Sight Tests for Practice
Latin AP 2012-3 Sight Test - Caesar 2.2
Read and write out a literary translation of the following passage and parse all underlined words.
Caesar exhorts the 10th legion and then finds the 9th in disarray.
[21] Caesar, necessariis rebus imperatis, ad cohortandos milites, quam [in] partem fors obtulit, decucurrit et ad legionem decimam devenit. Milites non longiore oratione cohortatus quam uti suae pristinae virtutis memoriamretinerent neu perturbarentur animo hostiumque impetum fortiter sustinerent, quod non longius hostes aberant quam quo telum adigi posset, proelii committendi signum dedit. Atque in alteram item cohortandi causa profectus pugnantibus occurrit. Temporis tanta fuit exiguitas hostiumque tam paratus ad dimicandum animus ut non modo ad insignia accommodanda sed etiam ad galeas induendas scutisque tegimenta detrahenda tempus defuerit. Quam quisque ab opere in partem casu devenit quaeque prima signa conspexit, ad haec constitit, ne in quaerendis suis (signis) pugnandi tempus dimitteret.
Latin AP 2012-3 Sight Test - Caesar 2.25.
fors, fortis (f) luck, chance
adigo, adigere - to throw
item (adv.) likewise
exiguitas, exiguitatis (f) shortness; shortage
insigne, insignis (n) mark, badge, decoration
dicmico (1) flight
accomodo (1) to put on, attack
galea, -ae (f) helmet
tegimentum, -i (n) covering, wrapping
desum, deesse, defui - to be lacking
consisto, consistere, constiti - to stop; to take up