Bonus Questions For Latin Ii

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Asyndeton

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Asyndeton
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lack of conjunctions in a sentence.

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Polysyndeton

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Polysyndeton
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too many conjunctions in a sentence

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Suppletive

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Suppletive
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Two words come together to form different parts of one word.

ex: ferō, ferre, tulī, latum

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Athematic Verbs

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Athematic Verbs
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lack theme vowels (in all or some tenses)

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illās aedās

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illās aedās -- that house

Even though plural, sometimes plurals in Latin indicate specific objects. Not just "a house/houses" but "that specific house."

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Double Dative

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Double Dative
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Dative of Interest + Dative of Purpose + Form of ESSE.

English Translation: for x it is a y
ex: cui bonō? (esse implied) Is it good for you?

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Orthographic Conservation

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Orthographic Conservation
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Keeping words the way they are written despite changes in the way they are pronounced.

ex: through - thru

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Hyperbaton

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Hyperbaton
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When an adjective is split from its noun - adjective located outside of a clause when noun is located inside - but they still complement.

Common in poetry.

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Roman response to a Yes/No question?

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ita: yes
minime: no

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Parsing Deponent Verbs: Voice?

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When parsing Deponents no need to put "active/passive" just "deponent" for the voice.
& remember: Imperatives of Deponents look like infinitives.

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Apotheosis

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Apotheosis
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Process of becoming a god-- happens to emperors. Romulus went through apotheosis

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suffix: -isc

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suffix: -isc -- to begin

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nōn modo...sed etiam

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not only...but also

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Tricolon Crescendo

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Tricolon Crescendo
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list of three things x,y,z (rhetorical term)

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Parsing Syntax: Compound Verb + Dative

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Parsing Syntax: Compound Verb + Dative -- dative of compound verb

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Ablaut

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Ablaut
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vowel alteration to change tense (change vowel in stem)

ex: foot -- feet
ex: amābō, amābis, amābunt &c.

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Rhotacism

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Rhotacism: intervocalic r --> s

ex: rūs, ruris

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Assimilation

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Assimilation
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one sound becoming more like another over time.

ex: potsum --> possum (t assimilated to s)

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Gerund

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GERUND
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verbal noun
singular
neuter
all cases except nominative
translated like an infinitive:
"to x"
"x-ing"

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Gerundive

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GERUNDIVE
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verbal adjective
will always modify a noun
noun it modifies = direct object of the verbal quality of gerundive

future passive participle: but even passive should be translated as active

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Who is responsible for the development of the Gerundive from the Gerund?

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Oscans
so gerundive is Oscan

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dactylic hexameter

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dactylic hexameter: LIT: 6 fingers

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Zeugma

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Zeugma (Greek)
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joining two clauses by using the same verb in each clause - Latin Rhetorical Device

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I speak Latin

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I speak Latin: Latin in Latin is an adverb = Loquor Latīnē -- I speak Latiny

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Ceterum

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Ceterum: the rest (et cetera: etc.)

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Alterum

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Alterum: something else (et al.)

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Viā Sacrā

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Viā Sacrā: goes completely through Italy, not just the Roman Forum.

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Impersonal Usage

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Impersonal Usage
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"it has been said that"
"one may"
journalist style

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eō, īre, iī, itum
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ey --> ī

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eō, īre, iī, itum
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stem: ey --> ī
dypthong

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eō, īre, iī, itum
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stem: ey+s --> īs

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eō, īre, iī, itum
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stem: ey+s --> īs
monothongization

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Remember this formula: preposition + object of preposition

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formula: To the house of Caesar --> To (preposition) Caesar's house (object of preposition)

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novae rēs

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novae rēs: used in revolutions

novae: new & strange
new / strange things

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ablative of respect

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ablative of respect: -ū ending (mostly idiomatic phrases)

mirabile visū: amazing to see
(Lit: amazing in respect to see)

Common in Virgil when characters are telling stories: "you are not going to believe..."

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Crossing The Rubicon

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Crossing the Rubicon
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(idiom)
"point of no return"

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Declensions of Domus

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Declensions of Domus
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2nd & 4th
--
reason is because the Romans themselves got confused.

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rīxor, rīxārē

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rīxor, rīxārē, rīxāvī, rīxātum: to fight

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sēmis, sēmissis

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sēmis, sēmissis (m.) a half

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haud

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haud: not

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sempiternus

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sempiternus
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semper + aeternus: forever

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paulus, paula, paulum

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paulus - a - um
(adj)
little, short

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pāgus, pāgī

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pāgus, pāgī (m.) district, village

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arbitrium, arbitriī

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arbitrium, arbitriī (n.) will

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aliter

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aliter (adv.) otherwise

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Commentarii

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COMMENTARII
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Caesar talks about himself in the 3rd person.
commentarii: notes give to someone else to write in order to be able to talk about how awesome he is.
Commentarii of Julius Caesar: so it doesn't seem like he wrote it

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Julius Caesar's writing style of Commentarii

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Caesar's writing style: seems like it is written in haste, made to look like just notes in order to gain the trust of readers.

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2 types of writing

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2 types of writing:
Atticist
Asianist

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Atticist
(writing style)

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Atticist (writing style)
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Athens style: simple, less subordination

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Asianist
(writing style)

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Asianist (writing style)
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Schools of Oratory in Asia Minor: flowery, lots of dense description to impress

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Why is it important that Caesar writes in the 3rd person?

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Because the Gallic Wars were illegal and he wanted to be elected Consul in order to legalize war.
He wished to convince the people that this was a good war and that it should be legal.

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How does Caesar describe/paint picture of the Gauls?

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He paints a picture of the Gauls that is not truthful - that they were crazy and wild when they were actually Romanized. He does this to make war seem extreme so that he would look more heroic and brave.

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Was Caesar a good speaker?

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We don't have any of Caesar's speeches - but they are said to rival Cicero's

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Caesar De Bello Gallico
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style in ethnography?

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Caesar De Bello Gallico
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style in ethnography: makes enemies out to be like Rome used to be - that the enemy is more civilized and live like Rome's "good old days".

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Why didn't the Pagans like the Christians?

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The Pagans did not like the Christians because they didn't participate in public sacrifices.

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Ferē (with one r)

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Ferē: nearly

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Remember: neuter, singular, of perfect passive = what?

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Neuter. Sing. of Perf. Pass. = Adverb

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Cross - Paradigmatic Leveling

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Cross - Paradigmatic Leveling
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ex: honōs (nom.) [pre-rhotacism] and every other case has 'r' so Romans hypercorrected it & created 'honor'

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Litotes

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Litotes
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double negative
nōn nūllus: not nobody --> somebody

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suā sponte
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(idiom)

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suā sponte
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sponte suā
(idiom)

of its own accord

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disciplīnā

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disciplīnā
discō + plena: full of learning