# Latin **URL:** https://www.textkit.com/c/latin/7.md?page=2 [Latest](https://www.textkit.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://www.textkit.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://www.textkit.com/tags.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [Any versions of the Vulgata with macrons?](https://www.textkit.com/t/any-versions-of-the-vulgata-with-macrons/19558)
**Author:** [@JasonBaker](https://www.textkit.com/u/JasonBaker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/any-versions-of-the-vulgata-with-macrons/19558 "2025-11-01T20:49:30Z")
I know Luke Ranieri has done the book of John with Macrons and accompanying audio and Latinitium has done the same with the book of Luke, but is anyone aware if an entire Latin Bible can be purchased anywhere that has ma… --- ## [Impersonal Use of Unexpressed Esse in an Ablative Absolute? Reginald Foster's translation of an ablative in Ossium Carnes Multae (Cicero)](https://www.textkit.com/t/impersonal-use-of-unexpressed-esse-in-an-ablative-absolute-reginald-fosters-translation-of-an-ablative-in-ossium-carnes-multae-cicero/30928)
**Author:** [@Decanus45545](https://www.textkit.com/u/Decanus45545)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 13, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/impersonal-use-of-unexpressed-esse-in-an-ablative-absolute-reginald-fosters-translation-of-an-ablative-in-ossium-carnes-multae-cicero/30928 "2025-10-13T20:59:51Z")
I’ve been reading through Foster’s book of Ciceronian texts and translations and am encountering some translations which raise questions in my mind. Here’s one I recently came across: Si locare voluisses, duobus his mun… --- ## [In Catalinam 1.16](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-catalinam-1-16/30940)
**Author:** [@Anto](https://www.textkit.com/u/Anto)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 7, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-catalinam-1-16/30940 "2025-10-07T14:47:12Z")
Hi, I have a question in this paragraph regarding an usual use of “tibi” (at least for me), repeated twice in this same paragraph: Quid quod adventū tuō ista subsellia vacuēfacta sunt, quod omnēs cōnsulārēs, quī tibi pe… --- ## [Relative of characteristic versus Indirect Discourse](https://www.textkit.com/t/relative-of-characteristic-versus-indirect-discourse/16257)
**Author:** [@TheTaoOfPhil](https://www.textkit.com/u/TheTaoOfPhil)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2025, 5:46am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/relative-of-characteristic-versus-indirect-discourse/16257 "2025-09-24T05:46:33Z")
Hi, In my reading of De Bello Gallico, I just came across this, the first sentence in 1.3. Hīs rēbus adductī et auctōritāte Orgetorīgis permōtī, cōnstituērunt ea quae ad proficīscendum pertinērent comparāre, iūmentōru… --- ## [Difficulty with scanning some verses by Boethius](https://www.textkit.com/t/difficulty-with-scanning-some-verses-by-boethius/30899)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/difficulty-with-scanning-some-verses-by-boethius/30899 "2025-09-20T19:14:06Z")
Salvete omnes! Reading a book, I came across the following verses in Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiæ, 1. I, “in fine“ (I’m not reading Boethius: a note at the page’s footer says where those verses come from): Ga… --- ## [Augustine, City of God, Book 1, Preface](https://www.textkit.com/t/augustine-city-of-god-book-1-preface/30915)
**Author:** [@hlawson38](https://www.textkit.com/u/hlawson38)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/augustine-city-of-god-book-1-preface/30915 "2025-09-18T19:12:14Z")
Here is the passage, which I’ve cut and pasted from the LatinLibrary page: Unde etiam de terrena ciuitate, quae cum dominari adpetit, etsi populi seruiant, ipsa ei dominandi libido dominatur, non est praetereundum sile… --- ## [Question about sequence of tenses](https://www.textkit.com/t/question-about-sequence-of-tenses/30904)
