Vocabulary
The Future Tense
Patrons and Clients
Story Translations
Chapter 17
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optimus, optima, optimum

very good, excellent; best

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How do you translate the future tense? 

will verb

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What modern-day system did the Patron-Client relationship replace in Ancient Rome?

A welfare system

100

hodiē quārtā hōrā ad forum ībō
et ōrātiōnēs audiam

Today at the 4th hour I will go to the forum and I will listen to a speech. 

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How do you translate the pluperfect tense?

Had

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vestīmentum, vestīmentī, n.

item of clothing, garment; pl. = clothes

200

Which two conjugations follow the "am" "es" "et" pattern of conjugation? 

3rd and 4th

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What was a sportula?

Baskets of food and coin given to a client

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dominus mox aderit

The master will soon arrive

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Give one pluperfect ending

Eram, eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant

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mortuus, mortua, mortuum

Dead

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Which two conjugations follow the "bo" "bis" "bit" pattern?

1st and 2nd 

300

Who was the most important Patron of all?

The emperor

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et crās māne omnēs
hūc reveniētis

Tomorrow morning you all will come back to this place. 

300

What is an adverb?

A word that modifies a verb

400

gerō, gerere, gessī, gestus

wage (war); wear (clothes)

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Which principal part do you use when conjugating in the future? 

The 2nd 

400

Was it possible to be both a patron and a client?

Yes

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sī cōnsentiēs, tē dīvitem faciam.

If you agree, I will make you rich

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Translate "lente"

Slowly

500

sīcut

Just as, like

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Necabo (to Kill)

I will kill

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Who was Eumachia?

Patron who paid for a grand building in the forum

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crēdēbat Ampliātum
patrōnum optimum esse.

he believed that Ampliatus was the best patron

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What is the peristylium?

The walkway around the garden. 

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