Questions tagged [nominativus-cum-infinitivo]
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Is this really a nominativus cum infinitivo? "Parentes adire…prohibentur"
This worksheet by Robin Meyer offers the following sentence as an example of a nominativus cum infinitivo:
Parentes adire ad filios prohibentur. (Cic. Ver. 2.5, 117)Parents were prohibited to see ...
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Verb + esse + predicate nominative
Pueri debent esse boni
Habitus vero mediocritatis intelligitur esse liberatio hominis a dispositionibus subiectibilibus
Why are boni and liberatio nominative? It seems to me that they ought to be ...
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Nominativus cum infinitivo
Can somebody please tell me if my translation for the sentence: "It seems that the slave is carrying a letter." is correct?
Videtur servus epistulam portare.
videtur - 3rd person present ...
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Is the complement of esse in nominative or accusative when esse is a subject?
Suppose I want to say something like "I like being a human".
There are undoubtedly several ways to phrase that in Latin, but I want to do it so that it the subject is "to be a human".
The complete ...
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