N L E
That's right. The National Latin Exam was today.
Wonder if all the Latin III's around the country were the same? I really couldn't figure out the last sentence of the story, the one with the dragon and the final clause that read "so that he might sow with fruit (?) the orb of the Earth." That kind of caused me to not understand the last 3 questions of the test.
Also, who WAS Octavian's second wife? It WAS Octavian, right? The wife who convinced him to name her son as his heir (instead of, presumably, the son of his first wife).
We didn't exactly do a ton of culture...
I knew I'd heard "vectus" before and it turns out to be the 4PP of veho... so that means "quo vectus" would be "by who/which (subject, presumably 'he') was carried"? So, he was carried by the dragon?
Yeah, really did not understand it at all. The rest of the story I knew, I mean I'd read the myth before (thank you Edith Hamilton) except with Greek names.
But aside from those four I mentioned, the 3 concerning the last sentence of the story and the one on Octavius' wife, I'm fairly confident on all the other ones.
G'luck to all those who have taken or will be taking the test.
... you know, you get to notice that taking Latin makes you treat your tense agreements meticulously.
Oh, and I finished my Hahli Mahri CG. Right here.
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