> From: "Ing. Cristiano Golin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dirk Petry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all, emerging from my memories Cato's sentence was: > "Ceterum censeo Carthago delenda esse", > where Carthago (3rd-declination) is the subject becouse the sentence is > in passive form. > WINDOOF, like Carthago, is a foreign term to original Latin and then it > goes to the 3rd-declination too, so I believe the sentence is: > "Ceterum censeo WINDOOF delenda esse". Cristian, sorry to say, but you are in error. :-) See Dirk's explanation below. This sentence is a construction called 'accussativus cum infinitivo'. The subject is expressed in its accusative form, mostly (always?) ending with -m. Pitfully I do remember too little to say which declination would be the right for 'WINDOOF'. :-) ArturO > > Dirk Petry wrote: > > > > Peter Staudt wrote: > > > > > > > > PS: Ceterum censeo WINDOOF delendam esse. > > > > > > I never took latin but isn't this ^^^^^^ WINDOOFem ? > > > > > > > According to what is left from my 9 years of Latin at > > school: > > The original quote is from the roman politician Cato > > and reads > > > > "Ceterum censeo cartaginem esse delendam." > > > > (Apart from that I think Cartago should be destroyed.) > > > > With this sentence he ended each of his speeches at the > > senate - even if the speech had nothing to do with Cartago - > > because he thought that the empire of Cartago was the biggest > > threat to the roman empire. Finally the Romans destroyed > > Cartago, but I think Cato didn't live to see that. > > > > WINDOOF is probably not consonant declination but > > rather u-decination, i.e. the accusative in this > > "accusativum cum infinitivo" should end in "um". > > Therefore the correct version is > > > > "Ceterum censeo WINDOOFum esse delendam." > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dirk ;-) Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers. Artur Opalinski, Senior Technical System Engineer Sun Microsystems Poland, Green House Office Center Hankiewicza 2, 02-103 Warszawa, Poland, Tel:48-22 87-47-800 Fax:658-40-60 --- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
[rtl] Off-Topic: Momentary classic age literature
Artur Opalinski - SE - Sun Poland Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:35:46 -0700