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This isn't the royal "we", but is closest to what today is called plūrālis modestiae is Latin, the author's "we" in English. As Joonas mentions in the comments, this is an established feature of pan-E …

While Vegawatcher's answer is pretty comprehensive and largely on point, I prefer to phrase the translation differently: Aut tepentem aut frīgentem tē possum trādere. Here are my elaborarations: ther …

I think turpis is a good choice to mean "repulsive, dirty, shameful". To further express the "little" part one could use its diminutive - turpiculus - but this adds the connotation of indifference an …

Latin pronouns are a tricky topic. There are 3 degrees of proximity for demonstratives/determiners largely corresponding to the 3 grammatical persons: hic, iste, ille. hic is the 1st-person, "this he …

It seems you're looking for a conjunctive discourse marker that adds a revelant reservation B to statement A for the addressee to consider so as to make a more informed decision, but without presentin …

Oscar dixit matrimonium aliud esse rem in qua experientia spe obruatur. I would not understand this sentence, and the main culprit seems to be the syntax, which is in places English and in places in …

You've identified a number of distinct uses of this word all of which appear to have to do with modality. I'll try to list them all and give translation equivalents. Overall, Latin expresses non-asser …

Your choice of preposition is good ('instead of, on behalf of'), but rogāre fundamentally means 'to ask for something to be done', and hence 'to approach with a request; to solicit, proposition', esp …

'to cost more, less' is plūris, minōris (cōn)stāre, or vēnīre 'to be sold for' (conjugated as īre) note that these two adjectives along with quantī, tantī are only used in the genitive; all other pr …

malevolentia, despite Cicero's definition attempt, only refers to 'ill-will, spite', that is to a long-term, harboured attitude towards another; it's near-synonymous and used in conjunction with words …

Ok, this begs for a reprise on Ovid, so I've written one: Quot caelō stēllae || totidem annōs Auguriālis Augure lingua suō || vōce suā caruit Haec elementōrum || dīvīnā lēge beāvit Īnfantemque al …

Sī quidem vim ventī cum pluviā procellam vocāmus, licet istud procellam niveam seu nivālem dīcāmus. Atque hoc cōnferātur cum illō 'snowstorm' Anglicō quod idem fere quod 'blizzard' significat, aut cum …

bona pars used on its own indeed means "a great part", and in bonam partem (accipere, interpretārī) has the meaning as you describe; therefore the Latin expression doesn't suit us even though the same …

Because there can be only one predicate per clause and that is the verb profitēbantur, while aggressī is a participle, describing senēs and standing in for the clause "postquam aggressī sunt": "..when …

It's not true that the order of words could be anything any more than it's true that "Time flies like an arrow" could be understood in all the 11 different interpretations that one can read into it. L …