Re: Latin help
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 6, 2007, 23:22 |
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>>R A Brown <ray@...>
>>There are many examples of verb coming earlier or even at the
>>beginning, > cf. the opening of the Magnificat:
>> "Magnificat anima mea Dominum" (Luke 1:46)
>Douglas Koller <laokou@...> wrote:
>This may well be obvious, but does the fact that "magnificat" comes at
>the beginning account for the emphatic English, "My soul *doth*
>magnify the Lord." (KJV?) (emphasis mine)?
I don't see "doth" as emphatic, but rather as an archaic present tense:
I do, thou dost, he doth, etc.
In any case, modern translations merely have "My soul magnifies the
Lord."
Charlie
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