Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Your homework tonight is the Verb Conjugation Quiz on quia.com OR the handout on verb conjugations. For the handout, click here. For the quiz, click here.

There will be a vocabulary and verb quiz on Thursday, 1/30. Click here for a handout explaining exactly what will be on the quiz.

We went over several important concepts in class today that we will be revisiting. 

DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS:

This, this one (singular)

                      masc.              fem.           neuter

nom.               hic                  haec          hoc
acc.                hunc                hanc          hoc


That, that one (singular)

                     masc.              fem.            neuter

nom.            ille                   illa              illud
acc.              illum               illam           illud


DOMUM:

This comes from a 4th declension noun: domus, domūs, f., townhouse. Just like Rōmam, which does not use a preposition when we say, "To Rome", domum does not use a preposition when we say, "going home".

COMPOUND VERBS:

The verbs at the bottom of page 183 are all compound verbs, that is, they are formed by adding a preposition to a common verb.

obsideō is from ob (because of, against) + sedeō, to sit.
cōnstituō is from con (with) + stō, stāre, to stand
trānseō is from trans (across) + eō, īre, to go
iniciō is from in (into) + iaciō, iacere, to throw
remittō is from re (back or again) + mittō, to send

Compound verbs will be addressed again soon!

We worked on a translation of "Mucius Gives a Lesson in Roman Virtue" (pp. 182-183) - we got up to line 17. We will continue translating on Thursday. We also practiced conjugating verbs in the present, imperfect and perfect tenses.