Re: CHAT: Boredom is the mother of all arts.
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 13:36 |
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Hi!
"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
>...
> I'm no Latinophone, or even much of a Latinoscribe, but it looks good to me,
> with one note: L. |omnis| usually precedes the modified noun rather than
> following it.
Not always: in the idiom 'gallia omnis' for 'Great-Gallia' (of which
'Small-Gallia' is a part of), it is behind the modified.
As in 'Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, ...'
And wouldn't one leave out 'est' for more poetic usage?
**Henrik
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