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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. 162

1. Translate the following sentences[participle practice]:
(a) The bold soldier wildly attacked the enemy after (the latter) had gotten angry and threatened many things (much).
(b) After the horsemen had left their camp, they quickly advanced at the city.
(c) Having gotten (After he had gotten) a fast ship, the king fled far away from his country.
(d) The man answered (his) wife fiercely after (since) she had spoken a lot.
(e) When the envoys had addressed the enemies, they returned to the camp AND reported their words to our general.
(f) After the general had encouraged the soldiers, he boldly charged into battle.
(g) After the enemies had suffered the ferociousness of our horsemen, they fled into their town and hid themselves there.

2. Translate these sentences:
(a) Not to live is good (or: a good thing), but to live well. (Seneca)
(b) No one puts on the toga unless (he is) dead. (Juvenal)
(c) The wealth of many very powerful men prevents faithful friendships: For not alone is Fortune herself blind, but she also generally makes those blind whom she has embraced. (Cicero)