Okay or not okay in dative of possession?

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Hi,

I’m looking at some AI generated latin and I it looks wacky to me but I’m only a year and a half into latin so obviously I have large gaps. Was hoping someone could either say ‘it’s all good’ - or expound on its wrongness:

In hac terra vivunt homines quibus timor et spei sunt eodem tempore.

Specific questions for my own knowledge:

  • Is it generally done to have two different objects joined by an ‘et’ in a single dative of possession?


  • Would it then be good style to include one nomitive and one dative like it is here?


  • The use of the dative form of ‘spes’ is sited as having a connotation of ‘having confidence in’. But would this be the usual way to phrase this usage?

thanks!

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It should be in the nominative (spes) not in the dative (spei). Then timor et spes would be the subject of sunt (which is third person plural) and all would make sense.

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Yes that’s what I was thinking - thanks!