Chapter 11, Drill b: Practice using the dative case.

Each Latin sentence has an English phrase in parentheses which in Latin can be expressed by one of the uses of the dative. Provide the correct Latin word(s).

Example:
femina aquam (to the horses) dat. Answer: equis: indirect object, that is, the horses are the recipient of the water.

1. quid (to me) dicis?
2. magister (to the boys) fabulam narrat.
3. da (me, i.e. to me) cibum bonum!
4. Flaccus (to Quintus) agros ostendit.
5. Horatia (to [her] brother) canem reddit.
6. Scintilla (to Flaccus and [their] children) cenam dat (use -que for and).
7. (To you, sing.) multa dico.
8. equos (to the king) damus.
9. princeps (to the cities) cibum dat.
10. mater (to [her] children) casam aliam ostendit.
11. puella (to [her] brothers] canem dat.
12. Flaccus (to Horatia and Quintus) fabulam narrat (use -que for and).
13. o amice, viam (to the silent man) ostende! (noun first, then adjective)
14. noli (to the enemies) arma dare!
15. puer parvus cibum (to the dogs) in via dat.
16. Scintilla (to Horatia) dicit: "curre!"
17. equum (the Trojans [Troianus, -i, m.]) ostendite!
18. (The boy's, i.e. to the boy) nomen est Quintus.
19. Quintus (father) in urbe occurrit.
20. regina (the men) succurrit.
21. regina (the enemies) resistit.
22. pater (the daughter) persuadet.
23. princeps (the farmers) imperat.
24. princeps (the king) naves ostendit.
25. rex (the city) succurrit.
26. consilium (for the fatherland) forte est.
27. fama (of/for the queen) bona est.
28. nolite vinum (to the children/boys) dare!

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