Translation:
Up until now we have been working with sentences that loosely follow a subject-object-verb word order. Now, with the genitive, dative and ablative there is an "everything else" category, sometimes located after the direct object: S-O-(everything else)-V. If you are not sure how to translate the "everything else," start by translating the main parts of the sentence (the subject-object-verb).
Know:
What does an accusative case noun do?
What does a genitive case noun do?
What does an ablative case noun do?
What are the other noun cases and what do they do?
How do you decide if a verb is first conjugation or second conjugation, and why does that matter?
‘Catullus Bids His Girlfriend Farewell.’
Catullus was a Roman poet who lived in the time of Caesar Augustus, and many of his poems are about his affair with a married Roman woman, Clodia. This poem is about their breakup. (What we are reading is a prose adaptation.) He switches from first person to third person and then back to first. He is more passionate in first person, and more detached in third person.
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