observationes, quae ab aetate Abrahami uno quasi tenore sese excipiunt.
English translation: observations which follow one another from Abraham's times almost uninterruptedly
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observations which occur successively from the time of Abraham in a single account, as it were Explanation: Late Latin, and though I don't know the exact source, it's patently from one of the late chronicles. 'Sese' is not only archaising but pleonastic here; 'excipiunt' might have been used absolutely, as in classical Latin. 'Tenor' in the sense of 'account, description' is quite post-classical. The ablative is an abl. of specification. |
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observations which follow one another from Abraham's times almost uninterruptedly Explanation: observations which follow one another from Abraham's times [all the way to Constantine the great] almost uninterruptedly or, for a freer translation: repeated observations, almost uninterruptedly from Abraham's times [all the way to Constantine the great] Quasi could be "as if" instead of "almost", depending on the context. |
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