that the Disciplina arcani was more or less of a make-believe, a bit of belletristic trifling on the part of the over-rhetorical Fathers of the 4th and 5th centuries.
In time this rule gave rise to what is called the Disciplina arcani.
That he possessed science is proved by the declaration of the book of Ecclesiasticus: "Disciplina intellectus replevit illos.
As to the first, it is hardly an economy, but comes under what is called the "Disciplina Arcani.
But neither the Syssitia nor the disciplina publica had ever subsisted among other Greeks: and these were the two characteristic features of Krete and Sparta, more especially of the latter.
He became secretary of the congregation of the Disciplina Regolare, and auditor of the Apostolic Chamber under Gregory XVI.
This is attested by the use made of the Hebrew translation of Indian fables mentioned before, and of the famous collection of tales, the Disciplina clericalis by the baptized Jew Petrus Alphonsus.
A little later, Petrus Alphonsus (Moses Sephardi) wrote his Disciplina Clericalis, the first collection of tales in the Oriental manner, the model of all future collections of the kind.
And thus the doctrines of Christianity were committed to the Adepti, in a Disciplina Arcani.
Weishaupt repeatedly assures us that his means are certain,) probably for want of this disciplina arcani, of whose efficacy so much is said.
Dunlop traces Boccacio's story to the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsus (c.
For the deceiving of the elephant with the reflexion of the moon, Benfey compares Disciplina Clericalis XXIV.
This wide-spread fable is found in theDisciplina Clericalis (No.
As to the first, it is hardly an Economy, but comes under what is called the "Disciplina Arcani.
The old disciplina arcani signified the disclosure of a little light with a view to the disclosure of more.
We have the old disciplina arcani among us in as full force as in the primitive church, but with an all-important difference.
De Jure et Officiis Bellicis et Disciplina Militari, 1582, Original and English translation from Latin by J.
Four of the stories in the Disciplina Clericalis are found in Pitrè and other collections of popular tales, and although belonging, with one exception, to the class of jests, they are mentioned here for the sake of completeness.
We shall see later that this was the case with the famous collection of tales just mentioned, the Disciplina Clericalis.
The Disciplina Clericalis was early translated into French prose and poetry, and was the storehouse from which all subsequent story-tellers drew abundant material.
The version in the Disciplina Clericalis is as follows: A certain king had a story-teller who told him five stories every night.
The first collection of Oriental tales known in Europe as a collection was the Disciplina Clericalis, that is, Instruction or Teaching for Clerks or Clergymen.
A few stories may have been taken from the French fabliaux or from the French translations of the Disciplina Clericalis, as we shall afterwards see.
The Disciplina Clericalis was not known, apparently, in Italy as a collection, but the separate stories were known as early as Boccaccio, who borrowed the outlines of three of his stories from it (VII.
The last story we shall mention from the Disciplina Clericalis is the one known in Pitrè (No.
Precisely how theDisciplina Clericalis became known in Italy we cannot tell; but the separate stories must have become popular and diffused by word of mouth at a very early date.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disciplina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
