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Chapter 27: Maecenas poetas fouet

Chapter 27, Drill d: Practice using gerundives of obligation (passive periphrastic).

In each Latin sentence, the English phrase in parentheses can be expressed by a gerundive of obligation (passive periphrastic). Provide that Latin phrase, using conventional word order (subject if part of the English phrase; agent if expressed; gerundive of obligation).

Example:
(We had to applaud, i.e. applause had to be offered [use offero] by us.) Answer: plausus nobis offerendus erat or possibly plausus nobis offerendus fuit

1. (Poets must be urged on.)
2. (Augustus will have to offer prayers, i.e. prayers
will have to be offered [use offero] by Augustus.)
3. (All must follow the precepts.)
4. num (pleasure must be avoided)?
5. Vergilius incolumis (must be returned [use reddo]).
6. Chloe sublimi flagello (must be touched).
7. mos maiorum non (must be changed).
8. leges Romanae (must be admired).
9. "Carthago (must be destroyed,") Cato dixit
[who ended every speech with that declaration.
Use deleo.]
10. respublica (must be restored by the princeps).
11. leges (must be strengthened).
12. illi (had to be punished).
13. Augustus putavit inimicos (had to be punished).
14. multae novae terrae (must be added).
15. carmina (had had to be written).
16. ludi (had to be celebrated by the Romans).
17. Ara Pacis imaginibus pacis et multorum Romanorum
officia perficientium (had to be adorned).
[imago, imaginis, f. = image]
18. (We have to appear, i.e. it must be appeared by us.)
19. (They had to go, i.e. it had to be gone by them.)

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