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What emotion does Virgil convey in this passage and how? Aenied 2.303-313

excutior somno et summi fastigia tectiascensu supero atque arrectis auribus asto:in segetem veluti cum flamma furentibus Austrisincidit, aut rapidus montano flumine torrens sternit agros, sternit sata lae...

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(i) Identify the ablative absolute and (ii) translate the sentence into good English: 'Urbe capta, hostes cives occiderunt.'

(i) Urbe (3rd declension feminine noun) capta (past participle passive in agreement with urbe). The ablative noun and participle are 'cut off' from the rest of the sentence - if we removed the phrase from...

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"Horatius pontes multas horas defendebat" Please explain how you would translate this sentence.

  1. It is best to identify the Subject, Object and any Verbs of the sentence first.
    2) In this instance the Subject, in the Nominative case, is Horatius, the Object, in the Accusative case, is pont...
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How do I translate an ablative absolute construction? e.g. his rebus factis

Ablative absolutes are notoriously tricky to translate, mainly because there isn't really an equivalent construction in English. These phrases are made up of a noun and a participle, both in the ablative ...

Answered by Ellen S. Latin tutor
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What does the future perfect do?

The main function of the future perfect is in future open conditionals. By a conditional, I mean a clause that includes “if” (Latin si); a future conditional is simply o...

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