by adrianus » Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:16 am
I didn't say "etiam" was an enclitic, Laurentius. You accidentally proposed "quidem", which is in fact an enclitic (or can occur sometimes as one) that I had left out. You would more likely say "Etiam quidem", with "quidem" not beginning your sentence (unless the word was being emphasized to draw attention to itself as the word you were proposing, which is what the acute accent on the last syllable of an adverb signifies, coincidentally) and it's not an enclitic there, anyway, so it doesn't change the accent. Or at least I never read anywhere that a postpositive "quidem" counts as an enclitic and shifts the accent, but I'm still learning.
Non clamavi "etiam" encliticum esse, Laurenti. Fortè posuisti "quidem" quod adverbium (a me primitùs omissum) verum encliticum est, vel id esse potest, etsi rarò sic reperitur. Non minùs, post "etiam" veniat hoc adverbium, vel id quam sententiam rarenter incipit (nisi vim habeat quod concursu acutum accentum in syllabam terminantem cadens significat). Praetereà, nec quidem nec etiam illîc encliticum; deinde neuter mutat accentum. Vel ego nusquàm legi quidem et adverbium et encliticum esse quod mutet accentum, at nova continuò disco.
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.