籬廬 magalia · Prose Composition · Unit 1/6

Unit 1 · Subject + verb + object

the simple transitive sentence: nominative subject, accusative direct object

Render into Latin and Greek:
“The Romans praise the consul.”

Model Latin

Rōmānī cōnsulem laudant.

Model Greek

οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τὸν ὕπατον ἐπαινοῦσιν.

Grammar focus

Greek: transitive verb + accusative object (Smyth §920) Smyth §920
Latin: transitive verb + accusative direct object; SOV order (Wheelock ch. 1–2)
↔ compare the construction across both languages

Idiom watch: Both languages mark the object by CASE (Lat. acc. cōnsulem; Gk. acc. τὸν ὕπατον), not by word order; Greek keeps the article on subject and object, Latin has no article at all.

Unit 2 →

Authored pedagogical model answers, proofread for grammatical correctness in both languages. Not from a single source edition.