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While the Italian languages, like the Aeolic dialect, gave up the dual, they retained universally the ablative which the Greeks lost, and in great part also the locative.
Barely twelve meters long, the ships humans had labelled "hornets" were nothing more than a beam weapon and its power pack, with a propulsor and basic life-support system wrapped around it and given some armor and ablative shielding.
She taught French, English, and history, and the Sophomore Latin class, which dealt in matters of a metaphysical nature called Indirect Discourse and the Ablative Absolute. Each year she was reconvinced that the pupils were beginning to learn more quickly.
CONSITIONES ... INSITIONES: 'planting ... grafting'. On the varieties of grafting and the skill required for it see Verg. Georg. 2, 73 seq. POSSUM: see n. on 24. IN HAC ... CONSUMPSIT: Cic. probably never, as later writers did, used consumere with a simple ablative. CURIUS: see n. on 15. A ME: = a mea villa; cf. n. on 3 apud quem.
This horror of the ablative, when the ablative was absolutely necessary, aroused once more the hilarity of the audience, and proved that Sister Claire's devil was just as poor a Latin scholar as the superior's, and Barre, fearing some new linguistic eccentricity on the part of the evil spirit, adjourned the meeting to another day.
He knows nothing of ablative, conjunctive, substantive, or grammar, no more than his lackey, or a fishwife of the Petit Pont; and yet these will give you a bellyful of talk, if you will hear them, and peradventure shall trip as little in their language as the best masters of art in France.
* "The Greek wants an ablative, the Italians a dative, I a nominative." "Famous capital!" cried the gentleman in spectacles; and then, touching Colonel Cleland, added, "what does it exactly mean?" "Ignoramus!" said Cleland, disdainfully, "every schoolboy knows Virgil!"
A general expectation attending him, as it were, on his return. Nullis sermonibus. Ablative of cause. Elegit. Perf. to denote what has in fact taken place. X. In comparationem. Cf. in suam famam, 8, note. Perdomita est. Completely subdued. Rerum fide==faithfully and truly; lit. with fidelity to facts. Britannia.
Anno post must not be translated 'during the year after'; but either 'a year after', anno being regarded as the ablative of measure or excess, literally 'later by a year', or 'at the end of a year', the ablative being one of limitation, and fuerat being equivalent to factus erat 'had been elected'. So quinto anno below, 'at the end of the fifth year', i.e.
Hardly English that colloquial, I think; and this awkward ablative absolute never admitted now." "Thank you," said Beauclerc, "these faults are easily mended." "Easily mended, say you? I say, better make a new one." "WHO COULD?" said Beauclerc. "How many faults you see," said Helen, "which I should never have perceived unless you had pointed them out, and I am sorry to know them now."
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