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————224 SYNTAX.—GENITIVE. § 106340.—EXPLANATION.—Under this rule, <strong>the</strong> latter substantive in <strong>the</strong>genitive or -ablative must denote apart or property* <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> former, o<strong>the</strong>rwiseit does not belong to this rule. <strong>The</strong> latter substantive, also, has commonlyan adjective joined with it as in <strong>the</strong> preceding examples, though this is notessential to <strong>the</strong> rule and sometimes it is found without it 'j ; as, Homo nihili.*341.— Obs. 6. <strong>The</strong>re is no certain rule by which to determine when<strong>the</strong> genitive is to be used, or when <strong>the</strong> ablative, though in some phraseswe find <strong>the</strong> genitive only is used ; as, vir imi subsellii, " a person <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>lowest rank;" homo nullius stipendii, *'a man <strong>of</strong> no experience in war"(Sall.) ; magni formica laboris,

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