Latin Test Simple Review

Imperfect Tense Requirements

• ba prior to the personal endings

• One of the six personal endings

Imperfect Tense Personal Endings

• m (i) - mus (we)

• s (you) - tis (you pl)

• t (he/she/it) - nt (they)

Imperfect Tense Translations

• was/were

• Used to

• kept on

• began to

Perfect Tense Requirements

• V,U,X,S,SS Prior to personal endings

• 6 personal endings

Imperfect Tense Personal Endings

• i (i) - imus (we)

• isti (you) - istis (you pl)

• it (he/she/it) - erunt (they)

The sum exception

Sum will always have these forms for imperfect tense:

• eram (I) - eramus (we)

• eras (you) - eratis (you pl)

• erat (he/she/it) - erant (they)

Pluperfect Tense Requirements

• era attached to personal endings

• 6 personal endings

Pluperfect Personal Endings

• m (i) - mus (we)

• s (you) - tis (you pl)

• t (he/she/it) - nt (they)

Rome was founded on the:

• The Tiber River

• 16 miles from the sea.

Pons Fabricius-bridge

• crosses over the Tiber to Tiber Island

• Still is used today.

Ostia was the

• port at the mouth of the Tiber River – enabled trading

Rome was established on ______ on 7 hills ________

• April 21, 753 B.C

• Capitoline

• Aventine

• Viminal

  Esquiline
  Caelian

  Palatine

• Quirinal

At Horace’s time, Rome had _______. Rome was known as a _______.

1 million inhabitants / city of splendor and squalor.

The squalor could be noticed at the

Subura–overcrowded poor region of the city.