P R O B ĀT I Ō T E R T I A
VERB FORMS (32)
Change the English below into Latin verbs. You’ve already been given the subject pronoun
in Latin. One point for the right ending, another point for the right stem.
is used to find
is will have held
vōs kept hearing
vōs nourished
id stood
tū come
nōs had lived
iī will have run
is makes
eæ joined
nōs shall flee
is will feel
ego had avoided
ego used to capture
vōs fell
iī will have sent
VERB SYNOPSES (12)
Give synopses (in Latin!) of the following unfamiliar verbs in the given person and number.
You’ll have six answers for each entry: one in each tense that you know.
jaciō, jacere, jēcī, jactum
3rd person singular
sciō, scīre, scīvī, scītum
1st person singular
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PERSONAL PRONOUNS (15)
Give the Latin dative, accusative, and ablative for the following English nominatives.
DATIVE
ACCUSATIVE
ABLATIVE
I
you (singular)
himself/herself/
itself (reflexive)
we
you (plural)
NOUN FORMS (24)
Give the requested forms of these nouns:
DATIVE
SINGULAR
ABLATIVE
SINGULAR
GENITIVE
PLURAL
ACCUSATIVE
PLURAL
aqua, aquæ
cīvis, cīvis
jūs, jūris
mare, maris
rēx, rēgis
signum, signī
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DEMONSTRATIVE FORMS (15)
Give the requested forms of the demonstratives to modify each Latin noun.
IS, EA, ID
ĪDEM, EADEM, IDEM
IPSE, IPSA, IPSUM
mātrem
mortis
patrī
prīncipiō
vīrium
TRIVIA (10)
Answer each question.
How do you express an instrument (the tool with which you do something) in Latin? What
case and preposition do you use?
How do you express the person who accompanies you, like “with your mother,” in Latin?
What case and preposition do you use?
What is the one difference between a masculine or feminine i-stem noun and a regular noun
of the third declension?
Neuter i-stem nouns end in what letters in the nominative singular?
Explain the difference between ipse, ipsa, ipsum and sibī/sē. For what do you use each?
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TRANSLATION (50 POINTS)
Translate the following story into English below. There are questions on it on the next page.
In Crocodīlopolī cīvitāte fuit tyrannus malus: eum cīvēs appellābant Christophorus. Nec iūs nec
cīvēs bonōs neque ullum aliud nisi dīvitiās suās dīligēbat tyrannus. Ējus fīlia, Anna, poētria fuerat
docta et carmina multa scrīpserat, sed eam in carcere inclūsit pater malus, ubi perpetuīs labōribus illa
dēbuit carmina sua in aurum prō patre māgicā arte mūtāre. Nōn igitur beātam vītam agēbat Anna
sed acerbam, quod pater eam in carcere diū tenuerat, longē ab oculīs auribusque bonōrum cīvium.
Nēmō igitur cīvis Crocodīlopolitānus ējus carmina audiēbat nec voluptātem ab ējus carminibus cēpit,
sed pater ipse sōlus aurum cēpit ē fīliæ artibus laboribusque.
In eādem autem urbe fuit etiam fēmina bona et fortis, Cæcilia nōmine. Ea omnibus fuit animālibus
amīca, omnibus hominibus cāra: nam plēna sapientiæ erat, nōn cupiditātis. Quoniam nullum erat in
cīvitāte carmen, Cæcilia sibī dīxit, “Malum est, nullum carmen audīre. Fīliam igitur tyrannī līberābō.
Nam sī lībera fuerit poētria, multa carmina habēbimus, et omnēs cīvēs bene vīvent cum lībertāte et
voluptāte.” Ipsa igitur ad carcerem vēnit cum amīcis suīs, Carolō et Lauentiō.
*poētria = poēta fēmina (poētæ sunt virī, poētriæ autem sunt fēminæ)
*inclūdō, inclūdere, inclūsī, inclūsum — to shut in, confine, imprison
*carcer, carceris, m. — prison *aurum, aurī, n. — gold *fortis, fortis, forte — brave, strong
*omnis, omnis, omne — all
*longē — far
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READING COMPREHENSION (15)
Answer in full (and brief) Latin sentences the following questions on the story on page 4.
1.
Quārē nōn audiēbant cīvēs ulla carmina?
2. Ubi vivēbat Anna?
3. Quārē malus pater fuit Christophorus?
4. Quōmodo (how) potuit Christophorus aurum sibī capere?
5. Quod (what) cōnsilium cēpit Cæcilia?
GRAMMAR QUESTIONS (10 POINTS)
Answer the following. Each refers to an underlined word or phrase in the story.
1.
What’s the genitive of ullum?
2. What tense is fuerit?
3. What case and number are fīliæ?
4. Why is there a cum in the phrase cum lībertāte et voluptāte?
5. Cæcilia came cum amīcis suīs, Carolō et Laurentiō. How could you change that to say
“with us?”
EXTRA CREDIT
This story isn’t finished yet. For extra credit, write two new sentences of the story in Latin.
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