Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader by Unknown
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4. pugnatum est, 'the battle raged' or 'they fought,' literally 'it was fought,' Intransitive verbs are often thus used impersonally in the passive, with the subject implied in the verb itself, as pugnatum est = _pugna pugnata est_. 11. aestatis, partitive genitive. Notice that multum is used as a noun. 13. nactus. The perfect active participle is wanting in Latin, but the perfect participle of deponent verbs is active in meaning. 24. specie horribili. See the note on 4, 14. 26. timore perterriti. See the note on 14, 11. continebantur, 'kept themselves shut up.' This is the so-called reflexive use of the passive, in which the subject is represented as acting upon itself. pecora. This word is used of herds of cattle, pecudes (line 25) of single animals, especially sheep. 28. commotus consuluit. See the note on 18, 4. 21. 3. liberaret. See the note on 16, 27. oraculo. Notice that parere is intransitive and has the dative of indirect object, while 'obey' is transitive. It may help to understand the Latin construction if you translate such verbs as _pareo_ by intransitives, here 'to submit to.' |
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