Fuyu had a busy week, just like me.
Okay, here is the Terrifying Latin Sentence of Doom! Courtesy of Gaius Julius I-Like-To-Write-Deranged-Thirty-Eight-Words-Sentences Caesar:
*take deep breath*
His rebus gestis, cum omnibus de causis Caesar pacatam Galliam existimaret, superatis Belgis, expulsis Germanis, victis in Alpibus Sedunis, atque ita inita hieme in Illyricum profectus esset, quod eas quoque nationes adire et regiones cognoscere volebat, subitum bellum in Gallia coortum est.
Which in English means...
"These things being achieved, while Caesar had every reason to suppose that Gaul was reduced to a state of tranquillity, the Belgae being overcome, the Germans expelled, the Seduni among the Alps defeated, and when he had, therefore, in the beginning of winter, set out for Illyricum, as he wished to visit those nations, and acquire a knowledge of their countries, a sudden war sprang up in Gaul."
Of course, it all looks simple now, but it`s not just the ordinary past tense, it`s all Participle Perfect Passive, or whatnot!
Heh. Funny though, how I pick a sentence randomly from "The Gallic Wars" and it turns out to be the sentence where Caesar goes to the Illyricum, which is ancient Croatia (and possibly Slovenia). :mrgreen:
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