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籬廬 magalia · Prose Composition · Unit 4/6

Unit 4 · A purpose clause

purpose: Latin ut + subjunctive ∥ Greek ἵνα + subjunctive after a primary tense

Render into Latin and Greek:
“The soldiers are taking up arms in order to defend the city.”

Model Latin

Mīlitēs arma capiunt ut urbem dēfendant.

Model Greek

οἱ στρατιῶται τὰ ὅπλα λαμβάνουσιν ἵνα τὴν πόλιν φυλάττωσιν.

Grammar focus

Idiom watch: English 'in order TO + infinitive' must NOT become an infinitive: Latin needs ut + pres. subj. (dēfendant), Greek ἵνα + pres. subj. (φυλάττωσιν). The infinitive of purpose is wrong in both here.

Attested in the corpus

Real instances of this construction, mined from the PROIEL dependency treebanks (Herodotus · Augustus, Res Gestae) — the model you are imitating, attested in the wild. Square brackets [ ] mark letters restored by editors: the Res Gestae survives only in damaged inscriptional copies.

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