No, maeror is the subject of torquet, artat, angit.Or maybe there's an ellipsis of maerore to agree with desperato?
I'm at a loss in finding this adverb in the dics, so maybe it's a mediaevalism at best.In my opinion it could be either an adverb or it could be something like "by the unhoped-for".
So, another one-word AA. I'm leaning more towards this interpretation, thanks.The precise meaning isn't entirely clear to me but as far as the grammar is concerned, I'd say it looks like an ablative absolute in the neuter, literally "with it having been despaired". That could mean something like "once I have despaired" or "once the situation is desperate". Or else maybe "hopelessly", meaning that whoever is hoping that the speaker will be broken, is hoping in vain.
I think dictionary entries don't really focus on this time period that much. They are mostly about ages where Latin was still alive as a native language.I'm at a loss in finding this adverb in the dics, so maybe it's a mediaevalism at best.
It wouldn't have been impersonal then. Hoc consulto means "with this (specific) thing having been deliberated over" while consulto alone just means with deliberation having taken place.Well, ok, but to my way of thinking that kind of meaning would have been rendered much more clearly with hoc consulto.
Outside adverbs like consulto and auspicato, it isn't common in classical Latin.But seriously, an impersonal one-word ablative absolute is a new one on me, lol.
Or maybe I'm just being dense? : (