SAT II Latin (crickets)

glowingamy
Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:02:24 +0000

Ok, on the exile passage I assumed it was Ovid’s Tristia (written during his exile mandated by Caesar for writing supposedly lewd stuff like ars amatoria) and answered as if it were. that turned out to be right so I found the passage in book 1.

Cum subit illius tristissima noctis imago,
quae mihi supremum tempus in urbe fuit,
cum repeto noctem, qua tot mihi cara reliqui,
labitur ex oculis nunc quoque gutta meis.
iam prope lux aderat, qua me discedere Caesar
finibus extremae iusserat Ausoniae.
nec spatium nec mens fuerat satis apta parandi:
torpuerant longa pectora nostra mora.

I said the scansion was DSSD. However now I don’t remember which line we scanned, haha…i think “nec spatium”? and wasn’t there a comprehension question about what case “pectora” is in? I think this is idiomatic and “nostra pectora” is the nom. pl. subject here (I said it was acc. pl d’oh), “longa mora” being abl. means. Do you remember a question about him being sent out to the farthest borders of Italy vs. totally OUT of italy? I said “farthest borders” but I’m pretty sure that was wrong.

& I also said that he didn’t want to make his children wealthy and “illorum” and I forget anything with ‘erim’. Yep and all the "than"s. I remember wishing I’d reviewed imperfect versus perfect subj. but I can’t remember why, haha.