Numbers

Which numeral is used to complete the phrase:

_______ anno

In the fourth year

• quarto

• sexto

• quinto

• quartus

What numeral completes this phrase:

______ diebus

within ten days

• decimus

• decima

• decem

• decimum

What numeral completes this phrase:

______ anno

In the ninth year

• novem

• nono

• nona

• nonus

What numeral should be used for this sentence:

They have walked for five days.

• quintus

• quinque

• quinta

• quintum

___ annos manebamus.

We stayed for seven years.

_________ anno domum rediimus.

In the seventh year we returned home.

______ horis domum rediit.

He returned home within three hours.

______ dies Romae manserant.

They had stayed at Rome for nine days.

What numeral should go in this sentence:

On the third day we arrived at Rome.

• tertio

• tres

• tertium

• tertia

Answer explanation

dies, diei (day) is a masculine noun so the numeral must agree with it here, so we have tertius, giving us the sentence:

tertio die (in the ablative case for time when) ad Romam advenimus.

What numeral should go in this sentence:

Flaccus returned to Venusia within four days.

• quartus

• quattuor

• quartis

• quarta

Answer explanation

This expression requires the ablative for time within which, but numbers above three (tres, tria) do not decline, so the sentence is:

quattuor diebus Flaccus ad Venusiam rediit.