Iniustus est qui me tacere de re tanta postulet

[SpeedPocok5]

Iniustus est qui me tacere de re tanta postulet

Unfair is to request me to shut up of so many things

 

[cinefactus]

What does qui + subjunctive mean?

 

[SpeedPocok5]

What does qui + subjunctive mean?

Yes, I get it, it's a subjunctive so it adquires a final sense

 

[Bitmap]

Yes, I get it, it's a subjunctive so it adquires a final sense

Probably more like a consecutive sense, i.e. an expression of characteristics.

iniustus is masculine for starters.

 

[cinefactus]

Yes, I get it, it's a subjunctive so it adquires a final sense

See if this makes it any clearer.

 

[Gryllus Minor]

And did anyone notice that re tantā is singular?

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Or that iniustus is masculine, for that matter?

 

[Dantius]

iniustus is masculine for starters.

 

[Bitmap]

Or that iniustus is masculine, for that matter?

...

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Sorry, could have sworn it wasn't there earlier, but I probably just skimmed the thread.

 

[David Fields]

(beginner) He is unfair who would ask me to be silent of such a thing. (?)

And I have seen this phrase before, I think. Wheelock?

 

[Bitmap]

That's right ... you could also translate de tanta re as 'so important an issue'.