§344. Genitive of Material
The Genitive may denote the Substance or Material of which a thing consists (cf. § 403):—
| talentum aurī, a talent of gold. | flūmina lactis, rivers of milk. |
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.