Tuesday 24 March 2015

Ave Caesar, morituri te salutamus

"Ave Caesar, morituri te salutamus" means "Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you.  These were apparently the words of gladiators on entering the Flavian amphitheatre.  Morituri is a good example of the future active participle. 

An earlier post concerned another example of the future active participle: Rex hispaniae abdicaturus .

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