Chapter 19, Drill e: practice using three past tenses.

In each short Latin sentence, the English verb in parentheses expresses some past time. Provide the correct Latin tense to express the aspect implied in the English phrase.

Example:
Quintus gratias patri saepe (gave). (N.B.: gratias agere = to thank, to give thanks) Answer: agebat : Although the English phrase seems to be a simple snapshot past action, the adverb saepe tells you that the action was repeated, so imperfect is the correct choice.

1. ianitor ianuam (had shut) cum uxor eius Flaccum vocavit.
2. Orbilius ianuam (opened).
3. multae familiae in insulis in Subura (were living) [use habito].
4. Romam (we have arrived).
5. Quintus aedificia (was looking at) cum unum vacuum conspexit.
6. quodam die Quintus in mediam urbem (walked).
7. in Foro, orator orationem (had made) et nunc discedebat.
8. tempestas Aeneam comitesque ad Libyam (had driven).
9. dum tempestas Aeneam comitesque ad Libyam (was driving), nautae desperabant.
10. Quintus saepe patrem (helped).
11. quodam die Quintus patrem (helped).
12. Quintus Scintillam Horatiamque (had left behind).
13. Quintus Flaccusque Romam (came).
14. Iulius Caesar scripsit: (I came I saw I conquered).

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