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Chapter 10: Comitia

Chapter 10, Drill b: use of imperfect and perfect tenses.

The verb or verb phrase in parentheses in each of the following short English sentences can be translated into Latin using the imperfect or perfect tense. Provide the correct form of the Latin verb from recent chapters corresponding to the English verb phrase.

Example:
pueri (were walking) per uias. Answer: ambulabant, because the use of the past progressive in English "were walking") indicates a continuing action.
pueri (walked) ad ludum. Answer: Answer: ambulauerunt, because the act of walking here is a simple action, "snapshot".

See the chart summarizing aspect in verbs tenses in Course Documents.

1. (We remained) diu in Foro.
2. semper (they used to read).
3. magister pueros domum (sent) quod eum non
audiebant.
4. cur in uia (were you [plural] fighting)?
5. pueri taciti erant quod magister (was telling)
fabulam.
6. candidatus (was giving) orationem
([the idiom is orationem habere] cum Flaccus intrauit.
7. candidatus (gave) orationem.
8. semper (you wanted, sing.) [use cupio]) philosophiae studere.
9. (They kept promising) omnibus succurrere.
10. hostes (went away).
11. diu (you (singular) didn't have) filios.
12. heri [=yesterday] Quintus libros ad ludum (carried).
13. candidati (were) pessimi.
14. Cicero (used to give) orationes optimas.
15. heri (=yesterday) ciues (cast) suffragia.
16. poena quam Dido promisit (was not) facilis.
17. Quintus (did not hear) ea quae magister dixit.
18. magistrum (you [pl.] were not listening to).
19. Romani (used to overcome) multos hostes.
20. iter difficile (was [expressing its general condition]).
21. Cicero grauem orationem (gave).
22. Aeneas (led) Troianos per fluctus ad nouam urbem.
23. Romani semper (overcame) omnes.
24. (We were shouting) cum hostes accesserunt.
25. pueri (did not listen to) magistrum. [a specific occasion]
26. (I was sleeping) cum intrauisti.
27. non diu (she slept).
28. magister pueros domum misit quod eum (they were
not listening to).
29. magister pueros in ludum ducebat cum nuntius (approached
[use accedo]).
30. milites semper mortem (feared).

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