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What (who) is vulgus - definition
1984 VIDEO GAME
Titan Warriors
Argumentum ad captandum
Ad captandum vulgaris; Ad captandum vulgus; Ad captandum
In rhetoric an argumentum ad captandum, "for capturing" the gullibility of the naïve among the listeners or readers, is an unsound, specious argument designed to appeal to the emotions rather than to the mind. It is used to describe "claptrap or meretricious attempts to catch popular favor or applause.
Ad captandum
Ad captandum vulgaris; Ad captandum vulgus; Ad captandum
·- A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
De Legibus
![1824 edition of Book III, edited by [[Georg Heinrich Moser]] and [[Georg Friedrich Creuzer]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M. Tullii Ciceronis De Legibus MDCCCXXIV.jpg?width=200 "1824 edition of Book III, edited by [[Georg Heinrich Moser]] and [[Georg Friedrich Creuzer]].")
PHILOSOPHICAL LEGAL DIALOGUE BY CICERO
The Laws (Cicero); Lex vulgus; Lex caelestis; De legibus; On the Laws
The De Legibus (On the Laws) is a dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the last years of the Roman Republic. It bears the same name as Plato's famous dialogue, The Laws.
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Vulgus
Vulgus is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Capcom in Japan in 1984 and released in North America by SNK the same year. The game was Capcom's first video game. The game is included in Capcom Classics Collection and is available as freeware.
A Nintendo Entertainment System sequel was developed but never released. However, a playable finished ROM has surfaced online since its cancellation.
Examples of use of vulgus
1. And Christian Nold, author of the social commentary "Mobile Vulgus," says Rove‘s quote is representative of modern politics.
2. From Gawker: "Only a mastermind could cast the voice of the people as a mob." Wrote Eugene Robinson in this newspaper: "Benighted fools who don‘t blindly trust his honesty or fully appreciate his genius are nothing more than ‘the mob.‘ " The word is rooted in mobile vulgus, an ancient Latin phrase used by politicians, which translates into "the fickle crowd." Mobile (pronounced mo–bi–leh) referred to the crowd‘s tendency to change its collective, uneducated mind.