MDP Chapter 1 An Invitation Arrives and we Encounter

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MDP Chapter 1An Invitation Arrives and we
Encounter

• Some Greek heroes
• An odd ball game
• Some curious signs
• And some common grammatical constructions

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MDP Chapter 1Relative ClausesLG 69-70

• Relative clauses are introduced by relative
  pronouns (qui, quae quod).
• The antecedent of a relative pronoun may be a
  noun or another pronoun often a personal,
  demonstrative, or indefinite pronoun.
• A relative pronoun takes its person and number
  from its antecedent it takes its case from its
  use in its own clause.
• Relative clauses used adjectivally take the
  indicative mood.

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MDP Chapter 2Direct Questions(LG 92-93)

• Direct questions are often introduced by
  interrogative pronouns, question words (meaning
  why, whence or where, when, how, how much, how
  many, etc.), or by interrogative particles.
• When particles are used
• -ne simply denotes a question, to which the may
  be yes or no
• Nonne expect the answer yes
• Num expects the answer no
• The mood of a direct question is the mood of the
  expected answer.

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MDP Chapter 1Direct Commands/Prohibitions(LG
88-89_

• The most common usage is the imperative.
• Negative commands/prohibitions are generally
  introduced by the imperative of nolo (noli,
  nolite)
• The subjunctive is regularly used in the first
  person and third person, which dont have
  imperative forms.
• The subjunctive may also be used in the second
  person, with an imaginary you. It is used in
  the perfect tense negatively.

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MDP Chapter 1The Forum Bath (Pompeii)Calidarium
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MDP Chapter 1Lines 1-10

• Itaque maesti deliberabamus de malis quae nobis
  imminebant, cum servus Agamemnonis intravit et
  quid? inquit nonne scitis? hodie ad cenam
  invitati estis a Trimalchione, lautissimo homine.
  venite igitur nolite morari.
• malorum igitur obliviscimur et celeriter
  vestimenta induimus et Gitona, qui libentissime
  servi officium agit, iubemus ad balnea nos sequi.
• ubi ad balnea advenimus, errare coepimus inter
  eos qui lavabantur. subito vidimus senem calvum,
  qui inter pueros capillatos ludit pila nec tam
  pueri nos ad spectaculum duxerant quam ipse
  senex, qui soleatus pila se exercebat.

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MDP Chapter 1A Roman Ball Game (Trigon)
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MDP Chapter 8Lines 10-18

• numquam enim eam pilam repetebat quae terram
  tetigerat, sed servus follem plenum habebat, ex
  quo novas pilas sufficiebat eis qui ludebant.
• dum has miramur lautitias, accurrit Menelaus et
  hic est inquit apud quem cenabitis, et iam
  principium cenae videtis.
• vix locutus erat Menelaus, cum Trimalchio digitos
  concrepuit aquam poposcit et digitos lavit, quos
  in capite pueri tersit. deinde vestitus est et
  in lecticam impositus. et dum auferetur, ad caput
  eius symphoniacus accessit et toto itinere in
  aurem cantavit.

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MDP Chapter 1The Forum Bath (Pompeii)Tepidarium
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MDP Chapter 1Lines 19-26

• sequimur nos admiratione iam pleni et cum
  Agamemnone ad ianuam pervenimus, in cuius poste
  libellus affixus erat cum hac inscriptione
• servus qui sine domini iussu foras exierit,
  accipiet centum plagas.
• super limen cavea pendebat aurea, in qua pica
  varia intrantes salutabat. Sed ego, dum omnia
  miror, paene cecidi et crura mea fregi. Ad
  sinistram enim intrantibus canis ingens, catena
  vinctus, in pariete pictus est, superque quadrata
  littera scriptum cave canem.

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MDP Chapter 8Cave Canem A Mosaic from Pompeii
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MDP Chapter 1Lines 26-33

• et comites quidem mei riserunt ego autem
  spiritum collegi et totum parietem inspicere
  coepi.
• erat enim venalicium cum titulis pictum, et ipse
  Trimalchio, capillatus caduceum tenebat et Romam
  intrabat. tum omnia, quae fecerat Trimalchio,
  pictor cum inscriptione diligenter reddiderat.
  primum Trimalchio ratiocinari discebat, deinde
  dispensator factus est, denique Mercurius eum
  tollebat et in tribunal altum rapiebat ibi erat
  Fortuna, quae cornu abundanti divitias effundebat.