Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Dear Mr Kishore,

     The following item in your blog reminded me of the question "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" and made me wonder yet again how some people are gifted by God the power to see so far into the future that enabled them to be remembered by posterity by just a one-liner.

"Ex-SC judge to supervise CVC probe against Alok Verma"

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     Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the work of the Roman poet Juvenal from his Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348). It is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?", though it is also known by variant translations.*

     The original context deals with the problem of ensuring marital fidelity, though it is now commonly used more generally to refer to the problem of controlling the actions of persons in positions of power, an issue discussed by Plato in the Republic. It is not clear whether the phrase was written by Juvenal, or whether the passage in which it appears was interpolated into his works.

Original context

     The phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st/2nd century Roman satirist. Although in its modern usage the phrase has universal, timeless applications to concepts such as tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach, in context within Juvenal's poem it refers to the impossibility of enforcing moral behaviour on women when the enforcers (custodes) are corruptible (Satire 6, 346–348):

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     * An american has humorously translated this into : "Who takes care of the caretakers's daughter while the caretaker is busy taking care."

     Hope you are feeling better now.

     Warm regards.

P. Ramanathan.

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