2023年11月21日 · In Quod erat demonstrandum the sense of necessity can be attributed completely to the gerundive. As in our case, often the gerundive is coupled with the verb esse …

2017年11月25日 · 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 …

The Latin adverb sic ("thus"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written") inserted after a quoted word or passage, indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed exactly as found in the …

2018年12月6日 · "Lorem ipsum" is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation. But what does it mean? Can you give a brief …

2023年12月10日 · pro notitia domini: quia domino notus erat. Notus erat is the passive pluperfect form of noscere, if the agent is mentioned, it is normally ablative and introduced by the …

2022年1月28日 · Sīc erat means something like "it was like this" or "it was this sort of way", so I would say "this is what it was" (or perhaps "this is how it was") is a reasonable translation. …

2024年1月21日 · Gratus erat : Thomas Stone quia egrotus erat. For context, this is part of a list of individuals who were required to attend ('owed suit to') court. Some are listed as attending …

2020年5月6日 · 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 …

2016年3月26日 · The normal way of forming the perfect passive system is: perfect passive participle + a form from the present system of sum, e.g. amatus est, amatus erat, amatus sit, …

2021年6月17日 · Hint: erat munita does not mean "he had been protecting," it means "she had been protected" (or rather "it" in this case, ripa, the riverbank). Sudibus is ablative plural and …