CHAPTER VI. ADJECTIVES AS COMPLEMENTS. ADJECTIVES like Carus 'dear': that is, adjectives which denote qualities that operate on or affect objects, and which are therefore followed by nouns in the Dative, just like verbs. A. Vir est bonus. The man is good. B. Puer carus2 est matri. EXAMPLES. The boy is dear to his mother. REMARKS. a. A sentence consists of the Subject-word and Predicate. The Subject-word names the subject: that is, the object about which the sentence is made. The Predicate is that which is 'predicated' or said about it. b. In this chapter the Predicate consists of the Copula and a Complement Adjective. 3 An adjective is said to be a Complement when it is necessary to 'complete' the sense, as here. It is called an Epithet when it is added to a noun in a sentence which is complete without it; as, "The good man died.' c. The Complement Adjective, as well as the Epithet, agrees with its noun in gender, number, and case. d. The Copula is often omitted: as, Viri mortales, 'men are mortal.' Hortus est pulcher. Mensa erat longa. Templum erat lautissimum. Homines sunt mortales. Rex multitudini gratus fuit. Ea res militibus fuit pergrata et jucunda. Medicina ægro homini est salutaris. 15 Filius erat patri similis. Damnosus pecori fluvius currit, damnosior agris. Ea res est mihi facilis, tibi difficilis. 20 Auctumnus gravis est urbi agrisque. Hi tribuni sunt nobis amici. Equa Venus Teucris, Pallas iniqua fuit. 25 Raphani dentibus inimici sunt. Siculi Verri inimici infestique sunt. Hæc gens infestissima est nomini Romano. Deiotarus semper erat fidelis populo Romano. Rex infidis consiliis semper est obnoxius. 30 Suevis ne dii quidem immortales pares sunt. Hæc formula rationi consentanea est. Hæ disciplinæ non sunt sibi consentaneæ. Ista oratio dignitati tuæ alienissima est. Histriones fabulas sibi accommodatissimas eligunt. 35 Belgæ proximi sunt Germanis. Mantua, væ miseræ nimium vicina Cremona. Finitimi sumus Gallis. Iili facinori conscius es. 40 Cæteri filii superstites patri fuerunt. Notavi portus puppibus aptos. Huic colli ille mons adversus est et contrarius. Quondam gratus eram tibi. 45 Ingratam Veneri pone superbiam. Vixi puellis nuper idoneus. Hic campus equis est aptus. Is dolor communis erat tribus fratribus. Hæc virtus fructuosa vobis, mihi periculosa est. 55 Tibi vilis vita erat mea. Pinnas pandunt dilectæ Thetidi alcyones. Illæ amicitiæ erant reipublicæ infelices. CHAPTER VII. LAW OF THE GENITIVE CASE. GENITIVE after nouns naming the Active, Passive, and Partitive Possessor of an object. A. Pueri epistolam accepi. EXAMPLES. I have received the boy's letter. B. Cupido lucri pueros cepit. A desire of gain seized the boys. C. Pars exercitus agros vastabat. A part of the army was laying waste the fields. REMARKS. a. The Primary idea denoted by the Genitive is Motion from. b. If an object is spoken of as possessing another object, its noun is in the Genitive' case (Law). c. An object may generally possess another object in one of these three ways: either Actively2; as pueri epistola 'the boy's letter', 'the letter, that is, written by the boy': or Passively; as cupido lucri 'desire of gain', 'desire, that is, felt not by, but for, gain': or Partitively; as pars exercitus 'part of the army'. d. The Possessive adjectives meus, tuus, suus, noster and vester commonly denote the Active possessor: as mea epistola 'my letter'. The genitives mei, tui, sui, nostri and vestri are used to name the Passive possessor: as amor nostri 'love of us', or 'love felt for us': while the other plural forms nostrum and vestrum are used for the Partitive genitive: as uterque nostrum 'each of us two'. Cæsar epistolam Labieni accepit. Astrologi motus errantium stellarum notaverunt. Germanos fuga Gallorum commovebat. Percunctatio tribunorum vocesque Gallorum magnum 10 exercitui timorem injecere. Sermonem nostrum vester interventus diremit. Hostes militum nostrorum impetum non tulerunt. Jam Deorum spes humanaque consilia rem Romanam adjuvant. 15 Latini vim advenarum arcuerunt. Opes Etruscorum florebant. Amulius fratris sui filios interemit. Spolia hostis gessi. 20 Voluntas patris pueros movebat. Consulis minæ patrem meum terruerunt. Nostra signa delubris Deorum affiximus. 25 Terentia magnos articulorum dolores habet. Rex ægritudinem animi dissimulavit. Crepitum armorum pæne audimus Vobis patria nostra vitam omnium civium commendat. 30 Turnus regi Latinorum bellum intulit. |