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Elementary Latin II
(LATIN 132)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorrATwillamette.edu
Phone: x6029
Mailbox: 107 Eaton

Answer Key to the Exercises GVE p. 281

1. Translate these sentences:
(a) Verres persuaded Servilius to come to Lilybaeum. [or: that he should come to L.]
(b) When Servilius came to Lilybaeum (better: as soon as S. had come to L.), he was beaten by the lictors.
(c) Verres had ordered the lictors to beat the man.
(d) As a Roman citizen, Servilius begs Verres neither to beat nor to kill him.
(e) Just as Verres beats Roman citizens, in the same way, I assert, will he be beaten by Roman citizens.
(f) Verres urges some slaves neither to spare Servilius nor to give him help although he asks (for it).

2. Translate the underlined words into Latin (using ut/ne + subjunctive):
(a) [Verres Servilio imperat] ut Lilybaeum adeat / veniat.
(b) [Vos oro] ne abeatis.
(c) [Verres lictoribus imperavit] ut Servilium caedant.
(d) [Tandem Verres Servilio persuasit] ne taceret.
(e) [Quomodo tibi persuadere possum] ut mihi credas?
(f) [Decerno] ne quis fugiat neve abeatis.