Saluete omnes!
Today I stumbled on Vergil's Georgics book 4 line 15:
"et manibus Procnē pectus signāta cruentīs"
I really can't parse this line. The best I could do was to take Procnē as nominative and as one of the "coordinated" subjects to "absint" in line 13, and signāta as the perfect participle of a deponent "signor" (which, however, doesn't seem to exist in Lewis & Short) agreeing with the subject Procnē, and governing "pectus" as its accusative object. However, I am almost sure...
Deponent "sīgnor"?
Today I stumbled on Vergil's Georgics book 4 line 15:
"et manibus Procnē pectus signāta cruentīs"
I really can't parse this line. The best I could do was to take Procnē as nominative and as one of the "coordinated" subjects to "absint" in line 13, and signāta as the perfect participle of a deponent "signor" (which, however, doesn't seem to exist in Lewis & Short) agreeing with the subject Procnē, and governing "pectus" as its accusative object. However, I am almost sure...
Deponent "sīgnor"?