**Author:** [@spqr](https://www.textkit.com/u/spqr)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/question-about-sequence-of-tenses/30904 "2025-09-09T22:27:41Z")
Eo opere perfecto, praesidia disponit, castella munit, quo facilius, si se invito transire conarentur, prohibere posset. Imperfect subjunctive verbs are used with present indicative main verbs. Is this sentence an excep… --- ## [Familia Romana, XVI, 92-93 (Quam in partem)](https://www.textkit.com/t/familia-romana-xvi-92-93-quam-in-partem/30892)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/familia-romana-xvi-92-93-quam-in-partem/30892 "2025-08-28T22:11:26Z")
Salvete! In that passage of Familia Romana, the following reads: “Pauló post nihil á náve cernitur præter mare et cælum. Médus gubernátórem interrogat: ‘Quam in partem návigámus?‘“ (the acutes are the long vowels). The … --- ## [Looking for content help! Cerutti's 3rd edition of Cicero Pro Archia](https://www.textkit.com/t/looking-for-content-help-ceruttis-3rd-edition-of-cicero-pro-archia/30879)
**Author:** [@christineka](https://www.textkit.com/u/christineka)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/looking-for-content-help-ceruttis-3rd-edition-of-cicero-pro-archia/30879 "2025-08-22T16:37:00Z")
Anyone own the 3rd edition of Cerutti 3rd edition of Cicero’s Pro Archia Poeta Oratio? I have a different edition. I need to translate 6 lines and a word of Quintillian’s that is in the appendix. I can easily find this w… --- ## [In Catilinam 1.11-12](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-catilinam-1-11-12/13293)
**Author:** [@swtwentyman](https://www.textkit.com/u/swtwentyman)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-catilinam-1-11-12/13293 "2025-08-21T14:03:14Z")
For the most part no problems, but Magna dis immortalibus habena est atque huic ipsi Iovi Statori, antiquissimo custodi huis urbis, gratia… I take this to mean “great gratitude should be given to the immortal gods and … --- ## [Tacitus Annals Question](https://www.textkit.com/t/tacitus-annals-question/30867)
**Author:** [@pddcva](https://www.textkit.com/u/pddcva)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/tacitus-annals-question/30867 "2025-08-18T17:01:06Z")
Here is a sentence from Annals 14.7: igitur longum utriusque silentium, ne inriti dissuaderent, an eo descensum credebant, \[ut\], nisi praeveniretur Agrippina, pereundum Neroni esset. I would have thought that “credeban… --- ## [A poem by one of the earliest Christian poets De Saeculi Istius Fine](https://www.textkit.com/t/a-poem-by-one-of-the-earliest-christian-poets-de-saeculi-istius-fine/30865)
**Author:** [@Cristoferuritius15](https://www.textkit.com/u/Cristoferuritius15)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/a-poem-by-one-of-the-earliest-christian-poets-de-saeculi-istius-fine/30865 "2025-08-17T23:30:31Z")
This poem by Commodianus “De Saeculi Istius Fine” is one of the easiest and most interesting pieces of poetry a beginner can hope to understand. It is as the French would put it Baroque avant la lettre, full of pathos an… --- ## [Familia Rōmāna, Capitulum Sextum Decimum, Versus XXXVIII - "ventus quī ā tergō flat"](https://www.textkit.com/t/familia-romana-capitulum-sextum-decimum-versus-xxxviii-ventus-qui-a-tergo-flat/30838)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/familia-romana-capitulum-sextum-decimum-versus-xxxviii-ventus-qui-a-tergo-flat/30838 "2025-08-09T19:59:50Z")
Salvēte amīcī! In that line, FR defines “ventum secundum“ as “ventus quī ā tergō flat“, as it is in this post’s title. I refered to my dictionary and found that “ventus secundus“ is the wind that blows in the same direc… --- ## [Quid nunc?, Quid tunc?, Et nunc? or Ac tunc?](https://www.textkit.com/t/quid-nunc-quid-tunc-et-nunc-or-ac-tunc/30822)
**Author:** [@Cristoferuritius15](https://www.textkit.com/u/Cristoferuritius15)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/quid-nunc-quid-tunc-et-nunc-or-ac-tunc/30822 "2025-08-06T15:23:37Z")
I am trying to translate an expression from Portuguese “e agora, José?”, it would word of word equate to “And now Joe?”, it actually means something like “what will be of you, poor fellow?”, “what then, you sad thing?” o… --- ## [Did anyone here achieve reading fluency in the Classical Latin corpus? If so, how?](https://www.textkit.com/t/did-anyone-here-achieve-reading-fluency-in-the-classical-latin-corpus-if-so-how/30806)
**Author:** [@Cristoferuritius15](https://www.textkit.com/u/Cristoferuritius15)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/did-anyone-here-achieve-reading-fluency-in-the-classical-latin-corpus-if-so-how/30806 "2025-08-04T19:16:45Z")
By reading fluency,I mean, the ability to sight read 95 percent of the pages you encounter of authentic Latin texts from the Classical period, say from 75 BC to 120 AD, roughly most of Cicero all the way to Pliny, Sueton… --- ## [Where to put the -ne interrogative particle](https://www.textkit.com/t/where-to-put-the-ne-interrogative-particle/30791)
**Author:** [@Straitsfan](https://www.textkit.com/u/Straitsfan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/where-to-put-the-ne-interrogative-particle/30791 "2025-07-22T17:54:31Z")
When asking a question with -ne, where does it go? I mean to ask which word should it be added to? And can anyone give some examples? --- ## [How to observe vowel length when my text doesn't bring it?](https://www.textkit.com/t/how-to-observe-vowel-length-when-my-text-doesnt-bring-it/30778)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/how-to-observe-vowel-length-when-my-text-doesnt-bring-it/30778 "2025-07-15T17:11:15Z")
Salvete! Yes, I’m making yet another post on pronunciation! This time I’m writing here instead of in the Greek board, because the problem seems slightly bigger in Latin than it is in Greek (as in Greek you have two lette… --- ## [In usum Delphini](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-usum-delphini/16736)
**Author:** [@Barry\_Hofstetter](https://www.textkit.com/u/Barry_Hofstetter)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 14, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-usum-delphini/16736 "2025-07-14T20:31:42Z")
Texts originally prepared for the Dauphin, with extensive introductions, notes and commentary all written in Latin. Shall we say a bit dated, but so cool… https://vivariumnovum.it/risorse-didattiche/propria-formazione/c… --- ## [Metamorphoses, 3.49](https://www.textkit.com/t/metamorphoses-3-49/30769)
**Author:** [@cnilson](https://www.textkit.com/u/cnilson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [July 13, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/metamorphoses-3-49/30769 "2025-07-13T15:38:02Z")
hos necat adflati funesta tabe veneni. Various texts have adflatu, adflatos, and adflati. I understand the line with either of the first two, but not with adflati. Any thoughts anyone? --- ## [Is the Latin word sobrius related to the Greek word σώφρων?](https://www.textkit.com/t/is-the-latin-word-sobrius-related-to-the-greek-word/21138)
**Author:** [@robrecht](https://www.textkit.com/u/robrecht)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/is-the-latin-word-sobrius-related-to-the-greek-word/21138 "2025-07-09T23:47:25Z")
The etymologies seem unrelated, but I’m struck by the similar sounds. --- ## [Advice needed for Latin book](https://www.textkit.com/t/advice-needed-for-latin-book/21151)
**Author:** [@Anto](https://www.textkit.com/u/Anto)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/advice-needed-for-latin-book/21151 "2025-07-05T00:29:34Z")
Hi everyone, I was studying on my own in D’Ooge’s Latin For Beginners. Now, I have finished the whole book, which was very useful and very good, especially with the key and the discussion I could participate on in this … --- ## [Reginald Foster's translation of the Perfect Tense](https://www.textkit.com/t/reginald-fosters-translation-of-the-perfect-tense/30733)
**Author:** [@Decanus45545](https://www.textkit.com/u/Decanus45545)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/reginald-fosters-translation-of-the-perfect-tense/30733 "2025-07-04T02:27:36Z")
On page 75 of Laura Pooley’s Ossa Ostensa (based on Reginald Foster’s teaching) the perfect tense (“T4a”) dixi is given the following definitions (not including the simple past uses, which are given under “T4b”: I have … --- ## [Slightly confused with a oratio obliqua](https://www.textkit.com/t/slightly-confused-with-a-oratio-obliqua/30748)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/slightly-confused-with-a-oratio-obliqua/30748 "2025-07-02T20:57:45Z")
