2017年6月18日 · In this particular case putting aude last (at the end of the verse) gives it more weight. The order gains more emphasis this way. The order gains more emphasis this way. Although this sounds better in this order, I think Horatius would have used the opposite order if the words or the meter (hexameter here) were somehow different so that sapere ...

2024年9月1日 · On the word order of "Sapere aude" In putting together his dictum, Horace, as a native speaker of Latin, perhaps instinctively chose to put first the word "sapere," and then the word "aude," even if, strictly grammatically speaking, "...

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2016年4月3日 · This question is a beginner's confusion about sentences of the form: [subject_noun] [object_noun] est. E.g. Bob agricola est. From my understanding, both the subject and object are declined i...

In the "Libera me" prayer, the following verse is said: Libera me, Domine, de morte æterna, in die illa tremenda Quando cœli movendi sunt et terra Dum veneris iudicare saeculum per ignem. T...

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2019年4月24日 · Following a suggestion made by Draconis, I add the following quote by Jules Marouzeau (1949: 191), which nicely summarizes his/her answer: "l’ordre des mots en latin est libre, il n’est pas indifférent" (‘Word order in Latin is free, it is not arbitrary').

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2021年2月26日 · It seems that the hyperbaton involved in posthabita coluisse Samo was very pleasing to Latin poets/ears. E.g. cf. the parallelism with posthabito studium est coluisse Tonante (Silvae 4,4,58), which can be taken as a nice piece of evidence that Statius was trying to present himself as a second Vergil.