Liber tuus et lectus est et legitur a me cum diligentia. Vis autem verborum intellegi non potest.
I’m confused by the first sentence. “liber” and “lectus” are both nom. sing. and “legitur” is 3rd passive.
Any hints would be great. I can’t make sense of it.
For the second sentence I translated it as “However, he was not able to understand the power of words.”
Lectus est is the perfect passive form of legere. It’s not from the noun lectus,-i “bed”. The et’s are coordinating the two verbs: “Your book both was read and is being read by me with diligence.” Intellegi is present passive infinitive, so: “The force of the words, however, cannot be understood.” (“by me” being understood.)
I think lectus est is more likely to be read in it’s literal meaning ‘to choose’
Hence ‘your book was chosen and is being read…’
But it is hard to tell for sure. Seems to make more sense?
I tend to side with ImberRanae, just because I think a good author would avoid the ambiguity of using two radically different meanings of lego right beside each other without further clarification. The way I interpret it is “I’ve read your book and I’m still in the process of reading it, but I can’t get the gist of it.”
Yes, I see and agree. That makes sense.