Chapter 23, Drill b: Practice using new uses of the ablative.

Each Latin sentence contains in parentheses a phrase in English which can be expressed in Latin by one of the new uses of the ablative (with or without a preposition) described in Chapter 23, or by one of the uses of the ablative you already know. Provide that Latin phrase.

Example:
(With great speed) Quintus cucurrit. Answer: magna celeritate : "with" here expresses manner, not accompaniment, so cum is not needed. (Although the Oxford Latin text gives only this possibility, cum is in fact possible [and it is the norm when the noun is not modified by an adjective]. A common way to express the phrase in this example would be magna cum celeritate.)

1. (At the third hour) Quintus Marcusque ad balnea ierunt.
2. Quintus ad balnea (with Marcus) iit.
3. Quintus paterque Romam (by foot, i.e. by feet) advenerant.
4. Quintus matrem sororemque (with a letter) salutavit.
5. quidam (by means of a good chariot) vicit.
6. multa fracta erant (in, i.e. by, a riot).
7. Quintus multa (by books) didicit.
8. mater filios (with a loud voice) vocavit.
9. Quintus Augustum (by means of [his] poems [use carmen]) laudabat.
10. (In, i.e. by, speeches) Cicero Lucium Sergium Catilinam oppugnavit.
11. (By a speech) Cicero verum ostendit.
12. equi (with the greatest speed) cucurrerunt.
13. Quintus erat puer (of the greatest talent).
14. Cicero erat orator (of excellence [use virtus]).
15. haec urna est plena (of wine).
16. Quintus erat poeta dignus (of glory).
17. Flaccus Quintum (very anxiously, i.e. with great anxiety) exspectabat.
18. Quintus Marcusque (by the light) viam videre poterant.
19. Quintus libros (in his right hand, i.e. by his right hand) ferebat.
20. Quintus balnea plena (of water) vidit.

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