<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>Lenore Rouse <<a href="mailto:rouse@cua.edu">rouse@cua.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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OK I take back my earlier view on this. I think John is right, but 9<br>
times out of 10 "seu" does introduce an alternative title. Not sure what<br>
this example was meant to illustrate but another example might be more<br>
helpful.<br>
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On 10/16/2011 4:03 PM, John Attig wrote:<br>
> I wouldn't rely on my Latin expertise, but it seems to me that this is<br>
> a case of two adjectives connected "seu" rather than two titles -- and<br>
> thus is not an alternative title.<br><br>
>> Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis Anglicane : cu[m]<br>
>> subtilissima interpretatione d[omi]ni Johannis de Athon</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Most definitely not an alternative title! The two adjectives "legitime" and "legatine" which are joined by "seu" both qualify the noun "Constitutiones"; the sense of seu here is something like "or, if you like".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Without any hard evidence, I would guess that "seu" appears more often in medieval Latin than in classical or Renaissance (classical-modelled) usage.</div><div><br></div><div>In a true alternative title, the sense of both halves should be essentially parallel; either half should be able to stand by itself as a citeable title.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hal Cain</div><div>Melbourne, Australia</div><div><a href="mailto:hegcain@gmail.com">hegcain@gmail.com</a></div></div>