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Rufus Coppertop
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Jordi Savalli has released an album of viol music called "pro pacem" and I would have thought that a man with his competence at music would pay attention to such basic Latin.

Is there any precedent anywhere for pro being used with an accusative?
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Re: pro pacem? seriously?

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It can be found in Medieval texts (as can anything :D ).

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Lewis and Short note that this usage can be found in "late Latin":

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/phi ... isandshort

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Re: pro pacem? seriously?

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An example taken from Egeria's Peregrinatio ad Loca Sancta (end of the IVth c.)
Et quoniam pro monazontes, qui pedibus uadent, necesse est lenius iri: ac sic peruenitur in lerusolima ea hora, qua incipit homo hominem posse cognoscere, id est prope luce, ante tamen quam lux fiat.
Edit. The above might not be a good example since the word monazontes appears to be invariable in the Peregrinatio.

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gratias multas vobis do

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