Somnia itaque indifferentia causantur aliquando ex complexione, ut sanguineus somniat laeta, melancholicus tristia, cholericus ignea, phlegmaticus, pluvias, nives et aquatica, et caetera huiusmodi, quae uniuscuiusque conveniunt complexioni, sexui et aetati, ut dicit Constantinus.

Some verbs, compounded with the prepositions ad, ante, con, in, inter, ob, prae, sub or super (used as prefixes) take the dative case. In the passage above, we see that conveniunt takes the dative case in the words complexioni, sexui and aetati, which is then translated: "[dreams]...are suited to each one's physical make-up, sex and age."

In the exercise below, some of the sentences are examples of the use of the dative with a compound verb; others are not. Mark as "true" those which are dative with compound verb examples; mark any others "false."

	True	False
1. Caesar equitati praeerat.
2. Gladius mihi est.
3. Marcus eorum consiliorum paenitet.
4. Livia amicae occurrit.
5. Somnia aetati conveniunt.
6. Famelicus somniat de cibo.