Linne or Linnaeous question

[Curtis Clark]

At 17:39 2004-02-17 -0700, Robin Leech wrote:
>The name "Linnaei" is genitive, and when it moves to the nominative case,
>it becomes "Linnaeus".

Carolo Linnaeo is, iirc, dative: "to (or for) Carl Linnaeus".


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