New Latin Grammar eBook

Charles Edwin Bennett
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 322 pages of information about New Latin Grammar.

New Latin Grammar eBook

Charles Edwin Bennett
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 322 pages of information about New Latin Grammar.

    quod cuique obtigit, id teneat, what falls to each, that let him
    hold
.

  c) In connection with superlatives; as,—­

    optimus quisque, all the best (lit. each best one).

  d) With ordinal numerals; as,—­

    quinto quoque anno, every four years (lit. each fifth year).

6.  Nemo, no one, in addition to its other uses, stands regularly with adjectives used substantively; as,—­

    nemo mortalis, no mortal;

    nemo Romanus, no Roman.

PRONOMINAL ADJECTIVES.

253. 1.  Alius, another, and alter, the other, are often used correlatively; as,—­

    aliud loquitur, aliud sentit, he says one thing, he thinks another;

    alii resistunt, alii fugiunt, some resist, others flee;

    alter exercitum perdidit, alter vendidit, one ruined the army, the
    other sold it
;

    alteri se in montem receperunt, alteri ad impedimenta se contulerunt,
    the one party retreated to the mountain, the others betook themselves
    to the baggage
.

2.  Where the English says one does one thing, another another, the Latin uses a more condensed form of statement; as,—­

    alius aliud amat, one likes one thing, another another;

    aliud aliis placet, one thing pleases some, another others.

  a.  So sometimes with adverbs; as,—­

    alii alio fugiunt, some flee in one direction, others in another.

3.  The Latin also expresses the notion ‘each other’ by means of alius repeated; as,—­

    Galli alius alium cohortati sunt, the Gauls encouraged each other.

4.  Ceteri means the rest, all the others; as,—­

    ceteris praestare, to be superior to all the others.

5.  Reliqui means the others in the sense of the rest, those remaining,—­hence is the regular word with numerals; as,—­

    reliqui sex, the six others.

6.  Nescio quis forms a compound indefinite pronoun with the force of some one or other; as,—­

    causidicus nescio quis, some pettifogger or other;

    misit nescio quem, he sent some one or other;

    nescio quo pacto, somehow or other.

* * * * *

CHAPTER V.—­Syntax of Verbs.

AGREEMENT.

With One Subject.

254. 1.  Agreement in Number and Person.  A Finite Verb agrees with its subject in Number and Person; as,—­

    vos videtis, you see;

    pater filios instituit, the father trains his sons.

2.  Agreement in Gender.  In the compound forms of the verb the participle regularly agrees with its subject in gender; as,—­

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