Latin Study Guide Stage 11

University:
Amherst College
Course:
CLAS 111 | An Introduction to Latin Language and Literature
Academic year:

2021
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Stage 11: Vocabulary: Grammar: Earlier, we were introduced to nos and vos. However, how would we express a sentence “I gave something to you”, where you is plural? This is an instance of the dative case but we have not learned about how to adapt the dative case for nos and vos. How would this work in Latin So, nos and vos actually have dative cases and they are pretty easy to learn. The dative for nos is nobis and the dative for vos is vobis. Ex: “dei vobis nihil dat” would be “the gods give nothing to you” Questions are an integral part of our society. We always ask questions when we are unclear about a certain topic. This study guide has asked many questions. However, how do we write questions in Latin? 1. The first way that we can write a question in Latin is by simply adding a question mark at the end of the sentence a. An example of this would be the sentence “tu pecuniam debes?”. The question mark would make it translate to “You owe money?” which is a very loose way of saying “Do you owe money?” 2. The second way that we can write a question in Latin is to use a question word that indicates that someone is asking a question a. Latin has 4 question words. These words are quis, quid, ubi, and cur. Quis means who. Quid means what. Ubi means where, and cur means why. An example of a Latin sentence that uses this is “cur tu lacrimas?” which would translate into English as “Why are you crying 3. The third way to ask a question in Latin is to add -ne to the first word of the sentence. a. This adds a theoretical question word before the sentence. For example “placetne tibi?” would be “Does it please you?” Culture – Local Government and Elections The local government and elections were taken very seriously in the Roman Empire. Every year, there were four officials elected to help manage a local government Duoviri – These were the senior officials that were elected and their responsibility. They would hear evidence and give judgement in a judicial setting. Their input was considered to be very important and they had a lot of power in a town Aediles – The Aediles were the junior officials but they still had a large say in how the town was run. They directly managed all of the public services such as the public markets, the water supply, and sewers There was also a town council that contained 100 members that had mostly been prior duoviri and aediles. These council members would choose all of the new council members. 🡪 The roman town council where all of the council members made their decisions Candidates wore togas that were covered in white chalk. They did this so they could be easily recognized wherever they went. Candidates spent much of their time campaigning and convincing citizens to vote for them. It was honorable to be a council member or hold any public office in the Roman Empire and that was a main reason why many people chose to take elected office. In the Roman Empire, local governments were generally given a lot of power and were allowed to make many decisions unless they had bad consequences. Then the government stepped in and gave punishments normally. One example of when this occurred was in Pompeii. There was a blood bath after a gladiator match where people slayed each other and as a result, Pompeii was not allowed to hold any gladiator games for the next 10 years