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- From: brekshyn@shearson.com (Bohdan Rekshynskyj)
- Subject: Re: Help with Latin phrase
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.212057.772@shearson.com>
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- Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov11.164730.25508@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:20:57 GMT
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- In article 25508@leland.Stanford.EDU, alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov10.205049.28205@shearson.com>, brekshyn@shearson (Bohdan Rekshynskyj) writes:
- >>Salve,
- >>
- >> This probably has no bearing in prose composition but the "ere" ending is
- >>sometimes third person plural (I think) ending, mainly used in poetry.
- >>So, excipere could be third person plural past tense (I don't have my
- >>Latin grammar here - but isn't the 1st person past "excepi"? If so,
- >>this probably blows holes in my two cents worth, chuckle!)
- >>
- >> Bohdan(vs)
- >
- >"excipere" is the infinitive, "excepere" (if it occurs) would be the alternate
- >form of the 3rd pl. act. ind. pf. "excepi" is indeed 1st sg. act. ind. pf.
- >--
- >Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- > such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- > --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- >alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
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- Hi. Thanks for the response but it didn't address the possibility of the
- alternate ending for the third person usage to the original quotation!
- Time for me to dig up 201 Latin verbs, chuckle!
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- Bohdan(vs)
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