"stephen arndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Stewart wrote:
>
> The caption is in Latin: "Forma Chelyos utravis Minuritonibus apta, sed
> Prima resonantior."
..
> "Forma . . . utravis" = either shape (of the two). (utervis, utravis,
> utrumvis = which of the two you will). I would say that in the first part of
> the sentence either the copula is suppressed ("Either shape of the viol [is]
> suitable for divisions") or, perhaps more probably, the construction is an
> ablative absolute ("Either shape of the viol being suitable for divisions").
>
> Not that it really matters.
Nevertheless, your first choice meets the case. The copula is omitted.
Abl abs would require perf participle.
--
Mathias
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