This practice is for use with section 6.8, “Participles: the circumstantial participle

The circumstantial participle

Use a participle to compose a verbal expression express the highlighted clause in each of these sentences from Carolyn Falkner’s translation of Lysias 1. Supplement your vocabulary with the following:

• μεθύω, μεθύσω, ἐμέθυσα, μεμέθυκα, μεμέθυμαι, ἐμεθύσθην, “to drink heavily, be drunk”
• ὀργίζω, “anger”; middle voice, “grow angry.”

1. When my mother died, her passing proved to be the cause of all my problems.
2. I have a modest, two storey house, which has equal space on the upper and lower floors.
3. You made a grab at her before when you were drunk.
4. I noticed though, gentlemen, that her face was made up, although her brother had died not thirty days earlier.
5. After some time had passed during which I remained quite ignorant of the terrible way I was being treated, an old woman came up to me.
6. The woman was angry, and thought herself badly treated because he no longer visited her as he had, and so she waited until she found out the cause.

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