Nouns (Nomina)
Name the 6 cases in order.
Nominative
Genitive
Dative
Accusative
Ablative
Vocative
How many principal parts of a verb are there?
Who is the mother of Aeneas?
Genitive
Name the personal verb endings in order.
o/m mus
s tis
t nt
What is the name of Aeneas’s father?
Anchises
What is the function or job of the genitive case? Which preposition does it take?
It shows possession or ownership
"of"
If there is not an expressed subject in the sentence, that means the subject is in the ____.
verb
What is the name of Aeneas’s son?
Which case expresses indirect object? Which two prepositions does it use?
dative case
to/for
The imperfect tense describes an action that takes place in the ________ time. It uses the helping verbs ______ and ________.
past
was/were
Who appears to Aeneas as he is escaping Troy? What is the message given to him?
his wife Creusa
to forget about her, go the land of Italy or Hesperia, and to find a new wife of noble blood and great beauty.
How many dictionary entries does a noun have? What is the case and number of the 1st?
2 dictionary entries
1st entry: nominative case/singular number
The future tense describes an action that takes place in the ________ time. It uses the helping verbs ______ and ________.
future
will/shall
What is Aeneas’s fate or destiny?
To reach the land of Italy or Hesperia and to found the city of Rome.
genitive singular
Conjugate sum, esse, fui, futurus sum in the present tense.
sum sumus
es estis
est sunt
Whom does Venus disguise Ascanius as? Why?
Cupid.
She wants Cupid to shoot a poisoned dart of love into the heart of Dido so that Dido will fall in love with Aeneas. Then she will give Aeneas the money and ships that he needs to go to Italy.
Explain how to find the stem of a noun.
Go to the genitive singular form.
Drop off the noun ending.
Add the case endings to the stem.
A subject and verb must agree in _______ and in _________.
person and number.
Jupiter
Give the noun stem of puella, puellae, f. - girl. What does puella mean in English?
Stem: puell-
Meaning: girl
Explain how to find the stem of a verb.
1) Go to the infinitive form.
2) drop off the -re.
3) Add the verb endings.
Who was Horatius Cocles? What did he do?
He was a Roman soldier who saved Rome from Tarquin the Proud by fighting the army on the bridge.
Give the noun stem of corpus, corporis, n. What does corpus mean in English?
Stem: corpor-
Meaning: body
List 3 characteristics of an infinitive.
1) no subject
2) no tense (no time of action)
3) English infinitive starts with "to"; Latin infinitive ends with -re.
Whom did Mucius Scaevola plan to kill? Whom did he actually kill?
Decline virtus, virtutis, f. in the singular and plural.
virtus virtutes
virtutis virtutum
virtuti virtutibus
virtutem virtutes
virtute virtutibus
Conjugate moneo, monere, monui, monitum in the future tense.
monebo monebimus
monebis monebitis
monebit monebunt
Mucius was given the name "Scaevola." What does it mean? What did he do to earn this name?
He burnt his hand off in the fire to prove to the king that he was not afraid of death.