FR - litterae latinae CAP XVIII

Pianophile · October 3, 2020, 2:33pm

(p.138, top) Discipuli magistro tabulas suas dant. Is tabulam cuiusque pueri in manus sumit litterasque eorum aspicit.
A bit puzzled by the genitive masc. plural “eorum”. I assume it refers back to the “discipuli” in the first sentence, but not sure.

bedwere · October 3, 2020, 6:05pm

Yes, it refers to discipulī.

seneca2008 · October 3, 2020, 6:15pm

Have you fully understood “cuiusque pueri”. If not that might have been confusing you when you read " litterasque eorum aspicit".

Pianophile · October 4, 2020, 7:25am

Thanks for querying that. I did do a double take when I saw pueri and eorum, but since cuiusque was definitely genitive singular I decided pueri couldn’t be anything but genitive singular.

Again many thanks to bedwere and seneca.