Grammar
How many tenses do we know in Latin?
3
emo, emere, emi, emitum
to buy
laudabatis
2nd person, plural, imperfect
laudavit
he/she/it praised
How did the law regard slaves in Rome?
as property
How can we tell when a verb is imperfect?
-ba-
liberta, libertae (f.)
freedwoman, ex-slave
laudamus
1st person, plural, present
amas
you love
A formerly enslaved woman could marry this person
her former master
How do we know when a verb is in the perfect tense?
-v-
per
through
surgebam
1st person, singular, imperfect
dormiebant
They were sleeping
A right that a freedman would have after becoming free
vote, own property, make his own money
How many declensions do we know?
3
scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptum
to write
dormit
3rd person, singular, present
adest
she/she/it is present
The name of a former enslaved man
libertus
What declension is leo in?
3rd
quod
because
dormiverunt
3rd person, plural, perfect
coquebam
I was cooking
The ceremony in which a slave was freed.
manumissio