Questions tagged [case]
For questions about grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative and vocative). Consider also using the tags 'declension' and 'morphologia'.
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In Psalmi 22:6, why is "omnibus diebus" in the ablative, but "in longitudinem dierum" is in the accusative?
Et misericordia tua subsequetur me
omnibus diebus vitæ meæ ;
et ut inhabitem in domo Domini
in longitudinem dierum.
Psalmi 22:6
Why is the omnibus diebus in the ablative, whereas in longitudinem ...
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"Possum" complement: accusative or predicative
What is the case of the complement for possum?
For example, in the following sentence:
Viri boni et sapientes miseri esse nunquam poterunt.
Could one use miseros instead?
From the book I'm studying ...
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Problem with cases in a passage from Virgil
This is a description of Scylla, the sea monster, found in the Aeneid (3.426-428) :
Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore uirgo
pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix,
delphinum caudas utero ...
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Confused with "per āera" in "Familia Romana"
This occurs in the following sentence: "...ille vir audāx per āera effugere cōnstituit." I don't understand why "āera" is not in the accusative case here.
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Is ἴκελος ever attested with the genitive in place of the dative
This question arises from Sappho LP 96 lines 5-6, which are lines 4-5 of its source parchment, and, in the source, read:
Ϲ€Θ€Α . ΙΚ€ΛΑΝΑΡΙ
Γ . ωΤΑϹΑΙΔ€ΜΑΛΙϹΤ̣€ΧΑΙΡΕΜΟΛΠΑΙ̣
The ending is pretty clearly ...
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I can't find a nice literal translation for "Stella caeli exstirpavit"
It is a famous Catholic prayer:
Stella caeli exstirpavit
Quae lactavit Dominum
Mortis pestem quam plantavit
Primus parens hominum.
The first line just doesn't make sense to me and apparently ...
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On the case of "patientia nostra" in Cicero
Very straightforward. I don't know any dictionary of latin regencies, so I come here whenever these questions rise up.
In the famous quote:
Quousque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
we have ...
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When does a Latin relative pronoun get "attracted" into the case of its antecedent?
Generally, a relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender and number, while its case is determined by its grammatical function in the relative clause, e.g.
Do pecuniam filio [dat.] quem [acc....
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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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What is the correct analysis of the personal dative in the so-called "double dative constructions"?
The so-called “double dative construction” contains a "dative of purpose" (e.g. maxumo terrori in ex. (1) below) and a personal dative (e.g. Numantinis in (1)) that turns out to be affected ...
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Shouldn't this *illis* be in the genitive *illorum* in here?
In the famous Caesar's sentence:
*Perfacile factu esse illis probat conata perficere, propterea quod ipse suae civitatis imperium obtenturus esset: non esse dubium quin totius galliae plurimum ...
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About the nominative on "dimitte nobis debita nostra"
The phrase
dimitte nobis debita nostra
belongs to the famous prayer Our Father in Latin.
I can understand that dimitte is in the active imperative singular form and nobis is on dative of "us&...
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Why "quod" and not "quo" is used here?
In chapter XXII of Lingua latina per se illustrata: Colloquia Personarum, I have read the following sentence (emphasis mine in the word I find difficult to understand):
Hic anulus ex auro puro factus ...
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What's the role of the pronoun "iis" in this context?
In lines 48-52 of chapter XVI of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana one can read:
Merīdīes dīcitur ea caelī pars ubi sōl merīdīe vidētur; pars contrāria septenriōnes appellātur ā septem ...
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What's the grammatical role of "mille passus" in this sentence?
In chapter XII of the 2003 edition of Lingua latina per se illustrata, one can read the following sentence (lines 93-94):
Aemilius in castrīs habitat mīlle passūs ā fīne imperīi.
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