Scanlon's Latin Grammar - Essan.org

120 LATIN GRAMMAR
lucere Ouxi), to shine
perhibere, to bring forward, to report
rogare, to beseech
vel, or
quotquot, however many, as many as, all who
39. Ablative absolute. This construction consists of a phrase in
the ablative case made up of a noun or adjective and a participle,
a noun and an adjective, or two nouns. As its name implies, it is
grammatically independent of the sentence in which it occurs, that
is, it does not refer to the same person or thing as the subject or
object of the main verb. It is best translated by a clause introduced
by although, when, since, or the like.
W hen the dead were buried,
the soldiers went home. (Literally,
with the dead buried).
After many had been called ta­
gether, they entered the city.
At the time that Herod was
king, Christ was born.
Defunctis sepultis, abierunt milltes
domus suas.
Multis convocatis, intraverunt
in civitatem.
Herode rege, Christus natus est.
40. FIeri, to he made, to heconle. The verb facere, to make, is irregular
in the simple tenses of the passive voice. The irregular tenses
(besides the passive infinitive fIeri) are as follows:
lio
lis
fit
Indicative
Present
fimus
litis
fiunt
Imperfect
liebam, etc.
fiam
lias
fiat
Subjunctive
Present
Imperfect
flerem, etc.
fiamus
fiatis
fiant