Chapter 37, Drill a: Ablative absolute: drill formation.

Each Latin noun and verb can be turned into a Latin ablative absolute. Put the noun in the ablative in the right number and then make a participle to agree with it, so that it means what the accompanying English phrase in parentheses suggests.

Example:
cogito, ego (while I am thinking) Answer: me cogitante

1. Caesar, morior (while Caesar was dying)
2. proelium, committo (after the battle had been joined)
3. clades, sequor (since disaster had followed)
4. Caesar, morior (after Caesar died)
5. proelium, gero (after battles had been waged or after battles were waged)
6. Brutus, interficio (while Brutus was killing Caesar)
7. Caesar, interficio (after Caesar was killed)
8. plerique, interficio (after several people had been killed)
9. ego, proficiscor (after I had set out)
10. labor, conficio (after the work was finished)
11. hic, dico (when these things had been said)
12. hic, audio (when these things had been heard)
13. sol, orior (while the sun was rising)
14. sol, orior (after the sun had risen)
15. miles, convoco (when the soldiers had been called together)
16. gladius, celo (since the sword had been hidden)
17. puer, servo (when the boy had been saved)
18. cornu, vinco (when the wing [of the army] had been conquered)
19. legatus, morior (since the legatus has died)
20. Quintus, praeficio (when Quintus had been put in charge)
21. legatus, morior (while the legatus was dying)
22. exercitus, coniungo (since the armies had been joined)
23. miles, punio (when the soldiers had been punished)
24. navis, solvo (when the ship had cast off, i.e. had been loosened)
25. sol, occido (while the sun was setting)
26. hic, scio (since these things have been known)
27. gratiae, ago (when thanks had been given)
28. Athenae, video (when Athens had been seen)

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