Chapter 25, Drill b: practice using comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbs.

In the Latin sentences below, translate each English phrase in parenthesess into correct Latin, using the correct comparative or superlative form of an adverb or [irregular] adjective.

Example:
currus erat (very fast). Answer: celerrimus, the superlative of celer; nominative because it is the complement.

1. Quintus (as hard [i.e. diligently] as possible) studebat.
2. Quintus carmina (as many as possible) scripsit.
3. Quintus carmina Graeca (more happily) legebat quam Latina.
4. (The best) rhetor Romae erat Heliodorus.
5. leges Romanae erant (the most difficult) studia.
6. alii ludi erant (more cruel than) alii.
7. Quintus poetis Graecis (especially, i.e. most) malebat.
8. poetaene (more bravely than) alii pugnant?
9. Quintus poetas Graecas legere poterat (better than) Marcus.
10. Quintus Graecos libros (very easily) legere poterat.
11. Quintus libros (more often than) Marcus legebat, dum Marcus vinum bibebat.
12. Venusia Roma longe abest, sed Athenae (farther) abest.
13. in ludis circensibus, pauci (very bravely) pugnabant.
14. (very many) milites in campo erant.
15. Quintus (less wine) quam Marcus bibebat.
16. Marcus (more wine) quam Quintus bibebat.
17. Quintus volebat abire (as soon as possible).
18. Quintus carminibus poetarum (more than) legibus orationibusque gaudebat.
19. Horatia fiebat (very beautiful).
20. sunt Romae aedificia (as big as possible).
21. (as many as possible) iuvenes cotidie ad Campum Martium adibant.
22. "Quinte, fer mihi (more books)."

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