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29. LEX

chapter 29

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A stone relief showing a man in full armour carrying a man on his shoulders. He is reaching out with his right hand to a young boy beside him and a woman stands behind the group. The relief is damaged around the edges and some figures have lost their faces.

This relief from the Sebasteion shows Aeneas fleeing Troy carrying his elderly father on his shoulders and leading his young son, Iulus, by the hand. Behind them stands Venus.

A stone relief showing a man on the left wearing armour. he is being crowned with a laurel wreath by a woman who stands to his left. In her other hand she is holding a cornucopia, the horn of plenty, from which a bunch of grapes and other fruits is visible.

A sculpture from the Sebasteion showing Agrippina crowning her son Nero with a laurel wreath.

A statue of a young man dressed in armour. He lifts his right arm up and in his left holds a long rod. He does not have a helmet or sandals. The statue has been painted brightly, his skin is pale, his hair auburn, and the images on his breastplate and armour are painted in red and blue. At his right leg stands a small figure of the child Cupid.

A panoramic photo showing a long stone wall crossing a green landscape of hills and strecthing into the distance. The stones are large and fitted together without cement.

Two sides of a dark metal coin. it is a rough circular shape and has rough markings imprinted on both sides.

This coin is from Gamla, a city in the Roman province of Judaea, which was besieged by the Romans during the Jewish Revolt in ad 66. Coins, such as this one, were minted within the besieged city. Scholars have interpreted the inscription to read: ‘For the redemption of Holy Jerusalem’.

A rectangular sheet of flat metal on which is inscribed text in small writing in three columns.

This is one of nine bronze tablets on which the municipal laws of the Roman colony Julia Genetiva, in southern Spain, were inscribed. The colony was founded by Julius Caesar, but these tablets are a later copy of the laws, from the late first century ad. The tablets would have been fixed to a building where they could have been read easily. Each one is almost a metre wide.

A mosaic showing a man tied to a pole being pushed on a small wheeled platform towards to lepoard which is leaping to attack.

This mosaic shows a method of execution: damnātiō ad bestiās.

A painting showing a group of women around a pool in various states of undress. They are hurrying to cover their bodies with coloured sheets. In the centre of the painting a young man in a blue tunic and red cloak appears over the branch of a tree with a hunting horn held high in his left hand. From his head protude the antlers of a stag. Around his feet are many dogs.

A painting of the myth of Diana and Actaeon by Joachim Wtewael.

A painting showing a landscapewith trees and a stream. In the foreground a man with the head of a stag lies on the floor. Around him are three dogs which are attacking the fallen man. The colours are dark and subdued.

The death of Actaeon by Jacopo del Sellaio, from 1485.

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ACTIVITIES AND GAMES

Autograded translations

Autograded translation:
Language Practice
Chpt 29, Ex. 1 (29.1)

Autograded translation:
Language Practice
Chpt 29, Ex. 2 (29.2)

Autograded translation:
Language Practice
Chpt 29, Ex. 3 (29.3)

Sorting

Sorting 29.1:
Infinitives
Present or Perfect?

Sorting 29.2:
Perfect Infinitives
Active or passive?

Sorting 29.3:
Infinitives
Active or passive?

Sorting 29.4:
Present or perfect?

Sorting 29.5:
Which case?
Gentiive or ablative

Sorting 29.6:
Positive, comparative, or superlative?

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Verb trainer
Perfect Infinitives
(Active)

Verb trainer
Perfect Infinitives
(Passive)

Verb trainer
Perfect Infinitives
(Deponent)

Verb trainer
Perfect Infinitives
(Act. + Pass.)

Verb trainer
Perfect Infinitives
(Act., Pass., + Dep.)

Verb trainer
Pres. + Perf. Infins.
(Act., Pass., + Dep.)

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