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Saint Augustine letter to Nebridio
Mittaturne is the verb mittatur + the -ne enclitic, which turns the sentence into a question. Mittatur should then be easier to parse: 3rd person, singular, present, subjunctive passive.
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Does studeo take the dative?
"Study" as you say is not the typical meaning in Classical Latin, at least when it has an object. When it lacks an object it fits better with the sense of "study." So I suppose you ...
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Have Late Latin texts using "ipse, ipsa, ipsum" as definite articles been found?
The Peregrinatio referred to in the answer you linked to does also use ipse in the way you describe. The Wikipedia article on Egeria references this, and it has a link to the actual text as well.
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Latin equivalent of derogatory Italian "frociaggine"
No noun form of either of those words is attested to my knowledge, but there are a few abstract noun-forming suffixes in Latin (-(i)tas, -ia, -itia), any of which would work with cinaedus or pathicus ...
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