Paucī virī vērōs amīcōs habent, et paucī sunt dignī. Amīcitia vēra est praeclāra, et omnia praeclāra sunt rāra. In these lines, what is the case, number, and gender of dignī, and how would you explain its case?

What genders are dominant in nouns of the 2nd declension? Check all correct answers:

What is unusual about the “theme vowel” of sum esse, compared to laudō laudāre or moneō monēre?

Match the following professions with the target of their praise or envy:

The Grass is Always Greener Now take a look at the passage, “The Grass is Always Greener”, a loose adaption of the first poem in Horace’s first book of Satires — you can read this poem in full here! The text we are looking at now is in Caput III of Wheelock: Agricola et vītam et fortūnam nautae saepe laudat; nauta magnam fortūnam et vītam poētae saepe laudat; et poēta vītam et agrōs agricolae laudat. Sine philosophiā avārī virī dē pecūniā semper cōgitant: multam pecūniam habent, sed nihil virum avārum satiat. You should read this aloud, as always — but you can also hear a reading of this passage below:   (Note: at the end, the recording has the phrase “sed pecūnia multa virum avārum nōn satiat” instead of “sed nihil virum avārum satiat.”) this is a media comment

The relative pronoun: conclusion Great work! We’ve made a good start to our work on the relative pronoun. In the next quiz, we’ll turn to looking at the relative pronoun in greater detail by thinking about the form in continuous passages and longer, more complex sentences!

Without any contextual information, which of the following could be identified by the form dōnō? Select all correct answers:

Attributing Adjectives Now that we’ve seen all three genders at work, we can start to think about how adjectives “agree” with nouns in Latin. Watch this video for an introduction:  

Have you noticed how similar many of the endings in the 1st and 2nd declensions are? Compare the endings of the 1st and 2nd declension by selecting the case-number and 1st declension form it is closest to for these 2nd declension nouns: amīcum [accsing] [portam] amīcō [ablsing] [porta] amīcōs [accpl] [portas] amīcīs [datablpl] [portis]

Fill in the following blanks by morphing the Latin words according to the instructions given: puer, puerī, m. genitive plural: [puerorum] vir, virī, m. accusative plural: [viros] ager, agrī, m. ablative singular: [agro] fīlius, fīliī, m. vocative singular: [fili] exitium, exitiī, n. vocative singular: [exitium] Don’t forget to add macrons! You can copy and paste letters with macrons into the word with these letters: ā ē ī ō ū