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What did Horace say about combining Latin and Greek roots?
In English, it's common to make technical terms by combining Latin and Greek morphemes, like "television" (as opposed to "telescopy" or "remotovision"). It seems the ...
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Did the Romans have anything artificial? Which words did they use to describe it?
I am looking for a word or set of words to describe artificial items or materials.
Maybe my shoes are made of artificial leather instead of the real thing, or maybe a crown is made of fake gold.
What ...
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Looking for quote from Seneca Moral Letters
Hopefully I'm not doing much violence to the text/intention or mixing various passages, but in Seneca's Moral Letters (100% there and 95% in a letter number < 100) there is a passage where he says (...
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"Inter canem et lupum" in a Latin text?
A search for infra horam vespertinam, inter canem et lupum finds lots of blog posts (and dictionaries!) citing this Latin proverb as the ancestor of French entre chien et loup. (Meaning the evening, ...
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Usage of impersonal passive
Finding nice impersonal passive example from Seneca (Moral Letters 30): ubi plurimis locis laxari coepit [navis?] et cedere, succurri non potest navigio dehiscenti, made me ask two things:
Could we ...
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encrypt / to hide a message in Latin
What was the verb(s) the Romans used when the hide/encrypt a message in another text (and also the antonym "to decipher")? After consulting D?derlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes (Celare), ...
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Stacking many infinitives
Consider the sentence: Dixit se velle posse audere venire.
("He said that he wants to be able to dare to come.")
This has a stack of four infinitives.
In theory we might be able to stack as ...
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Did the Romans have an idiom or saying similar to "one thing leads to another"?
Did any writers of antiquity use a saying or phrase that has an equivalent meaning to "one thing leads to another" in English? I'm looking for the more general meaning in that one action ...
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What are some quotations of Romans longing for the "good 'ole days"?
In Wheelock's Latin there is an edited excerpt of Livy from Ab Urbe Conditā:
Populus Rōmānus magnōs animōs et paucās culpās habēbat. Dē officiīs nostrīs cōgitābāmus et glōriam bellī semper laudābāmus....
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Did the Romans walk their dogs?
Here is a mosaic from Pompeii showing a Roman dog in a leash:
(Image from Wikipedia.)
Other similar pictures of mosaics are easy to find online, so I am confident that dog leashes were a well known ...
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What adjectives did the Romans use to describe skin color?
The Romans surely met peoples of different skin color in their interactions between Gauls and Africans and many others.
I assume that there were clear color differences back then and that the Romans ...
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How the 'conflict' between heart/feelings and the "head" was described in the classical period
It sometimes happens to us, living beings of this age that we are, that we experience some kind of inner conflict; a conflict between what seems to our intellect or reason(*) and the feeling or "...
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Did the Romans use 'animus' and 'anima' together?
The words animus and anima are pretty close to each other, and their difference has been explored on this site before.
In order to understand their nuances in classical Latin I would like to see an ...
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Roman wedding congratulations
How did the Romans congratulate a couple on their wedding day?
The concepts of wedding and marriage were not quite what they are now back then, but I assume that celebrations and congratulations were ...
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Did Plato describe man as "a being in search of meaning"?
I happened upon this Quora question, in which the quote "man, a being in search of meaning" is ascribed to Plato.
Did Plato write this and if so, where? Obviously there are other Platonic ...
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