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Question: What does the latin sentence mean in the first paragraph of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Eleonora"!?
The sentence is:

"aggressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi"Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I'm only in Latin 1, so I don't know too much yet, and I don't know some of those words!. I'll give it a shot though!.

I don't know what "aggressi" means, but "sunt mare tenebarum" means "are our shadows"!. "Quid" is posessive and means "How many!?", "in" means "on" or "in", "eo" means "I go", "esset" is some weird form of "to be" (I think), and I have no idea what "exploraturi" means "explorers", I think!.

So I think it roughly says something along the lines of, "I go to where our shadows are, to explore what be in it"!.

EDIT-
Eh, I googled it!. It means, "They ventured into the sea of darkness, to explore what it might contain!." Hey, I was close!.!.!. sort of!.Www@QuestionHome@Com