I'm trying to get to grips with Roman numbers: I have found a table here: http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/latnum.html that seems to cover the various forms: But I just came across. In Orberg's LLPSI Cap XXXII he has Amelius complaining (I think) that his letters are not getting through to her in Rome:
Quaeris a me cur tibi unas tantum litteras scripserim, cum interim trinas quaternasve litteras a te acceperim.
1) '...a me cur tibi unas tantum litteras'....mm? Is this 'for each letter? ' why plural? Is it just the cardinal number?
3) then he has 'cum interim 'trinas' quaternasve..' now this latter is distributive......I'm not sure how
all this fits in with the Cardinal, ordinal, distributive and adverb table (see link above)? Also trinas doesn't occur on this table at all. What is it?