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Meaning of "virō" in description of Lavinia
As the Lewis & Short entry for maturus notes under meaning II.A, a common construction is maturus + dat., which means "ripe/ready for X."
It gives examples such as:
maturus bello = old ...
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How do you make a word in Latin a Dative case?
Look up the noun in a dictionary, which will list the nominative and genitive forms.
Compare these to a table of declensions (possibly contained in your dictionary) to identify which of the five ...
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Why is accusative pronoun "te" used in this construction?
These two sentences involve different analyses, which can be shown by using the following test: replacement of the infinitive (clause) by the neuter pronoun hoc. In the first example the infinitival ...
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What's the role of the pronoun "iis" in this context?
This is often called the Dative of the Person Judging (aka Dativus iudicantis; cf. also the "Dative of Relation": e.g. see this link), which is sometimes considered as a specific case of the ...
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Dative of personal pronouns
The difference between sibi and ei in this case is that sibi refers to the subject of the sentence – that would be nomen in this case, so would make no sense – while ei refers to some other person or ...
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The active and passive infinitives are said to be from locative and dative nouns, respectively: why?
The Latin infinitive parallels Sanskrit and Ancient Greek, sec. Allen and Greenough. It appears that in Proto-Indo-European there was a "dative of purpose or consequence" idiom. The ...
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Why is "ad eum" and not a dative pronoun used in this sentence?
I agree with cmw that it is useful to compare the predicative frame of scribere with that of mittere. Let's start with the "easier" case, i.e. the one of the verb mittere. In his Oxford ...
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Why is "ad eum" and not a dative pronoun used in this sentence?
This information is easily found in Lewis and Short, a comprehensive dictionary of Latin.
Under scribo (see the parts in bold):
So freq. of written communications, letters; usually with ad aliquem (...
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Why is dative used in this sentence?
I believe it's supposed to be Dative of Advantage.
So the alternate mother is of advantage ei to the baby.
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Why is dative used in this sentence?
I was just reading this chapter a couple of weeks ago. I thought the dative here when I read it worked like it does in English … “ in the place of a mother to the baby”- in English we would use “to…”, ...
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