Second concord.
The substantive and the adjective.
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A TEA SPOON. |
Adjectives, participles, and pronouns agree with the substantive in gender, number, and case, as
Vir exiguo conventui, sobrioque idoneus:
A nice man for a small tea-party.
The Spartans, probably, were men of this kind; their aversion to drunkenness being well known.
Observe how close the concord is between substantive and adjective. The ties of wedlock are nothing to it; for, besides that in that happy state there is very often not a little discord, it is quite impossible that man and wife should ever agree in gender.
Sometimes a sentence supplies the place of a substantive; the adjective being placed in the neuter gender, as
Audito reginam leones cœnantes visisse: