Sunday, March 15, 2026

06.08.26; Level 3+; Subjunctive [82] dependent uses [10] antequam / priusquam (2) practice

Complete the Latin quotations with the verbs listed below:

[1] indicative

[i] And before I speak about the hardships of Sicily …

Atque antequam dē incommodīs Siciliae __________ … (Cicero)

[ii] Before I came into Sicily …

antequam ego in Siciliam __________… (Cicero)

[iii] But before we speak about the principles of oratory …

Sed antequam dē praeceptīs ōrātōriīs __________… (Cicero)

[iv] Before he has put forward sufficiently suitable arguments …

antequam satis idōneās argūmentātiōnēs __________… (Cicero)

[v] All that time which was before he entered upon public office and political life …

Omne illud tempus quod fuit antequam iste ad magistrātūs remque pūblicam __________… (Cicero)

[vi] He does not dare to submit his accounts to the treasury before Dolabella has been condemned.

Ratiōnēs ad aerārium, antequam Dolābella __________, nōn audet referre (Cicero)

[vii] and all the enemy turned their backs and did not stop fleeing before they reached the Rhine River

atque omnēs hostēs terga vertērunt nec prius fugere dēstitērunt quam ad flūmen Rhēnum … __________ (Caesar)

[viii] They don’t go way before they have written something

nōn prius abeunt quam aliquid __________ (Apuleius)

[ix] Shortly before he died, he had handed over everything to Heraclius

Hērāclīō, aliquantō ante quam __________, omnia trādiderat (Cicero)

[2] Subjunctive

[i] Carpinatius, before he had come into such close intimacy with that man, had on several occasions sent letters to the allies about that man’s injustices.

Carpinātius, antequam in istīus familiāritātem tantam __________, aliquotiēns ad sociōs litterās dē istīus iniūriīs mīserat (Cicero)

[ii] Sextus Pompeius sent a letter to his brother, … lest Caesar should capture Corduba before he himself had arrived there.

Sex. Pompēius litterās frātrī mīsit … nē prius Caesar Cordubam caperet quam ipse illō __________ (Bellum Hispāniēnse)

[iii] …before they could either assemble or flee, he forced them … to give hostages to him.

priusquam illī aut convenīre aut profugere __________ … obsidēs sibi dare coēgit (Caesar)

[iv] The next day, Caesar, before the enemy could recover from their terror and flight, led his army into the territory of the Suessiones.

Postrīdiē eius diēī Caesar, priusquam sē hostēs ex terrōre ac fugā __________, in fīnēs Suessiōnum… exercitum dūxit (Caesar)

[v] He decided that, before more states could unite in conspiracy, his army must be divided and deployed more widely. 

priusquam plūrēs cīvitātēs __________, partiendum sibi ac lātius distribuendum exercitum putāvit (Caesar)

[vi] Therefore,  before he attempted anything, he ordered Diviciacus to be summoned to him.

Itaque priusquam quicquam __________, Dīviciācum ad sē vocārī iubet [historical present] (Caesar)

[vii] They drove them in such panic that they did not stop fleeing before they had come into view of our column. 

Ita perterritōs ēgerunt ut nōn prius fugā dēsisterent quam in cōnspectum agminis nostrī __________ (Caesar)

[viii] It was two hundred years before they captured the city of Rome that the Gauls crossed into Italy.

Ducentīs annīs ante quam urbem Rōmam __________, in Italiam Gallī trānscendērunt (Livy)

[ix] He quickly put a fortification round the hill before it could be noticed by the enemy

(collem) celeriter, priusquam ab adversāriīs __________, commūnit [historical present] (Caesar)

accessit; attulerit; caperent; cōnārētur; condemnātus est; cōnspīrārent; dīcimus; dīcō; est mortuus; pervēnērunt; pervēnisset; possent; reciperent; scrīpserint; sentiātur; vēnī; vēnissent; vēnisset

____________________

[1]

[i] dīcō

[ii] vēnī

[iii] dīcimus

[iv] attulerit

[v] accessit

[vi] condemnātus est

[vii] pervēnērunt

[viii] scrīpserint

[ix] est mortuus

[2]

[i] pervēnisset

[ii] vēnisset

[iii] possent

[iv] reciperent

[v] cōnspīrārent

[vi] cōnārētur

[vii] vēnissent

[viii] caperent

[ix] sentiātur

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