Servus, Epictetus, mutilato corpore, vixi, Pauperieque Irus, curaque summa deum.

Illic summa tenebrarum lues, Ubi pedor ingens redolet extremum situm.

But according to Grotius, a king waging war against the lawful copartners of the 'summa potestas' ceases to be their king, and if conquered forfeits to them his former share.

Propositi nondum pudet, atque eadem est mens, Ut bona summa putes, alienâ vivere quadrâ.

It is, in my conviction, incomparably the best summa theologiæ evangelicæ ever produced by a writer not miraculously inspired.