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Chapter VII
Latona et Niobe (Pars Secunda)

Dialogue

Answer the following questions for your household in correct Latin.

  Chapter VII - Dialogue Questions

Story Reading and Pronunciation

As always read the story outloud. You should do this with all Latin that you translate for this course. Here is the result of the pride of Niobe. Misera Niobe!

 Verba

There are some vocabulary words used in this chapter that are not listed in the Verba. Add these to your Vocabulary Cards.  

factum, -i, n. deed, exploit

funus, funeris, n. funeral (3rd declension noun)

dico, dicere, dixi, dictum speak, say (3rd Conjugation verb)

mano, -are, avi, -atum flow

maneo, -ere, -ui, mansum stay, remain (2nd Conjugation verb)

cedo, cedere, cessi, cessum move, yield, walk (3rd Conj. verb)

magnus, -a, -um big, large multus, -a, um much (See Exercise II.6)

quomodo (adv.) in what way, how  

Here are some other Verba notes.  

relinquo is a 3rd Conjugation verb. There is no long mark on the -e- in the infinitive. relinque in line 14 is pronounced re-lin-que and is an Imperative.  

You have three Accusative prepositions, ad, per, prope. Hodie is "today"; heri is "yesterday"; cras is "tomorrow."  

Structure  

41.	Here is another place where simple repetition on your part will pay dividends later. Decline puer bonus, puella bona, templum bonum in both singular and plural. Write them out and send them to me. Being able to do this is very important in Latin.
42.	One way to remember how "ablative of means" works is that it is never with people. Use cum with people and ablative of means with no preposition with inanimate things. Phoebus cum Diana ambulat, "Phoebus walks with Diana." Phoebus sagittis necat. "Phoebus kills with arrows."
43.	This is the only Vocative that is different from the Nominative singular. Only Second Declension masculine nouns have a different vocative ending. Remember the line from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, et tu, Brute, "and you, too, Brutus?" A Roman slave talking to his master would say, Domine; to the master's wife, Domina.
44.	Make a separate list of prepositions, what case they take, and what they mean. Remember, as the textbook points out, that in can be both accusative and ablative. Add the two prepositions below to that list. You will add more as we go through the chapters.   ad (accusative) to, towards, near de (ablative) about, down from; etc.
45.	Look back at the bottom of page 36 and the list of prefixes there. Now turn to page 175 and look at the drawings there. All of these can be added to verbs in Latin and English to change the meaning of the original verb. For example: exceed, recede, secede, accede, concede, and proceed are all from cedo plus prefixes. The Fourth Principal Part of cedo gives us in English procession, recession, recess, access, concession, etc. P.S. The prepositions on p. 175 are the main ones in Latin. Add them to the list started in 44 above. Memorize each Latin preposition, its meaning, and the case it takes.

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