LPD Minucius Felix 4 pilot

​Marcus Minucius Felix, Octavius, Episode 4

In the following slide, please listen to the Latin portion, write it down, then speak it as a voice recorded response. Please enable your microphone.

Audio Response

“crēderēs ūnam mentem in duōbus fuisse divīsam. sīc sōlus in amōribus cōnscius, ipse sōcius in errōribus.”

Open Audio Recorder

Please listen to the rest of the lesson on the following slide, then respond to the questions that follow.

Multiple Choice

Please parse "crēderēs."

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• 3rd-person, singular imperfect, subjunctive, active

• 2nd-person, singular, present, subjunvtive, active

• 2nd-person, singular, imperfect, indicative, active

• 2nd-person, singular, imperfect, subjunctive, active.

Multiple Choice

Is "crēderēs" a dependent subjunctive, or independent?

• It is a dependent subjunctive, that is, in a subordinate clause.

• It is an independent subjunctive, that is, it is the main verb of the sentence.

Multiple Choice

Whereas formal English uses the third person to generalize ("one would think"), Latin uses...

• ...the second person ("you'd think").

• ...the first person plural ("we'd think").

• ...the third person plural ("they'd think").

• ...the indicative mood, imperfect tense.

Fill in the Blank

"crēderēs" introduces the construction ____ ____, consisting of "mentem fuisse divīsam," where "mentem" is the subject of "fuisse." (Please type the Latin phrase as taught in the lesson.)

Multiple Choice

How would Minucius say "unam mentem fuisse divīsam" in direct statement (oratio recta), if his friend Octavius were still alive?

• unam mentem divīsam esse

• una mēns fuit divīsam.

• una mēns est divīsa.

Multiple Choice

As a perfect infinitive, "fuisse" shows time ______ the verb on which it depends.

• prior to (ante)

• contemporaneous with (simul)

• subsequent (post)

Multiple Select

"sīc...errōribus" contains an isocolon, two phrases with similar grammatical patterns and word order. Which words correspond to each other in the similar patterns?

• sīc

• amōribus

• conscius

• socius

​post-test

Now that you have studied the lesson closely, please show what you know in a spoken response on the next slide.Please speak the portion, explain what it means in English, and discuss two of its salient grammar features.

Audio Response

“crēderēs ūnam mentem in duōbus fuisse divīsam. sīc sōlus in amōribus cōnscius, ipse sōcius in errōribus.”

Open Audio Recorder