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Latin hw requiring students to read and fill in blanks with subjunctive. Passage based on Apollonius of Tyre.
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HW due Tuesday, December 8 Read the following passage from Apollonius of Tyre and fill in the blanks with the appropriate form of the subjunctive. In civitate Antiochia rex fuit quidam nomine Antiochus, a quo ipsa civitas nomen accepit
Antiochia. Is habuit unam filiam, virginem pulcherrimam. Quae cum ad nubilem
___________________ (pervenio, 3rd s) aetatem, multi petebant ut pater eam in matrimonium
__________________ (do). Accidit ut pater __________________ (delibero, deliberare), cui
fortasse filiam suam in matrimonium _________________ (do, 3rd s), cum cum amore filiae
suae ___________________ (incendo, 3rd sing pass). Nolebat igitur filiam suam in
matrimonium dare et simulata mente ostendebat se civibus suis pium et quaestionem proponebat
eis qui filiam suam in matrimonium ___________________ (peto, 3rd pl). Si solutionem
quaetionis invenient, filiam suam in matrimonium accipent. Si non, caput decollabitur. Rex
malus erat et si quis forte solutionem _________________ (invenio), ______________________
(decollo, 3rd s pass) et caput eius.
Vocab: virgo, virginis=virgin ad nubilem aetatem (to marriageable age) simulata mente=putting on an act pius/a/um=pious decollo, decollare=cut off Questions
1. How did Antioch get its name?
2. What is special about his daughter?
3. When is everyone trying to marry her?
4. What happens to her father when he is deliberating on suitors?
5. What terms does Apollonius propose to potential suitors?
6. How does Antiochus violate his own terms?