Questions tagged [ablative]
For questions about the ablative case.
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Can an "ablativus qualitatis" be a subject?
I was (re)reading Pinkster's (1982) interesting paper "The use of the so-called ablativus qualitatis in the function Praedicativum", a pdf version of which is directly downloadable at this ...
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How would you say "on", as in "the processor in the computer you are watching this on"? Would "via" be a good choice? Does it go with ablative or gen?
In a video I recently published, I said this:
Dum in lyceo eram, designabam linguam programmaticam cum nomine AEC, abbreviatio ab Arithmetic Expression Compiler, et scripsi compilerem qui transducit ...
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Confused as to whether dative or ablative
I'm reading through Abelard's Historia Calamitatum and came across the sentence: Quo audito, avunculus et consanguinei seu affines eius opinati sunt me nunc sibi plurimum illusisse, et ab ea moniali ...
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Ablative use confusion
In translating Gregory of Tours, I came across a use of the ablative that I'm not sure what kind of ablative it is or how to translate it literally. The sentence is:
Exaudit ille; nec mora, secure ...
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(Why) is the phrase "sede vacante" in the ablative?
The Latin phrase sede vacante (vacant seat) refers to the time when a Catholic episcopal see is vacant, as is currently the case for the papacy. It looks like this phrase is in the ablative case. Is ...
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Accusative with Adverbial Function
In the Latin sentence Trabes inter se distant binos pedes, the translation is The beams are two feet distant from each other.
In the English sentence, two feet functions adverbially, describing the ...
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ambobus? (a morphologically peculiar adjective with a peculiar syntax here)
There is a very famous passage in the Aeneid that narrates its hero looking at some pictures of the Trojan War, which he barely escaped from:
Miratur. Videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas,
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Another wife named Keturah?
Consider Genesis 25:1 from the Vulgate:
Abraham vero aliam duxit uxorem nomine Cetthuram …
Which of these does it mean? Or is it ambiguous?
Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
Abraham took ...
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Meaning of "virō" in description of Lavinia
On p. 29 of Roma Aeterna by Hans Ørberg, book II of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, is this passage from a simplified Latin, solūtīs versibus (prose) rendering of Book II of the Aeneid:
Faunō mortuō,...
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Reason for ablative case in "praesidioque decorique parentibus esse"
In Lucretius II 641–643
"aut quia significant divam praedicere ut armis
ac virtute velint patriam defendere terram
praesidioque parent decorique parentibus esse."
I am not very comfortable ...
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Why do we write “cum marito eius” (cum + abl+ gen.) and not “cum marito ei” (cum + abl+ abl.)?
Pline wrote this sentence:
“Sunt mihi et cum marito eius Minicio Iusto, optimo viro, vetera iura; fuerunt et cum filio maxima, adeo quidem ut praetore 5 me ludis meis praesederit”.
I don’t understand ...
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Why ablative "natu" is used in these expressions?
In the novella Filia regis et monstrum horribile, by Andrew Olimpi, I have read (emphasis mine):
Fīlia prīma nātū est puella pulchra. Sed fīlia secunda nātū pulchrior est quam soror sua. [...] Fīlia
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Usage of ablative in a sentence by Curtius
This text comes from Quintus Curtius Rufus Historiae Alexandri Magni, book 3, chapter 5 (emphasis mine):
Mediam Cydnus amnis, de quo paulo ante dictum est, interfluit. Et tunc aestas erat, cuius ...
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Why ablative "corporibus" and "funeribus" are used in this excerpt from Tacitus "Annals" XVI?
In Tacitus Annals XVI, 13, one can read (emphasis mine on the words that cause me difficulty):
Vastata Campania turbine ventorum, qui villas arbusta fruges passim disiecit pertulitque violentiam ad ...
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Domino notus erat: Agent ablative without a preposition?
I am reading the LLPSI excerpt of Rhetorica ad Herennium (in LLPSI: Sermones Romani, Chapter Ostentator Pecuniosi). Near Line 64, Ørberg wrote a margin note:
pro notitia domini: quia domino notus ...
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