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Confused with "per āera" in "Familia Romana"
This occurs in the following sentence: "...ille vir audāx per āera effugere cōnstituit." I don't understand why "āera" is not in the accusative case here.
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What's the grammatical role of "mille passus" in this sentence?
In chapter XII of the 2003 edition of Lingua latina per se illustrata, one can read the following sentence (lines 93-94):
Aemilius in castrīs habitat mīlle passūs ā fīne imperīi.
I understand its ...
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Use of accusative instead of ablative with 'pro'
I saw written in a coat of arms "PRO MARE NOSTRVM", but we all know that the preposition "pro" takes ablative, so the right form would be "PRO MARI NOSTRO" wouldn't it?
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Regarding the mode of "terram" in Deuteronomy 28:38
Deuteronomy 28:38 reads:
Sementem multam jacies in terram, et modicum congregabis: quia locustæ devorabunt omnia.
I think the first phrase before the comma has the following structure (but ...
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