Chapter 40, Drill f: practice uses of the ablative and genitive of value.

In each of the following short Latin sentences, the English word or phrase in parentheses can be expressed by one of the uses of the ablative in this chapter or by genitive of value. Provide the correct phrase.

Example:
Quintus fruebatur (friends). Answer: amicis , since fruor takes ablative.

1. Quintus re vera (a lyre) non utebatur.
2. Quintus lyram (for ten denarii) emit.
3. eam (very highly) aestimabat.
4. ille equus non (worth much) est.
5. Quintus carmina (such great value) aestimabat ut semper scriberet.
6. Marcus vinum (more) aestimabat quam philosophiam.
7. Marcus tamen Quintum (more) aestimabat quam alios.
8. num quis agrum (for six thousand) sestertium vendidit? (Sestertii are another Roman unit of coinage.)
9. agros vendidit (for much money).
10. agrum emere volo (for a small amount of money, i.e. small money).
11. Marcus philosophiam (very little) aestimabat.
12. hoc vinum est peius (than that one).
13. hic equus est celerior (than that one).
14. eratne fuga [flight] Philippis turpior (than death)?
15. dic mihi, si quis diriorem cladem vidit (than that one).
16. vidistine centurionem saeviorem (than Lucilius)?
17. Quintus non cognoverat rhetorem doctiorem (than Theomnestus).
18. Quintus (much) diligentius quam Marcus studebat.
19. hic murus est (three feet) altior quam ille.
20. puer est (four years) minor [younger] quam illa puella.
21. advenit (one hour) antea.
22. Quintus in aerario (a little) diutius laboravit.
23. Quintus (from a freedman father) natus est.
24. Quintus non (from a Roman gens) natus est.
25. Quintus erat (son of Flaccus, i.e. born from Flaccus) natus est.
26. Maecenas, amicus Quinti, (from kings) natus est.

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