Questions tagged [participle]

I'm in Latin III and my teacher recently provided us with this example sentence to translate: Poetā ad mensam vocante, versus scribentur. Because the participle "vocante" is active the sentence seems to mean "With the poet calling to the table,…

Having noticed here that excidere, "to fall out", lacks a perfect participle, a reasonable deficiency given that it's intransitive and has no corresponding passive meaning, I checked Wiktionary's page for its root cadere and found passive forms,…

I am translating the following from Cicero, De Amicitia VI.22: Nam et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores. The participles are first-person, singular nominative so I think that they should modify…