acta divina

[lirotem]

cant find the exact meaning or translation fr the above term.
please help.

[kempie]

Divine (sacred, spiritual) journal

[Octavius]

Acta comes from the Latin for �Acts�, in ancient Rome, minutes of public business and gazette of political and social events. They were in two forms: Acta Senatus and Acta diurna.

The Acta Senatus, or Commentarii Senatus, were the minutes of the proceedings of the Senate.

Lectio Divina is Latin for �spiritual reading�, so I would assume the phrase you refer to is something like 'spiritual act' or 'divine act'

[lirotem]

dear octavius
in the book:civilizations of the past by jack abramowits and kenneth a.job it says:acta divina was the name of a "newspaper"published by the roman gov. but i cant find any other ref.for the above term.
thanks for your try.
lirotem

[Octavius]

Well I won't contradict the academics, but the Acta Diurna (Daily Acts) were daily official roman official government notices.

Other forms of Acta were legal, municipal and military notices. Senatorial acta were originally kept secret, until then-consul, uncle Julius made them public in 50 BC. Later rulers, however, often censored them.

I think the actual term you are looking for is ACTA DIVRNA which is the Acta Diurna.

[kempie]

Where's the problem?

Literal translation - Divine acts

Meaning - Divine journal (or, to use words from Octavius' posts; minutes, gazette, notices)

[lirotem]

the problem to my understanding is that the actas or chonicals were not sacred nor spiritual.

[Octavius]

The transaltion of your original phrase is divine acts, but as you refer to the government daily newspaper, I think you are really looking for Acta DIURNA