Chapter 22, Drill b: Review various uses of the ablative.

Each Latin sentence contains in parentheses a phrase in English which can be expressed in Latin by one of the uses of the ablative (with or without a preposition) summarized in Chapter 22. Provide that Latin phrase.

Example:
Quintus (the city) exiit. Answer: ex urbe or possibly ab urbe: place from which when not the name of a city requires the preposition with ablative, even though the English idiom may not use a preposition here ("Quintus left the city").

1. (That year) hiems sero venit.
2. (In the city) Quintus mansit.
3. Quintus (with [his] friend) ad ludos circenses iit.
4. (At that time) poeta clarus multa carmina scripsit.
5. (Down from the hills) pueri veniebant.
6. (From the city) discesserunt.
7. (From Rome) discedebant.
8. (From home) abiit.
9. (In the winter) nautae non saepe navigabant.
10. in carminibus Quintus (about love) saepe scribebat.
11. (Under the trees) pueri dormiebant.
12. (Without danger) Quintus navigare cupivit.
13. (On the seventh day) exierunt.
14. (At dawn) milites e castris exierunt.
15. (In the evening) aliquid nos terruit.
16. aliquid nos (from fear) liberavit. [fear = metus -us m., 4th declension]
17. vacui (of/from hope) eratis.
18. Cicero (about the republic) saepe scribebat.
19. (Many hours later) orator orationem habebat.
20. orator multas horas orationem habebat; (at the tenth hour) confecit!
21. (A few days before,) quidam currus vicerat.
22. (Two days before,) ingens turba casum effecit.
23. (At this time) omnes huic currui favent.
24. turba currum fregit, sed (within three hours) aliquis eum refecerat.
25. (One day, i.e. on a certain day,) Marcus pecuniam perdidit.
26. Quintus (without mishap) diligenter studebat.

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