Complete the quotations with the verbs listed below each exercise.
Remember: quamquam
+ the indicative; quamvīs + subjunctive.
Note also the
different ways in which both quamvīs and quamquam can be
translated to convey the concessive idea.
[1]
[i] Although
you may be without your mind, without your senses, …
Quamvīs enim sine
mente, sine sēnsū __________ … (Cicero)
[ii] He will speak
against me in such a way, however ingenious he may be …
Ita contrā mē ille
dicet, quamvīs __________ ingeniōsus (Cicero)
[iii] Although
I love that woman …
Quamquam ego
istanc __________ (Plautus)
[iv] Therefore,
those who listen to him, however incapable of speaking they
themselves are …
Itaque eum quī
audiunt, quamvīs ipsī īnfantēs __________, … (Cicero)
[v] Though I’m
an impotent old man …
Quamquam
cantherius __________, … (Plautus)
[vi] Although
all virtues are equal and alike …
Quamquam __________
omnēs virtūtēs aequālēs et parēs (Cicero)
[vii] Although
I may be made of wood, …
Quamvīs __________
ligneus, … (Priapea)
[viii] Although
I have nothing to do [ = there is no business for me] with that
fellow …
Quamquam cum istōc
mihi negōtī nihil __________ (Plautus)
[ix] Although
you are angry with me …
Quamquam tū īrāta __________
mihi (Plautus)
[x] And by
Hercules, although I love [ = we love] our Gnaeus* … (Cicero);
*Pompey
Et mehercule,
quamvīs __________ Gnaeum nostrum, … (Cicero)
amēmus; amō; es;
est; sim; sint; sīs; sit; sum; sunt
[2]
[i] This place
here at our house, although you may arrive suddenly, is always
available.
Locus hīc apud
nōs, quamvīs subitō __________, semper liber est (Plautus)
[ii] He is by no
means rich to me, although he possesses many things.
Nēquāquam mihi
dīves est, quamvīs multa __________ (Rutilius)
[iii] Although the
matter does not please me …
Quamvīs rēs mihi
nōn __________, … (Cicero)
[iv] Although
the bright girl may call back a thousand times to the traveling one …
Quamvīs candida
mīliēs puella euntem __________ (Catullus)
[v] Although
you understand nothing, nevertheless nothing can be enjoyable for you
Quamvīs nihil __________,
tamen nihil tibi potest esse iūcundum (Cicero)
[vi] Although
/ however much those domestic enemies do not want this …
Quamvīs hoc istī
hostēs domesticī __________, … (Cicero)
[vii] Amiable as
he may have been in keeping with his friends …
Quamvīs cōmis in
amīcīs tuendīs __________, … (Cicero)
[viii] Although
we gave / have given strict instructions to the envoys …
Quamvīs sevēra
lēgātīs mandāta __________, … (Cicero)
dederīmus; fuerit;
nōlint; placeat; possideat; revocet; sapiās; veniās
[3]
[i] Although
that will be unpleasant for me for three days
Quamquam istud
mihi __________ molestum trīduom (Plautus)
[ii] I’ll now go
into this harlot’s house nomatter if she is in a rage with me
Nunc ībō intrō ad
hanc meretrīcem quamquam __________ mihi (Plautus)
[iii] Although,
unwillingly, I will do without you.
Quamquam invīta tē
__________ (Plautus)
[iv] Now I’ve got
to be a good woman unwillingly, even if I don’t want to be.
Nunc mihi bonae
necessumst [necessum est] esse ingrātiīs quamquam esse __________ (Plautus)
[v] Although my
master had ordered me to stay here, it’s settled: I’d rather look for
trouble with profit.
Quamquam hic
manēre mē erus sēsē __________; certum est, malam rem potius quaeram cum lucrō
(Plautus)
[vi] Being a slave
has not been very troublesome, though:
Quamquam nōn
multum __________ molesta servitus (Plautus)
[vii] This man did
his duty, when he confessed the truth to you, although / much as I
wanted to hide my nobility carefully.
Fēcit officium hic
suom, cum tibi est cōnfessus vērum, quamquam __________ sēdulō meam nōbilitātem
occultāre (Plautus)
[viii] Even though
you are devoted Vulcan, do you want us to burn our house down, all for
your dinner or your pay?
Quamquam Volcānō __________,
cēnaene causā aut tuae mercēdis grātiā nōs nostrās aedīs postulās combūrere?
(Plautus)
carēbō; erit; fuit;
iusserat; nōlō; studēs; suscēnset; voluī
____________________
[1]
[i] sīs
[ii] sit
[iii] amō
[iv] sint
[v] sum
[vi] sunt
[vii] sim
[viii] est
[ix] es
[x] amēmus
[2]
[i] veniās
[ii] possideat
[iii] placeat
[iv] revocet
[v] sapiās
[vi] nōlint
[vii] fuerit
[viii] dederīmus
[3]
[i] erit
[ii] suscēnset
[iii] carēbō
[iv] nōlō
[v] iusserat
[vi] fuit
[vii] voluī
[viii] studēs
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