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AFAIK plenus requires an ablative: like in “gratia plena” (full of grace), “pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua” (heavens and earth are full of your glory) etc
by pfortuny 9y ago
AFAIK plenus requires an ablative: like in “gratia plena” (full of grace), “pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua” (heavens and earth are full of your glory) etc...
- rileyphone 9y agoThe Wiktionary page for plenūs states it moved from the genitive to the ablative in later Latin (eg liturgical), so it seems your both right!
- tylerhou 9y agoPlenus can take an ablative (cf. Allen and Greenough, §409a) but it can also take an objective genitive (cf. §349a). I'm pretty sure the objective genitive is preferred (at least in poetry, according to A&G), but I could be wrong. Allen and Greenough: https://books.google.com/books/about/Allen_and_Greenough_s_New_Latin_Grammar.html?id=g41fAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books/about/Allen_and_Greenough_s_N..., see pages 216-217 (§349a) and 256 (§409a).