Complete the quotations with the verbs listed below each exercise.
Remember: quamquam + the indicative; quamvīs + subjunctive.
Note also the different ways in which both quamvīs and quamquam can be translated to convey the concessive idea.
[1]
[i] Although you may be without your mind, without your senses, …
Quamvīs enim sine mente, sine sēnsū __________ … (Cicero)
[ii] He will speak against me in such a way, however ingenious he may be …
Ita contrā mē ille dicet, quamvīs __________ ingeniōsus (Cicero)
[iii] Although I love that woman …
Quamquam ego istanc __________ (Plautus)
[iv] Therefore, those who listen to him, however incapable of speaking they themselves are …
Itaque eum quī audiunt, quamvīs ipsī īnfantēs __________, … (Cicero)
[v] Though I’m an impotent old man …
Quamquam cantherius __________, … (Plautus)
[vi] Although all virtues are equal and alike …
Quamquam __________ omnēs virtūtēs aequālēs et parēs (Cicero)
[vii] Although I may be made of wood, …
Quamvīs __________ ligneus, … (Priapea)
[viii] Although I have nothing to do [ = there is no business for me] with that fellow …
Quamquam cum istōc mihi negōtī nihil __________ (Plautus)
[ix] Although you are angry with me …
Quamquam tū īrāta __________ mihi (Plautus)
[x] And by Hercules, although I love [ = we love] our Gnaeus* … (Cicero); *Pompey
Et mehercule, quamvīs __________ Gnaeum nostrum, … (Cicero)
amēmus; amō; es; est; sim; sint; sīs; sit; sum; sunt
[2]
[i] This place here at our house, although you may arrive suddenly, is always available.
Locus hīc apud nōs, quamvīs subitō __________, semper liber est (Plautus)
[ii] He is by no means rich to me, although he possesses many things.
Nēquāquam mihi dīves est, quamvīs multa __________ (Rutilius)
[iii] Although the matter does not please me …
Quamvīs rēs mihi nōn __________, … (Cicero)
[iv] Although the bright girl may call back a thousand times to the traveling one …
Quamvīs candida mīliēs puella euntem __________ (Catullus)
[v] Although you understand nothing, nevertheless nothing can be enjoyable for you
Quamvīs nihil __________, tamen nihil tibi potest esse iūcundum (Cicero)
[vi] Although / however much those domestic enemies do not want this …
Quamvīs hoc istī hostēs domesticī __________, … (Cicero)
[vii] Amiable as he may have been in keeping with his friends …
Quamvīs cōmis in amīcīs tuendīs __________, … (Cicero)
[viii] Although we gave / have given strict instructions to the envoys …
Quamvīs sevēra lēgātīs mandāta __________, … (Cicero)
dederīmus; fuerit; nōlint; placeat; possideat; revocet; sapiās; veniās
[3]
[i] Although that will be unpleasant for me for three days
Quamquam istud mihi __________ molestum trīduom (Plautus)
[ii] I’ll now go into this harlot’s house nomatter if she is in a rage with me
Nunc ībō intrō ad hanc meretrīcem quamquam __________ mihi (Plautus)
[iii] Although, unwillingly, I will do without you.
Quamquam invīta tē __________ (Plautus)
[iv] Now I’ve got to be a good woman unwillingly, even if I don’t want to be.
Nunc mihi bonae necessumst [necessum est] esse ingrātiīs quamquam esse __________ (Plautus)
[v] Although my master had ordered me to stay here, it’s settled: I’d rather look for trouble with profit.
Quamquam hic manēre mē erus sēsē __________; certum est, malam rem potius quaeram cum lucrō (Plautus)
[vi] Being a slave has not been very troublesome, though:
Quamquam nōn multum __________ molesta servitus (Plautus)
[vii] This man did his duty, when he confessed the truth to you, although / much as I wanted to hide my nobility carefully.
Fēcit officium hic suom, cum tibi est cōnfessus vērum, quamquam __________ sēdulō meam nōbilitātem occultāre (Plautus)
[viii] Even though you are devoted Vulcan, do you want us to burn our house down, all for your dinner or your pay?
Quamquam Volcānō __________, cēnaene causā aut tuae mercēdis grātiā nōs nostrās aedīs postulās combūrere? (Plautus)
carēbō; erit; fuit; iusserat; nōlō; studēs; suscēnset; voluī
____________________
[1]
[i] sīs
[ii] sit
[iii] amō
[iv] sint
[v] sum
[vi] sunt
[vii] sim
[viii] est
[ix] es
[x] amēmus
[2]
[i] veniās
[ii] possideat
[iii] placeat
[iv] revocet
[v] sapiās
[vi] nōlint
[vii] fuerit
[viii] dederīmus
[3]
[i] erit
[ii] suscēnset
[iii] carēbō
[iv] nōlō
[v] iusserat
[vi] fuit
[vii] voluī
[viii] studēs
