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

[Mario DiCesare]

There's a little understandable confusion here. "Miltonius" would 
presumably be an adjectival form. "Miltonem" would be the accusative 
form of "Milto" -- which I've never seen, though it seems a reasonable 
inference from "Miltonem" -- as in the phrase cited, "Ad Joannem 
Miltonem." Happily, we don't have to cope with all of this very often!

Cheers,

Mario A. DiCesare



Erick Ramalho wrote:
> 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/, /libertati/s). 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”).
> 
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> 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
> 
>     Ther latinized spelling of Milton's name:  "Miltonem?" How do we
>     regard this spelling?
>      
>     Many Thanks,
> 
>     Carter Kaplan
> 
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