SCĒNA IN LŪDŌ; EXERCITĀTIŌ IN COMPOSITIŌNE
Complete the Latin text with the words listed below; note
that several verbs are subjunctive:
[i] Students: Hello, teacher.
Teacher: Hello to all of you as well. (1) Have you
brought tablets and styluses?
Students: (2) We’ve brought (them).
Discipulī: Salvē, magister.
Magister: Vōs quoque omnēs, salvēte. Tabulāsne (1)
__________ et stilōs?
Discipulī: (2) __________.
[ii] Teacher: Now (3) let us learn Aesop’s fable. And
you, Publius, (4) give me from the box Aesop’s book, so that (5) I
may read that fable. (6) I would like all of you (7) to listen
carefully: The Fox and the Grapes.
Magister: Iam fābulam Aesōpī (3) __________. Et tū, Pūblī, (4)
__________ mihi ē capsā Aesōpī volūmen, ut eam fābulam (5) __________. (6)
__________ ut vōs omnēs dīligenter (7) __________: Vulpēs et Ūva.
[iii] Once upon a time a fox, (8) forced by hunger,
saw a (9) hanging grape. (1o) It was jumping at the grape, (11) trying
to take it. (12) Having tried for a long time in vain, and finally (13) it
was inflamed with such great anger that it completely (14) stopped
jumping and (15) said: “That grape is sour; I do not care at all for a
sour grape.”
Vulpēs ōlim famē (8) __________ ūvam (9) __________ vīdit.
Ad ūvam (10) __________, sūmere (11) __________. Frūstrā diū (12) __________,
tandem tantāque īrā (13) __________ ut salīre omnīnō (14) __________ atque (15)
__________: “Illa ūva est acerba; acerbam ūvam nihil moror*.”
*nihil moror: I do not care at all
[iv]
Teacher: (16) Have you written everything, boys?
Students: Everything, teacher.
Teacher: Good. (17) I remind you (18) to write
the same story in Latin tomorrow.
Magister: Omniane (16) __________, puerī?
Discipulī: Omnia, magister.
Magister: Bene est. Vōs (17) __________ ut crās eandem
fābulam Latīnē (18) __________.
accēnsa est; dā; moneō; portāvimus; portāvistis;
saliēbat; scrīpsistis
audiātis; dēsisteret; dīceret; discāmus;
legam; scrībātis; velim
coācta; cōnāns; cōnāta; dēpendentem
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Notes on the subjunctive
[i] Subjunctive: hortatory
https://adckl.blogspot.com/search/label/subjunctive%3A%20hortatory
Iam fābulam Aesōpī discāmus.
- Let us now learn Aesop’s fable.
[ii] Subjunctive: purpose
https://adckl.blogspot.com/search/label/subjunctive%3A%20purpose
Dā mihi volūmen … ut eam fābulam legam.
- Give me the scroll … so that I may read that fable.
[iii] Subjunctive: result
https://adckl.blogspot.com/search/label/subjunctive%3A%20result
tantāque īrā accēnsa est ut salīre
omnīnō dēsisteret atque dīceret …
- and it was inflamed with such great anger ¦ that it completely stopped jumping and said …
[iv] Subjunctive: indirect command
https://adckl.blogspot.com/search/label/subjunctive%3A%20indirect%20commands
Vōs moneō ut crās eandem fābulam Latīnē scrībātis.
- I remind you to write the same fable in Latin tomorrow.
[v] Subjunctive: potential
https://adckl.blogspot.com/search/label/subjunctive%3A%20potential
Velim …
- I would like … i.e. used instead of volō to sound less direct
+ indirect command = a polite wish
Velim ¦ ut vōs omnēs dīligenter audiātis.
- I would like ¦ you all to listen carefully [literally: … that you would all listen]
Compare:
Volō ut vōs omnēs audiātis │ I want you all to
listen
Velim ut vōs omnēs audiātis │ I would like you
all to listen
(1) portāvistis
(2) portāvimus
(3) discāmus
(4) dā
(5) legam
(6) velim
(7) audiātis
(8) coācta
(9) dēpendentem
(10) saliēbat
(11) cōnāns
(12) cōnāta
(13) accēnsa est
(14) dēsisteret
(15) dīceret
(16) scrīpsistis
(17) moneō
(18) scrībātis
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