I’m almost embarrased to ask but somehow I got stuck on it whilst working through the
first four lessons in “Latin for Beginners” - even though it’s not an exercise.
In the following sentence,
“Caesar sent cavalry to the city with catapults.”
What is “with catapults” ?
By which I mean if “Caesar” is the subject(nominative) and “cavalry” the direct object(accusative)
and “to the city” the indirect object(dative) than “with calvary” ought to be ablative but what is it?
All I can say on my own is that it is “a preposition”. But I get a little confused (did that to myself )
by thinking that the sentence could be worded as, “Caesar sent calvary and catapults to the city.” and
wouldn’t that mean there were two direct objects ?
Now that I look at it I could see where you might want to know - Is that the city with catapultsin it ?
Or the calvary with catapults to the city? It’s supposed to be the second one. So I guess this is
a pretty clumsy sentence but I’d still like an answer if you can.
I’d appreciate any help but please try not to laugh too loud.
TIA,
Cathexis