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To: TaxRelief

Auctare is the frequentativum to augere. Like in rising again and again and again...


70 posted on 01/29/2005 8:29:50 AM PST by floridarolf
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To: floridarolf
I don't think it is from auctare but is rather the past participial form of augeo. Cf passage from Clodius Albinus:

Quae familia hodie quoque, Constantine maxime, nobilissima est et per te aucta et augenda...

73 posted on 01/29/2005 8:39:22 AM PST by Blennos (hoste, opto ut seis felicior.)
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