Questions tagged [dative]
For questions about the dative case.
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Dative of personal pronouns
Hi! I am a complete beginner in Latin.
On Duolingo, they have this sentence: Nomen ei est Stephanus.
Aren't we supposed to use sibi here? Why not? (Since Duolingo says ...
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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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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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Why is dative used in this sentence?
The following sentence appears in lines 12-14 of chapter XX of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana:
Sī māter īnfantem suum ipsa alere nōn potest sīve non vult, īnfāns ab aliā muliere ...
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Why is "ad eum" and not a dative pronoun used in this sentence?
This is a sentence in lines 153-154 of chapter XVIII of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana:
Cum pater tuus abest, oportet tē epistulās ad eum scribere.
Is there any reason why ad eum (...
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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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Why is accusative pronoun "te" used in this construction?
In lines 137-138 of chapter XIII of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana one can read:
Iam necesse est tē dormire.
I don't understand why the accusative pronoun tē is used in the above ...
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Is This Noun in the Dative or Ablative
I was reading the last chapter of Fabellae Latīnae, "Puer Barbarus", when I came across this sentence:
Dāvus: Laetāre quod tibi licet in lūdum īre – mihi puerō non licēbat.
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Greek "datives of agent" in Latin classical prose?
When including the following poetic examples from Horace and Ovid in what turned out to be a long answer to a previous post on datives of agent, I made this hesitant remark: Perhaps I'm wrong but I'd ...
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Any idea what's going on with the middle term of this dedication?
So I think the words are clear enough—Nobilissimo Principi FREDERICO GEORGII ffilio Celsissimi, GEORGII Nep: Augustissimi, CAESARI destinato, M. BRITANNIAE spei, Delicijs, Animaq. desideratissimae, ...
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Can I use a dative gerund for: thank you for helping me?
Actually I came across multiple situations in my thoughts where i came across the words 'for + verb' amd always wonder how to translate them.
'thanks for helping me'? Is an example though. Can i use a ...
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The active and passive infinitives are said to be from locative and dative nouns, respectively: why?
According to this post, the active infinitive was formed as the locative of nouns based on verbal stems. Why was the locative used for the infinitive, rather than, say, the accusative?
The noun genos/...
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On the analysis of "mihi" in "Praesidium mihi in perpetuum comparatum est" (Cic. Cat. 3.12.27)
I was wondering about the correct analysis of the dative mihi in the sentence Magnum enim est in bonis praesidium quod mihi in perpetuum comparatum est, which is included in the text below from Cic. ...
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How to analyze and translate "non se luxu neque inertiae corrumpendum dedit" (Sal. Jug. 6)?
By taking a look at various translations of the sentence in bold below, which is excerpted from a famous portrait of Jugurtha by Sallust, one could infer that the datives luxu (cf. luxui) and inertiae ...
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