Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 9, 2025
* "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/!"
Ay, but that clause in the first part says to Orsino and his heirs for ever, and says nothing about Leone having no children. It is more absolute than the ablative. That is bad." For a long time he pondered over the writing.
Everybody prophesied that the Parker boy would be a great man possibly a college professor! Theodore was passing through the realistic age when every detail must be carefully put in the picture. He was painstaking as to tenses, conscientious as to the ablative, and had scruples concerning the King James version of Deuteronomy. About the same time he fell in love very much in love.
She taught Latin herself, it is true, but as cautiously as she crossed a plank bridge, and she was never comfortable in the dominie's company, because even at a tea-table he would refer familiarly to the ablative absolute instead of letting sleeping dogs lie. "But Elspeth couldna be happy if we were at different schools," Tommy objected instantly.
I believe they also agreed on the ablative absolute." "Yes er naturally," drawled Average Jones. "Does our early Roman speak pretty ready Latin?" "He's fairly fluent. Sometimes he stumbles a little on his constructions, and he's apt to be well monkish rather than classical when in full course." "Doesn't wear the toga virilis, I suppose." "Oh, no. Plain American clothes.
"Elegantly but uncomfortably housed with Colonel Ridgway Graeme in his ancestral barrack on Carteret Street." "Is this Colonel Graeme a friend of yours?" "Friend and foe, tried and true. We meet twice a week, usually at his house, to squabble over his method of Latin pronunciation and his construction of the ablative case.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking