Monday, October 7, 2013

Egeria in Reading Medieval Latin (i and ii)


Sidwell gives a lot of help, but here is a bit more. I hope we'll get through the first section today, in which case this won't be of much help.....

(i)
line 1: ut: note sciret; only one type of ut-clause really makes sense here, when you consider certas uos facere debui.

5: sed et laici preter: et = "even".

6: responduntur: "are sung with responses".

7: simul et antiphonae: et = "also".

8: uices habent: "take turns" (in dictionary s.v. uicis ).

(ii)
4: cathecuminos: in Sidwell's vocabulary, under its usual spelling.

5: omnes: nom. (if it were acc. masc. pl., one would expect it to come before cancellos; and without it there is no good subject for the verb).