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What is interesting about the line "ingentes Rutulae spectabit caedis acervos"? (Virgil Aeneid Book X, line 245)

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 the ...
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Answered by Bridget S. • Latin tutor
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Comment on Ovid's use of humour with respect to poetic metre in the following lines of Amores 1.1: "par erat inferior versus; risisse Cupid / dicitur atque unum suripuisse pedem."

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 lines o...
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Translate: 'Abydeni legatos ad regem de condicionibus tradendae urbis miserunt.' (OCR H443/01 sample)

Step 1 - understand each word Abydeni - glossed as masculine plural, 2nd decl, and therefore must be nominative, subject of sentencelegatos - accusative plural of legatus -i m. = ambassador/commander. Ambass...
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A Level Prose Composition (OCR 2018)

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 how they...
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Explain what type of clause is in this sentence: timeo tamen ne non veniat.

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 ut as in indirect command...
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