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How One Latin Sentence Can Teach You SO Much Posted by on Sep 25, 2013

The foundation story of Rome can be found in Book I of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City)  (Literally: From the City having been founded). Thus, Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita begins with the founding of Rome and progress to his modern day. Let us attempt to translate one sentence…

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Syntax: accusative II Posted by on Aug 20, 2012

To read about nominative, vocative and other kind of accusative uses read our previous post. Extension accusative Accusative case can be used to express the extension in space and time. The accusative of extension in space, always in terms of extension (passus, pes …), can indicate distance traveled, distance between two points or dimensions of…

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Syntax: nominative, vocative and accusative I Posted by on Aug 13, 2012

Nominative Nominative is the case of subject’s personal verb forms, and therefore of everything concerning the subject. Caesar venit.             Puer est laetus.             Hannibal prīmus in proelium ībat. ITt serves to ‘name’ (nōmināre), the nominative is used in conjunction with de + ablative, for book titles: Bellum civīle.        …

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Some Latin prepositions Posted by on Dec 24, 2011

Accusative prepositions: Latin English Latin English Ad To, towards, up to, until Adversus Toward, against Ante Before Apud Among, in the presence of, at, at the house of Circa, circum,circiter About Contra Against, opposite Erga Toward, about Extra Outside, beyond Infra Under, below Inter Among, between Intra In Iuxta Close to, next to, near to…

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In, On, Into Posted by on May 22, 2010

Let’s compare the two sentences below : 1) In scholā sunt = They are in the school 2) In īnsulā sunt = They are on the island In the first sentence “In” means “in” in English, but in the second sentence “In” means “on” in English. Also, the words that modified “In” like scholā and īnsulā…

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