Mod 2 Lesson 1

Question 1

The locative case

Answer 1

Acronym: Hardy Merchants Don’t Reserve. All cities, towns, and “small islands” (to be very geographically precise, all islands other than Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete, Cyprus, and Britain) have a locative case, and you will see “in” those places expressed without a preposition, and an odd case form (often -ae, since the majority of place names are 1st declension). There are also the common noun locatives humus, humi (fem.) (on the ground), militia, militiae (fem.) (on active duty), domus, domi (fem.) (at home), and rus, ruri (neuter) (in the countryside). Except for these odd examples, the locative case is dead in Classical Latin