Re: Denarii = D = Penny


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 04, 2003 at 19:13:18 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Denarii = D = Penny posted by Katharine Edgar on September 04, 2003 at 18:29:04:

No.... have I got this wrong? I was thinking of the nominative case - do we need a genitive here? I seem to remember something vaguely about ablative of price and genitive of value. Is that what makes it an -i ending?

Why does this irresistibly conjure up an image of Nancy working at her Latin holiday tasks to keep the GA sweet?



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