Latin II: Spring, 1995
The University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rob S. Rice
Semester Exam, 5/2/96

You have two hours to complete this exam, which you shouldn't need. Write your answers in the bluebooks provided, LEAVING ME ROOM TO MAKE CORRECTIONS! As always, understanding is more important than the exact label used for a given construction.

BEFORE YOU TRANSLATE:
DIVIDE the sentence into its component phrases and clauses!
IDENTIFY each finite verb, tense, mood, voice, person and number
. ACCEPT what your knowledge of forms tells you! ACTIVE is NOT PASSIVE! SINGULAR is NOT PLURAL.
FIND the SUBJECT, VERB and OBJECT of each independent construction.

Part 1: Subjects Covered in Chapters 9-18. (48 pts.)

Translate the following passages, taken from the review sections of the chapters we have worked through previously, once you have answered the questions immediately below them.

1) Multis ante diebus, luce erant clariora nobis tua consilia; nunc ea intellegere non possumus.

a)What is the immediate give away that luce does not agree with clariora and its noun?
b)What are the three other possible cases/gender combinations for ea? What rules the other two out?

2)Amore Iovis multae feminae iram Iunonis passae sunt.

a)What is the immediate clue that the main verb in this sentence is a deponent?
b)Why might the two genitives be called 'subjective?'

3)Eis diebus nemo erat qui divitias virtuti praeferret.

a)How does the speaker let you know that he is making an observation, rather than a statement of provable fact?
b)The dative object of the verb does not receive the direct object of the main verb. Why can it be translated as if it does?

4)Legatum mittit qui petat ut vobiscum loqui liceat.

a)What are the two ways used here to express purpose?
b)Why do we know that the subject of petat is not the subject of liceat?

5)Utinam ille omnis secum suas copias eduxisset!

a)Please write out Dr. Rice's annoying mnemonic for the use of utinam.
b)Did the speaker get what he desired?

6)Dubitavi hos homines multa pecunia emerem an non emerem.

a)When was the speaker uncertain? For how long? How do we know?
b)What personal pronoun might have been more appropriate than hos for the individuals in question?

Part 2: A reading passage (30 points).

Cicero's former client wants to buy a Jaguar, and Cicero tells him he's doing the best he can.

Desine quaerere de pantheris; jussu meo diligenter agitatur ab eis venari solent; sed permagna paucitas est, et eae, quae vere sunt, dicuntur queri quod nihil cuiquam insidiarum in mea provincia nisi sibi fiat. Itaque plurimae, ut quidam credunt, in Carian ex hac regione horrida se receipere constituerunt.

Vocabulary:

panthera, -ae, 'panther,' here leopards

queror, queri, questus sum, 'lament, complain.' DO NOT confuse with 'quaero, quaerere, quaesivi, quaesitus, 'look for, seek after, nag.'

Caria, -ae, a neighboring region in Southeast Asia Minor.

agitatur, here "the bush is being beaten"

Questions:

a)What are the leopards complaining about? What is Cicero really doing with the joke?
b)What is the true quantity of "none of the vocabulary?" Why do I ask? Does it matter to anyone? To whom is it important?
c)What is the significance of the 'per-' antefixed before magna?

Part 3: Basic Understanding of Usage (22 points):

Provide full form identifications of every word in the following two phrases.

Carthago delenda est.

Quod agis, bene age.