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Elementary Latin II
(LATIN 132)

Professor Ortwin Knorr
Classical Studies Program

 Email: oknorrATwillamette.edu
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Answer Key to the Exercises GVE pp. 310-311
(pp. 310-11):
Read these sentences, making explicit your steps in understanding, especially when you read ut (or equivalent). State the moment when you can solve ut:
(a) eôs ut armâti essent (ut + subj.) hortâbâtur (indirect command, "to ...").
He (repeatedly) urged them to be armed.
(b) Semprônia tam ("flag") docta est ut versûs facillimê faciat (tam + ut + subj. = result clause).
Sempronia is so learned that she can very easily make verses.
(c) ut ego iubêbô (ut + ind.: "as"), ita ("flag": comparison) tû faciês.
As I will order, so you will act. (i.e., You'll do what I tell you!)
(d) hôrum contumêliâs sapiêns ut iocôs accipit (ut + ind.: "as, like"). (Seneca)
The insults of those people a wise man receives (i.e., hears) like jokes.
(e) Cicerô effêcit (verb of causing result) ut nôn interficerêtur (result clause after perficio, accidit, etc.)..
Cicero brought it about that he was not killed
(f) nê cônsulem Catilînae sociî necârent (nê + subj. = negated purpose clause), rem tôtam Fulvia amîcîs suîs nârrâvit.
Lest Catilina's allies killed the consul, Fulvia told her friends the entire matter.
(g) ut fortûnâta Semprônia est (ut + ind.:" how")!
How lucky Sempronia is!

(p. 311):
Read these sentences, using the information just outlined. State the moment when quî is solved:
(a) Catilîna Rômam sociôs mittit (verb of motion flags purpose clause), quî urbem incendant (qui+subj.).
Catilina is sending allies to Rome in order to burn the city.
(b) Semprônia, quae virôs semper petêbat (quae+ind.), mâtrôna Rômâna erat.
Sempronia, who was always after men, was a (married) Roman lady.
(c) Clûsînî lêgâtôs Rômam, quî auxilium â senâtû peterent (quî+subj.), mîsêre (verb of motion flags purpose clause). (Livy)
The people of Clusium sent ambassadors to Rome in order to ask the senate for help (lit.: ask help from the senate).
(d) multî arbitrâbantur coniûrâtiônem viam esse, quâ aere aliênô sê lîberâre possent (quâ+subj.: consecutive).
Many believed that a conspiracy was the road on which they could free themselves from debt.
(e) fêminae etiam aliquot sê coniûrâtiônî adiûnxêrunt, quae in aes aliênum maximum conciderant. (quae+ind.)
Even some women who had fallen into very big debt joined the conspiracy (lit.: joined themselves to the conspiracy).
(f) quî rêî pûblicae sit hostis (quî + subj.: consecutive), fêlîx esse nêmo potest (Cicero).
Noone who is an enemy to the republic can be fortunate.
(g) tê amô quî sîs tam fortis (quî+subj.: causal).
I love you because you are so brave.