A TENSE Situation
These are the four principal parts of a verb (in the right order).
What are present tense, infinitive, perfect tense and perfect passive participle?
These are the functions of the six cases (in the right order).
What are subject, possessive, indirect object, direct object, object of the preposition and direct address?
The phrase ībat ad aulam means that Quintus often did this.
What are grief and pain?
Quintus remained at the palace of King Cogidubnus throughout this season.
What is winter?
The Roman Town of Aquae Sulis lies beneath the modern city of Bath in the valley of this river.
What is the River Avon?
All tenses which include the word perfect (except the Imperfect tense, which is NOT perfect) take this stem.
What is the perfect stem?
These are the Genitive singular endings for the I, II and III Declensions (in the right order).
What are -ae, -ī and -is?
The word arcessītī, used to describe the doctors, means they had been _____ to the palace.
What is summoned?
The king asked Quintus to share many things about his life because he had a desire to constantly hear this.
What is something new (aliquid novī)?
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The hot springs of Aquae Sulis were considered sacred by this people group, who dedicated them to the worship of their godess Sulis.
Who were the Celts?
These are the perfect tense endings.
What are -i, istī, it, imus, istis, -ērunt?
In this gender, the Nominative Plural always ends in -a.
What is neuter?
"Multī aegrōtī, quī ex fonte aquam bibērunt, posteā convaluērunt" means that these people came to the fountain to drink the water and were healed.
Who were sick people?
What is springtime?
Roman engineers used this metal to line the channel and pipes into which the water flowed from the sacred spring.
What is lead?
These are the pluperfect endings.
What are -eram, -erās, -erat, -erāmus, -erātis, erant?
The odd one out in this list of mostly second declension nouns: puer, servus, fōns, dōnum.
What is fōns (third declension)?
By saying "Volō tē mihi cōnsilium dare" the king was asking for this from both Quintus and Salvius.
What is advice?
The king thought the goddess Sulis might help him because he had often done this in the past.
What is honoring her?
These are two examples of offerings worshipers threw into the spring.
What are coins, jewelry/silver and pewter cups?
This is the degree of an adverb when the ending is -ius.
What is the comparative degree?
This is the degree of the adjective when the ending is -issimus
What is the superlative degree?
In the phrase "Fortasse dea mē sānāre potest," the word fortasse indicates that the king a) was sure the goddess could heal him; b) was not sure; or c) planned to force the goddess to heal him.
What is b) he was not sure?
Salvius recommended that the king should do this because of his illness.
What is preparing his will?
The Romans merged the worship of this goddess from their own pantheon with the worship of Sulis.
Who was Minerva?