Glossary entry

Latin term or phrase:

Propter inopiam frumenti Caesar ibi totam aestatem manere non poterat.

English translation:

Because of the lack of wheat,

Added to glossary by Egmont
Apr 23, 2002 01:13
22 yrs ago
Latin term

Propter inopiam frumenti Caesar ibi totam aestatem manere non poterat.

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Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 Because of the lack of wheat,

Proposed translations

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Because of the lack of wheat,

Cesar could not stay there the whole summer

Propter = because
inopiam = lack of (accusative)
frumenti = wheat (genitive)
Caesar = Cesar (nominative)
ibi - there
aestatem = summer (accusative
total = all (accusative)
manere = stay
non poterat = could not

paola l m

civis romanus sum
Peer comment(s):

agree Adam Bartley : Paola has this absolutely right. Curse the time difference.;) "Had not been able to " would capture the pluperfect force of poterat a little better, perhaps.
4 hrs
agree Сергей Лузан
5 hrs
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