LATN 284: The Age of Augustus Spring Semester 2007

Noun or Pronoun (if expressed)	Adjective (if any; including participles)	Sense in Context	Gender	Case	Number	Role in Sentence2
Maecenas	---	Maecenas	masc.	voc.	sing.	direct address for the whole sentence
nemo	contentus (predicate adj.)	no-one	masc.	nom.	sing.	subject of vivat and laudet in the result clause
sortem	quam	which lot [in life]	fem.	acc.	sing.	direct object of seu ratio dederit seu fors obiecerit in the relative clause
sibi	---	him(self: reflexive to nemo)	masc.	dat.	sing.	indirect object of dederit and obiecerit in the relative clause
ratio	---	reason	fem.	nom.	sing.	subject of dederit in the relative clause
fors	---	chance	fem.	nom.	sing.	subject of obiecerit in the relative clause
---	illa	it (sc. the lot in life)	fem.	abl.	sing.	abl. of means/instrument with contentus
---	diversa	different [things]	neut.	acc.	pl.	acc. of direct object with sequentis
---	sequentis	[people-who-are] following	masc.	acc.	pl.	acc. of direct object with laudet

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.

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