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Elementary Latin I
(LATIN 131)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorr"AT"willamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton
Office Hours: W 11:30-12:30 pm
and by appointment, 306 Eaton

Answer Key to the Exercises GVE p. 52-53

1. Predict the gender, number and case of the noun awaited, translate:
a) non multam (acc. s. f.) possident pecuniam optimae uxores.
-- The best wives do not possess much money.
b) multi (nom. pl. m.) meas sorores amant filii.
-- Many sons love my sisters.
c) servos miseros optimi (nom. pl. m.) non vexant senes.
-- The best old men do not annoy (their) wretched slaves.
d) mali fratres pulchras (acc. pl. f.) verberant sorores.
-- Bad brothers beat up their beautiful sisters.
    (i.e., good brothers only beat up their ugly sisters???)
e) multi (nom. pl. m.) feminas pulchras domum ducunt senes.
-- Many old men marry beautiful women.

2. Translate into English: [meaning and use of prepositions]
in aedîs = into the house
in aulâ = in the pot
ad Larem = to the Lar
ab ignibus = away from the fires
in aquam = into the water
ex aulîs = out of the pots
in aedibus = in the house
in aquâ = in the water
â dominô = away from the master (also: by the master, see lesson 4D (i))
ex oculîs = out of the eyes
(optional):
ad dominum = to the master
in scaenam = onto the stage
in nômine = in the name
â servâ = away from the slave-woman
in aulam = into the pot
in scaenâ = on the stage

4. Translate:
nimis corônârum = too many garlands
satis servôrum = enough slaves
nimis aquae = too much water
satis nôminum = enough names
nimis sorôrum = too many sisters
satis ignis = enough fire

5. Translate:
a) Which man am I hearing?
b) Whose name are you (all) now saying?
c) In the house of Euclio, there is always enough gold.
d) The unfortunate daughter of Euclio has too many troubles.
e) You, however, which woman are you marrying?
(optional)
f) The boy is beautiful, yet the man is bad.
g) My father has too much money (and) enough cares.
h) Why does a beautiful woman never love a poor (man)?
i) The best men always have enough gold.

6. Translate:
a) The good man, who is that? (Horace)
b) Who is not greatly afraid of poverty? (Cicero)
c) Who hides love well? (Ovid)
d) What is a/the happy life? Freedom from worry and perpetual peace (of mind). (Seneca)
e) What is death? Either an end or a transition. (Seneca)
f) Immoderate wrath causes madness. (Seneca)
g) Fortune rules life, not wisdom. (Cicero)