Chapter 37, Drill c: Drill, more use of ablative absolute.

In each Latin sentence, the dependent clause is one way of expressing an idea which can also be expressed as an ablative absolute. Provide the correct noun + participle in the ablative to express the same thing, leaving out other parts of the clause or phrase such as direct object, agent, etc.

Example:
pater, postquam [= after] ianuam clauserat, locutus est. Answer: ianua clausa [ablative singular, long -a]: a perfect participle is needed to express time before the action of the main verb, but claudo does not have a perfect active participle. You must therefore use the perfect passive participle, with the recipient of the action, ianua, as the noun which the passive participle agrees with.

1. studentes, quamquam multos libros legerat, plures tamen legere volebant.
2. dum centurio plerosque puniebat, tribuni cessabant.
3. postquam [after] nautae navem solverant, hiems adveniebat.
4. dum equi currebant, milites se exercebant.
5. si magnum opus perfectum erit, gaudebimus.
6. dum cives spectabant, exercitus pugnaverunt.
7. Brutus, postquam haec dixerat, proelium paravit.
8. dum pueri in ludo student, iuvenes in Campo Martio se exercent.
9. postquam milites haec locuti erant, tribunus respondit.

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