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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 pp. 283-84

Answer Key to consecutio temporum homework:
Translate these sentences:
(a) Cicero urges the jurors to condemn Verres. [or: that they should condemn V.]
(b) Cicero (repeatedly) urged the jurors to condemn Verres. [or: that they should condemn V.]
(c) When Verres was praetor in Sicily, he committed many crimes.
(d) Cicero could not accuse Verres because (when) he was in Sicily.
(e) After Verres had returned to Rome, he was accused by Cicero at once.

Reading Exercise/Test Exercise GVE p. 283-84:
When this Gavius whom I am talking about, (the one) from Consa, in that group of Roman citizens [i.e., a member of that formerly mentioned group of R. c.], had been put into chains by that (despicable) man and had somehow secretely escaped the stone quarries and had come to Messana, he began (since he was already seeing Italy so closeby and the walls of the people of Rhegium, Roman citizens, and <since> he had come back to life, restored from that fear of death and <those> dark places through, as it were, the light of liberty and some scent of laws) – he began to speak in Messana and to complain that he, a Roman citizen, had been put into chains, that he would go straight to Rome, that he would be at hand for Verres when he arrived.