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Radek
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by Radek » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:45 pm
I have problem
6. Caesar will delay three days because of the grain supply
In key is: Caesar dies tres propter rem frumentariam morabitur
I think should be: Caesar dies tres rei frumentariae causa morabitur.
In lession LX special vocabularies is: causa - for sake of, because of (stand after gen.)
Ulpianus
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by Ulpianus » Mon Mar 08, 2004 11:53 pm
Your preference is certainly idiomatic. As it happens, we can pluck a concrete example from Caesar himself:
ipse unum diem ibi rei frumentariae causa moratus Corfinium contendit BC I.16.
(But I don't think one could say the key was wrong. They are different ways of saying the same thing.)
Radek
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by Radek » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:56 am
Thanks for your request.
I also think it`s idiomatic and both version are corect.
I asked because I wanted to know if my wersion was corect.
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by Episcopus » Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:52 am
For me also "tris dies" sounds somewhat clumsy. I would write triduum, three days.