Grammatici Latini II, p. 90: Priscian, book 3 (De comparatione, de superlativo, de diminutivo)
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| II 90,1 | senex, huic seni, hic senior, quamuis hoc quoque uetustissimi commune | ||||||
| II 90,2 | accipientes hic et haec senex proferebant. Pompilius in | ||||||
| 41b15 | e | 90,2 | book 3 | 4228 | pomponius: | ||
| II 90,3 | epigrammate, quod M(arcus) Varro in libris qui sunt de lingua Latina refert: | ||||||
| 41b16 | f | 90,3 | book 3 | 572 | m: | ||
| II 90,4 | «tua amica senex». | ||||||
| II 90,5 | inuenitur etiam nequam, quod est indeclinabile trium generum, tam | ||||||
| II 90,6 | comparatiuum quam superlatiuum, ut nequam nequior nequissimus. | ||||||
| II 90,7 | ab aduerbiis [uero] deriuata in ra desinentibus mutant ra in er et | ||||||
| II 90,8 | accepta ior faciunt comparatiuum, ut extra exterior, intra interior, ultra | ||||||
| II 90,9 | ulterior, citra citerior, infra inferior, supra superior. similiter in | ||||||
| 41b24 | g | 90,9 | book 3 | 34 | similiter: | ||
| II 90,10 | erior faciunt post et ante posterior et anterior, prope uero | ||||||
| II 90,11 | propior facit et detero deterior. a saepe aduerbio positiuum uel | ||||||
| 41b27 | h | 90,11 | 41b4 | book 3 | 543 | sepe: [‘i.e. that a nominal positive should be made of saepe as of extra etc.’] [analysis] | |
| II 90,12 | comparatiuum nomen non legi, superlatiuum posuit Cato nepos de | ||||||
| 41b29 | i | 90,12 | book 3 | 572 58 | cata nepos: | ||
| II 90,13 | actionibus ad populum, ne lex sua abrogetur: «facite uobis in | ||||||
| II 90,14 | mentem ueniat, Quirites, ex aere alieno in hac ciuitate et in aliis | ||||||
| 41b30 | k | 90,14 | 41b5 | book 3 | 211 3112 | quirites: [‘Romans!’] [analysis] | |
| II 90,15 | omnibus propter diem atque fenus saepissimam discordiam | ||||||
| 41b30 | l | 90,15 | 41b6 | book 3 | 211 | (propter) foenus: [‘for profit’] [analysis] | |
| II 90,16 | fuisse». | ||||||
| II 90,17 | prior et primus quaeritur an sit comparatiuus et superlatiuus: et | ||||||
| 41b32 | m | 90,17 | book 3 | 543 | comparativus: | ||
| 41b32 | n | 90,17 | book 3 | 543 | superla[tivus]: | ||
| II 90,18 | dicunt quidam, quod, cum ordinis sunt, differentiam numeri significant; | ||||||
| 41b34 | o | 90,18 | 41b7 | book 3 | 543 | differentiam: [‘i.e. (it is) distinction of order in number that is in them and accordingly they are nouns of order’] [analysis] | |
| II 90,19 | sicut enim alter de duobus et alius de multis dicitur, [sic] prior de | ||||||
| 41b34 | p | 90,19 | 41b9 | book 3 | 541 | alter: [‘alter is a name for duality: it is the first number that varies from unity’] [analysis] | |
| 41b34 | q | 90,19 | 41b8 | book 3 | 541 | (alter) de (duobus): [‘similarity and analogy’] [analysis] | |
| II 90,20 | duobus [et] primus de multis dici solet. inuenitur tamen saepe prior | ||||||
| 41b36 | 90,20 | book 3 | 4141 4143 | invenitur: | |||
| 41b36 | r | 90,20 | 41b10 | book 3 | 4228 | tamen: [‘i.e. though it is a distinction of order in number which is in them’] [analysis] | |
| 41b36 | s | 90,20 | 41b11 | book 3 | 541 | prior: [‘i.e. they are names of quality here, and they are compared’] [analysis] | |
| II 90,21 | pro melior positum et tunc sine dubio habet uim comparatiui, et | ||||||