Galileo observing the Moon

[Wilbur]

After a long break, I’m back to Galileo again.

He has looked at the moon and observed features that he compares to mountains and valleys on earth. Then he writes:

Apparentiae vero ex quibus haec colligere licuit eiusmodi sunt.

licuit has always caused me trouble. That given permission is in the dative (apparentiae?). Or is it Apparentiae (nom pl) licuit sunt? And what does eiusmodi modify? And then there is haec; is haec colligere the acc/inf construction that is the subject of licuit sunt?

Here’s my best try: “Indeed, appearances/comparisons of this kind are allowed to be collected from these [observations].”

Any help would be most appreciated.

[bedwere]

After a long break, I’m back to Galileo again.

He has looked at the moon and observed features that he compares to mountains and valleys on earth. Then he writes:

Apparentiae vero ex quibus haec colligere licuit eiusmodi sunt.

licuit has always caused me trouble. That given permission is in the dative (apparentiae?). Or is it Apparentiae (nom pl) licuit sunt? And what does eiusmodi modify? And then there is haec; is haec colligere the acc/inf construction that is the subject of licuit sunt?

Here’s my best try: “Indeed, appearances/comparisons of this kind are allowed to be collected from these [observations].”

Any help would be most appreciated.

Maybe if you split it like this it is clearer:

Apparentiae vero
___________ex quibus haec colligere licuit
eiusmodi sunt.


The phenomena
__________from which one could collect these
are such.

[Wilbur]

Thank you, bedwere,

The way you split the sentence did make things clearer.

And I like the Spoiler idea!