Apuleius 2.6.7 grammar

Question 1

translate, and identify the type of cum clause: cum illud facimus, frāter cēnam coquit.

Answer 1

When we do that, the brother cooks dinner. (a temporal clause; the cum clause indicates ONLY that something happened at a particular time).

Question 2

translate, and identify the type of cum clause: cum illud faciēbāmus, frāter cēnam coxī.

Answer 2

When we were doing that, the brother cooked dinner. (temporal clause)

Question 3

translate, treating the cum clause as circumstantial: cum illud faciāmus, frāter plōrat.

Answer 3

When we do that, my brother cries. (there is some connection between what we do and what the brother does)

Question 4

translate, treating the cum clause as circumstantial: cum illud faciebāmus, frāter plōrāvit.

Answer 4

When we were doing that, the brother cried.

Question 5

translate, treating the cum clause as causal: cum illud faciebāmus, frāter plōrāvit.

Answer 5

Because we were doing that, the brother cried.

Question 6

translate, treating the cum clause as concessive: cum illud faciebāmus, frāter plōrāvit.

Answer 6

Although we were doing that, the brother cried.

Question 7

translate: quid pater meus amet expōnō.

Answer 7

I explain what my father loves (indirect question, primary sequence)

Question 8

translate: quid pater meus amāverit expōnō.

Answer 8

I explain what my father loved (indirect question, primary sequence)

Question 9

translate: quid pater amāret exposuī.

Answer 9

I explained what my father loved (indirect question, secondary sequence)

Question 10

translate: quid pater amāvisset exposuī.

Answer 10

I explained what my father had loved (indirect question, primary sequence)