Questions tagged [predication]
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On the (alleged) ambiguity of "Fabricius a subsellis demisso capite discesserat" (Cic. Clu. 58)
Some Latinist scholars (e.g. Lavency (1986) and Longrée (2014), i.a.; see the full references at the bottom of this post) have noted that the following example from Cicero could in principle be ...
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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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Grammatical structure of "Obsidibus imperatis centum hos Haeduis custodiendos tradit"
@Mitomino points out in this comment that my understanding of what modifies what in the sentence shown below from De Bello Gallico (VI.4.3) is mistaken. I'll diagram my understanding below. Can you ...
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