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{
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"english": "At that time, he just wasn't able to eat",
"text": "Tunc, modo edere non potuit",
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{
"english": "I am able to speak in Latin",
"text": "Possum Latine loqui",
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{
"english": "Can you help me please?",
"text": "Potesne mihi succurrere, quaeso?",
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{
"english": "(Pallas or Athena meted divine retribution after the fall of Troy; there the Argive/Greek invaders had desecrated Athena’s temple, in which Ajax the Lesser assaulted Cassandra.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.39–41",
"text": "“… Pallāsne exūrere classem\nArgīvum atque ipsōs potuit submergere pontō,\nūnīus ob noxam et furiās Aiācis Oīlēī?”\n“Was not Pallas able to burn the Argive fleet and to drown [the men] themselves in the sea – [all] because of the crime and fury of [just] one man, Ajax, [son] of Oileus?”"
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"english": "(The exiled poet addresses his book as if it were a living emissary that he will send to Rome in his place. The optative subjunctive “facerent” expresses a wish, followed by the jussive subjunctive “possem” stating what the writer believes should be done.)",
"ref": "8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.57–58",
"text": "tū tamen ī prō mē, tū, cui licet, aspice Rōmam,\ndī facerent, possem nunc meus esse līber!\nNevertheless, you go instead of me – you, to whom it is allowed, behold [the city of] Rome – Gods! [If only you] would grant [it], [that] now I would be able to be my book!"
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