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What are deponent verbs and how do they work?

Deponent verbs are verbs which look passive, but have an active meaning. We are used to seeing active verbs, like ' capio ', meaning 'I take or capture', where the subject of the verb is doing the action the...
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How do I translate an ablative absolute phrase?

Before we attempt to translate an example of an ablative absolute, it is important that we are able to confidently identify an ablative absolute phrase within a sentence. An ablative absolute consists of a n...
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Translate from English to Latin: 'The girls were walking to the forum'

When you're given a sentence, the first thing to do is think of any Latin vocab that matches the English: eg. 'forum' is also 'forum' in Latin, and you probably know that a girl is 'puella', if you've used t...
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Marcus pugnabat Flavium quod iratus erat. Translate and parse the verbs (giving the person, number, tense, mood, voice)

'Marcus was fighting Flavius because he was angry." pugnabat: 3rd person, singular, imperfect, indicative, active erat: 3rd person, singular, imperfect, indicative, active (same as above)
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ardet abire fuga dulcisque relinquere terras, / attonitus tanto monitu imperioque deorum. (Aeneid, 4.281-282) Using the Latin describe Aeneas' emotions at this point.

"[Aeneas] burned to go in flight and to abandon the sweet lands, / dazed by the great vision and by the power of the gods." - Aeneas is eager to be gone ('ardet') - Aeneas is stunned by the vision ...
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