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Re: CHAT: Ave Maria

From:DOUGLAS KOLLER <laokou@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 5, 2000, 9:16
From: "Raymond Brown"

> >A question, Ray: You mentioned in a different thread on the Lord's prayer > >that the Vulgate slips in a "quis est" into "Pater noster in caelo"
because
> >Latin does not allow for prepositions to be used adverbially. Here,
though,
> >we have "Dominus tecum" (where all three of my Germanic examples above
add a
> >copula), and "[benedicta] tu in mulieribus". What's happening here? Is
there
> >a sort of ellipsis occurring here that is absent or different in the
Lord's
> >Prayer? What's the diff?
> They are different.
> Hope this helps.
It does, thank you (*and* I got my terms screwed up: adverbially vs. adjectivally). What is "Silver Latin"? Kou