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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. 80-81
1. Form the ablative s. and pl. of these noun + adjective phrases:
sene miserô / senibus miserîs
puellâ audâcî / puellîs audâcibus
puerô ingentî / puerîs ingentibus
onere multô / oneribus multîs
cônsiliô audâcî / cônsiliîs audâcibus
(optional)
sorôre optimâ / sorôribus optimîs
nômine meô / nôminibus meîs
cultrô tuô / cultrîs tuîs
servô omnî / servîs omnibus

2. Pick out the ablatives in this list:
curâ, animô, audâciîs,homine, uxôre, pecûniâ, fîliîs, dominô, ignibus, honôribus, fêminâ, corônîs, cônsiliô, scelere.

4. Translate these sentences:
(a) Euclio is a man of the greatest self-control.
(b) Lyconides is a young man of the greatest beauty, (but) of no [i.e., without any] self-control.
(c) Be calm, my son. [es = you are or imp.: be!]
(d) You are a servant-woman of the greatest boldness, greatest beauty, (but) of no self-control.
(e) I am cheerful because I consider my daughter a girl of the greatest virtue.

5. Translate these sentences:
(a) Fortune helps the brave (pl.). (Terence)
(b) No one is faithful in love. (Propertius)
(c) Every art is an imitation of nature. (Seneca)
(d) The truth lies open to everyone. (Seneca)
(e) Death is common to every age. (Cicero)
(f) The gods care for the big things, they neglect the little ones. (Cicero)
(g) The Britons have long hair and every part of their body shaved except for the head and the upper lip. (Caesar)