The Sabine Women

What did Romulus do?

• Established the city of Rome

• Invited the Sabines to a game

• Took the Sabine women

• Returned to Rome

Why did the Roman men want wives?

• To produce the next generation of Romans

• To establish peace with the Sabines

• To start a war with the Sabines

• To have companions for the games

What did the Roman men do at the games?

• Took the Sabine women

• Fought with the Sabine men

• Established peace with the Sabines

• Returned to Rome

Why did the Sabine men return home?

• To obtain swords

• To attack the Romans

• To hand over their daughters

• To establish peace

What did the Sabine women say to their fathers?

• We don't want you to fight

• We want to have a war

• We want to have dead fathers

• We want to have dead men

Match the verbs with their precise definitions:

• you will hand over

• dedit

• they stopped

• destiterunt

• he established

• ceperunt

• they seized

• tradetis

• he gave

• condidit

Match each noun with its precise definition

• living

• feminas

• wives

• uxores

• husbands

• vivos

• women

• viros

• daughters

• filias

What is the case and use of the underlined word(s):

nostrās filiās nobīs nōn tradētis

​ (a)  

• Accusative/Direct Object
• Ablative/Personal Agent
• Genitive/Possession
• Vocative/Direct Address
• Dative/Indirect Object

What is the case & use of the underlined word(s)?

Erant multae filiae Sabinōrum virōrum

​ (a)  

• Genitive/Possession
• Nominative/Predicate Nominative
• Accusative/Direct Object
• Ablative/Description
• Ablative/Means-Instrument

What is the case & use of the underlined word(s)?

nullae feminae erant in urbe.

​ (a)   ​

• Ablative/Place Where
• Ablative/Manner
• Dative/Indirect Object
• Genitive/Possession
• Vocative/Direct Address