Apuleius - Cupid & Psyche

[Dantius]

the sense is "some amount of road". aliquam is adverbial in the same way as quam.

There is a deponent form of continuo.

 

[Matthaeus]

Bit of a weird construction again, but ok, thanks.

 

[Bitmap]

You know ... if you read Apuleius, you're kind of asking for it.

 

[Matthaeus]

Ah, I see continor in OLD, whereas the L&S entry for continuo doesn't specifically mention a deponent variant.

 

[Matthaeus]

You know ... if you read Apuleius, you're kind of asking for it.

It's ok, I'm a patient reader.

 

[Dantius]

Ah, I see continor in OLD, whereas the L&S entry for continuo doesn't specifically mention a deponent variant.

There's a separate entry in L&S for some reason.

 

[Matthaeus]

All's clear. Hadn't thought of looking up that variant separately.

 

[Dantius]

It's a bit weird and inconsistent with how L&S does it for other words.

 

[Matthaeus]

Indeed.

 

[Matthaeus]

Lol, once I'll finish the story again, I'll deserve this:

 

[Matthaeus]

I guess nobody found that funny.

So let's get serious.

-Haec eam sollicite seduloque curantem Ceres alma deprehendit et longum exclamat protinus.

Is that word used adverbially here?

-Quin igitur masculum tandem sumis animum et cassae speculae renuntias fortiter.

dative but the sense is a direct object? Would have been more usual with the accusative, I guess.

-Fac ergo mandatum matures meum et indicia, qui possit agnosci, manifeste designes.

wouldn't that have been more usual with quibus?

-inde de coma pretiosi velleris floccum mihi confestim quoquo modo quaesitum afferas censeo.

Jussive subjunctive with an elided ut after censeo?

-Psyche, tantis aerumnis exercita, neque tua miserrima morte meas sanctas aquas polluas nec vero istud horae contra formidabiles oves feras aditum.

Another weird temporal collocation? Do those two words even go together?

 

[Pacifica]

-Haec eam sollicite seduloque curantem Ceres alma deprehendit et longum exclamat protinus.

Is that word used adverbially here?

I believe so.

-Quin igitur masculum tandem sumis animum et cassae speculae renuntias fortiter.

dative but the sense is a direct object? Would have been more usual with the accusative, I guess.

Nope, the dative is actually more usual with renuntio in that sense.

-Fac ergo mandatum matures meum et indicia, qui possit agnosci, manifeste designes.

wouldn't that have been more usual with quibus?

I think so. Some versions on Google actually have quibus. Qui (the instrumental one) can work in a (loose-ish) way, though.

-inde de coma pretiosi velleris floccum mihi confestim quoquo modo quaesitum afferas censeo.

Jussive subjunctive with an elided ut after censeo?

I suppose you can put it that way. I mean, I personally would be wary of concluding that an ut is really implied in those bare-subjunctive indirect commands, but in any case the meaning is the same as if there were one.

-Psyche, tantis aerumnis exercita, neque tua miserrima morte meas sanctas aquas polluas nec vero istud horae contra formidabiles oves feras aditum.

Another weird temporal collocation? Do those two words even go together?

The demonstrative is an adverbial accusative and horae is a partitive genitive: "that of hour", i.e. "at that point in time".

It isn't common with horae (I remember seeing it only once, illud horae somewhere else in Apuleius) but id temporis and id aetatis are more common (especially the former, I think).

 

[Matthaeus]

Thanks!