Questions tagged [syntax]
Syntax are the rules for how sentences and phrases are constructed in a language, including word order and how words change based on their relations to other words (snl.no/syntaks).
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Is "necesse est tibi esse placidus" valid classical Latin?
Say we want to say: "you should be calm", could we use "necesse est tibi esse placidus" -- at first it sounded little odd, but on a second consideration perhaps that's fine? I was ...
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How would you ask "Why should I get vaccinated against a disease that I don't know if it is real with a vaccine I don't know is safe?" in Latin?
How would you ask "Why should I get vaccinated against a disease that I don't know if it is real with a vaccine that I don't know if it is safe?" in Latin?
My attempt would be: "Cur ...
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Bellum Gallicum I Specific Translation
"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur."
In the first part of the sentence "...
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How is Petrarch using an ... an in this passage?
In Invectiva contra quendam magni status hominem, Petrarch complains that his former friend, who used to be very complimentary of him, has recently been calling him ignorant. Petrarch asked what has ...
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Exercitia Latina, Ch. 16: "...nāuigantī..."
My question stems from a task of comprehension from the exercises for Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata Familia Romana.
What is the grammatical class of "nāuigantī" in the following excerpt ...
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If a Latin sentence cannot end in a preposition, how would you say "I have never seen that before." in Latin?
If a Latin sentence cannot end in a preposition, how would you say "I have never seen that before." in Latin?
Would you say something along the lines of "Numquam illud vidi ante hoc ...
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Sentence without a verb
After finishing Haury's Latin translation of The Little Prince, namely Regulus, I found another Latin version by Alexander Winkler. In Chapter 1, I noticed this sentence (in boldface):
Semper vero ...
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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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On the (alleged) ambiguity of "Fabricius a subsellis demisso capite discesserat" (Cic. Clu. 58)
Some Latinist scholars (e.g. Lavency (1986) and Longrée (2014), i.a.; see the full references at the bottom of this post) have noted that the following example from Cicero could in principle be ...
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What is μέγεθος referring to in Jewish War 3.4
In the Jewish War chapter 3.4, it says:
μόνον [οὖν] εὑρίσκει Οὐεσπασιανὸν ταῖς χρείαις ἀναλογοῦντα καὶ τηλικούτου πολέμου μέγεθος ἀναδέξασθαι δυνάμενον
"He found only Vespasian a match for the ...
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Do these Latin phrases make sense?
So I am working on a phrase I want to put on a piece of apparel I am making. The phrase in English has two lines. In English, the lines are as follows:
"The Church must always be reformed" ...
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"Qui meus tuus apud te locus, qui tuus velim ut meus"
In Letter XI of the apocryphal correspondence between Seneca and Saint Paul, the following passage is found
Haut itaque te indignum prima facie epistolarum nominandum censeas, ne
temptare me quam ...
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"Ut optimus quisque unum pro multis donatum est caput"
In this passage taken from the apocryphal correspondence between Seneca and Saint Paul (Letter XII):
Grassator iste, quisquis est, cui voluptas carnificina est et mendacium velamentum, tempori suo ...
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If blood speaks, DNA is its voice
I'm trying to come up with a motto that pays homage to my forensic background. I'm considering sanguis ipso loquitor. Before I carve it into wood, I want to make sure I've not blundered grammatically.
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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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