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Athenodorus legit titulum auditoque pretio, quia suspecta vilitas: What was Athenodorus suspicious about?

Subject: Latin/GCSE Q: Athenodorus legit titulum auditoque pretio, quia suspecta vilitas: What was Athenodorus suspicious about? A: Athenodorus was suspicious of the cheapness (vilitas). The word 'vilitas' i...
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What is an ablative absolute?

Latin has a major flaw compared to English: it doesn't like having two 'main verbs' in the same sentence/clause if it can be avoided. Therefore, you have to put one of the verbs into participle form. So you ...
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Explain the relationship between Fortuna and Virtus in Ceasar

In Ceasar's speech after the battle of Dyrrhachium (during the 49 BC - 45 BC Civil War), a battle which supposedly Pompeius won, but with conspicuous casualties on both sides, we see magnifically exeplified ...
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How does the ablative case work?

The easiest way to explain it is that it is the 'adverbial' case. This means that it will always tell us something more about how an action (described by the verb) took place. One of the simplest examples to...
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On Aeneas' shield in Book 8, what images does Virgil use to make Octavian special and to elevate him above the status of combatant in a civil war with Antony? How are Octavian's opponents portrayed?

In Aeneid 8, Virgil describes in detail Aeneas’ shield made by Vulcan, and this ekphrasis - the longest in the poem and clearly modeled on Achilles’ shield in Iliad 18- provides the reader with an extended a...
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