Participles, when they become nouns, require a genitive case, as--

Vectigalis appetens, linguæ profusus:

Greedy of _rint_, lavish of blarney.

Exosus, hating, perosus, utterly hating, pertæsus, weary of, signifying

actively, require an accusative case, as--

Philosophus exosus ad unam mulieres:

A philosopher hating women in general,

_i.e._ a Malthusian.

Exosus, hated, and perosus, hated to death, signifying passively, are

read with a dative case, as

Com[oe]di sanctis exosi sunt:

The comedians are hated by the saints.

We mean the spiritual Quixotes, or Knights of the Rueful Countenance. We

"calculate" that they will be the greatest patrons of rail roads,

considering their dislike to the _stage_.

Natus, born, prognatus, born, satus, sprung, cretus, descended, creatus,

produced, ortus, risen, editus, brought forth, require an ablative case,

and often with a preposition, as--

Taffius, bonis prognatus parentibus, cerevisiam haud tenuem

de sese existimat:

Taffy, sprung of good parents, thinks no small beer of himself.

De Britannis Antiquis se jactat editum:

He boasts of being descended from the Ancient Britons.

_Q._ Why is the eldest son of a King of England like a Leviathan?

_A._ Because he is the Prince of _Wales_.

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