Breakdown of Magistra discipulos cras venire iubet.
Questions & Answers about Magistra discipulos cras venire iubet.
Magistra is nominative singular, so it is the subject of iubet. It means the female teacher or mistress/teacher.
A learner may notice that it ends in -a, which is a very common ending for a first-declension nominative singular noun.
So in this sentence, magistra = the teacher as the one doing the ordering.
Discipulos is accusative plural, from discipulus (student, pupil).
It is accusative because with iubet (orders), Latin puts the person being ordered in the accusative. So discipulos means the students as the people whom the teacher orders.
In this construction, discipulos is also understood as the doer of venire. In English we say:
- The teacher orders the students to come tomorrow.
So the students are:
- the object of orders
- and at the same time the understood subject of to come
Latin does this very naturally.
Because after iubet, Latin commonly uses an to express what someone is ordered to do.