Plin. Ep. 5.6

[Katarina]

Aestate mira clementia. Semper aer spiritu aliquo movetur, saepius tamen aure quam venti sunt.

I am wondering what kind of Ablative is that. My guess would be of quality. Am I right here? I am also wondering how to translate clementia. Would ''mild'' pass?

 

[Pacifica]

Mira clementia is nominative. Est is implied. Clementia means mildness (of weather), mild weather.

 

[Katarina]

Hm ... I have this prepared for my highschool students in my workbook. The last ''a'' in mira and clementia are marked as long so I have to take it as Ablative.

 

[Pacifica]

Well, that doesn't seem very natural to me but at a stretch you could take it as an ablative of quality like "in the summer [that place/the weather in that place is] of a remarkable mildness".

 

[Laurentius]

Also it should be aurae not aure.

 

[Katarina]

Also it should be aurae not aure.

That was a typo.