Exercise 245 Part II

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Radek
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Exercise 245 Part II

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I have another problem:

5. With happy hearts they hastened to obey his words
In key there is: Laetis animis maturaverunt iis verbis parere

Why: iis - his
Why not: eius - his
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Post by Ulpianus »

Looks wrong to me, as if whoever wrote the key was trying to treat is as an adjective and make it agree with verbis (dative plural). I'd think eius. The word order looks oddly English too.
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It should definitely be eius.
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae
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Post by Skylax »

It is eius. The key had seen this misinterpreted for these
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