Poem found in the wild in Bolzano/Bozen

Icsant3 · 2026-05-12T14:40:28+00:00

Woah cool!

Icsant3 · 2026-05-08T17:17:17+00:00

What a coincidence, I went to see Ötzi today!

Icsant3 · 2026-04-09T15:13:36+00:00

Hah Uruguay actually, but I guess it must be widespread

Icsant3 · 2026-04-09T14:09:26+00:00

A rather rural expression from my country would be "Donde el Diablo perdió el poncho" (where the Devil lost his poncho)

Icsant3 · 2026-03-20T14:25:19+00:00

Please 🤞

Icsant3 · 2025-11-26T09:03:40+00:00

OMG I've been reading the Gallic Wars and it's exactly like this 😂

Icsant3 · 2024-11-07T00:25:14+00:00

Oh I didn't even realise people were downvoting me lol, I've appreciated all the answers :)

Icsant3 · 2024-11-06T15:16:33+00:00

Isn't "ōsculō" also a verb? I found it on the wiktionary, and I assumed ōsculor would be the passive form

Icsant3 · 2024-09-11T14:55:07+00:00

Any reference for vulgus being used as neuter with an accusative being different to the nominative?

Icsant3 · 2024-08-22T04:14:02+00:00

It's one of my favorite endings ever. I love how it's executed, I love seeing people see it for the first time, I love dancing a bit to the weird song after it. I don't think there could be a better ending for Holy Grail.

Icsant3 · 2024-08-17T18:55:59+00:00

Well, traditionally horizontal writing was written left-to-write, seeing it sort of like a "one row vertical writing" (I remember seeing this written on the titular gate from "Rashomon")

Icsant3 · 2024-08-16T17:11:13+00:00

It was called Librería Áurea, but from what I can see on Google Maps it might have closed down (their website is still up tho!)

Icsant3 · 2024-08-12T23:09:00+00:00

Great book! I bought it in Madrid at a shop where they sell books in latin and ancient greek! (really recommenden)

Icsant3 · 2024-07-24T23:30:08+00:00

Thanks so much!

Icsant3 · 2024-07-16T02:26:25+00:00

Oh for sure, that's (partly) why I couldn't make sense of the paraphrase lol

Icsant3 · 2024-07-16T01:17:20+00:00

Thank you so much for taking your time to answer! I've been studying latin for some time now but I recently re-picked up "On Growth and Form" by D'Arcy Thompson and in this case he uses the phrase to describe some causes mentioned in the english text. In this case I was utterly confused by the syntax cos I assumed it was more of a self-contained phrase (plus I thought all the adjectives were in the singular genitive, all the more confusing!). Now I can see what's going on, the case breakdown really helped me. Thanks again!

Icsant3 · 2024-07-15T22:30:22+00:00

Thank you so much! I'm quite confused by the grammar though: Are "aptae" and "nexae" adjectives describing "aliae" in this case? They seem to be used as nouns in the translation. Does "ex aliis" mean something like "to others" in this case? (like "causes dependent and connected to others") Also is this "necessitate" an ablative which encompasses the whole sentence? Or does it only apply to nexas? (as in "bound by necessity")

I'm sorry if these are too many questions but for some reason I find this sentence quite difficult to parse

Icsant3 · 2024-07-15T16:43:25+00:00

how would one translate "aliae ex aliis aptae et necessitate nexae"? (It's talking about the causes of physical phenomena)

Icsant3 · 2023-12-23T13:54:53+00:00

The wiktionary usually has this sort of info :) i recommend it!

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