====== Elegant variation in the RDCG ======

RDCG is characterized by elegant variation: even when the translation keeps close to the original, Marulić avoids repeating the same Latin words. Let us illustrate the point with transformations of a recurrent notice "and then the king died". A single Croatian verb, "umrijeti" ("to die"), is translated by the following: //uita defungi; defungi; mori; diem claudere extremum; mortem obire; uita decedere,// etc.

===== 291 =====

   * <fc red>CC	Mejutim //umri// kralj Bladin</fc>
    * <fc grey>In the meantime //died// king Bladin</fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	Interea Bladino rege uita //defuncto//</fc>

===== 311--312 =====

   * <fc red>CC	I //umri// Ratimir</fc>
    * <fc grey>And //died// Ratimir </fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	Etenim haud ita multo post //moritur// Ratimirus</fc>

===== 375 =====

   * <fc red>CC	I ta //umri// kralj Satamir</fc>
    * <fc grey>And then //died// king Satamir</fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	Cum ergo //defuncto// rege Satimero</fc>((Note also a different sentence opening: Croatian "and" is rendered in 311--312 by "etenim"; here it is subordinated, as an ablative absolute, to a temporal "cum ergo".))


===== 692-694 =====

   * <fc red>CC	I potom blaženi kralj kraljeva lit četrdeset i miseci tri s voljom <onogaj> ki sve može.</fc>
    * <fc grey>And thereafter the blessed king ruled years forty and months three by the will of the one who everything can.</fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	Rex autem ipse Budimerus anno a sua unctione quadragesimo, mense III.</fc>

   * <fc red>CC	I imi u starost svoju sina.</fc>
    * <fc grey>And had in old age of his a son</fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	--- --- ---</fc>

   * <fc red>CC	I sedminade<se>te dan //umri// na devet miseca marča </fc>
    * <fc grey>And on the seventeenth day he //died// on the ninth of the month of March</fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	//diem clausit extremum//</fc>


===== 719 =====

   * <fc red>CC	I potom ispustiv <dušu> //umri// kralj.</fc>
    * <fc grey>And thereafter having released the soul //died// the king</fc>
   * <fc blue>RDCG	Cumque in omnibus sese summa cum laude gessisset //mortemque obiisset//</fc>