This Chapter builds on the previous chapter regarding 'indirect statement.' You learned pretty much all you needed from the previous chapter, it's just that we want to emphasise more how the accusative case word in the Latin, when translated into English, becomes a nominative case word. That transition is the tricky part. The easy way around this is to just do a literal translation of the Latin accepting how awkward the English then is.
Look now on page 214, identify the subject and object of the main verb. Read over the material about indirect statement and the accusative case, then watch this --
Look now on page 214, identify the subject and object of the main verb. Read over the material about indirect statement and the accusative case, then watch this --
It's the accusative that's the tricky part; understanding this, you can easily translate it into proper English. Now let's take on an exercise:
Accusative and Indirect Statement
There is not a whole lot of new material to this Chapter since the indirect statement concept we want you to master. So this is all there is for grammar. Sometimes the best lesson is to learn it in doing the translation.
Now learn the new vocabulary on pages 213 and 214, then do these exercises:
vocabulary 1
vocabulary 2
The cultural lesson for this Chapter concerns the colosseum. Read over pages 217 to 221. This next video is 45 minutes long but very good. Watch it if you have the time; otherwise, go to the translation of our story on page 213.
Accusative and Indirect Statement
There is not a whole lot of new material to this Chapter since the indirect statement concept we want you to master. So this is all there is for grammar. Sometimes the best lesson is to learn it in doing the translation.
Now learn the new vocabulary on pages 213 and 214, then do these exercises:
vocabulary 1
vocabulary 2
The cultural lesson for this Chapter concerns the colosseum. Read over pages 217 to 221. This next video is 45 minutes long but very good. Watch it if you have the time; otherwise, go to the translation of our story on page 213.
The story on page 213 is a discussion of the colosseum between two brothers marveling at it. They make plans to go.
It's for you to discover what they are saying. Translate their words numbering each line as you do.
If you want to see how much a gladiator was admired in Roman society, go to page 236, Exercise 48j. Here is a poem written by Martial praising a gladiator called 'Hermes' who was much skilled. Each line of the poem is a descriptor of Hermes with the words mostly in the nominative case describing Hermes. This was a stage-name and not the real name of the gladiator. But the poem shows how a gladiator could be admired in Roman society much like sports figures today in our society. The Romans created poems about their heroes, we make commercials with our heroes or put their faces on cereal boxes. Oh, the irony.
Great Work! My Friends. Great Work!
It's for you to discover what they are saying. Translate their words numbering each line as you do.
If you want to see how much a gladiator was admired in Roman society, go to page 236, Exercise 48j. Here is a poem written by Martial praising a gladiator called 'Hermes' who was much skilled. Each line of the poem is a descriptor of Hermes with the words mostly in the nominative case describing Hermes. This was a stage-name and not the real name of the gladiator. But the poem shows how a gladiator could be admired in Roman society much like sports figures today in our society. The Romans created poems about their heroes, we make commercials with our heroes or put their faces on cereal boxes. Oh, the irony.
Great Work! My Friends. Great Work!