An error in Collins? Or more likely, it's me? hah!

Latin Learning Latin
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So, it seems to me that there are a few errors in this textbook/answer book. It also seems that I am sometimes just confused. :smiley: .

“Propter tui dilectionem veni ego.”

The answer book has it as: “Because of [my] love for you, I have come.”

Would’t that be “Propter tibi dilectionem…”? If not, so the genitive (tui) means here "love “of you”?

If it were more explicit, would it be?: “Propter tibi/tui [whichever it is haha] dilectionem meam, veni ego”

Thanks!

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Figured it out - it’s the objective genitive. Collins was right again. :sunglasses:

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Okay, so as to not clutter up this board, two more questions:

  1. This sentence:

Mittamne ego digitum meum in latus Domini.

Why isn’t latus in the ablative?

  1. What are the rules for when personal pronouns are necessary or not in Ecclesiastical Latin?

For example, this sentence:

Cum te adveneris ad templum, mitte tuum servum ad me.

Is the te necessary? How to discern when it is and isn’t?

Thanks!

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