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May an adiectiue in the neuter gen∣der put substantiuely, gouerne any other adiectiue also, put substantiuely in the genitiue case?
No: no adjectiue put as a sub∣stantiue, can gouerne another adje∣ctiue which is declined with three articles, but onely such a one as is varied by three terminations, there∣fore we may say: Aliquid mali, ali∣quid absurdi, honesti, boni, we cannot
say, aliquid vtilis, aliquid impossibilis &c. neither can we say, Nihil talis for Nihil tale.
Doth Lilly speake properly, when hee expresseth certaine nounes of num∣ber by certa numeralia?
No; he speakes barbarously: for certus is neuer put for quidam in any good and classicall Writer.
What doe you thinke of that rule, Comparatiua & superlatiua accepta partitiuè genitivum, vnde & genus sortiuntur, exigunt?
This rule is good: It had beene well Lilly would haue furnished vs with some examples of it; in these which follow, his defect shall bee supplied. Ignis omnium elementorum est efficacissimum, & violentissimum. Supremus, extremus{que} omnium affe∣ctuum in foemina est zelotypia. Finis causarum omnium nobilissima est. Mors vltimum, summum, grauissi∣mum, & acerbissimum omnium terri∣bilium.
In these speeches, Magnam partem consulatus tui abfui. Cic. Illud tibi
assentior. Idem. Menedemi vicem miseret. Ter. Solicitus vicem Impe∣ratoris. Liu. Maestus suam vicem. Curt. Caetera bonus. Cic. Why are partem, Illud vicem, caetera, the ac∣cusatiue case, and by what rule of Lilly?
Lilly hath no rule to shewe the reason of this construction: it is in truth a greeke Atticisme: for the greekes put the accusatiue case after verbes, and adiectiues after that manner: sic, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, vi∣cem alicuius irasci, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, perdidisti nos quantum in te est. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, omnibus sapiens.
When is an adiectiue construed with an accusatiue case, with a preposi∣tion?
When Aptitude, propensitie, re∣spect, object, or finall cause is signi∣fied, as,
Procliuis à labore ad libidinem. Furtum ingeniosus ad omne. Assuetus ad bellum. Rudis ad arma. Studio eloquentiae non aliud in ciuitate nostra, vel ad vtilitatem fructuosius,
vel ad dignitatem amplius, vel ad vrbis famam pulchrius, vel ad totius imperij, at{que} omnium gentium notitiam illu∣strius excogitari potest. Quint.
Cal∣cei habiles ad pedes. Cic.Aptus natus ad singularem dicendi faculta∣tem.
Is that example of adiectiua quae ad copiam, viz. at fessae referunt multa se nocte minores Crura thy∣mo plena.
No: the Composer of the English Rudiments, and Lilly vnderstood not (as it seemes) Virgils Syntaxis, and therefore corrected the originall su∣specting it to bee faultie: and the Construer of the Syntaxis so tran∣scribes it, and translates it. But Virgil wrote not plena, but plenae: the verse is thus to be construed: the lesser Bees doe returne home wearie late at night (plenae crura .i. haben∣tes crura plena thyme) Hauing their shankes full of thyme; in which there is a Synechdoche, or figure, of∣ten vsed by that excellent Poet, as* 1.1
Doe not adiectiues of comparing or exceeding, gouerne an ablatiue case of the word, which signifies the measure of exceeding, as well as verbes?
Yes: for wee may as well say, Cicero praestantior est omnibus oratori∣bus multis gradibus, as, Cicero praestat omnes oratores multis gradibus.
May not an adiectiue of the po∣sitiue degree with magis, or minus, haue an ablutiue case after it, as well as one of the comparatiue?
Yes: so Terence in Eunucho. Hoc nemo fuit minus ineptus, nec magis se∣uerus quisquam .i. quam hic. & Virg. O luce magis dilecta sorori .i. quam lux.
Ecl. 1. Sepes Byb••aeis apibus florem depasta salicti .i. habens florem depastū. So likewise: Os humeros{que} Deo similis. idē. So, Faciem mu∣tatus & ora .i. habens faciem mutatam; or it maybe there is an imitation of the Greekes who in such speeches make an ellipsis of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.