Past Hurdle mistakes!

‘to themselves' =

ipsis

abl fem of ‘duo’

duabus

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quingenti (m) / quingenta (f) / quingenti (n)

masc pl gen of ‘miles’

militum

neut abl pl of ‘vetus’

veteribus

ad + ?

gerundIVE

The soldiers were the first to find…

primi invenerunt

He gave me a master to serve

mihi dominum dedit cui servirem.

(servio + Dative)

‘celeriter currendo omnes effugiemus.’

We will all escape by running quickly.

‘auditi erimus’

1st pl future perfect passive indic

they asked whether I had lost anything =

rogaverunt num quid amissem

‘filius’ vocative sg

fili

‘alius' Dat sg

alii

The heavy silence =

silentium gravius

wickedly

nequiter

put quidquam into the pl:

quaquam

Which is correct, and why?

i) ei qui in forum cucurrerunt capti sunt.

ii) ei in forum currentes capti sunt

i) ‘ei qui' is correct

These 2 events are not simultaneous.

The king said that he loved his queen.

se & suam

Explain the difference between

i) visne fratrem tuum videre?

ii) fratremne tuum videre vis?

i) is neutral; no emphasis. standard ‘ne' placement.

ii) emphasis on BROTHER.

‘absum' 2nd sg perf subjunct act:

abieris

‘Having spared the captives …’

Why can't we use a participial phrase?

‘parceo’ is intransitive, i.e no obj to generate a noun for a participle to agree with.

Never did either the king or the queen pray again.

aut … aut … precata est

‘They gathered in the senate-house.’

in curiam

He came from Rome along the Appian Way.

Roma Appia via.

I shall send this festive hamper to my friends in London.

Londinium ad amicos meos.

(general place first, then the more specific!)

no preposition before ‘Londinium'

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‘Since that time I have not seen him.’

ex illo tempore

We do not know the position of the camp

ubi castra posita sint.

‘In my sleep Apollo spoke to me.’

dormienti

We have not seen them for ten years.

videmus

(use the present!)

I inform

certiorem facio

(I'm making someone else more informed.)

Gender of ‘eques’

masc

nom pl: ‘the sad labours’

opera tristia

gen pl ‘of the sad king’

regum tristium

abl sg ‘by/w/from the sad citizen’

cive tristi

ubi exibit?

Where will he go?

Seeing my mother, I greeted her wildly.

visam matrem

Arriving home, I had a bath.

postquam ubi domum adveni,

They said that they had not revised everything.

negaverunt & se

He hopes to do very well in the test.

se facturum esse

The general ordered his troops not to go into the city.

2 different ways to translate:

i) impero + dat, + ne + imperf subjunct

imperator copiis imperavit ne urbem intrarent.

ii) veto + infin

imperator copias urbem intrare vetuit.

The error in: ‘miles se celabat ne se videam.’

should be:

miles se celabat ne se viderem.

= The soldier hid himself lest he be seen.

The error in ‘tot custodes fugerant ut captivi statim liberarentur.’

should be:

tot custodes fugerant ut captivi statim liberati sint.

= So many guards fled that the captives were freed at once.

‘liberati sint' = perfect passive subjunct