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26 Cards in this Set
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Salvē, Ō Patria!
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Be well, my country!
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Fāma et sententia volant.
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Rumor and opinion fly.
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Dā veniam puellae, amābo tē.
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Do a favor for the girl, please.
(Dā comes first because it is imperative; veniam is accusative singular; puellae is dative singular) |
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Clēmentia tua multās vītās servat.
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Your clemency saves many lives.
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Multam pecūniam dēportat.
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He/she carried away much money.
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Et fortūnam et vītam antīquae patriae saepe laudās sed recūsas.
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You often praise but reject both the fortune and lifestyle of the ancient fatherland. (antiquae patriae" could be either s. gen. or nom. pl; I picked gen. s.)
The 7th ed. adds the initial "Et", to make better sense. |
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Mē vītāre turbam iubēs
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You order me to avoid the crowd.
("Mē" is a 1ps acc. of pronoun ego. ) |
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Mē philosophiae dō.
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I give myself to philosophy.
(literally, "I give me to..."; philosophiae is dative) |
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Philosophiā est ars vītae.
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Philosophy is the art of life.
(why is "est" in the middle of the sentence?) |
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Sānam fōrmam vītae cōnservāte.
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You maintain a sound form of life.
(If conservate were imperative, it would come first) |
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Immodica īra creat īnsānium.
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Immoderate anger causes insanity.
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Quid cōgitās? -- dēbēmus īram vitāre.
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What do you think? -- we ought to avoid anger.
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Nūlla avāritia sine poenā est.
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No avarice is without penalty.
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Mē saevīs catēnīs onerat.
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It binds me with cruel chains.
(The subject is "he, she, or it"; "saevīs catenīs" is ablative; is Horace talking about a bad habit?) |
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Rotam fortūnae nōn timent.
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They don't fear the wheel of fortune.
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The girls save the poets life.
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Puellae vītam poētam servānt.
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Without philosophy we would often go astray and pay the penalty.
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Sine philosophiā saepe errēmus et poenam dāmus.
(I'm guessing: "we would" is a modal auxiliary", not covered so far.) |
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If your land is strong, nothing terrifies the sailors, and you ought to praise your good fortune.
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Si tua patria valet, nihil nautae terret, et tuam fortunam bonam debes laudare.
(debes is another modal auxiliary) |
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We often see the penalty of anger.
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Saepe poēnam īram vidēmus.
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The ancient gate is large.
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Porta antiqua magna est.
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Name the six cases of nouns and their uses.
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Nominative (subject); Genetive (possession); Dative (ind. obj--follows to, fo)r; Accusative (dir. obj--follows to, in); Ablative (modifies verb--follows by, from, with, in); Vocative (direct address).
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Vocabulary lists give the nominative and genitive singular for nouns. How do you form the base?
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Drop the genetive ending. Learning the genitive along with the nominative tells how to decline other cases, e.g. "Pueri" keeps the e.
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Decline the first declension noun, porta, portae.
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pórta, pórtae, pórtae, pórtam, pórtā
pórtae, portārum, pórtīs, pórtās, pórtīs |
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What is the gender of first declension nouns? Are there any nouns of this declension that don't seem to belong?
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Most first declension nouns are feminine, but
a few occupations are included which were traditionally masculine e. g. poēta (poet), nauta (sailor), agricola (farmer), aurīga (charioteer), and pīrāta (pirate). |
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What is the grammatical relationship between nouns and the adjectives which modify them?
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They agree in gender, number and case. The adjective goes next to the noun it modifies, usually coming after. Exceptions are adjectives of size or number. Demonstratives like hic (this) and ille (that) precede.
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In Latin, say "How are you today", and how do you reply: "Great", "Terrible", "Good", "So, so", "Not well" and "And You?"
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Quid agis hodiē?, Optimē, Pessimē, Benē, Satis bene, Nōn bene, and Et tu?
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