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

[Erick Ramalho]

  There’s no confusion in the nominative forms, although the suggestion is interesting and the topic a bit confusing itself. Both Milto and Miltonius are existing latinised nominative forms of the poet’s name. Milto is to be found in ‘Ad Salsillum poetam Romanum aegrotantem. Scazontes.’, amongst Milton’s Latin poems ("Haec ergo alumnus ille Londini Milto..." 9). As for Miltonius (as a nominative noun, although the hint at adjectival form is good), there’s an useful analysis at Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana, by Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns, John K. Hale and Fiona J. Tweedie. 
 
regards,
 
Erick Ramalho

--- On Wed, 24/9/08, Mario DiCesare <dicesare1 at mindspring.com> wrote:

From: Mario DiCesare <dicesare1 at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Milton's Name: Latinized Spelling?
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 24 September, 2008, 2:28 PM

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”).
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 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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