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Is dative of possession used in interrogatives?
I did a Latin lesson and the phrase was:
Estne liber tuus?
Which apparently is supposed to mean "Is that your book?" However, I thought in such situations the dative is supposed to be used, ie, "Estne liber tibi?" literally "Is that a book to…
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Why "sibi" in "sibi conscius"?
Originally "conscius" meant "knowing something with someone, sharing the knowledge of something with someone". (Ref: Gaffiot Dictionnaire Latin Français).
This may explain why a pronoun ("sibi") was necessary to distinguish this first usage from an…
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Does relinquo take the dative?
I thought that normally relinquo takes the accusative, not the dative, so I am having a hard time figuring out the following sentence:
Ūsque ad vesperum currēbat, neque nocturnum tempus sibi ad quiētem
relinquēbat...
"He ran until evening, and did…
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Is this a dative of reference? Can it be translated as "of?'
Text is (for context):
Segregatio autem vel evocatio haec, electio sive selectio appellatur duplici fere de causa: vel, quia e communi hominum caetu populi saepe nonnulli aliis quibusdam certo consilio divino praeteritis et relictis, uti in…
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