Stage 2 Test Grammar Flashcards
What is the nominative?
It is the subject
What is the accusitive?
The object
Ex of nominative to accusitive
nominative: Metella
accusitive: Metallam
Ex of nominative to accusitive
nominative:filius
accusitive:filium
How nominative to accusitive works
Ends in “A” changes to “am”
Ends in “us” change to “um”
Everything else changes to “em”
How does a Latin sentence work?
It is subject, object, action.
Ex: Grumio cenam coquit.
Translation: Grumio cooks dinner.
Ientaculum(breakfast)
Always start your Roman day with water
Food: leftovers, bread with cheese, honey, olicve oil…
Getting dressed
Girls + boys: tunica longer than boys’ tunica
Men: wear a tunica that a toga
Women: tunica, then stole, and married women wear Pallas
NO ONE WEARS PANTS! PANTS ARE FOR ANIMALS
FAST FOOD FOR LUNCH AT PRANDIUM
CONSISTED OF:
Meat, cheese, veggies,
Hot meals in winter
Fresh in summer
Morning greeting
Greet friends, business partners, people who come to support you
Cause ya give’em food and maybe money
How to spend the afternoon
Men Go to bath house
Go to gladiator fights boys go to school girls taught at home with mother
Cena/convivium (party/business deals)
Started early afternoon
Could last until night based on social status
They often had meat cheese and bread
Adults on beds, kids on stools, slaves on these floor
Crazy foods
The more exotic the food the more money you had
Weird food: dolphin, peacock, sea urchins, door mice,
Bedtime
Went to bed early ‘cause no electricity
Small bedrooms
Not decorated
