Re: 1st declension or Neuter?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> For the noun (or is it an adjective used as a noun?) evil in the
> following sentence should it be in the 1st declension, since it

refers to

> the fatherland (dative), or neuter (3rd declension)?:
>
> Superabunt mala nostra
> or
> Superabunt malas nostra
>
> (They will overcome the evils in our fatherland)
>
> -Michael
>

Maybe I don't know Latin well enough, but I don't see a dative case
here at all. Also I would traslate "Superabunt mala nostra" as "They
shall devour our apples". Latin can be confusing.

PeterP