Chapter 23, Horatius Romam redit

Chapter 23, Drill b: practice changing direct statement to indirect.

Each of the short Latin sentences below is followed by a verb of saying, telling, reporting, feeling, etc. Change the short direct statement to the indirect form following the verb of saying etc. by rewriting the subject (noun or pronoun) and the verb in the correct forms (leaving out final punctuation). Use only the subject (accusative) and the verb (infinitive).

Example:
"carmina scripsi." Quintus dixit Answer: se scripsisse (use se since Quintus was already subject of the main verb but, as the implied ego of scripsi, it is subject of the infinitive and refers back to the subject of the main verb. Leave out the rest of the sentence, i.e. carmina, since it remains the same.

"fessus est!" Vergilius dixit Answer: eum esse (since Vergilius is referring to someone else, the third-person subject of the main verb, use eum; since the time is the same time as the main verb, use present infinitive).