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From: "Rainer Thiel" <thielr@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
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Subject: Deus mei Erus (was: RE: Redneck Latin)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:50:08 +0200
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I am aware that in the meatime David Lupher has given the same answer, =
but since I had added some information about "sui" being used =
possessively, it may do no harm to still send my answer:


> What precisely is the problem that you have with this sign?=20
> The only thing that I see that is slightly off is the use=20
> of erus instead of the more common dominus

Well, I think what is strangest about "Deus mei Erus" is the use of =
"mei" (usually objective) as a possessive genitive. While at least in =
later Latin "sui" is quite commonly thus used, I can find no example for =
"mei" or "tui" in K.-St.

This doesn't mean there may no example at all for such a use, e.g. in =
mediaeval Latin. But it is certainly a most uncommon, and from the =
perspective of even late antique Latin un-idiomatic way to re-phrase the =
common Biblical "Deus dominus meus."

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