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For questions about participles, such as "amans", "amatus" and "amaturus" from the verb "amare".
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In Greek, can an aorist participle be contemporaneous with a present main verb?
In Greek, aorist participles generally denote an action prior in time to that of the main verb. But they can denote contemporaneous action, in cases where the participle and main verb refer to the ...
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Why do emasculatus and effeminatus mean the SAME thing, despite being formed the SAME way with OPPOSITE morphemes? [duplicate]
The etymological constructions of emasculatus and effeminatus are identical:
emasculatus < ex- + masculus + -atus
effeminatus < ex- + femina + -atus
Since masculus and femina are opposites, ...
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LLPSI: Ch. 14, Ln. 38, "et oculo?s aperie?ns..."
My question stems from a passage of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata Familia Romana in chapter 14 on page 104 beginning at line 38 as follows.
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Does "aperie?ns" modify oculo?s even ...
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Meaning of a present participle in a verse of Vergil's Eclogue 8
I'm reading Vergil's Eclogue 8, 17–42 in the book Beginning Latin Poetry Reader by Gavin Betts and Daniel Franklin. The first verse is (I write only the long vowels macrons):
Nāscere, prāēque diem ...
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Is this a perfect passive infinitive with "esse" omitted?
The following sentence comes from lines 8-9 of chapter XXIII of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana:
Tantum sciō epistulam Tūsculō missam et ā tabēllariō ad tē lātam esse.
I'm trying to ...
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Why sōns but absēns?
The present participle of esse was (at one point) sōns, presumably from *h?sonts. However, when a prefix is attached, it becomes -sēns, as in absēns and praesēns.
I'd always figured this was a relic ...
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Anticausative/Mediopassive constructions in perfect form?
I was wondering what is the correct analysis/interpretation of exstincta sunt in the following text from Cicero:
quarum rerum recordatio et memoria si una cum illo occidisset, desiderium ...
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Are the present infinitive of the active periphrastic and the future active infinitive of the verb the same concept?
On p270 of Keller's Learn to Read Latin
The present infinitive of the active periphrastic is also used as the future active infinitive of the verb. Thus, for example, rectirus, -a, -um esse may be ...
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Is an infinitive as a noun neuter in gender?
On p37 in Keller's Learn to Read Latin:
The infinitive is an abstract verbal noun in the neuter singular. It
is indeclinable; that is, although it is a noun, it does not have
case endings, and it ...
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What is the fourth principal part of an intransitive verb in this sentence?
On p25 in Keller's Learn to Read Latin:
As is explained in Section 7, the fourth principal part of a verb is
usually the perfect passive participle ofthat verb. in this book, two
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Which inflections of these participles are these, and why?
I'm following an ancient Teach Yourself Ancient Greek course. This is from a (presumably highly simplified) version of Xenophon's account of Spartan education:
βελτιον γαρ ?στιν, ?? φασιν, ?λιγον ...
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Prolepsis with Participle
Plato, Ion, 531c:
ο? [?μηρο?] περ? πολ?μου τε τ? πολλ? διελ?λυθεν κα? περ? ?μιλι?ν πρ?? ?λλ?λου? ?νθρ?πων ?γαθ?ν τε κα? κακ?ν κα? ?διωτ?ν κα? δημιουργ?ν, κα? περ? θε?ν πρ?? ?λλ?λου? κα? πρ?? ...
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Is the perfect passive always formed like so: verb + sum/es/est?
I'm using Wheelock's Latin and in the chapter which introduces the perfect passive system I came across this sentence:
"Ubi haec tragoedia recitāta est, senex sententiīs iūdicum est līberātus.&...
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Present Active Participles
I am translating the following from Cicero, De Amicitia VI.22:
Nam et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.
The participles are first-person, singular ...
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Are there generalizations about when relative clauses are used instead of participles?
I'm working through Wheelock's with my sons. In the chapter on participles (Ch. 23, pg. 151 in the 6th revised edition), there is this practice sentence:
Illum oratorem in medio senatu iterum ...
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