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Compulsory capitalization in quotes and epigraphs?
It's often common when quoting a certain sentence or choosing a certain epigraph to alter its first word's initial letter in accordance with one's purpose/the syntactic context surrounding it. As an ...
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Example of Ciceronian versus non-Ciceronian style
I am reading a bit about the reception of ancient texts during the Renaissance, but everything is very abstract. Where can I find an example of correct but non-Ciceronian Latin compared to Ciceronian ...
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When to use "magno cum gaudio" rather than "cum magno gaudio"?
My question is not about this specific example, but about the general construction of prep+noun+adj/adj+prep+noun.
I know that both constructions are correct and attested in classical Latin. Therefore,...
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Rufus Lutulentus: How is the Latin?
I'm looking for more things to read in order to improve my Latin, and I came across a little book: Rufus Lutulentus. I found it a bit too easy, but amusing, and I only discovered later, on Reddit, ...
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How do you say "ubi librum in eundem locum ubi eum repperit posuit" more elegantly?
In Cornelia (a Latin reader by Mima Maxey written in 1933), there is the following sentence:
ubi librum in eundem locum ubi eum repperit posuit, …
which roughly translates to:
when she placed the ...
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Translation of "Qua de causa"
This is a from the very beginning of the Caesar's De Bello Gallico.
The first question is about its translation as "For which reason". In English, it's supposed to be in a single sentence , ...
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To what extent is Seneca's style in "De Ira" clumsy?
I'm currently reading "Précis de Littérature Latine" ("Handbook of Latin Literature") by Magalie Diguet and I am surprised by the following quotation:
Le De ira, écrit en 41, est ...
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Ranking the Difficulty of Latin Authors
Has there been a rigorous study of ranking the difficulty of ancient Latin authors? You often see (and, from personal experience, feel) the increase in difficult going from Caesar to Tacitus or Vergil ...
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On the birth of Latin language
This is my first question here, and though my native language derives from Latin, I, unlucky, didn't get a change to study much Latin at school.
Two questions that have often crossed my mind are:
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Are all of Cicero's writings considered models?
When translating into Latin or writing in Latin, is there a hierarchy between Cicero's writings?
For example, if one construction is used in one of his letters and another in one of his speeches, can ...
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Quid tertiā persōnā dē sē scrībere connotat?
What connotation does writing about oneself in the third person carry in Latin?
In English, it usually connotes that the author is astoundingly arrogant, perhaps to the point of insanity.
But Caesar ...
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Omitting a verb when it is the same for both parts of the sentence
The grammar book I'm studying translates the following sentence like this:
English: The death is certain, uncertain is the day of death.
Latin: Mors certa, dies mortis incerta est.
However, I'd ...
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Why is Cicero considered the best Latin prose author?
Marcus Tullius Cicero is often considered as the best Latin prose author (and sometimes as the best orator, see Encyclopaedia Britannica).
What is so special about his style to support such a claim? ...
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"Once upon a time"
The English phrase "once upon a time" at the beginning of a story immediately sets the genre and style to a great extent.
Is there a similar device, possibly a phrase, in Latin?
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Use of the chiasmus in Latin
Was the chiasma common in Latin? Or an uncommon figure of speech?
(Words in a sentence with the pattern ABBA or ABBCBBA, etc...)
Where could we meet the greatest amount of chiasma? In poetry? In ...
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