Anadema

                                                                                 Latin 1

Assignment for  16 February [A]

Before you translate: copy  the following notes in your notebook.

 1. autem – IS A POSTPOSTIVE – THAT IS, IT NEVER COMES FIRST IN A SENTENCE OR Clause. It is uSUALLY, but not always, PLACED  AFTER THE  First word of the sentence or  Clause.

2. In sentences   2, 3, and 4 you are introduced with a NEW Ablative Construction  That has 2 Meanings: The First is Ablative of Time When: this indicates when  some situation takes place. It     is expressed by the ablative case without  a preposition.

     e.g.      Secunda Vigilia  pugnabant.

                They were fighting at the second watch. [time when]

                  The second is the ablative of time within which. This indicates the time span within which some situation takes place. when or Within which. It is expressed by the ablative case without  a preposition.

                Multa oppida uno anno  oppugnaverant.

               They had stormed many towns in one year.  [Time  within which]

 Check pages 74-75 in LAL for more examples.

Translate:

1. The brave citizens fought with the soldiers against*

Their Country’s  Powerful enemies, Didn’t they?

 * contra + acc.

2. MILES QUATTUOR DENTES IN RECENTI PrOELIO QUARTA

Vigilia   amisit.

            amitto (conjugated exactly like  Mitto) – to lose, to send

           away / quattuor – four/ quartus,a,um -fourth

3. Tertia hora  Nautae frumentum ex velocibus navibus in  oppidum portaverunt.

4. Legatus fortis autem cum decima legione anno tertio 

Urbem Hostium  magna cum virtute occupavit.

                      tertius, a, um - third