Need practice sentences
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Heus hic graece non loquimur. Si vis loqui graece, athenas eas.
you gotta be fast, dantius. it's a do-or-die world here, this latin translation business. linger thirty seconds and a stray participle might shank you.
Cum cenarem mihi allatae sunt litterae de iulio se multum aegrotare mihique medico suo fideli - ita enim me appellavit - ad se quam celerrime eundum.
May be very, very wrong.
May be very, very wrong.
Correct, but the words missae, in quibus dixit aren't really necessary. If you keep that bit, though, dicebat would feel better to me than dixit.
Wrong preposition; it should be a.
Veniendum rather than eundum (because it's "come", from the point of view of Julius, rather than "go", from the point of view of the other).
"Why won't you marry me? What are you afraid of? I'm not the kind of woman who'll lose it if her husband happens to sleep with another. All I want is for you to treat me and our future children well; what you do with your dick when away from home, I consider to be none of my business. See what a good wife I'd make? Come on, marry me."
The logic behind using something other than 'a' was that it wasn't necessarily Julius who brought the letter to the recipient. But I guess not everything is disambiguatable.
I see. But I've never seen de used that way (to mean that something like a letter comes from someone), while ab regularly is. It's indeed ambiguous, but I guess the context makes it clear enough. A way to disambiguate it would be to do like Dantius and add something like missae or scriptae, but I hardly think it's necessary (I'm pretty sure I've seen things like litterae allatae a(b)... with the person after a(b) being the writer rather than the bringer of the letter, and it's understood from the context).
Quin me in matrimonium ducis ? Quid paves ? Non talis sum mulier qualis irascetur si qua fiet ut maritus forte cum alia concumbat. Unum illud volo me natosque nostros futuros ut liberaliter tractes; mea non interesse reor quid foris verpa facias. Vidisne quam bona essem tibi uxor ? Fac ducas !
I think "why won't you" is a real question about his reason for not wanting to marry her. That's the way I meant it in any case. So cur me in matrimonium ducere non vis?
I'm not sure this is very idiomatic. I think something like this would be better (optional words in perentheses): non sum ea (femina/mulier) quae irascar si (qua fiat ut) maritus forte cum alia concumbat.
It would have been nice to keep the emphasis of the original by putting the indirect question first.
The meaning here is potential rather than present contrary-to-fact. And videre is second conjugation. Videsne quam bona tibi uxor futura sim?
It would have been nice to add age for "come on".
Admirabile est generosus esse cum ipse indigis.
Concerning grammar:
Generosus should be in the accusative: "to be generous" here is a substantive clause (subject of est) and the subject of such a clause, as well as any adjective or such referring to it (here "generous" sort of refers to an implied subject "someone" or so), must be in the accusative (except cases of attraction into the dative in things like mihi libet esse molestae).
Indigere is second conjugation (so the 2nd pers. sg. present indicative is indiges), and it would be more classical for it to be in the subjunctive here, indigeas. In classical Latin, a verb agreeing with a "general you" (i.e. "you" in the sense of "one/someone/anyone" rather than specifically you whom I'm talking to) is generally in the subjunctive.
Concerning vocabulary:
Liberalem rather than generosum.
Generosus should be in the accusative: "to be generous" here is a substantive clause (subject of est) and the subject of such a clause, as well as any adjective or such referring to it (here "generous" sort of refers to an implied subject "someone" or so), must be in the accusative (except cases of attraction into the dative in things like mihi libet esse molestae).
Indigere is second conjugation (so the 2nd pers. sg. present indicative is indiges), and it would be more classical for it to be in the subjunctive here, indigeas. In classical Latin, a verb agreeing with a "general you" (i.e. "you" in the sense of "one/someone/anyone" rather than specifically you whom I'm talking to) is generally in the subjunctive.
Concerning vocabulary:
Liberalem rather than generosum.