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What is the meaning of "Ex Lux", the name of Lucifer Morningstar's new bar?
Lux can mean "light", and ex can mean "out (of)"; but that sign is wrong. The grammar is impossible; you can't just combine words like that in Latin.
To give you a feel of the type of wrongness, cons …
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What does cōcutit mean?
The line or mark of abbreviation above a vowel often stands for n or m in Mediaeval and Early Modern texts, so this is concutit, "pounds, shakes", possibly related to English quake. You will also find …
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What does the phrase "nec non" mean? (Metamorphoses I.612-614)
Necnon can be written as two words, "and not not"; it has a positive meaning because of the double negative. It can be translated as and with an appropriate adverb, such as and yet, and in fact. …
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"ne paelici suspectaretur" (Tacitus)
This can be read as a dativus auctoris. It should then be translated thus:
lest he should be suspected by his mistress / be suspect to his mistress
Common in gerundive constructions (hostis nobi …
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Why does a future passive participle have a sense of necessity?
In short: there is a tendency in many languages for words to shift in meaning between probability and desirability. …
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Meaning of *iuvenis*
A iuvenis was probably between the ages of the earliest adulthood and early forties, although the word could also be used more casually for anyone who was "youngish".
The Oxford Latin Dictionary (196 …
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What's the best translation of "vindice" in Met. 1.89?
The word comes from vim "force" and dico "say, tell, proclaim", resulting in a basic meaning "to assert authority, to enforce". The translation "enforcer" therefore comes to mind first. …
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Can Latin "inde" introduce a temporal clause?
What your question really seems to be about is whether inde can serve as a subordinate conjunction, like dum, cum, etc., introducing a subordinate clause, to be translated as "when" or "while". You as …
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