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Problem with cases in a passage from Virgil
This is a description of Scylla, the sea monster, found in the Aeneid (3.426-428) :
Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore uirgo
pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix,
delphinum caudas utero ...
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How would I translate If I cannot bend the will of hell, I shall move heaven
I want to translate this quote but the reverse. The quote is “If I cannot bend the will of heaven, I shall move hell” in Latin, Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo, by Virgil, a Roman.
How ...
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ambobus? (a morphologically peculiar adjective with a peculiar syntax here)
There is a very famous passage in the Aeneid that narrates its hero looking at some pictures of the Trojan War, which he barely escaped from:
Miratur. Videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas,
Bellaque iam ...
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Relative pronouns that don't start the dependent clause
In the following text, the dative relative pronoun (or whatever it could be) does not start the clause:
Hic templum Iunoni ingens Sidonia Dido
condebat, donis opulentum et numine divae
aerea cui ...
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Why is Virgil's Aeneid considered incomplete?
It's well known that Virgil died before fully editing the Aeneid and that he wanted the manuscript to be burned. What isn't immediately clear to me, though, is whether this was a result of misguided ...
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Weird lines in the Aeneid (Book I, lines 444-445)
I am quite confused about how I can translate the two following lines:
[Iuno] monstrarat, caput acris equi; sic nam fore bello
egregiam et facilem victu per saecula gentem.
The real difficulty comes ...
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Last two feet of line II.355 of the Aeneid
Book II, line 355 of the Aeneid:
Sīc animīs iuvenum furor additus. Inde—lupī ceu
(Thus rage was added to the spirits of the young men. From there, like wolves [and the sentence continues in the next ...
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How do we we scan 'nunc tantum sinus et statio mala fidèle carinis'
It seems to have a syllable too many for a dactylic hexameter, but I sée no place for an élision.
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Length of i in Vergilius' "ferentis"
In the famous line "quicquid id est timeo Danaos et dona ferentis" Vergilius uses an older plural accusative form ferentis instead of ferentes.
(It is unimportant here whether quicquid or quidquid is ...
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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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"Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori" -- why "et nos" and not "nos et"?
In a comment Sebastian brought to my attention that in Virgil's famous verse: Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori, the syllable o in amor (or or(?); since according to the cited Wiki article it ...
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What is the opposite of "aegrescit medendo"?
There is a well-known Latin phrase, aegrescit medendo, which means, "worsens with treatment". I believe it comes from Virgil (correct me if I am wrong). I wanted to know if there is an attested phrase ...
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Parsing "oblita carmina"
Vergil wrote (Eclogues IX.51–4), quoted by Draconis in this answer:
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque. Saepe ego longos
cantando puerum memini me condere soles.
Nunc oblita mihi tot carmina: vox quoque ...
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Why is the subjunctive used in Vergil's Georgics, 3,250?
Vergil's Georgics, book 3, line 250, reads:
nonne vides ut tota tremor pertemptet equorum corpora si tantum notas odor attulit auras.
Why is the subjunctive mood used here? And what is this ut?
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Omnia vincit amor: vincere or vincire?
The phrase omnia vincit amor (from Vergilius' tenth Ecloga; see full text in Latin and English) is typically translated as "love conquers everything".
However, vincit can come from either vincere (to ...
