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BLD Ex: 82 Part 1 #3

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BLD Ex: 82 Part 1 #3

Postby jsc01 » Tue Dec 16, 2003 5:56 pm

It is asking to translate from Latin to English the following: amici legati mali.

My translation is: "The friends of the wicked lieutenant".

Does this seem correct or could it be "The wicked friends of the lieutenant"?
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Postby Episcopus » Tue Dec 16, 2003 6:00 pm

You could have either one there :wink:
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Postby jsc01 » Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:53 pm

That seems rather ambiguous. I guess I think that wicked (mali) should qualify the noun lieutenant (legati) because it is adjacent to it.

But, what about the Latin phrase amici mali legati? That would seem to be totally ambiguous.
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Postby benissimus » Wed Dec 17, 2003 5:04 pm

Perhaps friendly, evil soldiers? ;)
flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae
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Postby Episcopus » Wed Dec 17, 2003 5:17 pm

That could have the same meanings as the previous sentence, with different emphases on the words.
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