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Elementary Latin I
(LATIN 131)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorr@willamette.edu
Phone: x6029
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Answer Key to the Reading Exercise/Test Exercise GVE p. 186

Then, when he comes to his [Amphitruo's] ship, Sosia will say to his master Amphitruo, "I could not report your words to your wife, master, because a huge slave threatened me with (his) fists. He fiercely blocked my way. Therefore it was not possible for me to enter the house. For that slave was a very great hindrance to your slave. It was necessary for me, therefore, to return to you and to obey his commands at once because my looks are pleasing to me the way they are. This task was not a source of pleasure for me, as you promised, but a great burden." Amphitruo, however, will respond to his slave, as follows: "What name does this huge slave have?" Then Sosia (will say), "His name is Sosia [or: he has the name Sosia (possessive dative!)]. For that slave took away from me my name, my looks, my voice, everything. I now have no name except for 'nobody'."