How to say the phrase "Second Best"????

Berenious · Post by **Berenious** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:36 pm

hi, i've been looking everywhere on how to say 'second best' ive been run around with 'unus et alter' but i think thats just 'one of two'. now im starting to think something like 'secundus optimus'??? any help will be muchly appreciated!!!.
thanks guys..

adz000 · Post by **adz000** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:28 pm

ille qui secundas [sc. partes] agit/fert.

vel voce passiva:

cui secundae tribuuntur/dantur, &c.

vel similiter:

ille qui sucundum obtinet locum.

whiteoctave · Post by **whiteoctave** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:41 pm

uel sine circumlocutionibus supra (sed subAnglice!):

secundus ab optimo

cf. Hor.S.2.3.193 Aiax, heros ab Achille secundus.
Plin.NH.5.72 Machaerus, secunda quondam arx Iudaeae ab Hierosolymis.

Instead of ab+abl, occasionally a dative can be used, cf. Sen.Ep.92.7 excedat ex hoc animalium numero pulcherrimo ac dis secundo.

~D

cweb255 · Post by **cweb255** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:49 am

My support to Whiteoctave, as that was what I was going to say.

Episcopus · Post by **Episcopus** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:44 pm

Really? I genuinely admire your tendency of not bearing any grudges, since he did kind of call you a twat.