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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. 361-62

1. Form the gerundive of the following verbs and translate (using n.s. for intransitive verbs, 'it must be -ed'): [I decided to use neut. s. not only for intransitive verbs but whenever it made more sense than masc. s.]
(a) arcessendus est = he must be summoned
(b) delendum est = it must be destroyed or delendi sunt = they must be destroyed
(c) augendum est = it must be increased
(d) proponendum est = it must be set before, proposed, imagined
(e) necandus est = he must be killed
(f) dormiendum est = it must be slept or people must sleep
(g) commorandus est = he must be delayed
(h) verendus est = he must be feared
(i) progrediendum est = people must advance

2. Translate:
(a) I must take care of (it must be taken care of by me)
(b) for destroying the city
(c) for the sake of doing the work
(d) The leader handed the suppliant over to the soldiers to be killed.
(e) to defend the citadel
(f) We had to advance.
(g) Cicero saw to the preservation of the citizens.
(h) for offering/reaching out the hands
(i) for the sake of killing the leader
(j) You will have to go.
(k) Cicero hands over the conspirators to the guards to be taken care of.
(l) to destro the altars
(m) for the sake of summoning Catilina
(n) to preserve the will/wish
(o) Lentulus assigned everything to Catilina to be destroyed.
(p) Carthage must be destroyed.
(q) The citadel had to be captured.
(r) The pain must not be increased.
(s) The penalty will have to be exacted.
(t) Suppliants must not be handed over.
(u) You must spare the citizens.
(v) The citizens were not to be harmed by me or I was not to harm the citizens.
(w) Everybody must die. (Cicero)
(x) Nothing must be done without reason(ing). (Seneca)
(y) One must pray that there is a healthy mind in a healthy body. (Juvenal)
(z) It must be said to no one except to one who will listen. (Seneca)

3. Give the Latin for:
(a) Mihi abeundum est.
(b) Ciceroni curandum erit.
(c) ad concordiam conservandam
(d) supplicii sumendi causâ
(e) ad civîs convocandos/arcessendos
(f) Nobis progrediendum erat.
(g) patria conservanda est. [could add 'nobis' = 'by us', or 'nostra' = 'our', but neither is necessary].
(h) conspiratores puniendi sunt.
(i) patriae a nobis nocendum non est.
(j) conspiratoribus a Cicerone parcendum non est.