Breakdown of Repotia post nuptias parantur.
Questions & Answers about Repotia post nuptias parantur.
The subject is repotia.
Even though repotia could look ambiguous at first, here it must be nominative neuter plural, because it agrees with the plural verb parantur. So the sentence means that the repotia are prepared or, more naturally in English, the repotia is prepared / a feast is prepared depending on how the meaning has been given.
Parantur is:
- 3rd person plural
- present tense
- passive voice
- from the verb paro, parare = to prepare
So literally it means they are prepared.
Because the subject is repotia, the full sense is repotia are prepared.
Latin often uses the passive where English might also use a passive, especially when the doer is unimportant or obvious.
So Repotia post nuptias parantur focuses on the event or feast being prepared, not on who prepares it.
An active version would be something like aliqui repotia post nuptias parant = someone / people prepare the repotia after the wedding. But Latin does not need to mention the agent here.