LATN 286/289: The Age of Nero Fall Semester 2007

Noun or Pronoun (if expressed)	Adjective (if any; including participles)	Sense in Context	Gender	Case	Number	Role in Sentence2
Ahenobarbi	---	the Ahenobarbi [family name]	masc.	nom.	pl.	subject
auctorem	---	initiator	masc.	acc.	sing.	predicate accusative - complement of L. Domitium
originis	---	stock	fem.	gen.	sing.	objective gen. with auctorem
cognominis	---	distinctive surname	neut.	gen.	sing.	objective gen. with auctorem
Lucium Domitium	---	Lucius Domitius [man's name]	masc.	acc.	sing.	direct object of habent
cui	revertenti	whom, (as he was) returning	masc.	dat.	sing.	indirect object of imperasse in the relative clause
rure	---	countryside	neut.	abl.	sing.	abl. of place from which with revertenti
iuvenes	gemini	twin youths	masc.	nom.	pl.	subject of the relative clause
forma	augustiore	rather-majestic beauty	fem.	abl.	sing.	abl. of description with iuvenes gemini
occursu	---	meeting	masc.	abl.	sing.	abl. of cause
senatui	---	Senate	masc.	dat.	sing.	dat. of indirect object with nuntiaret
populo	---	populace	masc.	dat.	sing.	dat. of indirect object with nuntiaret
victoriam	---	victory	fem.	acc.	sing.	acc. of direct object with nuntiaret
qua	---	which [the victory]	fem.	abl.	sing.	partitive separation of topic with de
---	incertum	uncertain what to think	neut.	nom.	sing.	predicate nominative of the implied subject of erat

¹"Substantive": a person, an animal, a thing, a concept, etc., when it is being talked about by the sentence - so that, for example, in the sentence legens scit, "The reader knows," the participle (verbal adjective) legens is a substantive, because it refers to a person (unexpressed but implied noun) who at the time of the sentence happens to be performing the action (so, literally, "[the person-who-is] reading"), but in the sentence liber lectus est, "The book has been read," the participle lectus is not a substantive, because it's part of the compound perfect-passive verb.

²"Role in sentence": brief statement of the reason why the substantive takes the form that it takes, in order to tell you what the sentence is using it to tell you.

Revised 8 July 2007 by jlong1@luc.edu
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