[Leica] Chandos, How Could You!!!!

[cmbrow at wm.edu (Chandos Michael Brown)]

Hardly gibberish, Marc:

"aetat, aet
abbreviation of aetatis, abbreviation of anno aetatis suae, 'in the year
of his or her age'; aged."

This usage is so common among early modern and modern portraitists and
engravers as to require no footnote.  See, for example:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/algonquian.html

I don?t pretend to be a classicist, but I've encountered this
abbreviation in so many eighteenth-century images, manuscripts, and
texts that I'm entirely comfortable in reproducing it, your derision
notwithstanding; I will confess, though, that I found Daniel's little
lesson enlightening.


Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Marc
James Small
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:49 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Chandos, How Could You!!!!

At 01:26 AM 8/26/04 -0400, Chandos Michael Brown wrote:
>For one glorious summer, aetat 17 or thereabouts, I derived the whole
of
>my income from wedding photography.  Does that count?


Chandos

And you an academic and educated and all of this!  

Of course, this should have been "?tate 17".  Daniel Ridings will
undoubtedly correct me, but I believe that this is an ablative of
reference
(aka, ablative of respect), that that final "e" is vital to make the
point:
 "at the age of 17".  What you wrote is gibberish in both English and
Latin.

Pray, do not continually let the side down, brother:  ask for advice,
and
it will be freely forthcoming, before you make a howler such as the one
you
just made.

Marc

msmall@infionline.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



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