Why "fiat lux" and not "sit lux"? - Latin Language Stack Exchange
Jan 20, 2024 · The perfect tense of fuit sounds odd and the meaning of the sentence unclear. This tense often signifies the completion of an act, making it better suited for facta est than fuit. …
"M. Cato Censorius, quem tam e re publica fuit nasci quam …
Dec 16, 2023 · In Seneca Moral Letters 87. M. Cato Censorius, quem tam e re publica fuit nasci quam Scipionem, alter enim cum hostibus nostris bellum, alter cum moribus gessit, cantherio …
grammar choice - Perfect passive forms like "amatus fuit" - Latin ...
Mar 26, 2016 · Bis deinde post Numae regnum clausus fuit … . (Liv. 1.19.3) Itaque in iis scriptum litteris Punicis fuit regem Massinissam imprudentem accepisse … . (Cic. Ver.4.103) Gerd …
Perfect Passive Participle - Latin Language Stack Exchange
May 6, 2020 · Paratus fuit is actually equivalent to paratus est (perfect passive), not paratus erat (pluperfect passive). There's a whole question devoted to this. Of course, it's also possible that …
The Erat/ Fuit Conflict - Latin Language Stack Exchange
Nov 25, 2017 · It's often appropriate to select between erat and fuit by thinking of expressions such as 'was', 'was at the time', 'used to be', and so on. Learned Latinists a hundred years and …
classical latin - future passive imperative of a verb + fuit (perfect ...
Nec vero Pythagoras nominis [scil. philosophiae] solum inventor, sed rerum etiam ipsarum amplificator fuit. (Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes, V 4) I have an English translation for it: …
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Oct 28, 2023 · For example, hic fuit triumphus means "There was a triumph here." because in this sentence hic means "here" not "this". If you want to say "This was a triumph", then you would …
In this passage of Petrarch's Contra Medicum, to whom does "fuit …
Dec 1, 2023 · The nuance of fuit is that the person in question is dead, as in Vergil's famous *urbs antiqua fuit." For those curious: Averroes famously claimed, in his Long Commentary on …
adjective - Lack of gender agreement in Aeneid iv.169-70 - Latin ...
Jan 8, 2024 · The structure of the sentence you quote is "X was the reason", X causa fuit. Both instances of primus go into the X 1 and do not interact with the number, case, or gender of …
"Vessel was crafted (...)" translation to Latin
Feb 28, 2018 · The same double perfect appears in factum fuit. It should be factum est instead. If this construction needs more explanation or you want to know exactly how legitimate forms …