Persephone X

The first three lines of story X use these verbs: fulgebant, celabant, and laxabant. These verbs give a sense of:

• continuing past action

• completed past action

• future action

• ongoing present tense action

match - indicative verbs have been changed to subjunctive

• non dormiret

• luna et stellae

• celerent

• viri et feminae

• fulgerent

• Metanira

• laxarent

• umbrae

Why was Metanaria not sleeping?

• she was caring for her sick son Triptolemus

• she was tending to the food for the family with her husband the farmer

• she was watching Ceres with Triptolemus

• she was guarding the land from intruders

(a)   ​ (b)   ​ ​ How best to translate verba mira

• wonderful
• words
• look 
• word
• cloudy
• verb

iacebat = ?

• he was throwing

• he was reclining

• he was entering

• he was hurrying

Draw this to show you understand its translation:

Triptolemus in foco inter flammas iacebat; sed laetus erat puer.

put the correct forms of sum into their tenses

Groups:

(a) present

,

(b) imperfect

,

(c) perfect

,

(d) future

• sumus

• ero

• est

• erant

• eratis

• fuit

• fuisti

• erunt

match Latin word to meaning and a derivative

Groups:

(a) humus, humi (m)

,

(b) rapio, rapere

,

(c) doceo, docere

,

(d) magister, magistri (m)

• teacher

• ground

• docent

• to teach

• humility

• master

• enraptured

• to seize

Ceres was intending to make Triptolemus into a _____.

• satyr

• sailor

• ruler

• god

Who will teach Triptolemus the art of planting, crops, and growing food?

• Ceres et Persephone

• Metanaira et filia

• Juno et Venus

• Diana et Minerva