In LLPSI Orberg describes Aenaas and Lavinia's first children...
Brevi stirps quoque virilis ex novo matrimonio fuit, cui 'Ascanium' parentes nomen dederunt.
I'm taking it that 'virilis' is a feminine nominative singular adjective to modify the feminine noun 'stirps'.
Do I have that right. : Soon there was issue and of the male (kind)...
Brevi stirps quoque virilis
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Re: Brevi stirps quoque virilis
Yes, more or less. stirps quoque virilis fuit -- "Soon there was also male issue from the new marriage"
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Re: Brevi stirps quoque virilis
Thanks Quimmik.
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Re: Brevi stirps quoque virilis
or maybe "there was also a virile root from the new marriage".