Ut virtutis exempla semper apud vos viceant sodales...

[Cécile]

Ut virtutis exempla semper apud vos viceant sodales amiciove posuerunt.


>I read it on a minument but can't understand what amiciove mean... could you help me?

Thanks!

[dirkmath]

-ve is an ending that means "or if you will", "or as you please"
amicio means "I cover", "I dress"

[Babelfish]

Interesting, I've never encountered that ending.
But the sentence still doesn't seem to me to make sense

[Ioannes]

The -ve is more used for 'or' (or if you will, or as you please) as enclitic form ,like -que would be used for 'and'.

Ut virtutis exempla semper apud vos viceant sodales amiciove posuerunt.

"Viceant"? Surely this must be a typo? Maybe it was "vincat"/"vincant", making a subjunctive for "ut". I need to know before I can translate it.

[Cécile]

The -ve is more used for 'or' (or if you will, or as you please) as enclitic form ,like -que would be used for 'and'.

Ut virtutis exempla semper apud vos viceant sodales amiciove posuerunt.

"Viceant"? Surely this must be a typo? Maybe it was "vincat"/"vincant", making a subjunctive for "ut". I need to know before I can translate it.

Viceant is what I saw; but the inscription was 7meters above my head, there was sun.... so I'm not absolutely sure.....