Exercise 17: Apposition
Extra information about a noun can be given by an adjective; it can also be given by putting after it and in the same case another noun or noun-phrase. E.g.:
a) ‘I praise Cicero, a man of the greatest bravery.’
laudo Ciceronem, virum summa fortitudine.
Sometimes the extra information is only relevant at the time of the main verb:
b) ‘As consul, Caesar made many allies.’
Caesar, consul, multos amicos fecit.
c) ‘I heard Cicero as [=when he was] as old man.’
audivi Ciceronem senem.
Adjectives can be used like this as well:
d) vivebam tristis (nominative singular).
‘I lived as a sad man (=sadly).’
e) Caesar tristis domum rediit.
‘Caesar went home as a sad man (=sadly).’
Remember adjectives always agree with the nouns they describe in number, case and gender.
