footnote

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Oct 20 11:21:03 EDT 1999


At 9:54 AM -0500 10/20/99, Perry L. Stepp wrote:
>In all the discussion yesterday, no one really pointed out (unless I
>completely skipped over it) the chief advantages of the NA over the UBS for
>most users, namely the extra apparatuses (apparatii?  apparatix?)  . . .

I guess we'd better stick with "apparatuses"--the Latin plural of
"apparatus" is  spelled the same as the singular (it's a fourth-declension
noun), but the U is short in the singular, long in the plural. The paradigm
is in Horace's Odes 1.39.1, where 'apparatus' is accusative plural (he's
expressing his disdain for alien luxuries at a banquet):

	Odi Persicos, puer, apparatus ...


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