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Chapter 11: Quintus Romam advenit

Pluperfect tense; numerals; meanings of perfect tense (aspect); place expressions; patterns in 3rd-conjugation 3rd principal part.

Via Appia

Quintus and his father certainly made their way to Rome on the Via Appia. Venusia is circled in green. The white line is the Via Appia in Horace's time, and the pink line is an alternate route built in the time of the 2nd-century emperor Trajan (Via Appia Traiana)
Image:Satellite image of Italy in March 2003.jpg by NASA.
From wikimedia commons, commons.wikimedia.org.
View of a street in the Subura, the slum area (a bit cleaned up here): narrow streets, tightly-packed houses, and dangerous in the dark.
VRoma, www.vroma.org, Barbara McManus

In this exercise, practice the use of the pluperfect along with the perfect and imperfect.

In this exercise, practice principal parts of verbs with patterns 2a, 2b, 2c (see text). Start learning fourth principal part, the supine.

In this exercise, practice using numbers, cardinal and ordinal.

In this exercise, practice place expressions.

In this exercise, practice time expressions.

Copyright 2012 by Margaret B. Phillips
University of Missouri at St. Louis
Languages and Cultures program
Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Languages
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63121