Timeline for Do neuter plural nouns ever take singular verbs in Latin?
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| Jul 8, 2020 at 3:38 | history | edited | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2020 at 3:05 | history | edited | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 18:36 | comment | added | Mitomino | @tony The brackets around the pronoun id have to do with an addition put forward by a classical scholar (Drakenborch). For details of textual criticism, see books.google.es/… . | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 11:35 | comment | added | tony | @Mitomino: I was looking at Livy 9.5 yesterday, and the translation on Perseus, after yourself had omitted all the words between "paludomentaque detracta" & "miserationem fecit". The second "[eos]" is square-bracketed because it refers to a different group (the consuls) to the first "eos" (the cursing crowd). Why is "<id>" = "that" (neuter nom. sing. ["That aroused such deep commiserations...]") in pointed brackets? Use-of-brackets sites advise that these are used in mathematics. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 3:28 | history | edited | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 1:55 | history | edited | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 1:48 | history | edited | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 1:17 | history | edited | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 6, 2020 at 21:48 | comment | added | Figulus | @Draconis I've heard it said that feminine singular forms like opera and biblia came from neuter plurals in a process similar to the one Draconis mentioned for Greek and Anatolian languages. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 3:25 | comment | added | Mitomino | Here is the relevant text from Livy (IX, 5): Tum a consulibus abire lictores iussi paludamentaque detracta; tantam <id> inter eos qui paulo ante [eos] exsecrantes dedendos lacerandosque censuerant miserationem fecit, ut suae quisque condicionis oblitus ab illa deformatione tantae maiestatis velut ab nefando spectaculo averteret oculos. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 2:58 | history | answered | Mitomino | CC BY-SA 4.0 |