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Did I translate this Latin prayer to St Michael the Archangel correctly?
A recent question (related to Catholicism) on Christianity SE has an answer which contains a Latin prayer to St Michael the Archangel. I posed a question on the meaning of part of that prayer, but wanted to make sure I was translating it correctly.…
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"Condere vaginae gladium" – locativus?
Salvete congerrones eruditissimi,
modo legi in lexico Latino-Germanico a Henrico Georges confecto (opus Germanicum illi a Lewis & Short conscripto simile atque satis compar) sub lemmate «vagina» verba haec:
condere vaginae (Lokativ) gladium
⋯ quae…
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When did Old Latin develop initial stress?
The stress system of Classical Latin is thought to have been preceded by a period of fixed initial stress. When did that earlier system arise, replacing the inherited Proto-Indo-European mobile accent?
The evidence for initial stress is the…
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Meaning of "τρίχας" in Anacreon's Περι Γέροντος
Here's a poem from Anacreon's Odes:
ΠΕΡΙ ΓΕΡΟΝΤΟΣ
Φιλῶ γέροντα τερπνόν,
Φιλῶ νέον χορευτήν.
Γέρων δ᾽ ὅταν χορεύῃ
Τρίχας γέρων μὲν ἐστιν,
Τὰς δὲ φρένας νεάζει.
From what I've found, τρίχας is the accusative plural of θρίξ (hair). But I don't know…
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How to pronounce "Roterodamus"?
The adjective roterodamus means “of Rotterdam” (the city in Holland). To lovers of Latin, unless they entertain an unusual interest in Dutch geography, the word is familiar probably primarily because of Erasmus of Rotterdam (Erasmus Roterodamus).…
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Word order in Virgil's Aeneid - why so scrambled?
I can understand why Virgil would like to use standard devices like chiasmus and synchysis to create poetic effect in the Aened. But sometimes the word order is scrambled up so much, I can't work out what poetic effect would be achieved with this?
I…
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What is Peniculus insinuating with his reference to Samian crockery?
Introduction and question
Pl. Men. 1.2.71.
Pēn.
Metuis, crēdō, nē forēs sămiae sient.
Pēniculus
You fear, I believe, that the doors may be Samian*.
* By [Henry Thomas Riley][1] translated as ‘of Samian crockery’.
By context, it appears that…
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Is the 'i' in 'videt' long or short?
I am currently reading Ørberg’s Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, where he thankfully makes use of the macron to distinguish long vowels form short ones. However, and I have seen this elsewhere as well, he writes videt without a macron on the i,…
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Why is this a correct sentence: "Iūlius nōn sōlus, sed cum magnā familiā habitat"?
In Familia Romana Cap. 5 there is this sentence:
Iūlius nōn sōlus, sed cum Aemiliā et cum magnā familiā in vīllā habitat.
I'm struggling to understand why this sentence is grammatically correct. Since sōlus is an adjective, it cannot be used to…
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Can "celare" take an accusative?
This came up in Duolingo: the sentence "The girl is hiding cookies under her dress" is translated by the app as "Puella crustula sub stola celat". However the question has been raised in discussion: could it also be "Puella crustula sub stolam…
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Quis opera Ciceronia partivit in capitula intervallaque?
Accidit permirum mihi in nunnullis operis Ciceronibus legendis numeros capitulorum et intervallorum alteros ab alteris dissentire. Exspectem unum capitulum ex pluribus intervallis consistere, et unumquodque totum et integrum continere. Sed ita non…
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Use of the gerund in the Vulgate bible
I was reading Luke 10:25 in the Vulgate bible, trying my best to translate as literally as possible. But I found it hard to translate the question that the expert of law (legisperitus) poses.
(Vulgate) Et ecce quidam legisperitus surrexit tentans…
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The interjection "o" with different cases
I recently came across o beatum te in a letter and I was surprised that accusative was used instead of vocative.
Lewis and Short indeed indicate that the interjection o can be used with vocative, accusative, nominative, and genitive.
Examples are…
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Inveniturne participium futuri activi in ablativo absoluto?
Constructio ablativi absoluti, quae vocatur, frequenter affirmatur constare ex nomine in casu ablativo et participio, quod cum nomine congruere debeat. Tria autem genera participiorum habet lingua Latina, ut sciunt di hominesque: Primum participium…
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How do I know where to place macrons?
How do I use macrons? I understand what they do and how they do it, I just don't understand how you know when and where to place them.
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