doctrina: praecepta, orum: praeceptio (the sum or summary of precepts or truths): disciplina: decretum: dogma (n.): placitum or scitum (the principle, in as far as it is based on the opinion of the philosopher; Vid: Cic., Acad., 2, 43, 133; 2, 9, 27 and 29, Sen., Ep., 95, 9). An elaborate system of doctrine, satis et copiose et eleganter constituta disciplina; accurate non modo fundata, verum etiam exstructa disciplina: philosophical doctrines, praecepta philosophiae or philosophorum (the precepts of philosophy); also praecepta et instituta philosophiae; praecepta officii (moral precepts).