by Zizero » Sun Jun 08, 2003 5:41 pm
I'm currently preparing for my Latin oral. <br /><br />The text I'm studying is poem 9, Book I of Horatius's Satyres.<br /><br />I don't understand the syntax of the sentence "O te, Bolane, cerebri felicem!". (lines 11 and 12) Shouldn't it be "O tu, Bolane, cerebri felix!", since "tu" and "felix" are connected to "Bolane" which is in the vocativ? <br /><br />I thought that maybe the construction of the sentence was "O Bolane, [dicimus] te felicem cerebri!".<br /><br />However, I'm not really sure.<br /><br />Thanks in advance for any help.
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