Naivetry wrote:New Vudnia wrote:scientia vincere tenebrasThemiclesia wrote:Couldn't this be alternatively construed as "it is science to conquer shadows"?
Not in the modern sense of "science" as a discipline distinct from the humanities or the arts. Scientia in classical Latin is more like... 'know-how'. Also, despite how often forms of sum are omitted, I think Latin would want an est thrown in there if it were trying to define scientia. Latin doesn't normally use the infinitive to express purpose unless it's imitating Greek, but that might still be cause for some ambiguity without an est.
I was referring to the articular infinitive.