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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4532765, member: 75937"]Thank you so much for your comments, [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] and for supplying some important context for interpreting the legends on these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the inscriptions consist only of abbreviations and all of the inflectional endings are lost, so it's impossible without additional context to identify the nominative subject or to do proper exegesis of the dative case. </p><p><br /></p><p>You have provided essential context -- that SPQR is in the nominative -- by comparing its usage here to other coins in which the full inflectional endings are used. Knowing that SPQR is in the nominative, it must be the subject of the sentence and the dative must therefore be a <a href="http://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/dative-reference" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/dative-reference" rel="nofollow">dative of advantage</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have edited and corrected the relevant sections of the OP so as not to mislead readers who come across this thread in the future. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4532765, member: 75937"]Thank you so much for your comments, [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] and for supplying some important context for interpreting the legends on these coins. Of course, the inscriptions consist only of abbreviations and all of the inflectional endings are lost, so it's impossible without additional context to identify the nominative subject or to do proper exegesis of the dative case. You have provided essential context -- that SPQR is in the nominative -- by comparing its usage here to other coins in which the full inflectional endings are used. Knowing that SPQR is in the nominative, it must be the subject of the sentence and the dative must therefore be a [URL='http://dcc.dickinson.edu/grammar/latin/dative-reference']dative of advantage[/URL]. I have edited and corrected the relevant sections of the OP so as not to mislead readers who come across this thread in the future. Thanks again![/QUOTE]
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