Reminders

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Reminders

• The next Latin Club Meeting will be on Wednesday,
  December 2nd.
• Project ideas are due on November 30th.
• Project is due on January 22, 2016.
• Homework Complete workbook page 43, Ex. B.

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The Imperative Mood

• Commands

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Agite NuncDo Now

• Give an example of a command in English. E.g.,
  Mercury, tell Aeneas to gather the Trojans and
  leave Carthage tomorrow.

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Moods in Latin

• Indicative

• Imperative

• The indicative mood "indicates" a fact
• The fact can be a belief and need not be true.
• "He sleeps," (dormit) is in the indicative.

• impero, imperare order, command
• Normally, the imperative mood is used for direct
  commands (orders) like "Go to sleep!".
• mando, mandare to command

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Formation of the Imperative

• The form of the Latin verb used in giving a
  command to one person is the same as that of the
  present stem
• Formed by dropping the re from the present
  active infinitive
• voca / re voca imperative singular
  call
• mone / re mone imperative singular warn
• In Latin te is added to the present stem if the
  subject understood is plural
• Cf.
• Mary, hurry! Propera, Maria!
• Boys, hurry! Properate, pueri!

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Negative Commands

• To give a negative command in Latin is very
  simple.
• Use noli with the present infinitive if the
  subject is singular nolite, if plural.
• Both forms mean unwilling or dont
• Dont fear, Mary! Noli timere, Maria!
• Dont fear, boys! Nolite timere, pueri!

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Study Helps

• The tense of the imperative most used is the
  present it is always second person, singular or
  plural.
• The imperative of the verb sum is es, singular,
  and este, plural.
• Be good, Mary! Es bona, Maria!
• Be good, boys! Este boni, pueri!