Questions tagged [conditions]
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If you do something long enough
In my answer to this recent question, I translated "when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you" as: si diu voraginem intuitus eris, etiam vorago te intuebitur. That is, ...
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Oblique cases and 'si quis'
It is convenient to formulate conditions with si quis, for example:
Si quis me audiet canentem, non gaudebit.
If anyone hears me singing, they will not enjoy it.
Here the same unnamed person is the ...
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Subjunctive Protasis and Aorist Indicative Apodosis
ἐὰν μή τις μένῃ ἐν ἐμοί, ἐβλήθη ἔξω ὡς τὸ κλῆμα ... (John 15:6)
μένῃ is present subjunctive and ἐβλήθη is aorist indicative. In many grammar books, there are two types of conditional sentence which ...
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Imposing Conditions On The Conditional
North & Hillard p.157: Footnote (1): "Moreover in Impossible Conditions, if the verb of the apodosis is possum, debeo, oportet, or a gerundive (or any verb expressing obligation or possibility), ...
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Wondering how to translate imperfect subjunctives (in a conditional sentence)
I have to translate this sentence for homework:
si verba patris a liberis non audita essent, timerent.
I believe the verb form in both the protasis and apodosis is imperfect subjunctive. I am ...
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Irreal condition expressed by a prepositional phrase
In English one can say:
Without you I would not be here.
This is roughly the same thing as:
If you had not helped, I would not be here.
The exact wording depends on context.
In the second ...
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Translation of would
I found some examples of conditional clauses whose translation may include the word "would". They are:
Si Marcus Iuliam amet, ea eum amet.
If Marcus should [perhaps ever some day] love Julia, she ...
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What if...? (Interrogative conditionals)
In English, "what if...?" is a succinct way to ask what would happen if some counterfactual happened to be true.
Is there an idiomatic equivalent in Latin? The sequence of tenses gives plenty of ...
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Greek: syntax of dilemmas in the past
I want to find out how Greek expresses the protases of conditions like the following:
What was I to do? If I remained in Athens I would be killed; if I left, I would lose all my property.
This is ...
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What does a "si" clause followed by a "nisi" clause mean?
In the Vulgate Bible, I came across this sentence.
Vivit Dominus Deus Israel, in cuius conspectu sto, si erit annis his ros et pluvia, nisi iuxta oris mei verba.
[As] the Lord God of Israel lives, in ...
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Can a relative adjective begin a conditional statement in Attic Greek?
In my textbook, there's a chapter on conditional relative clauses, in which it explains how relative pronouns and adverbs, especially when they are indefinite, can form the protasis of a conditional ...
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Verb forms after "tamquam si"
In Suetonius's Vita Horati, a letter from Augustus to Horace is quoted, which includes the sentence:
Sume tibi aliquid iuris apud me, tamquam si convictor mihi fueris.
The Loeb translation gives: "...