Daniel. Daniel et Draco.
Brief Comments on the Latin:
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14:23 The name Daniel is treated as a third-declension noun, so Danieli is in the dative. The use of quia to introduce indirect statement is non-classical.
14:25 Note the parallel construction: da mihi potestatem and do tibi [potestatem].
14:26 The antecedent of quem is an implied iste ("behold: [the one] whom..."). The same technique was used by Krak to defeat the dragon of Cracow (Krakow).
14:27 The story of the destruction of Bel and the slaughter of the priests of Bel is told in the first half of this chapter.
14:29 The use of quod to introduce indirect statement is non-classical.
14:30 Latin often uses a relative pronoun, qui, to join together what would be two separate sentences in English: "(and) they put him..."
14:33 The Hebrew name Habacuc does not decline; here it is in the accusative.
14:35 Vertex here means the "top" (i.e. top of his head).
14:37 The verb recordor takes a genitive object. Note that the verbs are in the second person: "you, God, remembered me..."
14:38 The participle-verb construction, surgens comedit, can be translated as verb-verb, "he got up and ate."
14:41 Coram is a preposition which takes the ablative.
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