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Chapter 27: Maecenas poetas fouet

Chapter 27, Drill b: Using the gerund.

In each Latin phrase, the word(s) in English in parentheses can be expressed by a Latin gerund or gerund phrase in the case required by its use in the sentence. Provide that Latin gerund or gerund phrase.

Example:
ars (of writing) difficilis est. Answer: scribendi

1. timor (of dying) minatus est.
2. Cicero saepe de arte (of speaking; use dico) scribebat.
3. Quintus Horatius artem (of reading) diligebat.
4. uiatores cauponam (for the purpose of sleeping)
quaesiverunt.
5. (By warning), nos adiuuerunt.
6. celeriter (by running), mox domium advenerunt.
7. imperator cum multis gentibus pugnauit (for the sake of
conquering).
8. Athenas adueni (by means of sailing).
9. (by writing), Quintus fiebat clarus.
10. Quintus otium uoluit (for the purpose of writing).
11. desiderium (for, i.e. of, drinking) Marcum saepe
ad tabernam pellebat.
12. e castris exiit (for the sake of escaping).
13. ille praefectus est ([in charge of] following).
14. mors similis est (to sleeping).
15. propter desiderium (for, i.e. of, writing) carmina, Quintus
negauit se uelle scribam principis fieri.
16. finem (of fighting) desideramus.
17. Quintus scripsit se idoneum fuisse (for loving).

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