Apuleius: Amor & Psyche
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Velim here expresses a wish. "I want you to know...".
The Italian edition of the Latine Disco calls it an optative subjunctive (It. congiuntivo ottativo).
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Now I remember I learnt in a past about it. I forgot about this option.
Stomachor hīc est transitīvum. Illa stomachāta est bīlēs Venereās.
Yes, though the dative is often used virtually as an adjective, it's still really a noun and it's being used as such here. It means good character or the like.
Sed Venus indignata ridicule tractari suas iniurias praeversis illis alterorsus concito gradu pelago viam capessit.
I have few problems with this sentence:
ridicule is an adverb and I can not really catch it's meaning. Since it modifies tractari = being dealt with looking at the dictionary suggests me the meaning that her iniuriae are being dealt with in a funny way. Can it be in deriding way?
I have no idea what praeversis illis is trying to say, probably because I don't get the context.
And I can't find nowhere in any dictionary I use the word alterorsus.
I have few problems with this sentence:
ridicule is an adverb and I can not really catch it's meaning. Since it modifies tractari = being dealt with looking at the dictionary suggests me the meaning that her iniuriae are being dealt with in a funny way. Can it be in deriding way?
I have no idea what praeversis illis is trying to say, probably because I don't get the context.
And I can't find nowhere in any dictionary I use the word alterorsus.
Yes. The idea is that the wrongs done to her are being made light of, treated as a laughing matter.
Alterorsus means "in the other direction".
Praeversis illis is unclear to me. I'm not sure whether it means that Venus had sent them away, or turned away from them, or walked past them, or whether they themselves had turned away.
Quod sciam, soles praegnatibus periclitantibus ultro subuenire.”
Why is the verb here in subjunctive? With the subjunctive here I would translate it as "May I know that you come to aid ..." But all translations I came up with has it "since I know ...". In that case I see no logic in subjunctive ...
Why is the verb here in subjunctive? With the subjunctive here I would translate it as "May I know that you come to aid ..." But all translations I came up with has it "since I know ...". In that case I see no logic in subjunctive ...
Yes, a path to better hope.
I wouldn't call it objective but I don't know what it should be called.
It means "as far as I know". We talked about this construction recently.
Namque saxum immani magnitudine procerum et inaccessa salebritate lubricum mediis e faucibus lapidis fontes horridos evomebat, qui statim proni foraminis lacunis editi perque proclive delapsi et angusti canalis exarato contecti tramite proximam convallem latenter incidebant.
''qui'' are the ''fontes'' and to it pertain ''proni'', ''editi'', ''delapsi'', ''contecti'' and they were hiddenly falling down in the nearby valley, covered in? the furrow of thin channel. This is what I was able to put together. I know it starts that they were immediately inclined and then I don't know how to put the cases together. And then it says they were going up and down somehow?
''qui'' are the ''fontes'' and to it pertain ''proni'', ''editi'', ''delapsi'', ''contecti'' and they were hiddenly falling down in the nearby valley, covered in? the furrow of thin channel. This is what I was able to put together. I know it starts that they were immediately inclined and then I don't know how to put the cases together. And then it says they were going up and down somehow?
Right! I didn't recognise it.
Yes except proni goes with foraminis.
proni foraminis = genitive, modifying the ablative lacunis
proclive = accusative, used as a noun meaning a downward slope.
No, I don't see anything like that.
Thank you, now I get it.
Providentiae bonae modifies graves oculos.
Innocentis animae modifies aerumna.
Innocentis animae aerumna is the subject of latuit; Providentiae bonae graves oculos is the object.
Latere + accusative = to be hidden from, escape (the notice of).
Graves is probably something like "grave" here rather than "heavy".