If this question is REAL dumb please put it down to being a total Newbie but;
If, "Diana sagittas portat et feras necat" means, "Diana carries arrows & kills wild beasts"
then why is necat not necant ?
The above example is from pg. 18, Lesson IV and is the caption to the page illustration.
I am guessing the answer is; So that the two verbs portat & necat will agree with the subject
"Diana" which is nominative singular and that it looks odd to me because I am wrongly trying
to get necat to agree with "feras" which is (apparently) in the accusative plural.
Am I right??
[I got hung up on this some because the illustration only shows a single "feras" looking like
some kind a monster weasel, IMHO].
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Re: Diana sagittas portat et feras necat
You are completely right .
Diana is indeed the singular subject, as you can see from the fact, that in English the verb is in the singular too (carries, kills).
Ingrid
Diana is indeed the singular subject, as you can see from the fact, that in English the verb is in the singular too (carries, kills).
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