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Re: what e pluribus unum REALLY means
Posted By: Sakura, on host 209.204.90.68
Date: Monday, December 4, 2000, at 18:08:42
In Reply To: what e pluribus unum REALLY means posted by MarkN on Monday, December 4, 2000, at 17:47:42:

>Pluribus is the comparitive form, not the positive.

May I ask you what your source was? I checked my dictionary and it seems that the -bus suffix is used for the plural dative or ablative forms, not comparative. Of course, I could easily be wrong... Just making sure.

Saku"Latin student"ra

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