Rhamsesis
Latin
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Rhamsesis m sg (genitive Rhamsesis); third declension
Usage notes
[edit]- The form Rhamsesis occurs in some editions of Gaius Plinius Secundus' Naturalis historia lib. 36 in the wording "Rhamsesis autem". Some editions have:
- "Rhamsesis autem" (ed. Iulius Sillig, 1851; ed. D. Detlefsen, 1873)
- "Rhamses is autem" (ed. Ludovicus Ianus, 1860)
- "Rhamses autem is" (ed. Iulius Sillig, 1836, giving Codex Bambergensis as source for Rhamses and mentioning Ramises, Ramisesis, Ramiseis, Famisesis as variants)
- "Ramises autem is" (ed. Joannes Harduinus, 1784; ed. Emerico-David & [Gabriel] Delafosse, 1831)
- Alfred von Gutschmid cited it as "Rhamessis (Rhamsesis cod. Bamb.) autem" with Rhamessis resembling Ῥαμέσσης (Rhaméssēs) and called Rhamsesis a wrong reading.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Rhamsesis |
| genitive | Rhamsesis |
| dative | Rhamsesī |
| accusative | Rhamsesem |
| ablative | Rhamsese |
| vocative | Rhamsesis |
Further reading
[edit]- “Rhamses”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press