Orberg's LL: Eius vs Suus
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Orberg's LL: Eius vs Suus
All the grammars I've seen say to use suus for a reflexive adjective for his own and eius for someone else's thingamajig. But in Hans Orberg's Lingua Latina, Familia Romana, on page 105, he writes:
Iam totum caput eius purum est. (Now his entire head is clean.)
Seems like suum should have been used. Vero?
Gratias ago, Rusticus
Iam totum caput eius purum est. (Now his entire head is clean.)
Seems like suum should have been used. Vero?
Gratias ago, Rusticus
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Hi rustymanson;
the subject of that clause is caput, so that a reflexive use there would give a relation of possesion to the head itself, id est, the head would have something. It would not give it to the head owner, which is what he is saying. if recall correctly is marcus, referred somewhere else.
the subject of that clause is caput, so that a reflexive use there would give a relation of possesion to the head itself, id est, the head would have something. It would not give it to the head owner, which is what he is saying. if recall correctly is marcus, referred somewhere else.
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I think it's eius because 'he' is not the subject of the sentence, head is. I think it would be suum if the sentence were something like "he was cleaning his (own) head."
[edit -- oops, someone beat me.]
[edit -- oops, someone beat me.]
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