Corneli Nepotis M. Cato

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Corneli Nepotis M. Cato

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http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/nepos/nepos.cat.shtml<br /><br />I'm not sure how magni fits in with this sentence:<br /><br />Inde ut rediit, castra secutus est C. Claudii Neronis, magnique opera eius existimata est in proelio apud Senam, quo cecidit Hasdrubal, frater Hannibalis.<br /><br />Shouldn't it be magna to agree with opera? Or are we supposed to another opera to go with magni and translate as "... his deeds in the battle of Sena ... are considered to be(the deeds) of a great man"?<br /><br />Quaestor obtigit P. Africano consuli; cum quo non pro sortis necessitudine vixit: namque ab eo perpetua dissensit vita.<br /><br />As quaestor he fell to the consul P. Africanus, with whom he did not live in accordance with the requirement of the lots, for he disagreed with him throughout his life.<br /><br />That's the only way I can make sense of it, but the non is an awful long way from the vixit. Does it go with vixit or somehow with the phrase pro sortis necessitudine?<br /><br />Praetor provinciam obtinuit Sardiniam, ex qua, quaestor superiore tempore ex Africa decedens, Q. Ennium poetam deduxerat; quos non minoris aestimamus quam quemlibet amplissimum Sardiniensem triumphum. <br /><br />What is the antecedent of quos here?<br /><br />gratiam ago<br />

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I reckon<br /><br />magnique opera eius - the deeds of which great man<br /><br />Quaestor... - the questorship fell to...<br />non pro sortis necessitudine is as you translate it, the latin idiom is that he lived, but his living is described as not in accordance with the requirement of the lots.<br /><br />Quos has got me, unless it can refer to the praetor and Ennis.

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It could perhaps mean "whomever."
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That doesn't really seem to make any more sense in the context though.

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The answer is very simple: quos is a typo. >:( at the Latin Library.com! The Oxford Classical Text reads 'quod' (which does make sense); there isn't even an obscure manuscript reading 'quos'.<br /><br />Valete.<br /><br />Ptolemaios

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::) I did find a typo on one of their other pages as well. I'm going to have to find another text of Nepos somewhere.

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bingley wrote:<br />http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/nepos/nepos.cat.shtml<br /><br />I'm not sure how magni fits in with this sentence:<br /><br />Inde ut rediit, castra secutus est C. Claudii Neronis, magnique opera eius existimata est in proelio apud Senam, quo cecidit Hasdrubal, frater Hannibalis.<br />
<br /><br />For the magni, see Bennett § 203, 3, page 137 : this Gen implies pretii, it indicates a price; the phrase is magni existimare "to esteem at a great price".<br />Your sentence is even quoted there, and translated : "his assistance was highly esteemed".<br /><br />
<br />That's the only way I can make sense of it, but the non is an awful long way from the vixit. Does it go with vixit or somehow with the phrase pro sortis necessitudine?<br />
<br />The non goes with pro sortis necessitudine : "he lived, yet not according to..."<br /><br />

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