Chapter 36, Drill b: drill using deponent verbs.

These English phrases in Latin can be translated by using a deponent verb. Provide the correct tense, mood, voice and number (and gender when a participle requires it).

Example:
(Having delayed,) Scintilla se celavit. Answer: morata, since the perfect passive participle in deponent verbs has an active meaning.

1. de monte (he was slipping) dum luna surgebat.
2. milites (will try) se celare.
3. Quintus (seems) laetus esse.
4. non potui (to speak).
5. Flaccus ad agros (had set out).
6. legatus imperavit ut milites (to set out/should set out).
7. Scintilla in casam (stepped).
8. milites, ad castra (having gone back), multa mala passi sunt.
9. sol (has risen).
10. sol (rising) mala tulit.
11. milites pedibus (advanced).
12. milites (were advancing) cum sonum audiverunt.
13. opus est mihi, mala (having suffered), loqui.
14. femina, (having seemed) laeta, tristis tamen erat.
15. terrorne nos (will follow)?.
16. o milites, (try) pedibus proficisci!
17. o Scintilla, nunc (set out)!
18. pater Quinto persuadet ut proficisci (he should try).
19. pater Quinto persuasit ut proficisci (he should try).
20. opus est nobis, nos parare (trying, i.e. nobis trying), tempore.
21. Scintilla (feared) cum epistolam legeret.
22. Quinte, noli (slip) de monte descendens!
23. (You [plural]will follow.)
24. saepe in Senatu Cicero (spoke).
25. Caesar in gradibus templi (died).
26. Flaccus Scintillam (to comfort) conebatur.
27. graviora (he suffers).
28. (They tried) proficisci.
29. e castris septima hora milites (went out).
30. saepe terror eos (followed).
31. illo die terror eos (followed).
32. si e castris (you go out/will have gone out), opus erit tibi auxilio.

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