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- From: cla02@seq1.keele.ac.uk (R. Wallace)
- Newsgroups: sci.classics
- Subject: Re: Habemus ad dominum
- Message-ID: <3851@keele.keele.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 09:51:38 GMT
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- Organization: University of Keele, England
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- Agnus dei as a vocative?
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- Classical poets quite regularly use nominatives as vocatives when it
- suits them.
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- See, for example, Horace Sermones 1, 6, 38: tune, Syri, Damae, aut
- Dionysi filius, audes.....
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- The trouble with the Romans was that they never had the chance to read
- the Latin grammar books....
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- Richard Wallace
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