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Grammar of rogatum auxilium, askee modified instead of asker
Joonas is right that this is a supine (one that is common in Caesar and other authors), but I also want to clarify one further point in your question. Rogatum cannot go with legatos because even if it ...
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Grammar of rogatum auxilium, askee modified instead of asker
The word rogatum is the accusative form of the supine.
The supine is a verbal noun (like an infinitive1) rather than a verbal adjective (like a participle), so it need not agree with any other word in ...
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Why "quod" and not "quo" is used here?
A relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender and number. Its case is determined by its role in the relative clause.
In this case, quod agrees with ferrum in gender (neuter) and number (...
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Use of the passive in Caesar "agros populabantur" to indicate state of action
As Sebastian noted, populor is a deponent verb: it has a passive form but an active meaning. Deponent verbs can take direct objects in the accusative, so the translation is indeed:
they were ...
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Is "impossibile" an adjective in "ad impossibile nemo tenetur"?
To pull together the comments into one answer: the term is adjectives used substantively (or some variation on that). You can read all the rules and get into the examples in Allen and Greenough § 288.
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Should these "vellus" be "vellerum"?
Vellus is a neuter noun, and neuter nouns have the same form in both the nominative and accusative cases.
The proper accusative singular of vellus is vellus. Vellerum, meanwhile, is the genitive ...
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Is "impossibile" an adjective in "ad impossibile nemo tenetur"?
It is the first: an adjective used as a noun: that which is impossible. For example: certum est quia impossibile ("It is certain since it is impossible") --Tertullian.
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What's the role of "atque" in this sentence?
Yes, the sentence should end with a question mark. Maybe Ørberg is playing a little loose with punctuation.
The role of atque does not seem particularly mysterious to me: tantus atque tam pulcher ...
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Interpretation of a causal clause in the subjunctive, A&G 5.40
Nescio quid is an idiomatic phrase more or less equivalent to aliquid. The verb (nescio) has lost its syntactical function as a verb. Any good dictionary should provide examples under nescio.
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Why is "cum" used in this sentence from "De Bello Gallico"?
It's a temporal cum clause. See section 545 in Allen and Greenough.
longius bidui...aberant cum ... cognoscunt. ("they where not farther away than two days journey... when they noticed that ...)
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Haec verba tandem mercātōrem perturbātum aliquid cōnsōlāri videntur
ACI and NCI
Consider this sentence:
Haec verba mercatorem consolari video.
I see that these words comfort the salesman.
It's an accusativus cum infinitivo.
When turned passive, it becomes a ...
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Why feminine is used in "haec locuta"?
By reading the sentence without the explanation from the note that adds "est", I would consider it a joint participle with a temporal value (as mentioned in the other comments, having said ...
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