Heloise

On Romantic Love

Latin Grammar: Letters, and Comparison of Adjectives
Domino suo, immo patri; coniugi suo; immo fratri; ancilla sua, immo filia; ipsius uxor, immo soror; Abaelardo Heloysa. Missam ad amicum pro consolatione epistolam, delictissime, vestram ad me forte quidam nuper attulit. Quam ex ipsa statim tituli fronte vestram esse considerans, tanto ardentius eam coepi legere quanto scriptorem ipsum carius amplector, ut cuius rem perdidi verbis saltem tanquam eius quadam imagine recreer. Erant, memini, huius epistolae fere omnia felle et absintio plena, quae scilicet nostre conversionis miserabilem historiam et tuas, unice, cruces assiduas referebant.

Latin Letters

As you can see, this is a letter. In a Latin letter, the person sending the letter puts their name in the nominative case, that of the person to whom the letter is intended in the dative.

1. Who is sending this letter (give the name as it is written above)?

2. To whom is the letter being sent (give the name as it is written above)?

Comparison of Adverbs

Let's review your study of adverbs in the positive, comparative and superlative forms. The first is an example, of the following, two are taken from the passage above, one from the passage below.

 

Positive

Comparative

Superlative
  acriter acrius acerrime
1. pure
2. ardentius
3. carus

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