From: george knysh
Message: 20372
Date: 2003-03-26
> If someone doesn't mind, could you explain________________________________________________________________
> this Latin sentence to
> me?:
>
> Tempora nostra nunc sunt mala; vitia nostra, magna.
>
> I don't have a problem translating, just with the
> fact that there is only
> one verb (the "to be" verb sunt- "they are/there
> are"), which would make
> the second part of the sentence (after the
> semi-colon) without a verb,
> and thus incomplete. So I don't understand the word
> placement.
> Can words from the second part of the sentence
> (after the semi-colon) be
> placed with the first part of the semi-colon, and
> vice-versa, or should
> they be treated as seperate sentences?
>
> If anyone can help, that would be splendid!
>
> Adeus,
> Michael
>
>
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