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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...gratia, as: mea, tud, sua, nostra, vestrd, caussd or gratia (on my account, thy account, etc.). Rem. 8. The attributive Gen. often takes the place of a noun in apposition, as: urbs Romac (the city of Rome = the city, Rome); virtutes continentiae, gravitatis, justitiae. With nomen (cognomen), vox, vocabulum mihi est (manet, datum), the word used to designate the person or thing named is not, in good writers, in the Gen., but either in the Nom. or Dat., as: fons, cui nomen Arethusa est; puero ab inopia Egerio inditum nomen (est). With nomen do allcui (dico alicui), the Dat. is commonly used, rarely the Ace, as: tardo cognomen pingui damus. With nomen habeo, a proper name is in the Ace, but a common name in the Gen. 13. The attributive genitive, which may be either possessive or obj ective, according as it expresses simply the cause, or at the same time the cause and the object of the state or action indicated, is used to designate: a) The author or cause, as: conuratio Catilinae; desiderium patriae (excited by and terminating upon one's country); b) The owner or possessor, as: hortus regis. c) The whole from which a part is separated, as: partes corporis. The partitive genitive is used as follows: 1) With comparatives, (as: prior, posterior, etc.), superlatives (both adjective and adverbial), pronouns (as: quit, qui, ullus, hie, ille, etc.), and numerals (as: primus, unus, pauci, etc.--but plerique, in the classical period of the language, is not found with the partitive genitive); 2) With nouns expressing quantity, measure and number, as: modius, libra, pondo, talentum, etc.; legio, cohors, etc.; tmdtitudo, copia, numerus, vis, etc.; 3) With the neuter singular of adjectives and pronouns expressing quantity, but only in the Nom. and Ace, ...
