Puellæ, aliæ aliis prælucere student:
Girls endeavour to outshine one another.
And yet they make light, as much as they can, of each other’s charms and accomplishments.
Intempestive parum longe prospicienti Doctori adlusit.
He joked unseasonably on the short-sighted Doctor.
Johnson was not so short-sighted as to be blind to a joke.
Not a few of the verbs mentioned in the last rule, sometimes change the dative into another case; as
Præstat ingenio alius alium:
One exceeds another in ability.
