Re: [tied] Latin

From: P&G
Message: 20424
Date: 2003-03-27

> Tempora nostra nunc sunt mala; vitia nostra, magna.
>
>there is only one verb

This is regular and normal in Latin. When a sentence has two (or more)
parallel parts, with a word repeated, it is only written once, and
understood in the other part. We do exactly the same in English, only less
regularly and often:
Our times are evil, our vices great.
Sometimes Latin writers do this with two words at once, putting one of them
in the first half, and the other in the second.

Peter