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Friday, March 20, 2020

H. P. Grice, P. H. Nowell-Smith, J. O. Urmson, and P. F. Strawson: The desideratum of conversational appositeness

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1. Fitpropersuitableappropriateapposite, etc. (like aptus, q. v.; hence in MSS. freq. interchanged with it; cf. Spald. ad Quint. 3, 11, 9); constr. with ad (in this signif. very freq. in Varr. and Cic.; “elsewhere very rareperhnot found except in Quintand Gell.): ager ad vitem adpositus,” Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 5: “loca adposita ad faenumad vinumad oleum,” id. ib. 1, 23, 1: “equus ad medendum adpositus,” id. ib. 2, 7, 5: “(gallinaeadpositissimae ad partum,” id. ib. 3, 9, 9; “2, 10, 4: menses ad agendum maxime appositi,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 112, 5, 41 fin.id. Att. 3, 14: “multo appositior ad deferenda,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 57: “argumentatio appositissima ad judicationem,” id. Inv. 1, 14. —*

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