New answers tagged grammar-identification
11
votes
Accepted
"quae haec mihi dōna dedistī"
Quae in that sentence is feminine nominative singular: Now help me, O Venus, who gave me these gifts!
The verb is in the second person because it refers to the second person. The syntactic structure ...
- 20.8k
6
votes
Accepted
Can someone explain this construction?
libur pro "liber" false positum (cf. hanc editionem)
Alma dies = dies propitius, faustus, secundus
mystam (cf. Graece μύστης) = sacerdotem
fac imitere - imitor is a deponent verb, so all its ...
- 4,551
2
votes
Accepted
Sentence in Rhetorica ad Herennium
You understand the syntax correctly, although the fact that your translation isn't intelligible English leaves some doubt.
iste quī sē dīcī dīvitem putat esse praeclārum <=> “praeclārum est cum ...
- 5,202
Top 50 recent answers are included