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Chapter IX
Callisto (Pars Prima)

Introduction and Dialogue

Lege introductionem dialogumque in duodeseptuaginta et undeseptuagina paginis.

Click on the following link and answer the questions for your household in correct Latin.

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Story Reading and Pronunciation

As always, read the story outloud, but before you do, check Exercise VI and "Hidden Quantity" in pagina septuaginta sex in this Chapter. For the correct pronunciation of the new verbs, see Structure Sections 53-55.

Quaestiones de Musis Read in Hamilton's Mythology the section on the Muses again in Chapter 1 under "The Lesser Gods of Olympus." Also check Appendix B, part III, "The Lesser Deities," in Latin via Ovid.

Then answer the following questions about the Muses in Latin, Greek, or English, whichever is most appropriate.

 

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Verba

You have several Latin versions of Greek names in this story.

somnus, -i can mean either "sleep" or "sloth, laziness." somnium, -i means "dream." There is a famous Dialogue by Cicero called Somnium Scipionis, "The Dream of Scipio," which describes the Roman geocentric universe including one of the few descriptions of a Roman heaven. The geocentric universe was believed by many until Copernicus.

pretium, -i can also mean "loot" in a military context.

In the Adjectives note alii ... alii. We will use it later. aut...aut can be used in a similar way to mean "either...or."

There are also many adjectives which were commented on in the Etymology of the previous chapter, formosus, -a, -um, etc.

cuius et eius are possessive pronouns. Cuius is usually translated as "whose" for all genders, but eius can be used for "he," "she," and "it." Pronounce them as cu-yus and e-yus.

Make vocabulary cards for all Latin Verba here, and review them regularly while you work on the rest of the chapter.

Structure

53-55.	So far we have had three tenses, Present, Imperfect, and Future, all based upon the First Principal Part of a Latin verb. Now we are going to add the Perfect tense in Latin. Read Sections 53, 54 and 55 very carefully. I, frankly, think the explanations in the textbook are very good, and you have been given some very good, specific examples. Compare, please, 1st conjugation perfect in Section 53 to 2nd conjugation perfect in Section 55. Both use the 3rd Principal Part of a Roman verb. Take off the long -i ending of the 3rd Principal Part and add the perfect endings listed in Section 53. These endings deserve repetition. First Person Singular -i Second Person Singular -isti Third Person Singular -it First Person Plural -imus Second Person Plural -istis Third Person Singular -erunt With this new tense you have some new ideas to absorb: you will use the 3rd Principal Part for perfect active verbs; you have new endings to use with the 3rd Principal Part, esp. in second person, singular and plural, and third person, plural; and your pronunciation of these new verbs in some persons will tell you what tense you are in. I have listed below voco, vocare, vocavi in the perfect and underlined where the accent should fall. First Person vo-ca-vi; vo-ca-vi-mus Second Person vo-ca-vis-ti; vo-ca-vis-tis Third Person vo-ca-vit; vo-ca-ve-runt Almost all first conjugation verbs follow this pattern. (See note 4 on page 71 for the most important exceptions.) Second conjugation verbs are similar. Take the long -i off of the 3rd Principal Part and add the perfect endings. I have underlined the accents for doceo, docere, docui for you. First Person do-cu-i; do-cu-i-mus Second Person do-cu-is-ti; do-cu-is-tis Third Person do-cu-it; do-cu-e-runt Go back and reread the story again outloud, now that you have learned something about the perfect tense. Be sure to emphasize the correct syllables on all verbs, perfect or otherwise.
56.	evidens
57.	Keep in mind in sentences with subordinate clauses introduced by si that you will have the same tense in the both clauses.

N.B. If you do not know or understand the difference between subordinate and main clauses, please email me, and I will explain further. Don't be shy to contact me on this or anything else. In every Latin class I have ever taught, I have had to explain what clauses are to some.

58.	Remember that all Latin reflexives, sui, sibi, se, suus refer back to the subject of the sentence. eius refers to some other noun that is not the subject..

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