Orberg XXXVII

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I’m just checking to make sure I have the use of the gerundive in line 38 Cap. XXXVII of Roma Aeterna squared away:

Alli donum Graecorum suspectum in mare praecipitandum et flammis urendum esse censebat.

My translation: Others were considering throwing the suspicious gift in the sea and burning it with flames.


Now, I know the gerundive acts in similarity to a future passive participle, but in Familia Romana there wasn’t a lot of practice in dealing with this interesting concept; it seemed in Familia Romana Orberg focused more on the use of gerundive + esse -the passive periphrastic.

Vobis pluras gratias

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Never mind the post. I just saw the esse and then I saw it now as a passive periphrastic which now takes the sense of necessity. It must be thrown/burned

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