Answers to General Exercises (pp. 581-582) 14-26

14.

Let's be being taught until we become wiser (aorist subjunctive).

Let's be being taught as long as we are able to learn something (present subjunctive).

We were being taught until we became very wise (aorist).

We were being taught as long as we were able (imperfect).

 

15.

Not knowing how [if you had not known how] it was necessary to be sacrificing the she-goats, wise daughter, you would not have gone out toward the temple on that night to dance [future participle expressing purpose] for the goddess.

 

16.

Were you sending away the men being guarded before the herald announced the victory of the barbarians?  Indeed do not be doing such things.

 

17.

Why, most shameful men, were you taking pleasure in saying that the valuables belong only to the other men [dative of possession]?  Indeed, are you not believing that you are much more fortunate than those guys?

 

18.

I know that you, o dearest, both taught the most students and are always demonstrating the art of rhetoric, the best art, to very many.

 

19.

If only you were not doing anything bad to anyone at any time, most stupid child [unattainable wish in the present].  [See to it that] you now become better somehow.

 

20.

With the strangers, the ones who have been defeated by our guys, having stood [root aorist participle; genitive absolute] there, you [sg.] stand there [aor. imperative active], intending to set up [future participle] the monument.

 

21.

We aren't saying that Demosthenes ever did bad things to the city.  For if her were acting thus, he would not be being honored by anyone.

 

22.

When did the men who stationed themselves there say that they would neither ever fight [future optative in indirect statement in secondary sequence] on behalf of freedom nor save [future optative] their friends?

 

23.

The sweetest thing is on the one hand not to be hearing anything from any teacher, but it is much wiser to obey the wiser men.  For the teachers do not let go before every student learns all the things that are said.

 

24.

Although you [fem. pl.] learned [aor. act. participle] many clear things, nevertheless you were seeming to be able to learn even more because you were wishing [pres. act. participle] to learn as much as possible.

 

25.

Because he had most shamefully stolen [pf. act. participle] the sweet wine, the priest was fleeing.  For let me tell you, the rhetors, the ones clever at speaking, were indicting such men for theft [gen, of the charge].

 

26.

Are we to leave at last?  For which of the things which [relative pnoun attracted into case of its antecendent] you were saying do we not understand?