LVDVS DOMESTICVS: '02-'03.

Homework 3

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1. PLAVTVS taught you to say: "For what reason have you now expelled me from the building-house?" = "nam qua me nunc causa extrusisti ex aedinus?"
   Use all your new Latin knowledge, express all the pronouns and say like Plautus: 'Just-as (=sicut) she expelled him and them-women from the house-building, so (=ita) we have expelled ye and the dogs[=catulus,i-m.; catellus,i-m.]':
2. SEDVLIVS taught you to say: "May we all celebrate-in-song the underworld having been subdued by the triumph of Christ" = "omnes canamus subitum Christi triumpho tartarum"
   Again use your own Latin knowledge and say with the same word order: 'may they all (=omnes) celebrate-in-song ignorance [ignorantia,ae-f.] having been subdued (=it will have the same ending as 'ignorance') here today':
3. TIBVLLVS taught you to say: "Venus herself has already now moved into the wide fields and Cupid learns the country words of the plowman" = "ipsa Venus latos iam nunc migrauit in agros, uerbaque aratoris rustica discit Amor"
   Use your Latin brain, express the pronouns and say with the same word order: 'when (cf. DICT.) have ye moved** in the wide field, and why are you learning the country word of the plowman?" (N.B. give 3 ways of saying that 'and')

At the time of Julius Caesar, Cicero el al. there was a very popular stage-actor who peppered his jokes and acts with one-line verses of supreme vision. about 700 were collected and became a Latin text book for centuries: even for you. he is PVBLILVS SYRVS.

1. "O tacitum tormentum animi conscientia!" [n.490]. animi=of the spirit-mind
   • Your DICT. gives you 'tacitus,a,um=silent,tacit'. you can see that such an adjective is going to be treated how?
   • Meaning of the line:
   • If "we call=vocamus" and "we bite=mordemus", then how will you make your own sentence to say: "Publilius calls consciences [conscientia,ae-f.] silent torments, because [cf. DICT.] the Consciences bite the spirits-minds [animus,i-m.]":
2. "Semper plus metuit animus ignotum malum" [n.655].
   • If your DICT. gives you: 'malum,i-n.=evil,trouble' and 'malus,i-m.=bad-man,person" as well as 'ignotus,a,um=unknown', then where do you see a double meaning-ambiguity here? explain:
     In the Latin language, you have learned that the reversed of "malum" can be what?
   • If the verb is: "metuo,ere=to fear", then the line means:
   • Express the pronouns and say: "We do not fear you, although -(cf. DICT.) you fear us; she fears him but (=sed,verum,vero) they do not fear her nor-(nec,neque) me":
3. "Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit" [n.4.] humilia=humble,simple. firmus,a,um=strong,solid.
   • If the DICT. word is: "auxilium,i-n.=help,aid", then the rest tells you here it must function as what? (give 2 reasons):
   • Exact meaning of the wise phrase about strength in agreement:
   • Keep the word order, use a bit of intelligence and say: 'solid help makes agreement'
     While your sentence may look ambiguous, why is it not so?
4. "Etiam capillus unus habet umbram suam" [n.186] suam=its own.
   • Meaning of the easy line:
     Put the message of the line into other words of yours [what is he teaching?]
   • Say quickly putting objects in the front of the phrases: "While -(dum) bald-men [calvus,i-m,] and bald-women [calva,ae-f.] do not have hairs, we all -(cf. above) have shadows":
5. "Habent locum maledicti* crebrae nuptiae" [n.260]. *maledicti=of criticism,bad talk.
   • If the word is: "locus,i-m.=place,occasion", then here it must function as ________.
   • What does the Latin adjective: "creber,crebra,crebrum" mean in DICT.?
   • You will also find: 'nuptia,ae-f. [or more often in the Plural: nuptiae] meaning:
   • Therefore the line means:
   • What were you taught about the first word in Latin sentences?
     What were you taught about whole-entire Latin sentences?
6. "Gravis animus dubiam non habet sententiam" [n.232]. gravis=serious,steadfast [subj.]
   • Our class readings and experience automatically trained you to make what important connection here?
   • Exact meaning of the one-liner of Publilius: [sententia,ae-f.=opinion,sentiment]
   • If in Latin: "habuimus" means: 'we have had', then how d0 you say: "how-long (cf. DICT.) have you had** dubious opinions? I have never had doubts (dubium,i-n.) and (-express it in three ways) Fights [rixa,ae-f.]":
7. "Nihil peccant oculi, si animus oculis* imperat" [n.423]. nihil=in no way. *oculis=to the eyes
   • You should be able to identify immediately two subjects:
     What do you notice about the location of the verbs+subjects?
   • If the verbs are: "peccare=to sin; imperare=to give-orders", then the moral theology principle means exactly from the mouth of a so-called pagan:
   • Say on your own: "you are not sinning, because you are giving-commands to the eyes".
8. "Pericula timidus etiam, quae non sunt, videt" [n.500].
   periculum,i-n.=danger; timidus,i-m=the timid-man,person; quae non sunt=which exist not
   • From the Vocab., what does your mind register when it sees-analyses the first two words?
   • Exact meaning:

First Experience Latin - Fr. Reginald Foster

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