“criticism, critique” in Latin

Examination (especially according to the rules of art), censura: judicium (the judgement itself): beneath all criticism, *non dignus, de quo judicium feratur; pravissimus; pessimus (the last two stronger terms): too severe a criticism against one’s self, nimia contra se calumnia (Quint. 10, 1, 115): without reference to the conventional laws of criticism, non aurificis statera, sed quadam populari trutina (e.g., examinare aliquid, Cic.): to undertake the criticism of a work, *libri censuram scribere: to subject one’s rulers to criticism, censuram agere regnantium: to submit anything to the criticism of one’s friends, aliquid amicorum judicio examinare.

Examination of different readings; or examination of the sense of a litterary work (especially of the classics); *ars critica: critice (as art): *critica ratio (as theory; rules of criticism): critica studia (as occupation; critical studies): *cernendi judicandique munus (as office or duty incumbent on the critic): *criticum genus, res critica (as scientific employment, in contradistinction to the other branches of philology): an extensive acquaintance with the rules of criticism, *magnus totius rei criticae usus: by the aid of criticism, judicando (e.g., to correct spurious passages in ancient writers, *veteres scriptores a corruptelarum sordibus judicando purgare): without any acquaintance with the rules of criticism, *nullo critices usu: to pursue criticism as a profession, *artis criticae studiosum esse; *criticam artem exercere: to devote one’s self to the higher branches of criticism, altioris critices studio duci: to be quite ignorant of the art of criticism, artis criticae expertem esse.