<p>for the traitor story, Romans were in a hopeless situation.</p>
<p>what did you get for the scansion?</p>
<p>Spondee dactyl spondee spondee</p>
<p>LOL sorry I meant manner. You probably think I’m the worst laitn student ever. I swear I’m good!</p>
<p>Yep, also got spondee dactyl spondee spondee.</p>
<p>eh, manner and means are decently similar…</p>
<p>does anyone remember the morsel question and its choices?</p>
<p>Mos…mordere… forget the other ones. Probs mors, lol. The answer is mordere, to bite.</p>
<p>I put B for “celeritate” one. I was at first concerned that it was too strong a replacement (I also felt like it would have replaced a superlative), but I remember learning that you only use “cum” with an Ablative of manner when you have an adjective.</p>
<p>I put that for the same reasoning as well.</p>
<p>I learned means you don’t use cum but with manner you always use cum.</p>
<p>just googled it and: [Latin</a> tutorial: Ablatives](<a href=“http://www.freewebs.com/gjcl/tutorial/ablatives.htm]Latin”>http://www.freewebs.com/gjcl/tutorial/ablatives.htm)</p>
<p>Ablative of Manner
o Answers the question “how?”
o Governed by the preposition cum when not modified by an adjective. See Ablative of Manner with an adjective.
o Beate vivere, honeste, id est cum virtute, vivere. To live happily is to live honestly, that is, virtuously.</p>
<p>wow, now that i read what i posted, i realize you guys must be right and i probably learned this the wrong way lol</p>
<p>Really? Because I just looked it up and found seemingly definitive proof that you were correct…lol</p>
<p>Lets settle this question once and for all. Wheelock’s Latin page 92 states “Id cum virtute fecit, he did it with courage”… Page 142 states “in the ablative of manner construction, when the noun is modified by an adjective, cum is frequently omitted; if cum is used, it is usually preceded by the adjective (e.g. id magna cura fecit and id magna cum cura fecit, both meaning he did it with great care)”</p>
<p>Thus: cum celeritate is CORRECT
Why you’re confused: I really don’t know honestly.</p>
<p>That morsel question was loltastic. Anybody here know what level verb mordere is? I feel so silly that I didn’t choose it. I eliminated all the others since they didn’t make sense, but at the last minute I changed my answer to mors because I didn’t know mordere at all and I felt like I should go with something that might actually chance it …</p>
<p>Did it say mordere? I thought the choices were like “mos, mors, mordeo, moror.” I chose mordeo.</p>
<p>Did any of you also take the AP Latin Vergil exam this year? The SAT II questions are soo much easier compared to that.</p>
<p>Also do you guys remember the question like:
Id faciat, (word that means wise) sit.
I said: “If she may do this, she may be wise.”</p>
<p>it said mordeo but mordere is the same thing.
I kind of remember the id faciat one. I think it’s future less vivid conditional which is translated should would. If she should do this, she would be wise. was that one of the choices?</p>
<p>Yeah that was one choice. For some reason I remembered should would as imperfect subjunctive :/</p>
<p>Ahh, a common misconception. Present present subjunctive is future less vivid should would. Then the Imp and Plup. Subjunctive conditionals are different in the sense that they are ‘contrary to fact’ so they always have a past tense sense to them like ‘if were, then would’ or ‘if had done, then would have’ …</p>
<p>LOL… for the cum celeritate, I can’t believe we were so dumb as to forget about the phrase “cum laude” which would’ve helped</p>
<p>Good point yo. :p</p>