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Chapter 21, Philippi

Chapter 21, Drill c: Drill, more use of ablative absolute.

In each Latin sentence, the dependent clause is one way of expressing an idea which can also be expressed as an ablative absolute. Provide the correct noun + participle in the ablative to express the same thing, leaving out other parts of the clause or phrase such as direct object, agent, etc.

Example:
pater, postquam [= after] ianuam clauserat, locutus est. Answer: ianua clausa [ablative singular, long -a]: a perfect participle is needed to express time before the action of the main verb, but claudo does not have a perfect active participle. You must therefore use the perfect passive participle, with the recipient of the action, ianua, as the noun which the passive participle agrees with.

1. studentes, quamquam multos libros legerat,
plures tamen legere uolebant.
2. dum centurio plerosque punit, tribuni
cessabant.
3. postquam [after] nautae nauem soluerant, hiems
adveniebat.
4. dum equi currunt, milites se exercebant.
5. si magnum opus perfectum erit, gaudebimus.
6. dum ciues spectant, exercitus pugnauerunt.
7. Brutus, postquam haec dixerat, proelium parauit.
8. dum pueri in ludo student, iuuenes in Campo Martio
se exercent.
9. postquam milites haec locuti erant, tribunus
respondit.
10. cum uictoriam reportauerint,
omnes gaudebunt.

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