Cum Clauses

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Cum Clauses

• Chapter 31

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The uses of cum

• The uses we know already
• The preposition cum
• cum ablative accompaniment
• cum tua matre
• The Temporal Clause cum
• cum indicative verb precise time of act
• cum eam videbis, eam cognosces.

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Correlative use of cum

• Sometimes the word cum is used in conjunction
  with tum in the main clause.
• This is correlative construction is most often
  translated as not only but also

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Subjunctive uses

• The subjunctive uses are in subordinate clauses
  (not the main verb).
• Circumstantial
• Unlike temporal, circumstantial explains the
  general time/circumstances of the act.
• When Rome was founded, the patriarchs didnt
  allow crime.

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Subjunctive uses

• Causal
• This cum clause provides explanation or cause for
  the act.
• Since they stopped running, the thief escaped.
• Adversative
• This describes a sort of concession to the act.
  Frequently tamen in the main clause.
• Although they stopped running, they caught the
  thief.

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Latin Examples

• cum se in exsilium contulisset tamen amicos novos
  mox invenit.
• cum urbem superbam delevit tum feminas servosque
  rapuit.
• cum amicitiam nobis offerant eis auxilium mox
  offeremus.
• cum hoc semel dixissemus illi responderunt se
  pacem aequam oblaturos esse.