Chapter 30, Drill c: Practice using the perfect passive participle.

In each Latin sentence is an English phrase in parentheses which can be translated by a perfect passive participle. Provide the correct form of the participle, modifying the noun or implied noun.

Example:
pueri (terrified) domum cucurrerunt. Answer: territi , nominative plural because it modifies pueri, subject of the sentence.

1. in prima epistola a Quinto (written [i.e. the letter had been written]) erant multae res.

2. Horatia Decimo (beloved [i.e. having been loved; Decimus was loved]) nupsit.

3. poeta Catullus de puella (beloved) scripsit.

4. Romani multos populos a regibus (ruled [i.e. having been ruled]) vicerunt.

5. mater Horatiae mane (having been awakened [Horatia had been awakened]) dixit: "festina!"

6. mater cenam a Horatia (having been prepared [the meal had been prepared by Horatia]) ad Flaccum ferebat.

7. epistola ad parentes (having been delivered [use refero]) post longum iter advenit.

8. Quintus Marcum in taberna (having been seen [Marcus had been seen]) salutavit.

9. Quintus scholam (which had been heard) laudavit.

10. Marcus plus vini in poculo (having been lifted [the cup had been lifted]) poposcit.

11. lumen cotidie (having been perceived) pulchrum est.

12. haec res bene (conducted [having been conducted]) Quintum delectavit.

13. epistola heri (sent [having been sent]) hodie advenit.

14. illa (having been said) non aequa sunt.

15. iuvenes ad Academiam (led [having been led; the youths had been led]) scholam optimam audiverunt.

16. pueri a matre (having been warned [the pueri had been warned]) in periculum tamen ibant.

17. pueros a matre (having been warned; the pueri had been warned]) in periculum euntes vidi.

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