Editing Tertium quid (section)

==In literature==

In literature, it can describe an adulterer, often in a [[cuckold|cuckolded]] relationship. 

[[Kipling]] employs the term in his story "At the Pit’s Mouth" for an adulterer: ''"Once upon a time there was a Man and his Wife and a Tertium Quid."''

[[Talbot Mundy]], a contemporary of Kipling, makes use of the term in ''[[King of the Khyber Rifles]]'' to describe a cuckold, ''"And what kind of man must Rewa Gunga be who could lightly let go all the prejudices of the East and submit to what only the West has endured hitherto with any complacency—a "tertium quid"? "''

Also, [[Robert Browning]] uses the term "Tertium Quid" in his long narrative poem ''[[The Ring and the Book]]'' for a section presenting third, more balanced viewpoint on the 1698 Roman murder case his poem discusses, different from the opinions expressed in the sections "Half Rome" and "The Other Half Rome", which strongly sympathize with, or equally deplore, the accused.

Tertium Quid is also the title of a book of essays on various topics by [[Edmund Gurney]], published in 1887. He has chosen topics which had opposing points of view but for which he proposes a third way of considering them.