Nemo Cassandrae res futuras praedicenti credebat.
Orberg habet responsum quod super est in LLPSI exercitia pars ii.
I imagined that the dative object that no one believed would be the entire 'res futuras praedicenti'...
so it should read:
Nemo Cassandrae rebus futuris praedicenti credebat....
Or is it dative Cassandrae that is not being believed...? But then how does the sentence work. What are 'res futuras' objectives of....?
res futuras praedicenti
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Re: res futuras praedicenti
Cassandrae is dative after credebat, and res futuras is the object of praedicenti: they didn't believe Cassandra when she spoke of things to come.
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Re: res futuras praedicenti
How about this explanation ?Nemo Cassandrae res futuras praedicenti credebat.
Nemo : the subject of the sentence
Cassandrae : dative case, which credere takes as its object
res futuras : accusative case, which praedicere takes as its object
praedicenti : dative case of the participle which modifies Cassandrae (Cassandra foretelling, Cassandra who is foretelling)
credebat : the main verb and predicate of the sentence, the subject is nemo, the object is the dative case of Cassandra