24.09.26: Level 3 / 3+ (Review); Hillard & Botting [62] Labours of Hercules (2)

[1] Complete the Latin text with the correct form of the word.

In a certain valley, by the name of Nemea, there lived at that time a huge lion which the inhabitants of that land feared very much.

In [vallis / vallem / valle] quādam, Nemea [nōmine / nōmen / nōmina], habitābat [illud tempus/ illō tempore / illīus temporis] ingēns leō [quī / quod / quem] maximē eius [terrae / terrā / terra] incolae timēbant.

[2] Hunc Herculēs occīdere et ad rēgem portāre iussus est. Diū frūstrā cum monstrō clāvā et sagittīs pugnābat: tandem faucēs eius manibus ēlīsit. Tum mortuum leōnem in umerīs ad rēgiam reportāvit.

[i] How did Hercules first try to kill the Nemean lion? (1)

[ii] How did he finally kill it? (1)

[iii] How was the lion taken to the palace? (1)

[3] Translate: Quem ubi vīdit rēx ipse dīcitur virī fortissimī vīribus territus esse Herculemque iussisse exīre extrā oppidī mūrōs victōriās nūntiāre. (8)

[4] Complete the Latin text with the words listed below; note the differences in word order

Afterwards he was (1) ordered to kill a (2) huge bull (3) which was ravaging the fields of Crete. (4) This task too (5) he is said (6) to have completed and (7) to have carried back the animal (8) alive on his shoulders home, and soon (9) to have set (it) free.

Posteā taurum (2) __________, (3) __________ Crētae agrōs vastābat, occīdere (1) __________ est. (4) __________ quoque opus (5) __________ (6) __________ (8) __________que animal in umerīs domum (7) __________, mox (9) __________.

dīcitur; hoc; ingentem; iussus; līberāvisse; perēgisse; quī; reportāvisse; vīvumcVocabulary

Vocabulary

clāva, -ae [1/f]: club

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[1] In valle quādam, Nemea nōmine, habitābat illō tempore ingēns leō quem maximē eius terrae incolae timēbant.

[2]

[i] with a club and arrows

[ii] with his (own) hands

[iii] on his shoulders

[3] When the king saw him (1), he himself is said (1) to have been frightened (1) by the strength (1) of the very brave man (1) and to have ordered Hercules (1) to go out beyond the walls of the town (1) and to announce his victories (1).

[4] Posteā taurum ingentem, quī Crētae agrōs vastābat, occīdere iussus est. Hoc quoque opus dīcitur perēgisse vīvumque animal in umerīs domum reportāvisse, mox līberāvisse.

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In a certain valley, called Nemea, there lived at that time a huge lion which the inhabitants of that land feared very much. Hercules was ordered to kill this and to carry it to the king. For a long time he fought in vain with the monster with a club and arrows: at last he crushed its throat with his hands. Then he carried the dead lion on his shoulders to the palace. When the king saw him, he himself is said to have been frightened by the strength of the very brave man and to have ordered Hercules to go out beyond the walls of the town and to announce his victories.

Afterwards he was ordered to kill a huge bull which was ravaging the fields of Crete. This task too he is said to have completed and to have carried the animal alive on his shoulders home, and soon to have set it free.