Translate the following sentences. 'Hannibal, nautas tali modo hortatus, iussit classem in proelium navigare. sed priusquam signum pugnae daretur, Hannibal, ut cognosceret quo loco Eumenes esset, tabellarium in scapha cum caduceo misit. '

In Paper 1A of the Latin GCSE exam, the students are asked to translate a text from Latin to English. This is a sentence from the 2013 Exam Paper.The correct translation is the following: 'Hannibal, having encouraged (past participle) the sailors (acc) in such a way, ordered (perf 3rd sg) the fleet to sail into battle. But before the sign could be given (priusquam+subj imperf indicates potentiality), Hannibal sent (perf 3rd sg) a courier in a skiff with a white flag to find out where Eumenes was (ut+subj is a final clause)'. I have provided a grammatical analysis of some Latin verbs and sentences in the brackets.

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