habent quasdam proprietates. ‘Interest16’ et ‘refert’ genitiuo solent adiungi omnium casualium absque supra dictis17 quinque pronominibus, pro quorum genitiuis ablatiuos ponimus possessiuorum, ut ‘interest’ et ‘refert mea’… ‘Cuia’ quoque infiniti possessiuum cum supra dictis uerbis pro genitiuo primitiui ponitur. Cicero pro Vareno: ‘ea caedes si potissimum crimini[1] datur, detur ei, cuia18 interfuit…’ cuius gentile19 non solum ‘cuias,’ sed etiam ‘cuiatis’ proferebant communi genere. Plautus:
Sed si quem forte tangit, quod in fine sit ‘cum’ praepositio21, in compositione autem plus dicatur ea pars ualere, quae in fine fit22, sciat, quod23 coniunctiones et praepositiones et aduerbia uim nominum uel pronominum ante se positorum in compositione non motant24 ut …‘totidem25, idem, tantundem,’ cuius genitiuus solus ex obliquis inuenitur, ‘tantidem26’…quod quamuis uideatur pro ‘eiusdem’ poni27, tamen significat quantitatem, quae in pronomine esse minime potest,
P. 203b
quod substantiam solam…significat1. ‘Tantundem’ ergo nihil aliud significat nisi relationem et similitudinem quantitatis, quod etiam si posset pro ‘idem' accipi, non tamen iam et pronomen esset2.
16: it hé inso inna briathra, atá coitchennas tra itar indi brethir so in immognom 17: ni fognat friangenitnesidi[3] 18: isadi[4] ꝉ ablatiuus .i. darorbai .i. is ái in cin quasi cuius ꝉ ablatiuus pro genitiuo ut supradicti · 19: isa immchomairsnech ceniuilsidi indí as quis 20: .i. inpaseir .i. indechenéul paseir 21: ascum 22: isdí ɔétet ind rann bís hitossuch 23: cesued insin asgnáth 24: inrandatid 25: tot ⁊ demum dlúthe chomsuidigtheo tuicc · i · nind 26: inna oenaméite 27: tarhéssi[5] eiusdem ⁊ ni bí sem són immurgu calléic
P. 203b
1: apronomen asberr eiusdem ⁊ cach pronomen dano chene is folud persine inchosig 2: ni bad pronomen airi
16. these are the verbs. There is a community then between these two verbs in construction. 17. they are not construed with their genitives. 18. it is his, or an ablative, i.e. it has come to him, i.e. his is the crime quasi etc. 19. it is the gentile interrogative of quis. 20. of the passer, i.e. is it of the genus of the passer? 22: the part of speech that is at the beginning is in subjection to it. 23. though that is usual. 24. as respects parts (of speech). 25. from tot and demum: closeness of composition has put the i into it. 26. of the same size. 27. in place of eiusdem, and yet, however, that is not.
P. 203b
1. the pronoun eiusdem and every pronoun besides, ’tis the substance of a person that it signifies. 2. it would not therefore be a pronoun.
