adjective, or adverb, or one of the interrogative particles, ne, nonne, пит: 1) Questions with ne ask for information: Scribitne, Is he writing? Ne is always thus appended to some other word. 2) Questions with nonne expect the answer yes: Nonne scribit, Is he not writing? 3) Questions with num expect the answer no: Num scribit, Is he writing? 1. Ancus fuit rex. 2. Nonne Romulus rex fuĕrat? 3. Romulus rex fuerat. 4. Quis conditor Romae fuit? 5. Romulus conditor Romae fuit. 6. Ebrietas est insania. 7. Patria est parens omnium nostrum. 8. Graeci' multārum artium inventōres erant. 9. Demosthenes orator fuit. * For Notes to the references on this page, see page 61. 10. Num hic puer orator erit? 11. Ille puer orator sit. 12. Philosophia est mater artium. 13. Cicero clarissimus9 orātor fuit. 14. Cantus lusciniae jucundissimus est. III. Translate into Latin. 9 1. Who 1o was the king?" 2. Was not 12 Romulus king ?" 3. Romulus was king. 4. Who was the leader of the Romans? 5. Was not12 Scipio the leader of the Romans? 6. Scipio was the leader of the Romans. 7. Your brother is an orator. 8. This boy is my brother. 9. These boys will be diligent pupils. 10. These pupils will be diligent. 1 In preparing the longer and more difficult sentences in this and in the subsequent exercises, it is recommended that the pupil should follow the Suggestions which are inserted in this volume, page 143, and which are intended to aid him in discerning the process by which he may most readily and surely reach the meaning of a Latin sentence. 2 See Rule III. page 57. 3 See Rule XXXV. page 54. The verb sometimes precedes the Predicate Noun, as in this sentence; and sometimes follows it, as in several of the following sentences. 4 Rex is a Predicate Noun, denoting the same person as its subject Ancus, and is therefore in the Nominative, to agree with that subject in case, according to Rule I. page 59. 5 See 346, II. 1 above. 6 Genitive, according to Rule XVI. page 22. 7 In this sentence, before turning to the Vocabulary for the meaning of the words, notice carefully the endings of the several words in accordance with Suggestion IV. What parts of speech do you find? What cases? What mood, tense, number, and person? In accordance with Suggestion V., what order will you follow in looking out the words in the Vocabulary? 8 Artium depends upon inventōres. 9 In accordance with Suggestion VII., for what forms will you look in the Vocabulary to find the meaning of clarissimus and jucundissi mus (162) ? ămāvěrăm, I may have loved, |ămāvěrĭmús, ămăvĕris, thou mayst have loved, ǎmāvĕritis, ǎmāvěrit, he may have loved; ămăvĕrint, PLUPERFECT. we may have loved, I might, could, would, or should have loved. you may have loved, they may have loved. ămāvissēm, Í might have loved, ămāvissēmus, we might have ǎmāvissēs, thou mightst have loved, ămāvisset, he might have loved; ămāvissent, they might have loved. loved, ǎmāvissētis, you might have loved, FUT. ămātūrus1 esse, to be FUT. ǎmātūrus,1 about to love. |