On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §509

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — drowning grasp; Greek 'enter judgment' ≠ begin-to-be

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PLAC. After the manner of those who are drowning, the learned man seizes whatever meets him: but in vain. For grant that the phrase eis to dikasterion eiselthein among the Greeks signifies to begin a suit, does it follow that the same verb constructed with any other noun is used for 'to begin'? Will, for example, eiselthein eis ton oikon, or eis ten polin, be to begin a house or a city, or so to begin to be in a house or city, that you were not there before?

Latin

PLAC. More eorum qui submerguntur, obvium quodque arripit vir doctus: sed frustra. Significet enim phrasis εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον εἰσελθεῖν apud Graecos incipere litem, num sequitur, idem verbum cum quovis alio nomine constructum pro incipere usurpari? Num ex. g. εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὸν οἶκον, vel εἰς τὴν πόλιν, erit incipere domum vel urbem, aut ita incipere esse in domo vel urbe, ut antea non fueris?

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. Caput IX (eph-ho / eph-ho pantes) before eph-ho / eph-ho pantes, reconstructed from IA PDF page images with Vision OCR and pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

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IA deimputationepri00lapl. Densify: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14 tip. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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