Schaum's Outline of Latin Grammar - Alan Fishbone [77]
things within a few days there was nothing.
direct object
5. It is characteristic of a commander to
8. For many years avarice was destroying the
conquer with planning no less than with the
mind of the king.
sword.
acc. of extent of time.
6. The recollection of slavery will make liberty
more pleaperson singular
6. 1. Indeed the republic certainly has most noble
7. He does not think your gifts of such great
young men prepared as defenders.
(value).
2. But who can tolerate this most foul beast or
how? What is there in Antonius beyond lust,
3. 1. They prepare those things which are of use
cruelty, arrogance, audacity?
to the town.
3. Put before your eyes the happiness of the
2. That man was in charge of the Roman
senate and the Roman people.
citadel.
4. Already I had seen that an evil war against
3. What reason did you bring to the Roman
the altars and hearths, against our life and
people?
fortunes was not being prepared, but waged
4. To some planning was lacking, to others
by a pro¯igate and desperate man.
spirit, to others opportunity; to no one the
5. But for how many days in that villa did you
will (was lacking).
most foully revel!
5. Let us prefer death to slavery.
6. O the criminal baseness of the man, o the
shamelessness, the worthlessness, the lust
4. 1. I do not have a sword.
not to be borne!
dat. of the possessor
2. The king was giving money to the soldiers.
7. 1. The animal is bigger than the boy.
dat. indirect object
abl. of comparison
3. The ship had to be destroyed by the poets.
2. The animals are led by the boy.
dat. of agent
abl. of personal agent
4. The city of great luxury had to be destroyed
3. The women came to the sea with great
by the sailors.
care.
dat. of agent
abl. of manner
5. That water is harmful to children.
4. The women came from Rome.
dat. with intransitive verb
abl. of place from which
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5. You drove out the poet because of avarice.
4. Gold is the most beautiful of all good
abl. of cause
things.
6. You drove out the poet with a sword.
5. I say that water is as beautiful as possible.
abl. of means
6. The wretched poet was shouting about the
7. With the poets singing, the gods heard us.
avarice of the Romans.
abl. absolute
7. The poet was shouting wretchedly about the
8. That year there were many wars in the
avarice of the Romans.
land.
abl. of time when
2. 1. All of your plans are clearer to us than light.
9. The king is much more insane than the
2. But who is able to bear this most foul beast?
queen.
3. Indeed the republic certainly has most noble
abl. of degree of difference
young men prepared as defenders.
10. I fear animals with large horns.
4. Who at any time (was) more pleasing to
abl. of description
rather famous men, who more conjoined
11. The queen ran out of the city because of
with rather foul men? What citizen ever of
fear.
better parts, what enemy more horrible to
abl. of cause
this state? Who more dirty in his pleasures,
who more patient in labors? Who more
8. 1. They are indeed of excellent mind, the best
greedy in rapacity, who more unrestrained
advice, outstanding agreement.
in bribery?
2. All these men differ among themselves in
respect to language, customs, laws.
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3. But Antonius is being held, pressed,
pressured now by those troops which we
1. 1. The sailor sees.
already have, soon by those which within a
2. The sailor will see the mountain.
few days the new consuls will prepare.
3. The sailor saw the mountain with his eyes.
4. For who is more chaste than this young
4. The sailor had seen the war in the mountains
man, who more modest, what more
with his eyes.
illustrious example do we have in our youth
5. With many tears the wretched sailor was
of the ancient sanctity?
seeing the extremely bad war in the
5. Already that man had brought the habit of
mountains of the kingdom.
being a slave to a free state, partly because
6. The mountain is seen.
of fear, partly because of suffering. I can
7. The mountain is seen by the sailor.