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11 questions linked to/from Memento quod <subjunctive>
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How do you say "I think she loves me" in Latin?
Im confused when it comes in two accusatives in indirect statements.
How do I say "I think she loves me" without sense of "I think I love her"?
I get the translation as - Cogito/...
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Translation for "Humbly yours in Christ"
I am trying to find the correct translation for, "humbly yours in Christ" to put at the end of a letter. Would the translation "humilitate tua in Christo" be somewhat close? I have ...
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Translation of the latin word 'sit' in Thomas Aquinas' works
Modern translations of medieval texts frequently translate the Latin verb 'sit' as he/she/it is. However, 'sit' is the subjunctive mood of the verb 'sum'.
In my view it should be translated as he/...
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"Memento rerum conditor..."
I am still working through the Parvum Officium and I am having a little trouble parsing the first verse of this hymn. I am pretty confident you people can straighten me out. The verse:
Memento rerum ...
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Use of accusative with operari in Opticae Thesaurus
In al-Haytham's Opticae Thesaurus, the following sentence (discussing what the first book will describe) confuses me:
Primum est quod lux per se et colores illuminati operentur in visum aliquam ...
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Subjunctive mood in comparison
In Spinoza's Ethics we see:
nihil in natura clarius quam quod unumquodque ens sub aliquo attributo debeat concipi
I know meaning of the sentence. My question is about debeat. Why is this verb ...
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Why the Perfect Subjunctive?
In this question, R.B. Jawad asked for a translation of two sentences.
The second of these:
"canuntur quando reversi fuerint et appropinquant regias ecclesie (sic)."
was translated by brianpck:
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(Informal) Indirect Speech
In Q: Memento quod <subjunctive> brianpck cited five examples from the Latin Vulgate (Fourth Century). Taking one of these:
"memento quod et ipse servieris in Aegypto et eduxerit te inde ...
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Use of the subjunctive in a quod-clause in Renaissance Latin
I am translating this sentence from Lawrence of Brindisi:
"quod autem omni gratia plena fuerit Maria, Spiritus Sanctus, qui fons est totius gratiae, multis ostendit in Cantico Salominis. Primo ...
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A Completed Action in the Mind OR Indirect Speech?
There are currently two theories (of which I am aware) to explain the use of the perfect subjunctive, in examples from the Latin Vulgate, included in brianpck's answer to Q: Memento quod <...
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Non obstante eo
What is the translation of "non obstante eo" in the context of this sentence? Also, is the rest of my translation accurate?
This is the original text:
De Gentilibus dicitur passim, quod rejectis ...
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