FACULTY Copy link • FACULTYTalent, ability, etc., ingenium (innate quality or power of mind, talent, genius; especially the power of perpetually forming new ideas; inventive faculty): sollertia (skill, talent in the working out of ideas): docilitas (aptness to learn, cleverness): ingenii facultas (a single power of the mind, Vid: Cic., De Or., 2, 80, 433; hence never of the mental faculties together, for which the Latins said simply ingenium): facultas, with genitive (power and skill for anything; e.g., for speaking, dicendi: in plur., also absolutely, facultates, faculties, Cic., De Invent., 1, 27, extr.). The vital faculty, vis vitalis (the vital principle in nature): animus: anima (the vital principle in man, τὸ ἐπιθυμητικόν): venae (the veins, as the seat of the vital principle; Vid: Heindorf ad Hor., Sat., 2, 3, 153). If the soul were nothing more or greater than the vital faculty, si nihil esset in animo, nisi ut per eum viveremus. Faculty in the universities, ordo: the theological faculty, *venerandus theologorum ordo: the faculty of law, *illustris jurisconsultorum ordo.