Special Cases
This ablative shows you what was used by the subject of the verb to complete the action.
What is an ablative of instrument?
Pliny writes this emperor letters from his governorship in Bithynia.
Who was Trajan?
This syntax follows a verb like vereor and the words ne or ut.
What is a fear-clause?
The full name of the editor of the commentary we use for LATN 2003.
Who is Jo-Ann Shelton?
What is a boar?
This genitive is used to show the group or the whole from which something else stands out.
What is a partitive genitive?
Pliny addresses his famous Vesuvius letters to this historian.
Who was Tacitus?
This subjunctive follows qui and describes a class of people.
What is a relative clause of characteristic?
What are Track and Field or Sailing?
What is a schoolteacher?
This ablative, often an adjective, occurs with a comparative (but is not the object of the comparison!), e.g. multo segnius.
What is the ablative of degree of difference?
The philosopher who Pliny helps escape from persecution by the emperor Domitian
Who was Artemidorus?
This pluperfect subjunctive follows si.
What is the protasis of a past contrary-to-fact conditional?
The number of Yale colleges represented in this room.
How many is six?
The location where Pliny's wife goes to recover from her illness.
Where is Campania?
This dative occurs with a gerundive to show who ought to do a certain action.
What is the dative of agent?
Who was Calpurnia?
This independent subjunctive expresses doubt or surprise in the form of a question.
What is a deliberative subjunctive?
The name of the Yale Classics Language Program Director.
Who is James Patterson?
The name of the author Pliny reads during the eruption of Vesuvius.
Who was (Titus) Livy?
This ablative follows a supine, e.g., mirabile dictu
What is an ablative of respect?
Pliny celebrates this woman's bravery in the face of her son's death from illness and her husband's condemnation by the emperor.
Who was Arria?
This subjunctive follows dum (or sometimes antequam).
What is an anticipatory subjunctive?
The name of the (infamous) experiment which took place in the basement of LC.
What is the Milgram experiment?
Any two of the foodstuffs Pliny had prepared for his friend Septicius Clarus in 1.15
What are lettuce, snails, spelt-grits, olives, beets, cucumbers, or onions.