Monday, June 30, 2025

06.10.25: Level 2; Easy Latin Plays (Newman: 1913); Geminī [2]; Scaena Secunda [part #1]; text, vocabulary and questions, answers

SCAENA SECUNDA: INTRĀ NUMITŌRIS DOMUM

(Numitor sedet; ministrī circumstant)

NUMITOR

Ecce! Quem dūcunt pāstōrēs?

MINISTRĪ

Captīvum dūcunt catēnīs vīnctum?

(Intrant pāstōrēs Remum dūcentēs)

[i] What are Numitor’s attendants doing? (1)

[ii] What does Numitor want to know? (1)

[iii] What type of word is dūcentēs and how is it translated? (2)

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[iv] Complete this next section of the text with the words listed below (the full version is given in the answers)

NUMITOR

(1) This man, (2) who is he?

SHEPHERD

He, master, is (3) one ¦ (4) of the shepherds ¦ (5) whom ¦ we are bringing (6) captured ¦ to you.

NUMITOR

(7) Why do you bring (8) him (9) in chains [ = tied / bound] to me?

SHEPHERD

(10) The shepherds of Amulius are hostile (11) to us.

NUMITOR

__________ homō, (2) __________ est?

PĀSTOR

Hic (3) __________ est, domine, (4) __________ Amūliī, (5) __________ (6) __________ ad tē addūcimus.

NUMITOR

(7) __________ (8) __________ ad mē addūcitis (9) __________?

PĀSTOR

(10) __________ Amūliī (11) __________ sunt inimīcī. 

captum; cūr; hic; hunc; nōbīs; pāstōres; pāstōrum; quem; quis; ūnus; vīnctum

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NUMITOR

Quam est fōrmōsus! (Remum adloquēns) Venī, homō! Volō tē aspicere. Ō mē miserum! Quantum est Reae Sylviae similis, fīliae meae cārissimae*, quam Amūlius necāvit!

*Note: similis, -e: similar (to something / someone: expressed either by the dative – as in this section of the text – or by the genitive, in the next section of the text)

[v] What two comments does Numitor make about the appearance of Remus (2)

[vi] What is Numitor’s relationship to Rea Sylvia and what happened to her? (2)

[i] Standing around │ ministrī circumstant

[ii] Who the shepherds are leading? │ Quem dūcunt pāstōrēs?

[iii] (1) present active participle (2) [who are] leading

[iv]

NUMITOR

(1) Hic homō, (2) quis est?

PĀSTOR

Hic (3) ūnus est, domine, (4) pāstōrum Amūliī, (5) quem (6) captum ad tē addūcimus.

NUMITOR

(7) Cūr (8) hunc ad mē addūcitis (9) vīnctum?

PĀSTOR

(10) Pāstōrēs Amūliī (11) nōbīs sunt inimīcī.

[v] (1) (how / so) handsome (2) how much similar to Rea Sylvia │ (1) Quam est fōrmōsus! (2) Quantum est Reae Sylviae similis

[vi] (1) daughter (2) killed by Amulius │ (1) fīliae meae … (2) quam Amūlius necāvit


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