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This line is translated as 'will behold huge mounds of slaughtered Rutulians'. It is interesting as it is a silver line and an example of chiasmus. The words 'ingentes (huge).....acervos (mounds)' frame t...

This poem is written in elegiac couplets, as was customary for Latin love poetry, where the first line of a couplet has six feet and the second has five. This is unlike dactylic hexameter, where both line...

Step 1 - understand each wordAbydeni - glossed as masculine plural, 2nd decl, and therefore must be nominative, subject of sentencelegatos - accusative plural of legatus -i m. = ambassador/commande...

Translate this passage into Latin prose.
For many years the Spartans had tried to defeat the Messenians. They went to Delphi to consult the oracle, and learned that only an Athenian could teach them ...

Answer: Negative Fearing Clause
Translation: However, I am afraid that he will not come.
Students may find fearing clauses difficult due to the use of ne to mean 'that' (rather than <...