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Chapter 30, Drill a: Practice using predicative dative.

In the following Latin sentences the English phrase in parentheses can be translated as a dative of purpose with also perhaps a dative of the person or thing affected, sometimes called dative of reference. Provide the correct Latin phrase, using a predicative dative (use list p. 262):

Example:
fumus saepe est (destructive, i.e. a destruction, to a city). Answer: urbi exitio or exitio urbi

1. negotia in urbe erant (hateful to Horatius).
2. rus erat (dear to Horatius).
3. leges possunt esse (a safety to citizens).
4. pueri puellaeque saepe sunt (a care to [their] parents).
5. Horatii carmina erant (useful to Augustus).
6. servi erant (a help to Horatius).
7. (Who benefits? i.e. to whom is it a good [thing]?)
8. Actii proelium erat (a disaster for Antony).
9. hoc carmen erat (difficult for Horatius).
difficultas difficultatis f. = difficulty
10. proelium Actii erat (a disgrace for Antonius).
11. (Romans hated) kings.
12. mors Vergilii erat (a source of grief to Horace).
dolor doloris m. = grief.

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