LII Exam Grammar Review S22 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

Melissa Grumionem pulcherrimum conspexerat.

Melissa had caught sight of the most handsome Grumio

Metella illo mercatori pecuniam dedit.

Metella gave money to that merchant.

Bregans est stultior quam ceteri Britanni

Bregans is stupider than the other Britons

femina hunc virum videt.

the woman sees this guy

Hae puellae per viam currunt.

These girls are running through the road

Salvius illos Britannos vituperavit.

Salvius yelled at those Britons.

Modestus erat anxius quod nesciebat cur Strythio abesset.

Modestus was anxious b/c he didn't know why Strythio was away. (wasn't there/present)

Strythio, cum portam clausisset, Modestum territum rogavit quid accidisset.

Strythio, when he had shut the gate, asked the terrified Modestus what had happened.

haec locutus, Modestus ad culinam statim cucurrit

having said these things, M ran to the kitchen at once.

Cum Strythio portam aperuisset, Modestus rursus haesitavit.

When S had opened the gate, M hesitated again.

Agricola cognoscere voluit num Britanni cives Romanos interfecissent. (cognoscere - find out)

Agricola wanted to find out whether the British had killed Roman citizens.

cum equites corpus Dumnorigis inspicerent, Quintus, graviter vulneratus, magna cum difficultate effugit.

While the horsemen were inspecting the body of Dumnorix, Quintus, seriously wounded, escaped with great difficulty

iuvenis dicere nolebat cur extra castra lateret. (lateret from latet)

the young man didn't want to say why he was laying hidden outside the military camp.

Quintus et Dumnorix ad ultimas partes Britanniae equitabant ubi Agrigola bellum gerebat

Q and D were riding to the furthest parts of Britain where Agricola was waging war

Strythio cognoscere voluit quid accidisset. (cognoscere - find out)

Strythio wanted to find out what had happened.

Bulbus, saepe de matrimonio locutus, nihil umquam effecit.

Bulbus, having spoken often about marriage, accomplished nothing ever.

intrat Cogidubnus tenens epistulam ā Cephalo scriptam

Cog enters holding the letter written by Cephalus

Memor, splendidam togam gerens, arae appropinquavit.

Memor, wearing a splendid toga, approached the altar

nunc, ā Romanis deceptus, ista ornamenta, mihi ā Romanis data, humi iacio.

now, (h.b.) deceived by the Romans, those decorations, given to me by the Romans, I throw on the ground.

Cephalus, a principibus coactus, venenum hausit. (coactus:coegit - force, compel)

Cephalus, (having been) forced by the chiefs, drained the poison.

Bulbus, fortiter se defendens, vinum in caput Strythionis fundit. (se - himself)

Bulbus, bravely defending himself, pours wine onto S's head.

O Modeste, cur me ex omnibus puellis elegisti? quam laeta sum! (eligit - choose)

O Modestus, why did you choose me out of all the girls? How happy I am!

deam precatus, tabulam in fontem sacrum inieci. dira imprecatio, in tabula scripta, iam in fonte deae iacet. (imprecatio - curse; iacet - lies)

having prayed to the goddess, I threw a tablet into the sacred fountain. a dire curse, written on the tablet, now lies in the fountain of the goddess

haec verba locutus, Modestus e carcere ad culinam quam celerrime festinavit.

having said these words, Modestus hurried as quickly as possible out of the prison to the kitchen.