Study Guide for Latin 3 National Latin Exam

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LATIN III EXAM

NOUNS:

• predicate nominative with passive verbs, e.g.,

• appellō, fīō

Nominative:

Possessive

• quantity

• partitive

• with causā or grātiā

• description

• objective

Genitive:

• possession

• purpose and reference (double dative)

• agent

• with special adjectives, e.g.,

• amīcus, carus, similis

• with special verbs, e.g.,

• imperō, pāreō, placeō, praeficiō, prōsum

Dative:

• place to which (without prepositions)

• object of prepositions, e.g.,

• apud

• praeter

• super

Accusative:

• place from which (without prepositions)

• ablative absolute

• description

• separation

• cause

SID SPACE

Ablative:

The locative case is used for names of towns, cities, small islands and the nouns domus, rus and humus and never use in or ad to indicate place where . The locative case never uses a preposition.

Forms of the Locative Case

For first and second declensions, locatives resemble the genitive in singular forms and the dative/ablative in the plural.

For the third declension, the locative resembles the ablative in the locative singular and plural. Occasionally the locative singular may resemble the dative singular.

Locative:

• ipse, HIM/HERSELF

• īdem; THE SAME

• aliquis, SOMEONE/ANYONE

• quīdam, A CERTAIN

• quisque WHOEVER

PRONOUNS:

POSITIVE

BONUS/BENE

COMPARATIVE

MELIOR/MELIUS

MALUS/MALE PELIOR/PELIUS

MAGNUS/MAGNOPERE MAIOR/MAIUS

PARVUS/PAULO

MULTUS/PAULUM

MINOR/MINUS

PLUS/PLUS

SUPERLATIVE

OPTIMUS/OPTIME

PESSIMUS/PESSIME

MAXIMUS/MAXIME

MINIMUS/MINIME

PLURIMUS/PLURIMUM

ADJECTIVES/ADVERBS:

• sī,

• nam,

• enim,

• igitur,

• autem,

• tamen,

• neque,

• ut correlatives,

• sīve...sīve,

• vel...vel,

• nec…nec

• Et…et

Neque…neque

Aut…aut

Modo…modo

CONJUNCTIONS:

-ne,

-que,

-ve

-cum

ENCLITICS:

• deponents

• irregular,

• fīō, mālō, volō, nōlō

• impersonal,

• oportet

• irregular imperatives,

• dīc, dūc, fac, fer,

VERBS:

indirect statement with present and past tense main verbs

• hortatory,

• jussive

• indirect command,

• purpose clause,

• result clause,

• indirect question

• cum clauses

subjunctive mood

Expressions of purpose

(ad, causā, grātiā)

Active and passive periphrastic

Expression of obligation

gerunds and gerundives,

• vītā excēdere,

• in mātrimōnium dūcere,

• cōnsilium capere

• in animo vertit

Iter facit

Nomen est mihi

Gratias ago tibi

IDIOMS:

III. CULTURE AND

CIVILIZATION

• notable cities, regions, mountains, rivers, and bodies of water of Italy and the ancient world,

Naples,

Alexandria,

Gaul,

Pyrenees,

Mt. Etna,

Nile,

Aegean Sea,

Black Sea

GEOGRAPHY:

GREATEST BATTLES OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND EARLY EMPIRE

YEAR PLACE WINNER LOSER

217 BC Lake Trasimene Carthaginians (Hannibal) Romans (C.Flaminius)

216 BC

202 BC

Cannae

Zama

Carthaginians (Hannibal)

Romans (Scipio Africanus)

Romans (C. Terentius Varro)

Carthaginians (Hannibal)

147 BC

53 BC

48 BC

42 BC

31 BC

Carthage

Carrhae

Pharsalus

2nd Philippi

Actium

Romans

Parthians

Romans (Julius Caesar)

M.Antonius/C.Octavianus

Romans (Agrippa)

AD 68-70 Jerusalem Romans (Vespasian/Titus)

AD 83 Mons Graupius Romans (Agricola)

Pyrrhus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Livia, Tiberius

Carthaginians

Romans (M. Crassus)

Romans (Cn. Pompeius Magnus)

M.Junius Brutus

Romans (M.Antonius)

Jews

Caledonians (Galgacus)

HISTORY:

Greek and Roman heroes,

• e.g., Perseus, Jason, Mucius

Scaevola; typical Roman and Italian deities,

• e.g., Janus, Vesta; origins and

• transformations,

• e.g., Daphne, Pygmalion, Baucis and Philemon, Niobe

MYTHOLOGY:

• calendar terms, Kalends, Nones, Ides

• Calends (Kalendae, Kalends) signify the start of the new moon cycle and was always the first day of the month. It is derived from the Greek word

καλειν, “to announce” the days of the full and new moon.

Nones (Nonae) were known to be the days of the half moon which usually occur 8 days before the Ides.

• Ides occurred on the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and the

13th day of the other months. They are thought to have been the days of the full moon.

Each day was referred to by how many days it fell before the Calends,

Nones or Ides. For example, March 11 would be known as “Five Ides” to the Romans because it is four days before the Ides of March (March 15)

• pr. (prīdiē), a.d. (ante diem);

• pontifex maximus, augures; ceremonies, e.g., weddings, funerals, triumphs

ROMAN LIFE:

IV. LATIN IN USE

• e.g., Salve, salvete

• Quid agis?

Quid est nomen tibi?

Vale, valete

• Ita vero,

Minime,

Quid est?

Quis est?

Gratias tibi ago,

• Sol lucet,

Quota hora est?

Adsum,

Quid novi?

• plaudite omnēs;

• mē paenitet;

• ut bene scīs

Hello

How are you? / What are you doing?

What’s your name? goodbye

Yes! no!

What is it?

Who is it?

Thank you

The sun is shining

What time is it?

I am present

What’s new?

Everyone clap

I’m sorry as you well know

ORAL LATIN:

cotogether deaway, off; generally indicates reversal or removal in English disnot, not any

inter between, among non- not post- after pre- before reagain; back, backward sub- under

trans across, beyond, through coauthor, coedit, coheir deactivate, debone, defrost, decompress, deplane disbelief, discomfort, discredit, disrepair, disrespect international, interfaith, intertwine, intercellular, interject nonessential, nonmetallic, nonresident, nonviolence, nonskid, nonstop postdate, postwar, postnasal, postnatal preconceive, preexist, premeditate, predispose, prepossess, prepay rearrange, rebuild, recall, remake, rerun, rewrite submarine, subsoil, subway, subhuman, substandard

Transfer, transitive, transition, transform, trans-Atlantic

DERIVATIVES:

Pyrrhic victory,

• crossing the

Rubicon,

• nōn sequitur,

• ad hominem,

Q.E.D.

Amor omnia vincit

In vino veritas

Carpe diem

Utile dulci

Semper fidelis

Caveat emptor

Post hoc, ergo procter hoc

Per angusta ad augusta

Sic monumentis requiris, circumspice

Aere perennius

EXPRESSIONS, MOTTOES, ABBREVIATIONS:

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