Sorry I'm asking so many questions! This sentence I find completely puzzling.
Magnam in spem veniebat: he came into great hope/he came to have great hope.
Fore ut pertinacia (abl.) desisteret hostis: that it was about to be that the enemy ceased in respect to perseverence/that the enemy's perseverence would cease.
= He came to have great hope that the enemy's perseverence would cease.
This was my attempt to take the sentence apart. Is it close to the truth, at all?
Magnam in spem veniebat: he came into great hope/he came to have great hope.
Fore ut pertinacia (abl.) desisteret hostis: that it was about to be that the enemy ceased in respect to perseverence/that the enemy's perseverence would cease.
= He came to have great hope that the enemy's perseverence would cease.
This was my attempt to take the sentence apart. Is it close to the truth, at all?