by adrianus » Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:56 am
Maybe. It's funny, though, thesaurus. I was trying to be consistent with Adler's usage (ignoring all else). He himself writes (p.105) this:
Fortassè. Mirum autem est, thesaure. Cum usu apud Adler convenire volui (opinionibus aliis abditis). Ille ipse scribit haec:
1. More bread, water, wine (not countable) = Plus panis, aquae, vini
2. More men (countable) = Plus hominum, plures homines
3. More letters (countable) = Plus epistolarum, plures epistolae
4. More goblets (countable) = Plus poculorum, plura pocula.
5. More of these than of those = Plus horum quam illorum // Plus (plures, plura) ex (de) his quam ex (de) illis.
6. I have more books than letters = Sunt mihi plures librorum quam quot epistolarum [which I read as somehow being affected by the "quot",— "I have a greater number of books than what number of letters." Quod per "quot" adjectivum affectum esse putavi]
7. Have you more books than I? (p.107) = Tenesne tu plus librorum quam ego? Suntne tibi plures librorum quam mihi? [Possibly no difference here? Nullum discrimen hîc video, nisi "Have you a greater number of books than the number I have?"]
Note the distinctions 1-5 as pretty clear. Discrimina primum ad quintum ut benè clara nota.
Where is the key, by the way? Obiter, ubi est clavis de qua loqueris?
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adrianus on Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:43 am, edited 1 time in total.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.
