Re: Meet photos

"Gareth McCaughan" <Gareth.McCaughan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Simon Crouch wrote:

[me:]
Wouldn't "dilecto" have to agree with "schola" rather than "municipio"
in that case?

[Simon:]
I don't think so - if "municipio dilecto" is an ablative absolute with
dilecto a perfect passive participle.

Ah yes, the ablative absolute. Having forgotten its very existence,
I failed to think of it. :-)

But, um, can an a.a. be connected to the rest of the sentence
in the way your proposals would require?

That's a very good question! In classical latin, probably not - but later
forms allowed all sorts of variations. As I imply, without a clear main verb
in this/these sentence(s), it's difficult to parse.

Simon,
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