How would I use the verb postponere in a context, which suggests I esteem one thing to be of a greater value than another? Can the verb postponere even specify more than one object?
If so, would the sentence be something like the following?
Pecuniae hominem postpono
I put after money, the man.
The non-compound-verb form would be something like:
Pono hominem post pecuniam. (This, however, may only be in the physical sense.)
I find this confusing.
The Lewis and Short entry for postpono (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3D%2337238) gives examples:
scorto postponere honestum Officium, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 34 : postponere Hannibalem Alexandro Magno. Just. 30, 4, 9
and glosses postpono as to esteem less. Presumably then the accusative is the less valued thing and the ablative of comparison gives the more valued thing.
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scorto postponere honestum Officium, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 34 : postponere Hannibalem Alexandro Magno. Just. 30, 4, 9
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The accusative is the direct object of ponere
scorto and Alexandro are datives denoting post what?
The same with praeferre to bring something (acc) before something else (dative) or praeficere "to place someone (acc) at the head of something (dative) : te praeficio provinciae “I place you at he head of the province”.
It can happen (but not always) with the verbs beginning with ad-, ante-, cum- in-, inter-, ob-, post-, prae-, sub-, super-
Valete
Thank you for your help. I wish the Romans hadn’t compounded verbs with prepositions made prefixes. The rules can sometimes get a bit funky… :-<br />
Thanks again. 