THE PRAISE OF THE DISCIPULUS, RETRANSLATED

Unbowed, unbent, unbroken.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
These are two of my favourite tripartite mottoes, and the third is:

"Probo artem, peritiam laudo, miror diligentiam."

"I commend your skill, I praise your knowledge, I admire your attentiveness." (tr. Kortekaas)

An artfully formed tripartite, with chiastic arrangement: increasing numbre of syllables in the objects. In terms of content, the formulation makes a Greek Hellenistic impression. For artem (ars), that would be techné; for peritiam (probably a translation of empeiria "experience"), a cardinal virtue for scholars in Hellenistic texts. Often techné and empeiria are found combined or contrasted, cf. he empeiria technen epoieses, ie "practice makes perfect." Finally, as regards diligentiam, s.v. àkribes 'accurate, precise', in the strict sense of the word.