Salvete! In the 27th chapter of Fabellæ Latinæ (one of the many ancillaries of LLPSI), the following passage reads: Mater autem filiæ suæ se ad tabernam, quæ in oppido est, ire velle dicit… I understood that the pro… --- ## [Familia Romana - Weird Accusative](https://www.textkit.com/t/familia-romana-weird-accusative/30730)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 20, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/familia-romana-weird-accusative/30730 "2025-06-20T19:41:32Z")
Salvete omnes! In chapter XI, the following passage reads: Medicus: “Jam necesse est puerum dormire.” Why is the accusative used here? Shouldn’t he to which something is necessary go to the dative? --- ## [Help for helping someone to learn Latin](https://www.textkit.com/t/help-for-helping-someone-to-learn-latin/30726)
**Author:** [@IoannesSanctaeMariae](https://www.textkit.com/u/IoannesSanctaeMariae)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/help-for-helping-someone-to-learn-latin/30726 "2025-06-19T15:41:20Z")
Salvete omnes! I’ve been studying Latin since October last year. I’ve spent about 7 months (from mid-October/2024 to early May/2025) studying with the “grammar-translation method”, saw that I would get nowhere by studyi… --- ## [Use of Pluperfect Subjunctive in Plautus Ps. 3-5](https://www.textkit.com/t/use-of-pluperfect-subjunctive-in-plautus-ps-3-5/30721)
**Author:** [@Decanus45545](https://www.textkit.com/u/Decanus45545)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/use-of-pluperfect-subjunctive-in-plautus-ps-3-5/30721 "2025-06-16T16:45:31Z")
Si ex te tacente fieri possem certior, ere, quae miseriae te tam misere macerent, duorúm labori ego hominum parsissem lubens, mei te rogandi et tis respondendi “If, master, by your being silent, I could be in-formed wha… --- ## [In Catilinam 1.7-8](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-catilinam-1-7-8/13288)
**Author:** [@swtwentyman](https://www.textkit.com/u/swtwentyman)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/in-catilinam-1-7-8/13288 "2025-06-16T13:56:10Z")
Cicero starts to talk about how he was aware of the conspiracy all along. Meministine me ante diem XII Kalendas Novembris dicere in senatu fore in armis certo die, qui dies futurus esset ante diem VI Kal. Novembris, C. … --- ## [History of Latin education?](https://www.textkit.com/t/history-of-latin-education/20648)
**Author:** [@Karagialis](https://www.textkit.com/u/Karagialis)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/history-of-latin-education/20648 "2025-06-15T17:08:09Z")
Hello, I am looking for sources on the history of Latin education. Debates on how much Latin language should be taught and with what methods, what’s the significance of it, etc. Especially from 17th century. Does anythin… --- ## [The vocative of "deus" per Allen and Greenough](https://www.textkit.com/t/the-vocative-of-deus-per-allen-and-greenough/30683)
**Author:** [@classicist](https://www.textkit.com/u/classicist)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/the-vocative-of-deus-per-allen-and-greenough/30683 "2025-06-11T20:01:13Z")
According to Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Granmar (page 23): “The vocative singular of deus does not occur in classic Latin, but is said to have been dee; deus (like the nominative) occurs in the Vulgate.” “Said to … --- ## [Horace satires 2.2](https://www.textkit.com/t/horace-satires-2-2/30695)
**Author:** [@Crovis1](https://www.textkit.com/u/Crovis1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/horace-satires-2-2/30695 "2025-06-10T16:11:06Z")
Hi all, I’ve got a bit of a blind spot about line 15 of the second satire of book 2 of Horace’s satires. I can’t seem to make it scan. Can anyone advise? The line is: 15 sperne cibum vilem; nisi Hymetia mella Falern… [Previous page](https://www.textkit.com/c/latin/7.md?page=1) [Next page](https://www.textkit.com/c/latin/7.md?page=3)