[Milton-L] Milton's Name: Latinized Spelling?

[Erick Ramalho]

Dear Carter Kaplan,
 
Milton’s name is latinised in more than one way throughout his works: Miltonius, Miltonus and Milto (the latter is particularly interesting, for it would resemble a nominative form coined with one less syllable than the genitive, thus drawing from forms existing in Latin and Greek, such as libertas, libertatis). All of these are of course nominative forms.
 Miltonem is the accusative form of the name (i.e. when it appears, by and large, as the object in a sentence), mostly observed after the preposition ‘ad’ as in Ad Joannem Miltonem, that is, “to John Milton”).
 
 
Regards,
 
Erick Ramalho


--- On Wed, 24/9/08, Sanford Blackburn <antinomian2 at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Sanford Blackburn <antinomian2 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Milton-L] Milton's Name: Latinized Spelling?
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 24 September, 2008, 1:23 PM




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Ther latinized spelling of Milton's name:  "Miltonem?" How do we regard this spelling?
 
Many Thanks,

Carter Kaplan



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