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Parsing a present perfect participle
I just started learning Latin and am currently reading roma aeterna and came across the following sentence:
Romani cotidie in thermas illas celebres lavatum eunt
AFAIK this could mean both:
The ...
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What is the relation and history of 'si' and 'sic'?
Lewis and Short tell me that sic comes from si by adding the particle -ce.
I can understand sice wearing down to sic, but I do not quite understand how I am supposed to understand the meanings of the ...
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How can I intensify a phrase?
In everyday English, obscene words like "fuck" and "hell" have been somewhat semantically bleached into intensifiers. For example, "fucking ridiculous" and "weird as hell" are common idioms that aren'...
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Omission of a repeated verb in second part of a μέν ... δέ
This question is about the Greek equivalent of sentences like
I do not fear the Greeks, but I do fear the Romans.
Socrates didn't write dialogues, but Plato did.
These sentences use or imply the ...
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(Greek) what's a "γε causal"?
I read in the very beginning of Platon's Laches (perseus edition):
τεθέασθε μὲν τὸν ἄνδρα μαχόμενον ἐν ὅπλοις, ὦ Νικία τε καὶ Λάχης: οὗ δ᾽ ἕνεκα ὑμᾶς ἐκελεύσαμεν συνθεάσασθαι ἐγώ τε καὶ Μελησίας ...
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When does si mean "that"?
In the Vulgate (Acts 26:22-23), I came across the following:
...nihil extra dicens quam ea quæ prophetæ locuti sunt futura esse, et
Moyses, si passibilis Christus, si primus ex resurrectione
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Ne ... quidem with preposition
What would be the translation of: He does not play even with his brother?
Could it be: Ne cum fratre suo quidem ludit?
Normally I have seen the structure ne ... quidem with a noun in the nominative ...
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Meaning of "quod si"
I'm having trouble with quod sī. L&S offers, under the definition of quod,
With other particles, as si, nisi, utinam, ubi, etc., always with reference to something which precedes (very freq.), ...
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How to swear by a god?
Suppose I'd like to invoke a deity for mild profanity: the equivalent of "yes, by Zeus!" or "no, by Zeus!".
I know that in Attic, μά + accusative was fairly neutral; a simple μὰ τὸν Δία, possibly ...
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Where to put the enclitic -ne?
The enclitic particle -ne can be used to form a binary (yes/no) question.
I would like to know how attaching it to different words changes the meaning of the question.
I have a clear idea of how it ...
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Combining verbs with ecce or en
I am puzzled about the syntactical role of ecce and en.
I feel comfortable using them with nouns (ecce camelopardalis meus, "here is my giraffe" or "look, my giraffe"), and I would like to know if ...
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How to say "as" emphatically?
Consider the sentence "Marcus spoke as a manager".
Imagine that Marcus was speaking at a company event, and he gave his speech as a manager, not as a coworker — as a representative of the ...
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Are causal relative clauses stylistically preferred to causal clauses?
In Latin a relative clause can be causal and the causal nature can be emphasized with quippe, ut, utpote or praesertim.
A causal relative clause can always be replaced with a causal clause, but not ...
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Does "ad" have its origin in Hebrew/Semitic languages?
The sources I've read usually say that 'ad' (i.e., in 'ad infinitum') is derived from Proto-Indo-European *ád ("near, at"). However, they don't refer any Semitic origins.
But here's an excerpt from ...
