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Translation of a Line from Caesar's De Bello Gallico 5.29
I am currently having trouble working through a line from Caesar's De Bello Gallico
Cottae quidem atque eorum, qui dissentirent, consilium quem habere exitum?
Currently, I have this as "Indeed what result was the advice of Cotta and of those who…
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Job 5.7 in the King James version
This extract from the novel 'Three Men in a Boat' refers to Job 5.7:
This world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
I hoped to quote the source, expecting to find it in the Vulgate, — but it's not so…
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Niveus and nivosus
I would like to compare the two adjectives niveus and nivosus derived from nix, "snow".
My prior understanding of these words was that niveus is "snow-white" and nivosus is "snowy", but L&S tells me that also niveus means "snowy".
My guess is that…
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Quid significat "-amen"?
Quid suffixum -amen significat, ut foramen, putamen, calceamen, regimen, æquamen, vocamen, etc.?
-amen suffixo in dictionariis interretialibus non invenio, neque perspicuam significationem communem in verbis eo factis. Foramen est id quod est factum…
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Greek & Latin words from ANE languages excluding Biblical Hebrew
Seeing this question made me curious if there's an already-compiled list of words of Ancient Near Eastern origin, hopefully excluding all those borrowed from the Hebrew Bible or other Hebrew/Aramaic works through translation (though I'm not picky if…
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How do you say "grumpy" in Latin?
I would like to say, "I am a grumpy dog," since I did not get my proper sleep last night. I have a few guesses about "grumpy", but these are only guesses. I looked up "grumpy" on Whitaker's words and found nothing. I looked up "irritable" and found…
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Are there Latin puns?
This may seem like a lame question without much thought, and it really is, but did any (mainly Classical because we're all brainwashed into believing that this is the optimal stage of Latin, but other ages accepted,) authors use words that sound…
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How would you translate the exclamation, "How morbid!"
I would like to exclaim in Latin, "how morbid!" This came up because just recently I read something morbid. But how would I say this? I am guessing that this is possible:
Quam morbidus!
But when I made this guess, I wasn't sure which gender to…
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How does "recte admones" mean "you do well to remind me"?
When reading this question's accepted answer about phrases for forgetting, I saw the phrase recte admones translated as "you do well to remind me". But, doesn't that mean "you remind directly"? I don't understand how this phrase was translated or…
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On Julius Caesar and salmon
I saw a TV documentary today which claimed that salmon was named in Latin by Julius Caesar.
It was a side remark, but the narrator elaborated that he saw this fish in Gaul and gave it its name due to its leaps.
However, I did not manage to find…
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What would "I Discover" be in Latin?
I need the Latin for "I Discover" - as in "I learn new things, by gathering information about it and/or trying it myself (by trial and error)".
I've looked for it in several online dictionaries, but several different suggestions shows, and I don't…
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3rd Principal Part of *refero*
The Latin word for "report" is refero, referre, rettuli, relatus. At first, I thought that rettuli, with 2 t's, was a typo, but it actually appears that retuli, with just 1 t, is the uncommon form in comparison.
This seems rather strange to me,…
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Using cases with jubilare
I heard a song using the phrase jubilate Deo, and it seems that this phrase appears in a psalm as well.
I assume the Deo/Domino is a dative.
On the other hand, the L&S entry for jubilare also mentions the accusative usage me jubilat.
So, it seems…
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Which mora of a stressed long vowel or diphthong bears the emphasis?
When a stress falls on a long vowel or a diphthong as in, for example:
dīcō (IPA /ˈdiː.koː/)
coepiō (IPA: /ˈkoe̯.pi.oː/)
should I think that the emphasis:
falls on the first mora,
falls on the second mora,
is evenly distributed between the two,…
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Do singular nouns connected by "and" require a plural verb? (Greek)
I'm translating another sentence from Plato's Republic, and I'm a little confused about why ἐδόθη (3rd sg aorist passive indicative) is not plural.
μουσικὴ μὴν ἐκείνοις γε καὶ γυμναστικὴ ἐδόθη.
ναί.
Plato's Republic, Book 5, section 452a
Shouldn't…
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