vocativus

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τοῖς πράγμασιν γὰρ οὐχὶ θυμοῦσθαι χρεών· μέλει γὰρ αὐτοῖς οὐδέν· ἀλλ' οὑντυγχάνων τὰ πράγματ' ὀρθῶς ἂν τιθῇ, πράξει καλῶς → It does no good to rage at circumstance; events will take their course with no regard for us. But he who makes the best of those events he lights upon will not fare ill.

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

vŏcātīvus: a, um, adj. voco,
I of or belonging to calling: casus, the vocative case, in gram., Gell. 14, 5, 1 sq. al.—As subst.: vŏcātīvus, i, m., the vocative case, Charis. p. 11 P.; Prisc. p. 671 ib. al.