27.08.24: the present active participle [9]; declension [7]; other cases; Androclus et leō [2]

fera, -ae [1/f]: wild animal

lambō, -ere, lambī [3]: lick

mordeō, -ēre, momordī [2]: bite

osculō, -āre, -āvī [1]: kiss

parcō, -ere, pepercī [3]: spare; have mercy (for); the verb is followed by the dative case

sagīna, -ae [1/f]: (here) prey

scelestus, -a, -um: wicked; a wicked person

tergum, -ī [2/n]: back

trucīdō, -āre, -āvī [1]: slaughter

[A]

1. Where does this second scene take place? [1 point]
2. What three groups of people are to be thrown to the lions? [3 points]
3. What does the third spectator shout? [2 points]
4. Why does Androcles say ‘O mē miserum’? [5 points]: [i] Nunc [ii] ā leōne fugiō. [iii] Semper [iv] ab aliquō fugiō. Sed [v] iam fessus sum.
5. Why does Androcles ask the lion to spare him? [1 point]
6. In your own words, explain why the lion spares him. [3 points]
7. What does the lion tell Androcles to do? [1 point]
8. Where does the lion take him? [3 points]: Nunc ¦ [i] ex arēnā ¦ tē portō …  (Sīc ¦ [ii] per portam Circī ¦ Androclus et leō ¦ [iii] in viās ¦ effugiunt.)

[B] Find the Latin:

1. Androcles, fleeing from the lion
2. the first specator shouting out
3. the lion chasing away Androclus / making Androclus flee
4. I don’t see the lion eating but kissing the slave
5. I hear one lion slaughtering…I see another lion biting…
6. I see the guards throwing the thieves into the arena
7. I see the lion chasing away the slave / making the slave flee
8. I see the lions entering
9. I see the slave fleeing
10. It runs at the guards who flee in fear