Some Ye Latin Testpapers

[Chance1234]

Taken from

Caesar Gallic War I
University Tutorial Series ,

The poor student was a William Pannet, of the Barton School in Lewes in 1897.


1. Translate carefully : -

(i) Velut si coran adesset, horrerent, proptera quod reliquis tamen fugae facultas daretur.

(ii)Suum timoreum in rei frumentariae simulationem conferebant

(iii)Neque sui potestatem feerat.

2. Translate as to show the exact force of the peropositions and adverbs
(i) Diem ex die ducere Aedui
(ii) Illo licente contra licere audeat nemo.

3 Parse in full (adding principal parts of all verbs):aperto,receiit,potentatu,usu,sanxerunt,victus.

4 Convert the passage below into Oratio Recta.

Quod si veteris contumeliae oblivisci vellet, num etiam recentium iniuriarum, quod eo invito iter per provinciam per vim temptassent, quod Haeduos, quod Ambarros, quod Allobrogas vexassent, memoriam deponere posse?





Chance,

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[addy]

Blimey

I can't believe there were many stories in the Newspapers of the day moaning about the dumbing down of education standards judging by that example test!

 

[Trevoke]

I took four years of Latin which ended about 9 years ago. From what I remember, this doesn't seem very hard. I just forgot too much to do it all from base knowledge.

"That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX."
"Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive."
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[Chance1234]

On top of this, there are extra questions like mention any geographical names , occuring in this book which have left their traces on modern maps of france and switzerland.

Chance,

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