N.B. Tu es unus alius, is not good Latin for “You’re another,” a phrase more elegantly expressed by “Tu quoque.”
TU QUOQUE.
There are some adjectives that remind us of lawyer’s clerks, and, by courtesy, of linen-drapers’ apprentices. These may be termed articled adjectives; being declined with the articles hic, hæc, hoc, after the third declension of substantives—as tristis, sad, melior, better, felix, happy.
It is not very easy to conceive any thing in which sadness and comicality are united, except Tristis Amator, a sad lover.
TRISTIS AMATOR.
Melior is not better for comic purposes. Felix affords no room for a happy joke.
Decline these three adjectives, and others of the same class, according to the following rules:
If the nominative endeth in is or er, why, sir,