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Why is the infinitive used instead of a genitive gerund (e.g. "consilium ceperunt ex oppido profugere")?
I was wondering about the grammatical reason(s) whereby a(n expected) genitive gerund/gerundive is sometimes replaced by an infinitive. Here are some representative examples of this phenomenon:
postero die consilium ceperunt ex oppido profugere.…
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Did the Romans have a Latin word for 1000 years?
Did the Romans have a specific word to imply 1000 years? Millennium is Latin, of course, but it's later Latin and I'm trying to find something more classical. There are more general words for periods of time, but I haven't found anything that is…
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Qui mihi decipulus?
In Archie Armstrong's Banquet of Jests (1641), the following passage occurs:
A Gentleman and a Parson.
Some pleasant Gentlemen riding by the High-way, espyed a Countrey Parson before them. Sayes one of them, yonder is a Scholler, let us mend our…
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What is a War Like?
In the film, "Go Tell the Spartans" (1978), U.S. Major Asa Barker asks young Corporal Courcey why he has volunteered to spend the last six-months of his military service, fighting in Viet Nam. After some hesitation the Corporal mumbles: "Well,…
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When do we add -NE when asking a question?
There are some times that you use
QUID EST
or
UBI EST
Which I assume are known as a question starting point.
But then there are verbs that you add a NE at the end to make the other person know you are asking.
AMBULABIMUSNE
Which I assume it…
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Trying to translate "Master Thyself" into Latin
"Know thyself" or "temet nosce" is a well known Latin term meaning to look deep into yourself and really understand who you are.
I would like to know how to say "Master thyself" in the sense of now that you know yourself, are you disciplined enough…
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Stacked/Consecutive Genitives
For example, the way of the cross in Latin is via crucis, but how would one go about saying the beginning of the way of the cross? Would both via and crux be in the genitive, yielding principium viae crucis? Is this usually how consecutive genitive…
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Plural of axis mundi
The phrase axis mundi is used frequently in archaeology and art history to describe certain places as a "world center" or "center of the universe" in Indigenous or ancient/historical thought. How would this phrase be correctly pluralized? For…
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A question on line XV.167 of Ovid's Metamorphoses re 'eque'
My question concerns the use of the word 'eque'. As far as I can see it is the vocative of 'equus' but that clearly doesn't make sense and I can find no other meaning of the word in the dictionary. Perhaps it is a typo for
spiritusque feris…
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Do vocative forms of participles exist?
I wondered if the vocative forms of participles really exist.
E.g. the vocative of vocatus would be vocate, same with vocaturus and vocature.
Both forms can be found on pages like Wiktionary (vocate, vocature).
A quick search on packhum shows that…
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Is There a Latin Euphemism for "Dying"/ "Dead"?
One of Joonas's old Qs. has made a welcome return: Is there a Latin euphemism for going to the toilet?. This brought to mind the fatuous things we say about death: "He's passed over."; "He's passed on."; currently in vogue; "He's passed."; this…
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How did people describe flags and banners using Latin?
This is my first time on the forum, so If there's any tips to get my question answered feel free to share.
I have been working on a Minecraft resource pack that changes the Latin setting, hopefully making it a little better. This project obviously…
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Help me understand this Latin "Dad Joke"
The Paideia Institute's In Medias Res magazine recently published a compilation of “Thirteen Dad Jokes from Ancient Rome.” Dad jokes are apparently supposed to be particularly cheesy jokes and puns (the lowest form of humour).
The jokes are…
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Construction with ecce
According to the usual authorities the particle ecce is construed with the accusative in pre-classical Latin, but with the nominative in classical and post-classical Latin. Thus, Lewis and Short: “(constr. class. with nom. or clause, and ante-class.…
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How do you say "in the year of the plague" in Latin?
We're putting up a large sundial, which already has a suitable latin motto, but given COVID, under the date would like to add a small submotto with the phase "in the year of the plague".
Having learnt latin as a child I believe the closest…
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