FR XXXIII Part 2 Rōma, should this be Rōmae locative>

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FR XXXIII Part 2 line 72
“Utinam hic amnis Tīberis esset et haec castra essent Rōma!”
Shouldn’t this be Rōmae locative? Would that ,and this camp were in Rome!
Gratias tibi ago. Jim

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The sentence is grammatically correct. Tiberis and Roma are predicates in the nominative here – so, ‘would that this river were the Tiber and that this camp were Rome’.

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I though “this camp were Rome” and thought, that doesn’t make sense-the camp isn’t Rome! It would have to be this camp were in Rome. Okay, this is a wish, so anything goes with a wish. “I wish this stink’n’ camp were Rome!” Thank you.