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Grammatical Constructions - subjunctive clauses  ...

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  • cum celeriter nostri arma cepissent vallumque adscendissent.....desperata re hostes suos ab oppugnatione reduxerunt 5.26
    When quickly our guys had taken arms and had climbed up the wall....desperate of the thing, the enemies withdrew their own men from the attack
  • itaque, cum summo studio a militibus administraretur, XII navibus amissis, reliquis ut navigari satis commode posset efficit. 4.31
    cum clause and result clause - while it was being managed....he brought about that the remaining be sailed more conveniently enough
  • Eadem nocte accidit ut esset luna plena, qui dies a maritimos aestus maximos in Oceano efficere consuevit 4.29
    result clause - on that same night it happened that there was. a full moon, which day is accustomed to bring about very big maritime tides in the ocean
  • in eo itinere persuadet Castico....ut regnum in civitate sua occuparet, quod pater ante habuerat 1.3
    purpose clause - on that journey he persuaded Casticus to seize the authority in his own state, which his father had held before
  • ei qui pro portis castrorum in statione erant Caesari nuntiaverunt pulverem maiorem quam in partem legio iter fecisset 4.32
    cum clase - those who were in station in front of the gates of the camp announced to C that a bigger dust than normal in the direction the legion had made a jou
  • Caesari cum id nuntiatum esset, eos per provinciam nostram iter facere conari 1.7
    Cum clause - When it was announced to Caesar, that they are trying to make a journey through our province...
  • hunc illi e navi egressum, cum ad eos oratoris modo Caesaris mandata deferret, comphrehenderant 4.27
    cum clause - those had arrested him having disembarked from the ship when he was reporting the orders of Caesar to them in the manner of an envoy
  • cum illi....audacter tela coicerent et equos insuefactos incitarent 4.24
    cum clause - while those....bolding were throwing weapons and were inciting their trained horses
  • tum nostri cohortati inter se, ne tantum dedecus admitteretur, universi ex navi desiluerunt. 4.25
    negative purpose clause - then our guys, greatly encouraged amongst themselves, lest such great a dishonor be committed, altogether jumped down from the boat
  • Interim barbari...in perpetuum sui liberandi facultas daretur, si Romanos castris expulissent, demonstraverunt....
    conditional phrase: meanwhile the barbarians showed the resource is given of freeing themselves forever if they had expelled the Romans from the camp
  • quod cum animadvertisset Caesar, scaphas longarum navium...compleri iussit 4.26
    cum clause - which, when Caesar had noticed, he ordered the skiffs of the war ships to be filled
  • Post eius mortem nihilo minus Helvetii id quod constituerant facere conantur, ut e finibus suis exeant 1.5
    purpose clause - after his death, nevertheless, the Helvetians try to do the thing which they had decided - to leave out of their boundaries
  • legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April reverterentur 1.7
    conditional statement:he responded to the envoys that he is going to take a day for deliberating: if they want anything, they should return on the Ides of April
  • tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent.... 1.7
    purpose clause - however, so that a space of time could pass while the soldiers whom he had ordered could gather....
  • si gravius quid acciderit, abs te rationem reposcent, qui si per te liceat....5.30
    cond: if something more serious will have happened, from you they will demand an account back, those who if it be permitted by you....(only last is subjunctive)
  • [eum, i.e. Orgetoricem] damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur 1.4
    result clause - him condemned, it was necessary that punishment follow, that he be consumed by fire
  • Quae cum adpropinquarent Britanniae...tanta tempestas subito coorta est ut nulla earum cursum tenere posset 4.28
    cum clause and result clause- Which, when they were approaching Britain...such great a storm suddenly arose that none of them could hold their course
  • regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis exirent 1.2
    indirect command - led on by the desire of authority, he made a conspiracy of the nobility and persuaded the state to leave out of their own boundaries
  • mons autem altissimus impendebat, ut facile perpauci prohibere possent 1.6
    result clause - moreover, a very tall mountain was hanging over, with the result that very few could easily keep off
  • His rebus fiebat ut et minus late vagarentur et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent 1.2
    result clause - b/c of these things it happened that they could wander less widely and could make war on their neighbors less easily