f comparison; as,--
justitia numquam nocet cuiquam, _justice never harms anybody_;
si quisquam, Cato sapiens fuit, _if anybody was ever wise, Cato was_;
potestne quisquam sine perturbatione animi irasci, _can anybody be
angry without excitement?_
si ullo modo poterit, _if it can be done in any way_;
taetrior hic tyrannus fuit quam quisquam superiorum, _he was a viler
tyrant than any of his predecessors_.
5. Quisque, _each one_, is used especially under the following
circumstances:--
a) In connection with suus. See Sec. 244, 4, a.
b) In connection with a Relative or Interrogative Pronoun; as,--
quod cuique obtigit, id teneat, _what falls to each, that let him
hold_.
c) In connection with superlatives; as,--
optimus quisque, _all the best_ (lit. _each best one_).
d) With ordinal numerals; as,--
quinto quoque anno, _every four years_ (lit. _each fifth year_).
6. Nemo, _no one_, in addition to its other uses, stands regularly with
adjectives used substantively; as,--
nemo mortalis, _no mortal_;
nemo Romanus, _no Roman_.
PRONOMINAL ADJECTIVES.
253. 1. Alius, _another_, and alter, _the other_, are often used
correlatively; as,--
aliud loquitur, aliud sentit, _he says one thing, he thinks another_;
alii resistunt, alii fugiunt, _some resist, others flee_;
alter exercitum perdidit, alter vendidit, _one ruined the army, the
other sold it_;
alteri se in montem receperunt, alteri ad impedimenta se contulerunt,
_the one party retreated to the mountain, the others betook themselves
to the baggage_.
2. Where the English says _one does one thing, another another_, the Latin
uses a more condensed form of statement; as,--
alius aliud amat, _one likes one thing, another another_;
aliud aliis placet, _one thing pleases some, another others_.
a. So sometimes with adverbs; as,--
alii alio fugiunt, _some flee in one direction, others in another_.
3. The Latin also expresses the notion '_each other_' by means of alius
repeated; as,--
Galli alius alium cohortati sunt, _the Gauls encouraged each other_.
4. Ceteri means _the rest_, _all the others_; as,--
ceteris praestare, _to be superior to all the others_.
5. Reliqui means _the others_ in the sense of _the rest_, _those
remaining_,--hence is the regular word with numerals; as,--
reliqui sex, _the six others_
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