Socrates taught Xenophon and Plato geography, astronomy, and the use of the globes.
Q. How may a waterman answer the polite interrogation “Who are you?” correctly, and designate at the same time, an educational institution.
A. By saying A-cad-am-I.
The foregoing rule (not riddle) holds good, unless the reason of a different construction requires it should be otherwise, as
Emi librum centussi et pluris:
I bought a book for a hundred pence, and more,
“100d. are 8s. 4d.” —Walkinghame.
The conjunction, quam, than, is often understood after amplius, more, plus, more, and minus, less, as
Amplius sunt sex menses:
There are more than six months.