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'Inter homines' is not the Latin phrase for 'among.' 'Inter' generally involves some sense of division, viz., interruption, contrast, rivalry, etc. Thus, with a singular noun, 'inter cœnam hoc accidit,' i.e., this interrupted the supper. And so with two nouns, 'inter me et Brundusium Cæsar est.' And so with a plural noun, 'hoc inter homines ambigitur,' i.e., man with man. 'Micat inter omnes Julium sidus,' i.e., in the rivalry of star against star. 'Inter tot annos unus (vir) inventus est,' i.e., though all those years, one by one, put in their claim, yet only one of them can produce a man, etc. 'Inter se diligunt,' they love each other. On the contrary, the Latin word for 'among,' simply understood, is 'in.'