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

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 pontes and the Ver...
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Politics and prejudice, rather than reasoned argument, are the dominant forces in the Pro Milone.’ To what extent do you agree with this judgement?

n.b Whilst this answer addresses Cicero’s ‘Pro Milone’, the approach demonstrated here may be successfully applied to any text, verse or prose, that might be set for the 20 mark ‘essay question’ of the Latin...
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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 cas...
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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 one that refers to a future event and...
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"dux Gallorum timebat ne Romani viros collem ascendentes audirent." How would I go about translating this sentence?

1) Read the whole sentence first so that you can get a sense of what to expect e.g. 2 verbs (timebat and audirent), 1 present participle (ascendentes), a fearing clause anticipating a subjunctive (timebat ne...
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