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Pround Mac26X owner again
On Jul 23, 4:27 pm, Horvath wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:20:34 -0700, Alan Gomes wrote this crap: But at least Scotty, who asked the original question that REALLY got all this going, got his money's worth! I was going to let this drop, but this has proven to be an interesting discussion. We should agree on three things: Number One: The Romans had no word for "Oceans," so "Mare," or "Maris," should suffice. Number Two: Does the preposition "in," cause the noun to be ablative or accusative Number Three: All Gaul is divided into three parts. .. I've abstained til now but here's my $.02. 1. The Romans used the personification of the god Oceanus to refer to the sea/ocean. (And that's where we got the current English word, obviously.) So, there's one accurate substitute for mare; and as a bonus, it has an indisputable ablative singluar ending. grin There's also the commonly used pontus. Sailors might prefer aequor which implies being on the surface of it. And poets like profundus, implying the unknowable depths. All perfectly fine substitutes for mare. 2. and 3. "In" can certainly take an accusative, like your example from Caesar (in partes tres). However just as often it takes an ablative of place, which is what I'd consider appropriate in this case. IMO, this one is definitely ablative of place. Example, the classic Latin tongue-twister: in mari meri miri mori muri placet. I freely admit that if I'd gone to the effort to create a Latin version of this phrase, I'd have used "mare" forgetting about the irregular "-i" ablative singluar. But it's definitely ablative not accusative. I'd be more inclined to argue about the overall construction as a literalist translation of the English words instead of a rethinking of it in Latin. But the basic idea was fun and funny and I'm in no mood to quibble. Frank |
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