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Learn Hardcore Latin: innocens - innocent

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 30
/innocens

innocens

Word

innocens

Meaning

innocent

Part of speech

adjective, adverb

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

Usages of innocens

Decem testes idem dicunt: servum innocentem esse et nihil cepisse.

Ten witnesses say the same thing: that the servant is innocent and took nothing.

Mater rogat num servus innocens sit; iudex respondet eum mox liberandum esse, si verum dixerit.

Mother asks whether the servant is innocent; the judge answers that he must soon be freed, if he has told the truth.

Si fur innocens esset, iudex eum in carcerem non mitteret.

If the thief were innocent, the judge would not send him to prison.

Iudex dicit servum innocentem statim liberandum esse.

The judge says that the innocent slave must be freed at once.

Si femina innocens est, crimen falsum maxima iniuria est.

If the woman is innocent, a false accusation is a very great injustice.

Si quis mendacium in iudicio dicat, iudex eum damnare potest; si innocens sit, eum absolvere debet.

If anyone should tell a lie in court, the judge can condemn him; if he is innocent, she must acquit him.

Iudex dicit nefas esse innocentem damnare, fas autem esse etiam impio veniam dare, si veritatem tandem dicat.

The judge says that it is wrong to condemn an innocent person, but right to give pardon even to an impious person if he finally tells the truth.

Rea dicit se innocentem esse, sed iudex adhuc quaerit quis pecuniam ceperit.

The female defendant says that she is innocent, but the judge is still asking who took the money.

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