You will order him to be led away in chains and to be taken to (his) death, won't you?
nonne: this word introduces a "leading" question; i.e. a question that expects a certain answer. This word expects the answer "yes" (literally: "not no") For example: "You are ready for your quiz today, aren't you?"
"iubebis"- 2nd person singular future active of "iubeo", meaning "you will order." The verb "iubeo" at times will be found followed by an accuative + infintive construction. There are basically three possible constructions. The verb "iubeo" could have an active voice, as in this example. If that is the case, then the subject, or the person doing the ordering, could be ordering someone to do something. For example,
Charlie ordered Pat to walk the dog.
Here Charlie is giving Pat an order. If this sentence was in Latin, you would find Pat in the accusative case, and the verb, to walk, would be replaced by the active infinitive. (For an example in Latin, see Wheelock Practice and Review, Sentence 4) However, the person doing the ordering could also order something to happen to someone. For example,
Charlie ordered Pat to be killed.
In Latin, Pat would still be in the accusative, but the infintive would switch into the passive voice. That is the scenario which is happening in this particular sentence, "You will order him to be led (duci)" The other possible construction for "iubeo" is a passive main verb + active infinitive (See Wheelock Practice and Review, Sentence 3).
"hunc" - masculine singular accusative of the demonstrative "hic". Here "hunc" means "this man". To understand the relationship between "iubeo and hunc", click on "iubebis."
duci - present passive infinitive. Can you conjugate duco in the future indicative active?
rapi - present passive infinitive from the verb rapio, rapere, rapui, raptum. It is a complementary infinitive after iubebis.
- Quam copiose a Xenophonte agricultura laudatur in eo libro qui "Oeconomicus" inscribitur!
"How fully" or "How abundantly." Quam is an adverb ("how") modifying another adverb ("fully")
a: a(b) is a prepostition that takes the ablative case. It means "by" or "from" or even "away from". Here, it means "by" because it indicates the "agent" of the verb (i.e. the person "by whom" the action is done). The "ablative of agent" is used in sentences containing verbs in the passive voice.
laudatur - 3rd person sing. present passive indicative. Can you conjugate laudatur in the imperfect indicative passive?
Conjugation of Laudatur (Imperfect Indicative Passive)
laudabar
laudabaris
laudabatur
laudabamur
laudabamini
laudantur
eo - "his." 3rd person pronoun, ablative singular masculine (is, ea, id). The 3rd person pronoun can also be used as a demonstrative adjective, as evinced in this example.
qui - nominative masculine singular relative pronoun, meaning in this case "which". The relative pronoun takes it gender and its number from the antecedant, in this case "libro". It takes its case from the way in which it functions in the relative clause. Here, "qui" is the subject of the relative clause.
inscribitur: 3rd person singular present passive indicative from the 3rd conjugation verb scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptum.
How fully farming is praised by Xenophon in his book which is entitled "Economics"!
Exlamations That Are Interrogative in Origin
Why do exclamations use forms that are interrogative in origin (interrogative pronouns, interrogative adjectives, interrogative adverbs)?
Language is used for many purposes other than to make statements. Exclamations use language to express wonder or bewilderment. In other words, "How amazing!" implies a statement like, "I cannot think of the right adverb to express my amazement." Would it be "utterly amazing"? No. "Quite amazing"? No. "Very amazing"? No. The interrogative adverb "How" is essentially a blank, suggesting that there is no word adequate for the degree of my amazement.
Quid puellae! "What a babe!" requires more sophisticated explanation of details, but is essentially the same kind of construction. It means "I cannot express fully the degree of her babe-ness." "A complete babe"? No. "A babe and a half"? No. "A bimbodacious babe"? No. Well, what else can you say? "What a babe!" Note that in this idiom (and it is attested for "What a man!" Quid viri!) the noun is in the partitive genitive, suggesting (I believe) something like "a complete man? more than a complete man?"