English to Latin 1 use the vocabulary given consider set out, legibility etc.

1. I sent a slave // to help the old man. that he might help I sent requires ‘help’ to be imperfect subjunctive (vide tabulam magicam)

2. We all want to find out // who had won in the election. want – volo, cupio question ‘who’ is quis (p.27) had won is pluperfect but I.Q. so needs subjunctive (‘by sense’) comitia: convention (-a, -orum)

3. If the envoys had not been killed in the camp, // the general would not have attacked the town. conditional would = subjunctives x 2 tense: in the past = 2 x pluperfect (never perfect subjunctives here) must use nisi careful about passive verbs: nominative plus ablative (of instrument or agent) nominative = envoys; the general

4. They ordered the old man // to threw the boy’s book into the fire. iubēre + infinitive imperāre + dative + ut/ne + subjunctive (tabulā magicā) tab. mag.: he ordered = past; ergo throw must be imperfect. nb: liber, libri (like ager, magister) not liberī

5. With the city having been captured, // the soldiers departed to Rome. abl. abs.: nb urbs is feminine nb: participle is past, not present (capere, cepi, captum) to Rome: towns, cities and islands don’t need ad: acc. only should be used.

tabula magica Main verb Subjunctive (normal) (extended – by sense)   Present (inc. imperative) Future Perfect (with have) present perfect [future participle + sim] Imperfect Perfect (Simple past) Pluperfect imperfect pluperfect [future participle + essem]