C. Plinius

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C. Plinius

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I am unsure of my translation for L.I. 37, C. Plinius Caninio Suo S.:

Nam lacus piscem, feras silvae quibus lacus cingitur, studia altissimus iste secessus adfatim suggerunt.

For the lake that highest retreat [and] your pursuits afford the fish, wild animals of the forest by which the lake is surrounded.

The problem I had was with the verb suggere. Did Plinius contract the verb's perfect form from suggesserunt to suggerunt? The use of the plural was confusing since the subject seems to be lacus, singular. Confusing as well was that he separates 'lacus' from 'altissimus iste secessus' and implies 'est.'

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elduce wrote:I am unsure of my translation for L.I. 37, C. Plinius Caninio Suo S.:

Nam lacus piscem, feras silvae quibus lacus cingitur, studia altissimus iste secessus adfatim suggerunt.

For the lake that highest retreat [and] your pursuits afford the fish, wild animals of the forest by which the lake is surrounded.

The problem I had was with the verb suggere. Did Plinius contract the verb's perfect form from suggesserunt to suggerunt? The use of the plural was confusing since the subject seems to be lacus, singular. Confusing as well was that he separates 'lacus' from 'altissimus iste secessus' and implies 'est.'

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lacus, silvae and and altissimus iste successus are all subjects of suggerunt: suggerunt is a plain present indicative, but plural as it has several subjects. So these things offer something. What? the lacus offers piscem, the silvae offer feras and altissimus iste successus offers studia.

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one of the problems seems to be that you have analyzed suggerunt as sugg-erunt when it is in fact sugger-unt.
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it's the good ole gero, gessi, gestum, prefixed by sub-

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Vae mihi. I slipped up on that one. I was impatient in translating and so reaped an error. Thanks both.
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