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Chapter 14: Caesaris triumphi

Chapter 14, Drill c: Various uses of the ablative, some new.

Each Latin sentence contains in parentheses a phrase in English which can be expressed in Latin by one of the uses of the ablative (with or without a preposition). Provide that Latin phrase.

Example:
Quintus (the city) exiit. Answer: ex urbe or possibly ab urbe: place from which when not the name of a city requires the preposition with ablative, even though the English idiom may not use a preposition here ("Quintus left the city").

(With great speed) Quintus cucurrit. Answer: magna celeritate : "with" here expresses manner, not accompaniment, so cum is not needed.

1. (That year) Caesar triumphum egit.
2. (In the city) Quintus mansit.
3. Quintus (with [his] friend) ad ludos circenses iit.
4. Dido se interfecit (with a sword).
5. Horatius erat poeta (of such great [so great] talent).
6. (From the city) discesserunt.
7. (From Rome) discedebant.
8. aliquid nos (from fear) liberauit.
[fear = metus -us m., 4th declension]
9. (Empty of/from hope [uacuus]) eratis.
10. in carminibus Quintus (about love) saepe scribebat.
11. quidam (by means of a good chariot) vicit.
12. (Without danger) Quintus nauigare cupiuit.
13. (On the seventh day) exierunt.
14. (At that time) poeta clarus multa carmina scripsit.
15. (Under the trees) pueri dormiebant.
16. (At dawn) milites e castris exierunt.
17. uiae erant (empty of soldiers [use uacuus]).
18. Cicero (about the republic) saepe scribebat.
19. (Many hours later) orator orationem habebat.
20. (By a speech) Cicero uera ostendit.
21. (A few days before), quidam currus uicerat.
22. (Two years before), ingens turba casum effecerat.
23. (At this time) omnes huic currui fauent.
24. (One day, i.e. on a certain day), Quintus
ludos circenses spectabat.
25. turba currum fregit, sed (within three hours) currus
paratus erat.
26. (In the evening) aliquid nos terruit.
27. orator multas horas orationem habebat;
(at the tenth hour) confecit!
28. Quintus paterque Romam (on foot, i.e. by feet)
advenerant.
29. (From home) abiit.
30. (In the winter) nautae non saepe navigabant.
31. Quintus matrem sororemque (with a letter) salutavit.
32. multa fracta erant (in, i.e. by, a riot).
33. Quintus multa (by books) didicit.
34. mater filios (with a loud voice) uocavit.
35. Quintus Augustum (by means of [his] poems
[use carmen]) laudabat.
36. (In, i.e. by, speeches) Cicero Lucium Sergium Catilinam
oppugnavit.
37. equi (with the greatest speed) cucurrerunt.
38. Quintus erat puer (of the greatest talent).
39. Cicero erat orator (of great courage).
40. haec urna est (full of water).
41. Quintus erat poeta (worthy of glory).
42. (Down [from] the hills) pueri ueniebant.
43. Quintus Marcusque (by the light of the moon) uiam uidere
poterant.
44. Quintus libros (in his right hand, i.e. by his right hand)
ferebat.

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