Read the text by Sulpicia, a Roman poet from the 1st century AD, in Latin and English, and answer the syntactic questions based on it. (The questions refer to the Latin text, but the translation serves as a support).
XVIII
Ne tibi sim, mea lux, aeque iam feruida cura
ac uideor paucos ante fuisse dies,
si quicquam tota commisi stulta iuuenta
cuius me fatear paenituisse magis,
hesterna quam te solum quod nocte reliqui, 5
ardorem cupiens dissimulare meum.
(Our translation based on the translation into Spanish by Aurora López, 1994. No solo hilaron lana).
"For you, my light, may I not be so ardent a yearning
as I seem to have been, a few days ago;
if I have committed any fault, foolish in my youthful excess,
which I confess I regret the most,
is to have left you alone last night
wishing to conceal my burning passion.».
1.- Vv. 1-2.
a.- Function of mea lux.
b.- Which case controls the preposition ante? What syntagm will it form?
2.- Vv. 3-4.
a.- What is the adjective in nominative which refers to the protagonist? What function will it have?
b.- Write down the relative clause.
3.- Vv. 5-6.
a.- What is the direct object and the predicative complement in te solum reliqui (I left you alone)?
b.- In which case does nocte appear and what type of complement is it?
c.- Which infinitive proposition depends on the verb of volition cupiens?