Questions tagged [classical-latin]
Questions concerning Latin of the classical era, approximately 75 BCE to 300 CE
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How common is the caesura in Latin hexameter?
What percentage of classical Latin hexameter verses have a caesura?
Any kind of partial answer, as in the percentage for the third book of the Aeneid, would be very welcome.
In fact, I suppose the ...
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About the ancient words for China: Sinae/Σῖναι
The word Sinae (or alternatively Chinae) is not rare in post-Classical Latin texts, and it is the standard word for modern China in New Latin, along with the derivative adjective form Sinicus (e.g. ...
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(hexameter) caesura which unites two words?
In many Latin hexameters, the caesura is placed before a word in a certain case, and this word refers back to the last word of the line, which is in the same case. This phenomenon is extremely common; ...
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How to translate "glowing stone" to Latin?
my mother wanted to know "glowing stone" is in Latin. I had Latin back in high school and using Google Translate and using the Latin dictionary from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/, it ...
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Does the preposition in become 'īn' before words starting with s and f?
I ask this because when in operates as a prefix, the vowel lengthens and the n becomes a nasal marker before those letters s and f (i.e. īnsānus [ĩːˈsaːnʊs]; īnfantem [ĩːˈfantẽˑ]). This is also the ...
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How different is Roman Latin?
As I'm new to learning Latin, I am focused on Roman Latin as it fits well with my studies on the Romans & their culture. How different is Roman Latin to modern Latin? It would be helpful to me to ...
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Translating "my plan is working" into Classical Latin
I'm trying to translate... something I'd rather not disclose. One sentence, which I'm simplifying into "My plan is working", has given me trouble; specifically, the phrase "is working&...
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Caesar, de bello civili 1.11 grammar
The first part of 1.11 is:
Erat iniqua condicio postulare, ut Caesar Arimino excederet atque in provinciam reverteretur, ipsum et provincias et legiones alienas tenere;
I'm confused by why tenere is ...
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"... qui si iuvissent, se eodem loco quo Helvetios habiturum."
From De Bello Gallico, Book 1, Chapter 26:
Caesar ad Lingonas litteras nuntiosque misit, ne eos frumento neve
alia re iuvarent: qui si iuvissent, se eodem loco quo Helvetios
habiturum.
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Tacitus Annals 14.8
John Story's excellent recent commentary on Book XIV says the following is a conditional in indirect statement: "ac si ad visendum venisset. . . sin facinus patraturus [sc. venisset], nihil se de ...
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Tacitus Annals 14.7
tum pavore exanimis et iam iamque adfore obtestans vindictae properam, sive servitia armaret vel militem accenderet, sive ad senatum et populum pervaderet, naufragium et vulnus et interfectos amicos ...
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ut ... ita comparison
Acknowledging that the saying in all likelihood is not authentically Ciceronian, I quite like the sentiment understood to be expressed by the sentence:
ut conclāve sine librīs, ita corpus sine animā (...
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Why use the future perfect in this sentence of the Catholic Mass consecration?
At the end of the consecration of the Catholic Mass, the priest says (if the Mass is said in Latin): "Haec quotiescumque feceritis, in mei memoriam facietis". I understand the use of the ...
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What is the Latin translation of the English phrase, “what we do in life, echoes in eternity”?
My brother is looking to get this phrase tattooed in Latin, and asked me to find an accurate translation for him.
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