"You Really Expect me to read all that Latin!" - Strategies for Reading Latin Texts
by Caroline Kelly, Covenant Day School, NC
Example Exercise 1
Ecce Romani, Chapter 12, p. 89 What is going on?
Before we read the story, see if you can find out the main characters, and at least 2 verbs that describe what each one is doing. Then look for adjectives that describe them. Write them in the chart below.
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Now that we have been through the story together, find and list in the boxes below:
- All the possessive noun adjectives—i.e. a noun in the genitive case following/modifying another noun. Write both nouns. The first noun may be in any case.
- All the nouns in the ablative case.
- Give the case of each noun, and then translate each word or group of words that you find. Two are done for you.
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