Sunday, March 16, 2014

Notes for rest of Robert the Monk


Here are the extra notes for the remainder of Robert the Monk.

29: carus: adj., and it could modify only one word in this clause
36: circumdata: modifies terra (l. 35). Note that if you separate the relative clause (quam inhabitatis), you are left with a phrase that starts with quoniam terra in line 35 and ends with circumdata and a comma. Since circumdata is a form of adjective, it comfortably brackets the whole phrase that starts with its noun terra.
37: copia: for its case, compare clausura, iugis, and numerositate. It is possible that it is the subject of exuberat, but that seems odd and pleonastic.
38: exupero: Cassell's doesn't have this under exu-, but compare what it says about exul and apply that here.
alimenta: Cassell's, s.v. 1.
38: sola: "alone"; put after alimenta in your trans.
48: I would say "span of life" or just "life" for conversatione.
49: understand a quotation mark after insignavit.
49: plurima: I would put a comma after this.
50: qui aderant: relative clause, separating omnium and affectus, which should, therefore, be taken together.
59: congressio: any meeting of people, so here something like "contest"; the genitive is of quality: "an attack comprising a warlike onslaught."