Nota brevis
Vidi eum me ter vel amplius adhuc aspicere dulce cum vultu. Is si me conspiceret talem dulcedinem in vultu mea ultime milia etiam vidisset.
Notes and questions:
1. I used "amplius" for "more times / more often" and "milia" for "a thousand times". Are there better adverbs for these expressions? Does anyone know of a site or book where I can find a breakdown of Latin time expressions for "x many times"?
2. I used "ultime" for "at least". Is there a better adverb I should have used?
3. I used "aspicio" for the sense of mere looking and imperfect subjunctive "conspicio" for the sense of "(if he had been continuously) looking, gazing, staring", whatever. (Originally I had both "conspicio" and "video" in pluperfect subjunctive.) Let me know what you think of the verb and tense choices.
4. I was torn between using "is", "qui", or "ille" for the personal pronoun in the second clause. I stuck with "is" because it felt more natural, and "ille" never really felt like my ideal option, but I thought "qui" might give it a different sort of flow over the syntactical break. Feedback on this issue would be appreciated too.
5. One further thought: Is the positioning of "me" at the beginning of the first clause strange to anyone? I've been living in the Czech Republic and speaking Czech for most of the past year (inflected non-emphatic pronouns up front is obligatory in that language), so that could account for that irregularity if it be such.
6. I'm also willing to provide a translation if the meaning is unclear, or if anyone needs one to help me out.
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Corrections · 4
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1. I would've used "saepius" and "mīliēs". You'd do well learning the whole table of frequency adverbs: sexāgiēs (60 times), sescentiēs (600 times), septingentiēs (700 times)...
2. "Ultimē" means "at last, in the end", not "at least". "Saltem" is the usual word for "at least".
4. I think both "is" and "quī" are fine.
5. It doesn't seem strange at all, but note that it's not at the beginning ("Mē is sī cōnspiceret...", which would probably be fine too, stressing mē intensively).
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