Quid sum? (What am I?) Latin writing game

[Pacifica]

That's it!

 

[Bitmap]

I still don't get the 2nd sentence

 

[Pacifica]

In prose order: si certo modo legeris, memet hic videbis.

 

[Pacifica]

The "certain way" is the accentual way, as opposed to quantitative.

 

[Bitmap]

In prose order: si certo modo legeris, memet hic videbis.

I understood that much.

 

[Bitmap]

The "certain way" is the accentual way, as opposed to quantitative.

Ohh ...

That was lame!

 

[Bitmap]

quid sum? pueris dor una cum medicina, si medicina ipsa eis non placet. quaedam animalia, quae volant, me faciunt. ex me bestia audacissima mundi nomen capit.

audacissimus, a, um = superlative of audax, "daring, bold, fearless"

 

[Pacifica]

Honey (mel).

 

[Bitmap]

That was meant to be a beginner puzzle :>

 

[Pacifica]

I guess you should add a warning like "Pacifica isn't allowed to answer this one" or something.

 

[Pacifica]

Parvus durusque sum. In quodam libro pueri me (et alios mei similes) in condiscipulos iacere narrantur. Quid sum?

 

[Bitmap]

I guess you should add a warning like "Pacifica isn't allowed to answer this one" or something.

I don't want to exclude anyone from the game. I thought you'd notice that yourself and at least wait a little bit.

 

[Pacifica]

It's hard to wait when you have the answer and don't know if anyone else is going to play in the first place.

 

[Issacus Divus]

Usually only about 5 or 6 at most play this game, I don't blame you.

 

[Pacifica]

Usually only about 5 or 6 at most play this game

And not at the same time.

 

[KarlaUK]

Parvus durusque sum. In quodam libro pueri me (et alios mei similes) in condiscipulos iacere narrantur. Quid sum?

Spoiler: My attempt at an answer and translation

I am small and hard. In a certain book about a boy, me (and others similar to me) are reported to throw (why not be thrown) at schoolmates.
Sum lapillus.

 

[Pacifica]

I am small and hard.

That's correct.

In a certain book about a boy, me (and others similar to me) are reported to throw (why not be thrown) at schoolmates.

This is not.

Why not "be thrown" indeed? Because me (et alios mei similes) isn't the subject. It couldn't be: both because the verb narrantur wouldn't agree with an "I" or "we" subject, and because me et alios isn't in the nominative.

Now, which word could be the subject...?

Sum lapillus.

That's right.

 

[Bitmap]

parve silex, lapidum custos te tale merentem
in condiscipulos ingenti robore iactat.

 

[Bitmap]

Spoiler: My attempt at an answer and translation

I am small and hard. In a certain book about a boy, me (and others similar to me) are reported to throw (why not be thrown) at schoolmates.
Sum lapillus.

Well done! You get to propose the next riddle

 

[Pacifica]

parve silex, lapidum custos te tale merentem
in condiscipulos ingenti robore iactat.

Quonam facto meruit parvus iste silex iactari?

Ceterum quid est lapidum custos?