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Latin to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Latin term or phrase: Audentis or audentes | Audentis fortuna juvet
is it Audentis or audentes??? its fortune favors the bold but what the literal translation?
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| | grammatically both are correct | Explanation:
"audentis" (with a long i, unlike the genitive form!) is an older form of the accusative plural "audentes", still most common in the classical era.
However the quotation is from Virgil, Aeneid, book X, line 284, and according to the Virgil edition I have at home (Oxford Classical Texts) there are no variants but all manuscripts show the -is ending (as this seems to be the case for all similar accusative plural forms in Virgil).
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Maria Ferstl
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Local time: 23:49
| Grading comment thank you maria.
danya and marco, thank you very much! no offence, guys
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55 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +6 grammatically both are correct
Explanation:
"audentis" (with a long i, unlike the genitive form!) is an older form of the accusative plural "audentes", still most common in the classical era.
However the quotation is from Virgil, Aeneid, book X, line 284, and according to the Virgil edition I have at home (Oxford Classical Texts) there are no variants but all manuscripts show the -is ending (as this seems to be the case for all similar accusative plural forms in Virgil).
| Maria Ferstl
Malta
Local time: 23:49
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Native speaker of:  German
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| | Grading comment thank you maria.
danya and marco, thank you very much! no offence, guys |
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The translation workplace 
