Collegiate Questions—Advanced Flashcards
Often seen following adverbs of place such as ubi, what use of the genitive also frequently follows superlatives or appears in phrases such as quis vestrum, nēmō eōrum, and pars mīlitum?
PARTITIVE GENITIVE // GENITIVE OF THE WHOLE
B1: Translate: “Nēscīmus ubinam gentium hostis sit.”
WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE IN THE WORLD THE ENEMY IS
[ACCEPT A REASONABLE LITERAL TRANSLATION, LIKE “WHERE AMONG THE
PEOPLES”; PROMPT IF THE TRANSLATION IS TOO STILTED TO MAKE ENGLISH SENSE]
B2: Now translate this sentence using a partitive genitive: “One of the consuls is good, the other is bad.”
ALTER CŌNSULUM EST BONUS, ALTER EST MALUS
What use of the subjunctive can be found in the sentences “Doleam necne doleam nihil interest,” “Cōnsuluit, possetne id fierī,” and “Mīrābar quid reī esset”?
INDIRECT QUESTION
B1: What use of the subjunctive is found in this line from Cicero: “Neque enim tū is es quī nesciās”?
RELATIVE CLAUSE OF CHARACTERISTIC
B2: Finally, what use of the subjunctive is found in the phrases dī faxint and quod dī omen averterint?
OPTATIVE / WISH
Ehōdum, prō, mehercle, babae, ēia, and euge are all words of what kind, not to be strictly classified as a part of speech, since they are simply expressions of strong emotion?
INTERJECTIONS / EXCLAMATIONS
B1: Which of the following could best be used to express the joy of winning a hard-fought contest: heus, ēn, vae, iō, ēheu?
IŌ
B2: Which of the words in the preceding question can rarely take the accusative, especially with personal pronouns, but more routinely takes the dative?
VAE
What, if anything, is grammatically infelicitous about the following sentence? “Necāvērunt tribūnum īnsontem omnium crīminum in mediō forī.”
IT SHOULD BE “IN MEDIŌ FORŌ”
B1: What, if anything, is grammatically infelicitous about the following sentence: “Deus Sōlis est invictior et cārior imperātōrī Aurēliānō quam ūllī alterī hominī.”
INVICTUS LACKS A COMPARATIVE FORM
B2: What, if anything, is grammatically infelicitous about the following sentence: “Dux vulnerātum mīlitem ex perīculō ēripuit quō longius vīveret.”
NOTHING
Of the forms vesperāscit, ningit, scīscit, and grandinat, which does not belong because it cannot be used impersonally to refer to a change of heavenly phenomena?
SCĪSCIT
B1: Such words as scīscō and vesperāscit are categorized as what sort of verbs, which denote the beginning of an action?
INCHOATIVES / INCEPTIVES
B2: What type of verb is exemplified by verbs meaning “to jest” and “to warble”?
DIMINUTIVES
What use of what case appears in the most common phrase for “to sound a retreat,” in the indeclinable antonym of nēquam — frūgī — and in the phrase auxiliō venīre, followed by a dative of reference?
DATIVE OF PURPOSE
B1: What third-declension neuter word, which lacks an attested genitive plural, is used in an idiomatic double dative construction meaning “is pleasing to”?
CŌR / CORDĪ
B2: Translate the following sentence adapted from Apuleius, which contains two datives of purpose: “Ad balneum eum dūcō et quod ūnctuī, quod tersuī, ipse praebeō.”
I LEAD HIM TO THE BATH AND I MYSELF PROVIDE THAT WHICH SERVES
FOR OILING AND {CLEANING / RUBBING} OFF
Parse the archaic form of edō in the following line adapted from Naevius: Caepam edundōd oculus alter profluit. This would be rendered as edundō or edendō in classical Latin.
ABLATIVE GERUND
B1: Give the case and number of the first word of Lucretius’s Dē Rērum Nātūrā: “Aeneadum genetrīx, hominum dīvumque voluptās.”
GENITIVE PLURAL
B2: Fill in the following Lucretian line with an archaic present passive infinitive of cēlō: “Nōn possent ūllum tempus [blank] ignēs”
CĒLĀRIER
