ea sancta

pmda · February 19, 2015, 8:16pm

In LLPSI Tullus Mettium puniturus est ei loquit: 'Nunc, quoniam tuum insanabile ingenium est, at tu tuo supplicio doce humanum genus ea sancta credere quae a te violata sunt!

ea sancta = ea (res) sancta? ea sancta acc. neut pl?

Qimmik · February 19, 2015, 8:20pm

ea sancta acc. neut pl?

Yes, neuter plural, but res, which would be feminine, is not understood.

pmda · February 20, 2015, 4:59pm

Thanks Qimmik

mwh · February 21, 2015, 3:01am

“Tullus Mettium puniturus est ei loquit”

Something amiss here. Delete est or punctuate after it as a heading?
loquitur?

The nice thing in Tullus’ nasty sentence is the at.

pmda · February 21, 2015, 4:35pm

Thanks mwh. I’m not really familiar with how the fut participle works.. does it use sum, es, est…or just for emphasis…?

Qimmik · February 21, 2015, 7:45pm

The future periphrastic conjugation combines the future participle with forms of esse (“to be about to” or “to be going to”), but the future participle is simply a verbal adjective (“about to”, “going to”) – like other participles – and doesn’t call for a form of esse in a clause that has a main verb.