LVDVS DOMESTICVS: '03-'04.

Third Experience - Homework 1

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§ One of the more subtle and deceptive parts of the Latin language is its use of the "reflexive pronoun". From your class experience, what do we mean exactly by such a Creature?:

Very briefly in English give some varied examples of the 'reflexive pronoun - reflexive possessive adjective' with various subjects:=

Answer: in Latin we have reflexive pronouns and reflexive possessive adjectives for which subjects? [mark the pertinent ones]: we she they you I he ye it.
In this whole story of the reflexive what is the magic word to arrive at the meaning of the 'reflexive'?
And if we do not have a case of the reflexive, what do we do to express our pronouns and our possession expressions? [Think hard!]:

§ Our Third Experience is properly opened by the father of Latinity: MARCVS TVLLIVS CICERO [who lived between 106th year and 43rd year of the age before Christ].
PUT THAT INTO YOUR OWN LATIN: experientia,ae=experience. properly [soon in class!]=apte;convenienter. Latinity:Latinitas,atis. live=vivere. age=aetas,saeculum.

A] "Sed tamen, si sciam quid tu constitueris, meum consilium accommodabo potissimum ad tuum; qua re exspecto tuas litteras" [Ad Fam. IX, 7,2].
VOCAB. accommodare=adapt,accommodate. potissimum=most especially. constituere=decide.

1. From the verb 'scio,scire=to know', what Time do-must you see in that "sciam"? ________ And its reversed will have to be: ________. And for you right now, what Time must appear in the Latin form: 'constitueris'? ________, meaning:
2. In this simple note-paper sentence of Cicero, point out any reflexive:
3. What is the reversed of 'accommodabo'?= ________ 'exspecto'?= ________
4. The exact meaning of the few words for the famous Varro the recipient AND for you:
5. Rethink the whole phrases and give the passive [idea first, then its Latin] for:
   'meum consilium accommodabo'=
   'exspecto tuas litteras'=
6. Thinking hard about your 'reflexive' teachings write some simple phrases with Cicero's Latin:
   "we were expecting her letters"=
   "he will ee expecting his-own letters"=
   "you have expected my and their letters"=
   "she will adapt her plan to ours"

1. When any Latinist in the world gees the combination: 'ius suum' what possible meanings does the person attach immediately to the possessive reflexive adjective: 'suum'?=
   What is the solution to resolving the meaning problem? EXPLAIN:
2. From the adjective of last year: 'tuus,a,um=your,yours', what is the full meaning for The form alone: "tui"= ________ "tuae"= ________ "tua"= ________
   Here it is in the DATIVE and therefore must mean in vernacular languages:=
3. What does 'per vos' in Latin never mean? ________ How do you say with a preposition: 'for-on behalf of ye' ??=
4. The big question-doubt for students is: if that "suum" according to our training must refer to the subject "res pub." which is fem., how can it mean ________ and why is it ________?
   EXPLAIN for your students:
5. Your own version or the daily Latin of Cicero:
6. What is the reversed of 'ius suum'= ________ 'reciperabit'= ________ 'praestabitur'= ________
7. SAY in your own correct Latin: "We shall have recuperated our and their rights, when (cum) the republic's citizens will be giving-showing their benevolence":=

1. What does the little word "se" do-function as in the Latin language? EXPLAIN:
   What all meanings can 'se' have in Latin? ________ HOW do I decide on one?
2. So what is the essential difference between: "omnis vir se ad ductum applicaBit"=
   And "omnes viri se applicaverAnt"=
   "omnis mulier se ad ductum applicabat"=
3. If according to your superb Latin training the reversed number-form of that 'animUM' must be: ________ then the reversed or 'ductUM' must be: ________.
   What is your salvation in such Latin questions-problems? EXPLAIN:
4. If the reversed of: 'scribIS' is: ________ then the reversed of 'civitatIS' must be: ________.
5. If the reversed of "PompeI" is ________ then the reversed of 'perspexI' must be: ________.
6. How will you express in the Latin passive form-voice for the whole Latin phrase here: 'tuum promptum animum et alacrem perspexi'?? [RETHINK!]
7. If the reversed in Latin of "applicaverInt" is: ________ then the reversed of the form in Cicero: "applicaverUnt" will have to be= ________.
8. Say in Latin: "All things which I learned before are in my head and I shall use [adhibere] them with great diligence"

Third Experience Latin - Fr. Reginald Foster

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