English Dictionary

locus classicus

noun

An authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration; a classic case or example. / (biology) The locality from which a taxon was first described.

The passage from Plato's Republic is considered a locus classicus in the study of political philosophy.

意味（1）

An authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration; a classic case or example.

This famous passage of Scripture, this locus classicus, or prerogative text, pleaded for the verbatim et literatim inspiration of the Bible, is the following; and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.

意味（2）

(biology) The locality from which a taxon was first described.