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Chapter 11: Quintus Romam aduenit

Chapter 11, Drill e: expressions of time.

Each short Latin sentence contains a time expression in English in parentheses. Provide the correct Latin expression, giving the adjective first if there is one. N.B.: dies (5th declension noun) has ablative singular die and plural diebus, and accusative singular diem and plural dies.

Examples:
(For three hours) Quintus paterque ambulabant. Answer: tres horas: accusative because it expresses how long, i.e. extent of time.
(In the fourth hour) siluas uiderunt. Answer: quarta hora: ablative because it expresses time when.

1. (For many years) Quintus in Apulia habitabat.
2. (For the whole winter) Quintus parentes diligenter iuuabat.
3. (For nine years) Graeci Troiam oppugnabant.
4. (In the tenth year) Graeci uiam in urbem Troiam
inuenerunt.
5. Quintus saepe bene studebat, sed (that year) anxius erat.
6. (For many days) Quintus paterque Romam iter
faciebant.
7. Quintus paterque fessi erant, et aduenire cupiebant
(within a few days).
8. (For two hundred years) pax Romana manebat.
9. (This spring) flores non sunt tam pulchrae.
10. (At this time) Quinti mater eum ualere iussit.
11. (For three winters) Quintus multa discebat.
12. (In one year, i.e. within one year) Quintus litteras
Graecas didicit.
13. (At dawn, i.e. at first light) omnes iter inierunt.
14. (For seven nights) bene dormiebant.
15. (On the eighth night) canes magnum sonum fecerunt.
16. (All spring, i.e. for the whole spring) flores erant
pulchrae.
17. (That night) dormiui.
18. (The first night) Quintus ignem incendit.
19. (For the whole night) male dormiebam.
20. (On the third night) itineris, in siluis dormiuerunt.
21. (For five hours) uenti ingentes undas in litora coniciebant.
22. (In the sixth hour) mare quieuit [from quiesco].
23. (For forty miles) uia bona ad agros ferebat.
(In English, a road leads somewhere; Latin uses fero.)
24. (In ten days) Quintus paterque ad urbem Romam
aduenerunt.
25. (For two thousand years) multi homines carmina Quinti
laudabant.
26. (In the middle of the night) Quintus lupum audiuit.

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