27 grammar ii

1. Chapter 27 Grammar
Part II

2. Gerundives
• Gerundives are passive verbal adjectives
• It looks identical to a gerund…
• …but can have any case, number, or gender ending from the
first/second declension
1st 2nd 3rd 3rd io 4th
parandus, -a, -um monendus, -a ,-um regendus, -a, -um capiendus, -a, -um audiendus, -a, -um

3. Exercise 27.3 #1-3
1. Maecenas amicos conuocauit ad poetas audiendos.
2. inter alios Propertius uenit carminis recitandi causa.
3. carmine optime recitando maximum plausum meruit.

4. Gerundives of Obligation
• The gerundive is usually found with esse to express obligation
• The person concerned is in the dative case
hoc carmen tibi scribendum est.

5. Exercise 27.4 #1-3
1. Horati carmina pueris in ludis omnibus legenda sunt.
2. Tibullo rus statim est abeundum ut Deliam uisat.
3. uita Horatio erat aurea mediocritate agenda.

6. Exercise Translations
27.3.1: Maecenas called together his friends to hear the poets.
27.3.2: Propertius came among the others for the purpose of reciting
poems.
27.3.3: By reciting the best poems, he deserved the greatest applause.
27.4.1: The poems of Horatius must be read by the boys in every
school.
27.4.2: Tibullus must immediately go to the country to visit Delia.
27.4.3: The life of Horatius must be led by the golden mean.