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Bellum in Italia!

Strategemata II, caput II · 989 words

  1. IVerba
  2. IILege
  3. IIIPēnsum
  4. IVGrammatica
I

Verba

The new words of this chapter, as the book glosses them. Keep them, and they come back for review just before you would forget them.

II

Lege

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III

Pēnsum

Quaestiōnēs Answer from the text

  1. Cūr Samnitēs Rōmānōs nōn amant?

  2. Cūr via ex Samniō in Lūcāniam perīculōsa est?

  3. Quōmodo Fulvius exercitum ōrdinat?

  4. Quid faciunt cohortēs Rōmānae cum Samnitēs impedīmenta oppugnant?

Fīnēs Write the missing ending

  1. Samnitēs in mont latent.

  2. Mīlitēs Fulviō pāre.

  3. Fulvius legiōnem in duās part dīvidit.

  4. Hostēs impedīmenta vidē.

Respondē Latīnē In a sentence of your own

Cūr Fulvius impedīmenta ultima pōnit?

Compare with a model answer

Fulvius impedīmenta ultima pōnit quia hostēs impedīmenta rapere volunt et sīc in īnsidiās veniunt.

IV

Grammatica

Dative with verbs of obeying

Mīlitēs Fulviō pārent.

The verb pārēre, 'to obey', takes its object in the dative case, not the accusative. So Fulviō is dative, meaning 'the soldiers obey Fulvius'.

Allen & Greenough § 367 →