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

john abshire

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Sum doesn't take a direct object. Res here must agree with the subject of sum, the implied nominative ego.

Yes, of course it does. Why wouldn't it?
Ah, the predicate nominative, (again)
Sum non viva res.

And, to make faciendos agree with res:
Usurpor ad faciendas res.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

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Location:
Belgium
I think you must be some kind of metal. Iron (ferrum)?
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

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Location:
Belgium
In me quiescit regina clarissima, sui generis ultima, de qua inter alios fabulam eximiam eximius poeta scripsit. Nemo scit ubi sim. At quid sim, fortasse tu, lector, scies.
 

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

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Location:
Western Europe
Cleopatra's mausoleum, I presume.
 

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

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Location:
Western Europe
Mons ego sum mirus: cives nam me cumularunt,
Meque lavas undis tu, Tiberine pater.


Hoc disticho perlecto oro te mihi dicas quis sim.
 

Notascooby

Civis Illustris

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The Aventine? Mons or collis I know not.
 

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

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Location:
Western Europe
The Aventine? Mons or collis I know not.
Mausoleum of Augustus?
(Mons Augustus, when it was abandoned and grown over)
Vehementer doleo, amici, quod in errore versamini.
Mons Aventinus non a civibus, sed natura factus est.
Mons qui vocabatur Augustus ab hominibus quidem constructus est, sed quod attinet ad pristinam eius formam, ex qua mausoleum illud nomen cepit, his diebus non iam conspici potest.
Montem illum mirum ab hominibus cumulatum qui ego sum etiamnunc admirari potestis.
:)
 

Notascooby

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The royal house. Regia?
 

Agrippa

Civis Illustris

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Location:
Western Europe
The royal house. Regia?
Denuo per errorem lapsus es, vir optime, sed auxilio vobis venio: Civium manibus factus sum mons qui adiacet Monti Aventino.:)
 

Notascooby

Civis Illustris

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Are you the big pile of broken pots (testae?) Can't remember what it is called.

Acervus testarum ruptarum Magnus, my attempt at "big pile of broken pots"
 
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