KET DL | Latin 1 | Grammatica | Grammar in General

Number on a piece of paper 1-50. Read through the story below, writing down the part of speech of each numbered word. Then check your work by turning it in to your facilitator, who will download the answer key. For convenience use these abbreviations:

In our (1) family, there (2) is a daughter, Cornelia, (3) who is fourteen, (4) a son, Marcus, sixteen, a father, Gaius Cornelius, (5) and a mother, Aurelia. (6) At the villa the education (7) of the children is in the hands of (8) their parents and a (9) Greek slave, Eucleides.

The family of Cornelius (10) traces its lineage far back in (11) Roman history. One of the (12) most (13) distinguished members of the family (14) was Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who (15) defeated the Carthaginians in North Africa in the Second Punic War (218-201B.C.). (16) His daughter, Cornelia, was one of the most famous Roman women of (17) all time and was the mother of the (18) Gracchi brothers, who were great social reformers in the second century B.C. As (19) our Cornelia sits (20) under the tree, she is reading about her namesake in a book given to her by Eucleides, and she is wondering whether she too will become as famous as the Cornelia of old.

Cornelius is responsible for the estate. As father, he is not only master of his own house, but he (21) legally has (22) power of life and death over his household, (23) although he never exercises it. Aurelia runs the household and teaches her daughter (24) what she will need (25) to know (26) when she gets married and has to run (27) her own household. Aurelia and Cornelia do some wool-spinning and weaving but there are a number of slaves to help (28) with the chores. The family has living with it a twelve-year-old boy, Sextus, who used to live in Pompeii, where his mother died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius the year before our story begins. Sextus' father is now on service overseas in Asia Minor, and he has left his son in Italy (29) under the guardianship of his friend Cornelius. Cornelia's friend Flavia lives in a neighboring country house.

While spending (30) their summers on the farm, the family occupies (31) part of a large farmhouse called a villa rustica which has a (32) central farmyard, court, or garden (hortus) surrounded by living quarters of the owner's family in one corner, a second farmyard with wine vats sunk in the ground, and various farm (33) buildings including rooms for the slave laborers. Most Roman families had slaves who did the everyday work of the household and the farms. (34) The tutor, Eucleides, is a slave, as is Davus, the overseer of the slaves and the farm.

Baiae, one of Bay of Naples, was a fashionable (35) resort for wealthy Romans, many of (36) whom (37) built splendid villas there. Puteoli, further around the Bay, was a (38) thriving (39) seaport where corn-ships from Egypt and (40) Sicily would unload their cargo, ( 41) to be taken (42) to Rome by road. (43) Nearby Naples (Neapolis), a center of culture and learning for the Romans, was far enough from Vesuvius to survive when the eruption of A.D. 79 (44) overwhelmed the prosperous town of Pompeii.

(45) This whole area, part of the fertile province of Campania, in summer attracted Romans who (46) were seeking relief (47) from the heat (48) and (49) noise of Rome in (50) this "Garden of Italy."

The Eight Parts of Speech