Admittedly, I can feel that some of my senses for Latin have withered after not being actively reading, and I have been stuck here for half an hour now:
Seneca's Quaestiones Naturales Book 3, 28.4:
Nam ut aeris ut aetheris, sic huius elementi larga materia est multoque in abdito plenior. Haec fatis mota, non aestu (nam aestus fati ministerium est), attollit vasto sinu fretum agitque ante se.
"For ?? of air ?? of the heaven, in this way there this element has plentiful material, and even more plentiful [materials] [is present] in the many thing that has been put aside. This ?? fates ?? motion, not undulation (for the undulation of the destiny is a work (??)) brings forth the sea to a huge bay, and acts before itself"
I have never seen the construction ut ... ut ... before and I cannot find it anywhere; what does that even mean? The construction of "Haec fatis mota, non aestu" also makes no sense to me, especially the singular ablative of mota and aestu with a plural of fatis. I have tried to make sense with it by intrepreting it both as a noun or as a supine to no avail. Can someone please help?
Seneca's Quaestiones Naturales Book 3, 28.4:
Nam ut aeris ut aetheris, sic huius elementi larga materia est multoque in abdito plenior. Haec fatis mota, non aestu (nam aestus fati ministerium est), attollit vasto sinu fretum agitque ante se.
"For ?? of air ?? of the heaven, in this way there this element has plentiful material, and even more plentiful [materials] [is present] in the many thing that has been put aside. This ?? fates ?? motion, not undulation (for the undulation of the destiny is a work (??)) brings forth the sea to a huge bay, and acts before itself"
I have never seen the construction ut ... ut ... before and I cannot find it anywhere; what does that even mean? The construction of "Haec fatis mota, non aestu" also makes no sense to me, especially the singular ablative of mota and aestu with a plural of fatis. I have tried to make sense with it by intrepreting it both as a noun or as a supine to no avail. Can someone please help?