Tuesday, October 29, 2013

First Assignment

I will be handing out a key for the first assignment, but I am also posting it here in case you lose your hard copy.

I neglected, before I printed the key, to say as much as I perhaps should have about the two points raised in the blog post of Oct. 25 titled "Assignment". There I directed you to the online Lewis and Short dictionary in connection with uti and flos. Since some people had difficulty negotiating the directions, I'll spell it out. Under utor, I.A.2h and l, you will find "enjoy," which I think fits the context. The reflexive use of the deponent makes it "enjoy himself". As for flos, under II.A. you can find "splendour, glory," and under II.B "ornament" (usually of speech, but only usually, not always). The latter is also in Cassell's.