How do you translate this from Latin?

Question

Equi cisium sed non fossam vitare poterant?

Answer 1

The horses were able to avoid the cabriolet (a light two-wheeled vehicle of some sort), but not the ditch.

Equi - nominative plural of equus (horse) - subject

cisium and fossam - accusative singular of cisium (cabriolet - don't ask, it's dictionarese) and fossa (ditch) - direct objects

vitare - present infinitive of vito, -are (avoid) - complementary infinitive with poterant

poterant - 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative of possum, posse (be able to) - main verb

sed non - but not (sed a conjunction between cisium and fossam, non an adverb that negates vitare in the case of fossam - i.e. the horses were able to avoid the light wagon, but they weren't able to avoid the ditch)

*note: never, ever go to one of these translating sites. They're never right. The ones these two guys gave you translate the sentence as: "Indeed cisium but not ditch life poterant". And this is very simple Latin. How much do you think they'd screw up a complex sentence?

Answer 2

The horses were able to avoid the two wheeled vehicle, but not the ditch.

Answer 3

http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?url=http%3A%2F%2F&type=text&text=Equi+cisium+sed+non+fossam+vitare+poterant&from=ltt&to=eng
go to this sit. make sure you spelled the latin words right

Answer 4

http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Latin&to=English this website is a translator. YOu just put in the phrase and it will translate it into english! Hope it helps

Answer 5

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