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Is there a Latin construction for "she must be" as in "I bet she is"/"She probably is"?
Say my friend is supposed to meet me, but she's late, and I think it's because she was reading, I might say, "She must have been reading."
Is there a way to express this in Latin other than something …
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Quid velit "Quid tibi vidétur dé [aliquó]" dícere?
Epistólió in electronicó quídam mihi sic scrípsit: "Quid tibi vidétur dé Epistuliís Leónínís?" (Epistulæ Leónínæ acta sunt hebdomadália ab eó missa, quás nóndum vídí.)
Sententia (síve phrasis) "Quid …
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Latin for "worth a hundred times its weight in gold"
I'm trying to figure out how to say something is "worth a hundred times its weight in gold" in Latin, and everything I come up with feels cumbersome, unLatinate, and unclear. Hoc textīle centuplex pre …
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Quōmodo v. Quā ratiōne
I'm looking at a Latin translation of the Apology of Socrates by Marcellus Ficinus and I'm puzzled by the very first clause.
Quā vōs quidem ratiōne, Ō virī Athēniēnsēs, affēcerint accūsātōrēs meī, …
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Is "ræda in fossá est" an actual Latin saying/metaphor?
I heard this on a podcast the other day to mean that the conversation had gotten stuck. I looked it up and it seems to be a reference to the textbook Ecce Rómání, in which a cart gets stuck in a ditch …
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"vel" in Tusculan Disputations V.iii
In the Tusculan Disputations V.iii, Cicero writes about Pythagoras declaring that life seems to him like the great Greek games:
Nam ut illic alii corporibus exercitatis gloriam et nobilitatem coro …
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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.), but …
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