In LLPSI Cap XXXVIII hoc scribitur:
Cuncta classis remis ventisque laevam petivit.
Cur 'cuncta' et non 'cuncti' scribitur? Classis singularis....
This is usually translated as 'all' but it only makes sense if it means 'each'...?
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'Classis' est feminini generis...
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"The whole fleet" is the subject.
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ah..of course. partitive genitive. I was thinking of cuncta as an adjective rather than a noun: cuncta, -ae (f)
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Classis et cuncta sunt in casu nominativo.
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Salve pmda!
The adjective cunctus does mean "all", but with a slightly different emphasis. Look at Lewis & Short's entry for cunctus:
Another way to look at it is from the point of view of synonyms, in this case taken from Robert WM. Douthat's "Latin Synonyms" (1907):
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Cunctus is an ordinary adjective in the nominative case (feminine, singular) belonging to the noun classis which is also in the nominative (feminine, singular).pmda wrote:In LLPSI Cap XXXVIII hoc scribitur:
Cuncta classis remis ventisque laevam petivit.
The adjective cunctus does mean "all", but with a slightly different emphasis. Look at Lewis & Short's entry for cunctus:
Or the respective entry from Cassell's Latin Dictionary:Lewis & Short wrote: cunctus, a, um, and more freq. in plur. cuncti, ae, a, adj. contr. from conjunctus,
I. all in a body, all together, the whole, all, entire (cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 50, 15 Müll.: cuncti significat quidem omnes, sed conjuncti et congregati; very freq. and class.).
So cuncta classis means "the whole fleet," "the fleet as a whole".cunctus -a - um (contr. from coniunctus or coiunctus), all, all collectively, the whole; sing.: Gallia, Caes.; senatus; Cic.; orbis terrarum, Verg.; plur. cuncti cives, Cic.; in poet. sometimes with genit.: hominum conctos; esp. in n. pl.: cuncta terrarum, Hor.
Another way to look at it is from the point of view of synonyms, in this case taken from Robert WM. Douthat's "Latin Synonyms" (1907):
Vale,Douthat wrote:
- cunctus, "all" as being conjoined, all together.
- integer, "whole" as being unbroken or untouched.
- omnis, "all" as every one taken one by one.
- solidus, "all" as compact in one body, Dies solidus.
- totus, "all" as a whole from beginning to end.
- universus, "all" as all turned into one.
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Carolus Raeticus, Many thanks. I think I was making it too complicated.