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pay attention boy! *thwack!*

Posted by kit on 2022-August-15 04:27:09, Monday
In reply to I got the English bit posted by slvrspun on 2022-August-15 04:13:00, Monday

Caelum ('sky') is neuter, so I appreciate that you might well mistake it for the nominative case. But in this famous line from Horace it's actually accusative - the object of the sentence. The subject is unexpressed.

Literally, "they change the sky [above them], not their souls, who flee across the ocean." Meaning that a change of place does not necessarily produce a change in mindset.


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