Book Dedication

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Timothy
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Book Dedication

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I just received my copy of the D'Ooge book and found the book dedication:

Filiolo meo
qui me non solum dicenda
sed etaim tacenda docuit
hoc opusculum est dedicatum


I think it is:

To my little son
who me not only by speech
but also without speaking teaches
this little work is dedicated

- Tim

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Post by whiteoctave »

to my sonlet, who not only taught me what to say but also what not to, I dedicate this little work.

~D

dicenda and tacenda could be interpreted as 'things spoken and unspoken'.

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Post by Timothy »

Nicely done.

I wish I could get phrasing like this down.

Thanks,

- Tim

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I believe that this dedication is for me. Not only is He the best ever Latinist to hit us, but he can also see into the future.

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Post by Turpissimus »

OK, time for me to embarrass myself.

Yes, by speech/speaking would require the use of the ablative case of the gerund, e.g.

dicendo, tacendo.

Dicenda and tacenda, I imagine, mean things needing to be said, to be kept silent about. I think they are gerundives used substantively, if that makes any sense.

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gerundives cannot retain an obligatory sense in the accusative.

~D

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Episcopus wrote:I believe that this dedication is for me. Not only is He the best ever Latinist to hit us, but he can also see into the future.

LOL!

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