Top answers

Identify the construction and parse all the verbs used in this sentence .

Example sentence: quod si id ante facere conatus essem, nunc facere non possem (Cicero, Philippic IV )This passage taken from a speech by Cicero is an example of a counterfactual conditional statement, which...
MC
Answered by Maxim C. • Latin tutor
3141 Views

In the following passage (Aeneid 4.10-12) how does Vergil highlight Dido's admiration through her speech? Make two points, each referring to the Latin. (4)

In this passage, Vergil highlights Dido's admiration of Aeneas through her repeated questions & exclamations: 'Quis novus... quem sese ore ... quam forte' 'Who is this new man... with what bearing... How...
CF
Answered by Charlotte F. • Latin tutor
2006 Views

How do you express an indirect statement in Latin?

The indirect statement is a subordinate sentence that acts as the object of the verb in the sentence that governs the indirect statement itself. As an example, we may consider the English: 'I think that Mary...
LS
Answered by Lucrezia S. • Latin tutor
4312 Views

Discuss Virgil's use of the themes of furor and pietas in Aeneid Book 12.

Book twelve of the Aeneid, the final book of the epic, culminates in a final act which epitomises the relationship between furor (rage) and pietas (duty to family, gods and state) which has been central to t...
HA
Answered by Harvey A. • Latin tutor
5609 Views

Parse sonant

The first step of parsing is to work out from which verb the word comes. For sonant, this is sono, sonare, sonui, sonitum, a first conjugation verb meaning I make a noise/sound.The -nt ending indicates that ...
IB
Answered by Isabelle B. • Latin tutor
2279 Views