Latina Lingua Trivia Quiz

Answer: pateris

"Pati" is a deponent verb of the third conjugation, meaning - among others - "to suffer, to bear". Deponent verbs have passive form and active meaning. "Pateris" means thus "you suffer".
"Patiaris" is present subjunctive (2nd person singular), "passus est" is perfect indicative (3rd person singular), and "patiebar" is imperfect indicative (1st person singular).

Answer: amatum iri

The future passive infinitive (such as "amatum iri") is not much used in Latin, except in such sentences as, for example, "I think you will be loved", which in Latin is "Puto te amatum iri" (objective clause). "Amandus" is a gerundive, normally used as an adjective and expressing the sense of necessity (roughly "that has to be loved", in this case). "Amo" is the present active indicative of "amare" (1st person singular), while "amabamus" is the imperfect active indicative of "amare" (1st person plural).

Answer: facti sumus

"Facti sumus" is the perfect indicative tense (1st person plural) of the verb "fieri" (passive form of the verb "facere"). "Fiunt" means "they become", while "fiebamus" means "they used to become", and "fitis" means "you become" (2nd person plural).

Answer: ablative

It is the ablative case, since this is an ablative of manner, indicating the way one action is performed.

Answer: True

This is a direct interrogative clause: such clauses require the indicative mood. If they include interrogative pronouns or adverbs, such as "cur" ("why"), "quomodo" ("how") , "quis" ("who") or "quando" ("when"), interrogative clauses do not need any other particles.

Answer: Is your brother home?

This is another direct interrogative clause. When, as in this case, no interrogative pronouns or adverbs are included, the clause must be introduced by such particles as "nonne" (if the answer is supposed to be affirmative), "num" (if the answer is supposed to be negative) and "-ne" (enclitic particle added to the word that is deemed to be the most important in the sentence, i.e. usually the verb).

Answer: stabit

This sentence means "As long as Rome survives, the world will survive". The future tense "stabit" is required here as the clause introduced by "dum" indicates, in this case, an action with no time limits. "Stabit" is the 3rd person singular of the future tense of the verb "stare".

Answer: imperatore

The sentence literally means "Ceasar being the general, the war in Gaul was fought". "Caesare imperatore" is an ablative absolute, i.e. a construction used to translate temporal or causal clauses that are expressed by means of a noun in the ablative case followed by a past participle agreeing with it.

Answer: If I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes

The sentence is attributed by Plutarch to Alexander the Great, who supposedly said it after realizing that the philosopher Diogenes did not care about, was not afraid of and did not want anything from the powerful Alexander. Alexander had asked him whether he needed something, but the philosopher's reply: "Do not stand between me and the sun" convinced the king of Diogenes' inner freedom.

Answer: scire

The sentence means "I only know one thing, and that is that I know nothing" and it is commonly attributed to Socrates. The infinitive tense "scire" is required here because this is an objective clause.