EXERCISES 95
a. In the construction above, the infinitive often has a subject, which must then be in the accusative case, as
Galbam superāre inimīcōs est grātum multīs,
for Galba to conquer his enemies is pleasing to many
b. An infinitive used as a noun is neuter singular. Thus, in the sentence superāre est grātum, the predicate adjective grātum is in the neuter nominative singular to agree with superāre the subject.
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EXERCISES
First learn the special vocabulary, p. 291.
I.
- Magister lūdī līberōs cum dīligentiā labōrāre iussit.
- Egēre cibō et vinō est virīs molestum.
- Virī armātī vetuērunt Gallōs castra ibi pōnere.
- Estne lēgātus in castellō an in mūrō? Is est prō portā.
- Ubi nostrī[1] fugere incēpērunt, lēgātus ab vestrīs[1] captus est.
- Gallī castellum ibi oppugnāverant ubi praesidium erat īnfīrmum.
- Aliī pugnāre temptābant, aliī portās petēbant.
- Fēminae prō domiciliīs sedēbant neque resistere validīs Gallīs poterant.
- Bellum est saevum, nec īnfīrmīs nec miserīs favet.
- Sed virī arma postulābant et studēbant Gallōs dē mūrīs agere.
- Id castellum ab Gallīs occupārī Rōmānīs nōn grātum erit.
- Gallī ubi ā Rōmānīs victī sunt, esse līberī[2] cessāvērunt.
- Diū sine aquā vīvere nōn potestis.
II.
- The girl began daily to carry water from the river to the gates.
- The Gauls had pitched their camp in a place suitable for a battle.
- For a long time they tried in vain to seize the redoubt.
- Neither did they cease to hurl weapons against[3] the walls.
- But they were not able to (could not) take the town.
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The Faithless Tarpe´ia
Sabīnī ōlim cum Rōmānīs bellum gerēbant et multās victōriās reportāverant. Iam agrōs proximōs mūrīs vāstābant, iam oppidō adpropinquābant. Rōmānī autem in Capitōlium fūgerant et longē perīculō
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1. Supply men. nostri, vestrī, and suī are often used as nouns in this way.
- ↑ Not children. The Romans used līberī either as an adjective, meaning free, or as a noun, meaning the free, thereby signifying their free-born children. The word was never applied to children of slaves.
- ↑ 3. in with the accusative.
