Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Grasp Custodes

Latin

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Words

custos, custodis
guardian, gaoler
Custodes
3rd declension, masculine, Accusative, plural?
Custodiet
??
Custodio
vt 4, to guard, to watch, keep, preserve (BooKs:euplatinenglish)
Quis
interrogative pronoun, nominative, plural (Quis (m./f.) hoc ignôrat? Who does not know this?
ipsos
selves (ipse, -a, -um (pron. or adj) : -self, -selves (BooKs:debello))

Grasp

The Grasp method decomposes the sentence and rebuilds it.

Custodiet
he, she or it guards
Custodiet custodes
He guards the guards.
Custodiet ipsos custodes
he guards the guards themselves?)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Who guards the guards themselves?
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes
But who guards the guards themselves?

No comments:

Post a Comment

Blog Archive

Followers