Timeline for Hit the lamb with the flower
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 18:50 | vote | accept | Ben Kovitz | ||
| Aug 29, 2016 at 4:13 | comment | added | Hugh | With that link to cum, II A,5 "strive with" suggests a neat pair. 'Pulsa cum agno flore.' strike against the lamb by means of a flower, and 'Pulsa agnum cum flore,' Hey you with a flower, strike the lamb. | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 3:58 | comment | added | TKR | @BenKovitz: Not usually in Classical prose, anyway. L&S gives a few such examples (perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/…, section I.D) but qualifies this usage as "most freq. anteclass., or in the poets and scientific writers". | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 3:49 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | Just to be completely sure, then: cum does not have an instrumental meaning like English with in "Hit the ball with the bat"? | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 3:41 | history | answered | TKR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |