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Fundus optimus jugerum CCXL esse putabatur.

The 240 acre farm is thought to be the best.

Is jugerum singular in order to match the singular subject, fundus? Is jugerum a predicate adjective? Since jugerum is singular I thought of how people will say that a person is 6 foot tall rather than 6 feet tall.

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spqr wrote:Fundus optimus jugerum CCXL esse putabatur.
Fundus optimus is the subject of putabatur. iūgerūm is a neuter noun, genitive plural. So I would take it as a partitive genitive. (See Gildersleeve 370. The Partitive genitive is used with numerals.)
Persuade tibi hoc sic esse, ut scribo: quaedam tempora eripiuntur nobis, quaedam subducuntur, quaedam effluunt. Turpissima tamen est iactura, quae per neglegentiam fit. Et si volueris attendere, maxima pars vitae elabitur male agentibus, magna nihil agentibus, tota vita aliud agentibus.

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