Questions tagged [relative-pronouns]
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Can the ablative of agent and a relative pronoun be used at the same time?
Here is an example of an ablative of agent for living things:
"Puella a puero amata" = the girl loved by the boy
But is it correct if I add a relative pronoun to form:
"Puella quae a ...
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Can 'quod' refer to the previous speaker?
It is quite common to start a Latin sentence with quod, referring to the matter discussed in the previous sentence.
In a dialogue, can one use it to refer to the previous thing even if it was uttered ...
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Redundancy of “quo” with “de”
Passage: “Quo de genere mortis difficile dictu est.” Cic. Amic. 12
English translation (from Loeb): “It is hard to speak of the nature of his death.”
French translation : “Quant à la nature de sa ...
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How did “what” become “because”?
Two of the most common words for "because" in Latin are quod and quia, both of which began as neuter forms of quī "who". (At some point quia got replaced with the feminine plural quae, though I don't ...
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How to find the object of reference of a latin relative pronoun?
In De Bello Gallico, book 1, chapter 1, it starts as follows:
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae,
aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli
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Concerning the use of relative pronouns
The relative pronoun quem in the following seems to function in a way that I wouldn't normally associate with relative pronouns:
Et accipiens puerum, statuit eum in medio eorum: quem cum complexus ...
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Is the female accusative singular relative pronoun quem or quam?
This grid on Wiktionary gives quem for the singular feminine accusative of the relative pronoun quis.
According to books by Kennedy, Gwynne and Henry Cullen this should be quam.
Please can you tell ...
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What is the difference between “ubi” and “in quo” as relative adverbs?
Let's start with some example sentences:
This is the house where I was born.
Ecce domus ubi natus sum.
This is the house in which I was born.
Ecce domus in qua natus sum.
Both sentences ...
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Why is the relative pronoun put in the dative case? why feminine? (Greek)
I was a little stumped, here, when I came across the feminine relative pronoun ᾗ.
ἴσως δή, εἶπον, παρὰ τὸ ἔθος γελοῖα ἂν φαίνοιτο πολλὰ περὶ τὰ νῦν
λεγόμενα, εἰ πράξεται ᾗ λέγεται.
καὶ μάλα, ἔφη.
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Is a relative pronoun commonly used as a third person pronoun? (Metamorphoses I.583-587)
In this short passage by Ovid, the pronoun "quam" seems to be used as a third person pronoun.
Inachus unus abest imoque reconditus antro
fletibus auget aquas natamque miserrimus Io
luget ut ...
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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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Is ūnō a relative pronoun in this sentence?
I can't understand what ūnō means in this sentence, or what grammatical role it provides:
uxor quae bona est ūnō uirō est contenta.
The sentence is from page 70 of A Latin Grammar by James ...
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Pyramus et Thisbe: did their parents forbid what they could not? Ovid, Metamorphoses IV.61
The Latin Library has the following punctuation for lines 60–62 of book IV of Ovid's Metamorphoses, describing how Pyramus and Thisbe fell in love but were forbidden from marrying by their parents:
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Indefinite relative clauses in indirect discourse
What is the most idiomatic way of expressing in Latin a sentence containing an indirect statement, which itself contains an indefinite relative clause?
To start with the direct version: consider a ...
