Hi all, emerging from my memories Cato's sentence was:
"Ceterum censeo Carthago delenda esse",
where Carthago (3rd-declination) is the subject becouse the sentence is
in passive form.
WINDOOF, like Carthago, is a foreign term to original Latin and then it
goes to the 3rd-declination too, so I believe the sentence is:
"Ceterum censeo WINDOOF delenda esse".
Hoping off-topic humour can be nice to both rtl and can-list, bye,
Christian
Dirk Petry wrote:
>
> Peter Staudt wrote:
> > >
> > > PS: Ceterum censeo WINDOOF delendam esse.
> >
> > I never took latin but isn't this ^^^^^^ WINDOOFem ?
> >
>
> According to what is left from my 9 years of Latin at
> school:
> The original quote is from the roman politician Cato
> and reads
>
> "Ceterum censeo cartaginem esse delendam."
>
> (Apart from that I think Cartago should be destroyed.)
>
> With this sentence he ended each of his speeches at the
> senate - even if the speech had nothing to do with Cartago -
> because he thought that the empire of Cartago was the biggest
> threat to the roman empire. Finally the Romans destroyed
> Cartago, but I think Cato didn't live to see that.
>
> WINDOOF is probably not consonant declination but
> rather u-decination, i.e. the accusative in this
> "accusativum cum infinitivo" should end in "um".
> Therefore the correct version is
>
> "Ceterum censeo WINDOOFum esse delendam."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirk ;-)
>
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