Re: Latin help

Adam Walker wrote:
> --- R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
>
>
>>>'is' for 'he' is less common than 'ille', for
>>
>>instance...,
>>
>>That's because if the subject is obvious or needs no
>>emphasis, then it's
>>simply expressed by the verb ending. If a pronoun
>>subject is expressed,
>>then we'd expect something a little more emphatic
>>than _is_, e.g. _ille_
>>or _ipse_. So, although it could indeed be correct
>>Latin, I am a little
>>suspicious about 'is'.
>>--------------------------------------------
>
>
> That's more or less what I suspected -- that it isn't
> especially great Latin, but you're saying that *is*
> acceptable.
Yes, _is_ is grammatically acceptable.

> Actually, I had forgotten about _is_
> being used as a pronoun.  I suspect the choice was
> made for matters of rythm.
I guess so.

> It sentence quoted is the
> last line of a translation of "I've Been Working on
> the Railroad."  It doesn't match the last line as I
> learned it,
Nor as I know it!

> but liberties are taken with such things.
Sure.
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ROGER MILLS wrote:
[snip]
 > a VERY LONG time ago, I attended the year-end banquet of our Latin Club,
 > held at the local Ecclesia Methodista. We wore sheets as togae (quite a
 > reasonable facsimile, actually), and drank grape juice. Then there were
 > the songs, one of which you've now summoned up from the abyss of
 > repression--
 >
 > Nam vir est bonus beatus
 > (three times)
 > quod nemo negare potest.

I know the latter as:

Sodalis enim est gratus!
(three times)
Num quis illud negat?

In this version one can easily femininize it, if required, by simply
changing one word, i.e. gratus --> grata

--
Ray
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Nid rhy hen neb i ddysgu.
There's none too old to learn.
[WELSH PROVERB]

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