Schaum's Outline of Latin Grammar - Alan Fishbone [82]
15. Who would believe that the king killed the
for.
poets?
3. For what was the reason why Caelius
wanted to give poison to that woman? But
13. 1. Is it believable then that so great a crime was nevertheless it has not been said from where
committed for no reason?
that poison came, how it was prepared.
2. Now you will understand that I am keeping
4. And so today I will accomplish that he
watch for the safety of the republic much
understand how great a favor he received
more sharply than you are for its
from me at that time.
destruction.
5. And just as the old time saw what was the
3. I was grieved, I was grieved, senators, that
most extreme in liberty, so we (see) what in
the republic which had formerly been saved
slavery, with even the exchange of speaking
by your counsels and mine would perish
and listening having been removed through
within a short time.
trials.
4. For there are and have been philosophers (of
the sort) who believed that the gods have no
16. If, judges, there should perhaps now be present concern for human matters. And if the
someone ignorant of the laws, of trials, of our
opinion of these men is true, what devotion
practice, he would undoubtedly wonder what is
can there be, what sanctity, what
the great terribleness of this case because
religion?. . . However, there are other
during holidays and public entertainments,
philosophers, and these indeed are great and
when all law court business matters have been
noble, (of the sort) who believe that the
suspended, this one trial is being conducted,
entire world is managed and ruled by the
nor would he doubt that the defendant is being
mind and reason of the gods.
accused of so great a crime that, if this thing
5. The clever man does not understand that he
were neglected, the state could not stand.
against whom he speaks is being praised by
1. Present subjunctive in the protasis of a
him, that those among whom he speaks are
future-less-vivid conditional sentence.
being criticized.
2. Present subjunctive in the apodosis of a
future-less-vivid conditional sentence.
14. 1. We wonder why you are shouting.
3. Present subjunctive in indirect question in
2. We were wondering why you had shouted.
primary sequence showing time
3. I do not know why they shouted.
simultaneous to the main verb.
4. Do you know to whom the king will give
4. Ablative of time when.
gold?
5. Ablative absolute.
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Answers to Exercises
6. Present subjunctive in a clause of doubting
2. Perfect subjunctive in a relative clause in
in primary sequence showing time
indirect statement in primary sequence
simultaneous to the main verb.
showing time prior to the main verb.
7. Present subjunctive in a result clause in
3. Ablative of description.
primary sequence.
4. Present subjunctive in a relative clause in
indirect statement in primary sequence
17. 1. The king kills poets because they shout
showing time prior to the main verb
about liberty.
2. The queen says that the king kills poets
19. 1. He says that if war is waged in the province, because they shout about liberty.
the farmers ¯ee. (Simple)
3. The queen said that the king was killing the
2. He says that if war is waged in the province,
poets because they were shouting about
the farmers will ¯ee. (Future)
liberty.
3. He was saying that if war were waged in the
4. The queen says that the king killed the poets
province, the farmers would ¯ee. (Future)
because they shouted about liberty.
4. He says that if war were being waged in the
5. The queen says the king will kill the poets
province, the farmers would be ¯eeing.
because they shouted about liberty.
(Present contrary-to-fact)
6. The queen was saying that the king had
5. He says that if war had been waged in the
killed the poets because they were shouting
province, the farmers would have ¯ed. (Past
about liberty.
contrary-to-fact)
7. The queen was saying that the king would
6. He was saying that if war had been waged in
kill the poets because they had shouted
the province, the farmers