I'm reading Lupus Servatus' Letters and have trouble understanding the following sentence (Epistola I, PL CXIX, 433) :
My main problem is how to understand coepta revocari. Analysing vestra memoria as the subject of coepta (est) revocari leaves me unsatisfied (why a past tense ? what could mean coepta revocari per ?).Et nisi intercessisset inopia præceptorum, et longo situ collapsa priorum studia pene interissent, largiente Domino meæ aviditati satisfacere forsitan potuissem. Siquidem vestra memoria per famosissimum imperatorem Karolum, cui litteræ eo usque deferre debent ut æternam ei parent memoriam, cœpta revocari, aliquantum quidem extulere caput, satisque constitit veritate subnixum præclarum dictum : Honos alit artes, et accenduntur omnes ad studia gloriae. Nunc oneri sunt qui aliquid discere affectant (...)
So another idea was to read something like per Karolum (...) coepta (sunt) revocari (studia) : "Studies began to be called back by Carolus Magnus, they raised their head a bit". But then the Si quidem vestra memoria bit is left hanging alone...
Any help would be appreciated !