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Chapter 6: Graeci Troiam capiunt

Chapter 6, Drill a: Practice using the dative case.

Each Latin sentence has an English phrase in parentheses which in Latin can be expressed by one of the uses of the dative. Provide the correct Latin word(s).

Example:
femina aquam (to the horses) dat. Answer: equis: indirect object, that is, the horses are the recipient of the water.

1. quid (to me) dicis?
2. magister (to the children) fabulam narrat.
3. da (me, i.e. to me) cibum bonum!
4. crede (us)!
5. princeps (to [his] brothers) consilium proponit.
6. Scintilla (to Flaccus and [their] children)
cenam dat (use -que for and).
7. (To you, sing.) multa dico.
8. equos (to the king) damus.
9. princeps (to the cities) cibum dat.
10. narra (us) aliam fabulam.
11. puella (to [her] father] equum dat.
12. Flaccus (to Horatia and Quintus) fabulam
narrat (use -que for and).
13. illi imperant (us).
14. noli dare (the cities/to the cities) labores!
15. puer paruus cibum (to the horses) in uia dat.
16. Scintilla (to Horatia) dicit: "curre!"
17. Graeci (the Trojans [Troianus, -i, m.]) equum ligneum
dant.
18. (The boy's, i.e. to the boy) nomen est Quintus.
19. pauci Troiani resistunt (the Greeks).
20. Ulixes proponit consilium (to the chiefs).
21. nolite uinum (to the children/boys) dare!
22. consilium (for the chief) bonum est.
23. undae dant labores (to/for the sailors).
24. princeps (the king) naues dat.

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