Grammar
These are the three degrees adjectives can be divided into.
What are positive, comparative, and superlative?
Mensa, mensae
What is table or dining?
Augustus was able to fully win over every social class in Rome, except this one.
Who were the nobles?
bellus, a, um in the nominative, positive, singular forms.
What is bellus, a, um?
This case can be used in place of quam when working with comparatives to make a comparison.
What is the ablative of comparison?
prae
What is in from of or before?
When assigning positions to help him run the government, Augustus primarily pulled from this social class.
What were the Equites?
Pudicus, a, um in the nominative, singular, comparative forms.
What is pudicior, pudicius?
This is what quam is paired with when it is used as a conjunction, and what it means.
What is with a comparative, and meaning than?
turpis, turpe
What is ugly or disgraceful?
When it came to the succession, Augustus had some bad luck. Every heir he preferred died, until he was forced to pick this only remaining possibility, who he had previously skipped over.
Who was Tiberius?
tristis, triste in the nominative, singular, comparative forms.
What is tristior, tristius?
These are the possible translations of the comparative degree.
What are -er, more ___, rather, or too.
limen, liminis
What is a threshold?
These two groups were formed by Augustus for the protection of the city.
What were the vigiles and the urban cohorts?
urbanus, a, um in nominative, singular, superlative forms.
This is what quam is paired with and what it means when it is used as an adverb.
What is a superlative, and as ____ as possible?
Quidam, quaedam, quoddam
What is a certain or some?
Augustus suffered his only major military loss as emperor in this battle, where his forces were wiped out and lost three sacred eagle banners.
What was the battle of Teutoberg Forest?
turpis, turpe in nominative, singular, superlative forms.
What is turpissimus, a, um?