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Elementary Latin I
(LATIN 131)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorr@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. 79-80
1. Form the dative s. and pl. of the noun + adjective phrases:
senî miserô / senibus miserîs
puellae audâcî / puellîs audâcibus
puerô ingentî / puerîs ingentibus
onerî multô / oneribus multîs
cônsiliô audaci / cônsiliîs audâcibus
(optional)
sorôrî optimae / sorôribus optimîs
nôminî meô / nôminibus meîs
cultrô tuô / cultrîs tuîs
servô omnî / servîs omnibus

2. Pick out the datives in this list:
animo, virtuti, audaciae, divitibus, oneri, filiis, aquae, domino, ignibus, dis, feminis, coronae, consilio

4. Translate these sentences:
(a) Then the Lar of the family gives Euclio a pot full of gold.
(b) The stingy old man, however, entrusts all gold to a shrine.
(c) But a bold slave wants to take the gold away from the stingy old man.
(d) Euclio, however, screams thusly at the bad slave: "What business do you have in the shrine? What are you taking away from me?"
(e) So the slave is afraid and does not take the gold away from Euclio.
(f) Euclio, however, takes the pot away from the shrine because now he does not want to entrust the gold to the god.