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Latin nouns for rake, sail, bath, and feast all share what grammatical feature?
THEY ARE HETEROGENEOUS / DIFFERENT GENDER IN SINGULAR AND PLURAL
B1: Latin nouns for salt, fort, water, and temple all share what grammatical feature?
DIFFERENT MEANINGS IN THE SINGULAR AND PLURAL
B2: Latin nouns for need, divine right, and nothing share what grammatical feature?
INDECLINABLE / DEFECTIVE
What use of the genitive is used in this sentence: terram lactis mellisque visitamus.
MATERIAL/SUBSTANCE
B1: What use of the genitive is used in this sentence: nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae.
SPECIAL VERBS/VERBS OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING
B2: What use of the genitive is used in this sentence: piratae a Caesare damnati sunt capitis.
CHARGE
What literary device, besides all forms of alliteration is seen from these lines from book 3 of Vergil’s Aeneid, which I will read as prose: Aetnaeos fratres caelo capita alta ferentis, concilium horrendum: quales cum vertice celso aeriae quercus aut coniferae cyparissi constiterunt
SIMILE
B1: What literary device, besides all forms of alliteration is seen from these lines from book 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: non semel et satyros eluserat illa sequentes
LITOTES
B2: What literary device besides all forms of alliteration can be seen from this line from book 1 of the Aeneid, which I will read as prose: vinclis et carcere frenat.
HENDIADYS
“Me miserum!” and “O tempora, O mores” both exemplify what use of the accusative case?
EXCLAMATION
B1: Meam vicem, bonam partem, and id temporis all exemplify what use of the accusative case?
ADVERBIAL
B2: The Vergilian phrases “ardentis oculos suffecti” and “nuda genu” both exemplify what idiomatic use of the accusative?
SPECIFICATION/SYNECHDOCHICAL/GREEK
What rhetorical device excluding all forms of alliteration can be found in the following line from Book I Vergil’s Aeneid: “vī superum saevae memorem Iūnōnis ob īram”?
SEE BELOW
B1: What other rhetorical device can be found in that line?
SYNCHESIS / SYNCOPATION
B2: What rhetorical device can be found in the phrases “oculis videbat” and “cantavit ore”?
PLEONASM
What class of verbs do the following belong: piget, constat, decet, pluit?
IMPERSONAL
B1: What class of verbs do the following belong: coepi, memini, odi?
DEFECTIVE
B2: What class of verbs do the following belong to: iacto, vendito, dormito?
INTENSIVES/ITERATIVES/FREQUENTATIVES
What use of the subjunctive is shown in the following sentence: Brūtus verēbātur nē dictātor rem pūblicam dēlētūrus esset?
FEAR
B1: Translate that sentence into English.
BRUTUS WAS AFRAID THAT THE DICTATOR WOULD DESTROY THE
REPUBLIC.
B2: Using the verb vereor, translate “Brutus is afraid that he cannot save the republic.”
BRŪTUS VERĒTUR UT REM PŪBLICAM SERVĀRE POSSIT.
Whatsort of conditional is found in the following sentence: si senatores ius iurandum imperatori dent, imperator equum suum consulem numquam faciat.
FUTURE LESS VIVID
B1: Translate that sentence into English.
IF THE SENATORS SHOULD SWEAR AN OATH TO THE EMPEROR, THE EMPEROR WOULD NEVER MAKE HIS HORSE A CONSUL
B2: Now translate: si imperator classem exercitumque adduxisset, Britanniam
vicisset.
IF THE EMPEROR HAD BROUGHT A FLEET AND AN ARMY, HE WOULD HAVE CONQUERED BRITAIN
What use of the ablative is found in the following sentence: Romani pristini templa de materia deis aedificabant.
MATERIAL
B1: What use of the dative is found in that sentence?
ADVANTAGE
B2: Translate the sentence into English.
THE ANCIENT/PRIMITIVE ROMANS BUILT TEMPLES FOR THEIR
GODS OUT OF WOOD
What sort of condition is in the following sentence: Si tecum linguam Graecam discam, laetissimus sim?
FUTURE LESS VIVID
B1: What does that sentence say?
IF I SHOULD LEARN GREEK WITH YOU, I WOULD BE VERY HAPPY
B2: Now change the Latin sentence so that it translates If I had learned Greek with you, I would have been very happy.
SI TECUM LINGUAM GRAECAM DIDICAM, LAETISSIMUS/A
FUISSEM
What use of the subjunctive is used in the following sentence: Utinam Aquilae magnum ludum superavissent.
OPTATIVE
B1: Now translate that sentence
I WISH/WOULD THAT THE EAGLES HAD WON THE BIG GAME
B2: Now translate: Utinam Leopardi a Principibus ne superati essent.
I WISH THAT THE LEOPARDS HAD NOT BEEN DEFEATED BY THE CHIEFS
What use of the dative is found in the following sentence: Gallus cūstōs magnō ligneō lepōrī nōn crēdit.
SPECIAL VERBS
B1: Translate the sentence from the tossup.
THE FRENCH GUARD DOES NOT TRUST THE LARGE WOODEN
RABBIT
B2: Now Translate this sentence: Equitēs rēgis fūgērunt nē magnus ligneus lepus eōs
premeret.
THE KNIGHTS OF THE KING RAN AWAY SO THAT THE LARGE
WOODEN RABBIT WOULD NOT CRUSH THEM
What use of the dative is found in the following sentence:Huic magistrō nihil pecūniae est?
POSSESSION
B1: Translate that sentence into English.
THIS TEACHER HAS NO MONEY.
B2: What use of the dative is found in this sentence: Caesar mihi erit semper vir.
REFERENCE
Identify a use of the ablative in this sentence: “Roma multō pulchrior urbs Athēnīs est.”
DEGREE OF DIFFERENCE / COMPARISON
B1: Translate that sentence (repeat).
ROME IS A MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL CITY THAN ATHENS
B2: Translate this sentence, which contains an ablative of degree of difference: “Tribus abhinc mensibus Romam īvī.”
I WENT TO ROME THREE MONTHS AGO
What grammatical term describes the verbs grandinat, oportet, and līcet?
IMPERSONAL(S)
B1: What impersonal verb means “the dew falls”?
RORAT
B1: What impersonal verb is described here: “Iuppiter hunc sonum facit”?
TONAT
