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2008-08-26 Roman Dates in Time of Augustus: Dates, according to the Roman Calendar, are reckoned as follows:-- The first day of the month was called Kalendae (Calends). Kalendae is derived from calāre, to call,--the Calends being the day...
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2008-08-21 What are the cases?: Cases are inflexions, or variations in the endings of words, that are used to show the relationship of words in a sentence. In English we have cases. For example, we can say "Me he hit" or "He hit me...
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2008-08-18 Beauty: That will work. "Pulchritudo" ends in "o" because it is a feminine singular noun of the third declension. The tense is fine (present) for a gnomic statement. There is no reference to any person, as...
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2008-08-03 Latin Names of Fungi: Yes, that is correct. The "-i" ending often denotes the genitive, or possessive, case. Two "i"'s occur when the root of the name already ends in an "i", as some names do, and then the second "i" is added...
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2008-07-17 Black: You seem to be translating word by word from a dictionary, but that doesn't work. If you think about it, it doesn't work for English either, or any other language, as each language has grammar and syntax...
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