On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:36:57 +0000, Tim S wrote:

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:25:03 +0000, Mike wrote:


"Tim S" wrote in message
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On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:38:09 +0000, Mike wrote:


Surely if he's the buyer then caveo is correct ? Then again Latin was
never my strong point ever since my Latin master dropped dead after
our second lesson and the school never replaced him.

It's a long time since I did any latin...

(the) buyer, (let him) beware.

So 3rd person.

"the buyer, let me beware" wouldn't be right.

"Let me, the buyer, beware" was what I was thinking of.

Yes - that sounds better. I did wonder if "emptor" needed a different
declension until I realised that it's missing its declension
ending altogether (emptor-is)!! I only did latin for a year - can anyone
with a "proper educashun" explain that?

Timbo

I agree, or possibly "I, the buyer, should (or ought to) beware".

I think that means "emptor" needs to be vocative - if it isn't
already - and "caveat" needs its 1st person singular subjunctive form
- I'll try to remember to look it up - I'm sure my wife still has her
old copy of Kennedy's Latin Primer somewhere in the house (in the loft
I imagine). She did Latin all the way to 'O' level and so graduated to
the one with the red cover (swot!) - I only remember the one with the
blue cover (same picture) and enough to strike terror into the heart
of any 1970s (or previous) schoolboy.

On a not at all tangential note, this is a DIY group isn't it ?

Anyway, I'm definitely going to bed this time.

Gary.