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1 Relative Pronouns The relative pronoun generally introduces a subordinate clause. The relative clause functions as adjectival, providing more info about the antecedent. Diligo puellam quae ex Italia venit. Quae is the subject of ex venit Italia but refers to the pueallam, direct object of the main sentence.

2 Salve, bone amice, cui filium meum heri commisi.
Greetings good friend, to whom I entrusted my son yesterday.

3 Dionysus, de quo ante dixi, a Graecia navigabat.
Dionysus, about whom I spoke before, was sailing from Greece.

4 Non solum fortuna ipsa est caeca sed etiam eos caecos facit quos semper adiuvat.
Not only is fortune itself blind but also (fortune) makes blind (those) whom it always helps.

5 Levis est fortuna; id cito reposcit quod dedit
Levis est fortuna; id cito reposcit quod dedit. Reposco (3): to demand back Fortune is fickle; it quickly asks back that which it gave.

6 Tyrannus civitatem regebat.
The tyrant was ruling the state. Ad eam navigare coeperas. You began to sail towards her.

7 Tyrannus civitatem regebat ad quam navigare coeperas.
The tyrant used to rule the state to which you began to sail.


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