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Chapter 21, Philippi

Chapter 21, Drill b: Ablative absolute: drill use of ablative absolute.

Each English phrase can be expressed as an ablative absolute with the Latin noun and verb provided, but you need to check carefully on active and passive and tense, so that the resulting ablative absolute still gives the same information. And an English active may need to be turned into a Latin passive, or vice versa. Express the phrase as an ablative absolute, leaving out words other than the supplied noun and verb:

Example:
Caesar, interficio (having killed Caesar) Answer: Caesare interfecto: a perfect participle is needed to express time before the action of the main verb, but interficio does not have a perfect active participle. You must therefore use the perfect passive participle, with the recipient of the action, Caesar, as the noun which the passive participle agrees with.

1. tribunus, proficiscor (after the tribune had set out)
2. hic, audio (after we had heard these things)
3. Quintus, cogito (while Quintus was reflecting)
4. miles, patior (since the soldier had suffered many things)
5. Scintilla, egredior (while Scintilla is going out)
6. Horatia, regredior (after Horatia had gone back)
7. proelium, committo (after they had joined battle)
8. telum, iacio (after he had thrown the javelin)
9. centurio, iacio (while the centurion was throwing the javelin)
10. insula, video (after they had seen the island)
11. opus, perficio (after the works had been completed)
22. exercitus, coniungo (since the armies had been joined)
22. exercitus, coniungo (since the armies had been joined)
14. sol, orior (after the sun had risen)
15. milites, conuoco (when the soldiers had been called
together)

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