Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice try Duncan (;-)), but "vigilans" is an adjective (albeit from
"vigilo" as you say) and it changes to "vigilantis" for the
genitive. I don't think that it would change to another ending for
the ablative.
I have no doubt that you're right here Chris. The "nd" is a giveaway; and
"vigilans" is indeed, technically, an adjective but I believe that there are
instances in which present participles are treated as nouns in English and in
Latin. How about. "Vigilans odiosus est"?
Enjoying the Latin refresher,
Duncan.
I don't have a Primer to check my memory, but the nouns made from
verbs, the gerund, usually had "-nd-" in the ending. Now, I shall
have to get a Primer .. ;-)
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
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On 23 Nov 2005, at 13:09, Duncan Paterson wrote:
> I would agree with Donald here (and not just because he's a
> Scot ;-) ). I would interpret "vigilando" as the ablative of
> "vigilans", the present participle of "vigilare" i.e. "by watching".
> Dvncan.
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
> Probably not Donald, but I think that "vigilando" is the gerund of
> "vigilare", whereas the Latin for vigilance was "vigilantia". Not
> that I'm one to pick nits or anything ... ;-)
>
> Chris
> [still a bit puffed from rushing upstairs to check my Cassell's Latin
> Dictionary (1944) ;-).]
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
>
>
> On 23 Nov 2005, at 12:28, Donald MacDonald wrote:
>
>> 'By vigilance we guard', if I'm not as rusty as I think..!
>>
>> D.
>
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