News of Wheelock's Latin

Hello again,

Just after working my way through the P&R from Chapter 27 of Wheelock, and no. 1 gave me some difficulty. It goes:

Quisque cupit quam pulcherrima atque utilissima dona dare,

and I translated it as:

Each person desires that most beautiful (thing) and also to give the most useful gifts.

I used "quam" with "pulcherrima" as the acc.f.sing relative pronoun, and didn't relate it to "dona". Is that correct? Or, if not idiomatically, ...

Salvete!

I am still plugging away at Wheelocks. I picked up the Audio CDs as well as Grotes book which is a big help. I am trying now to wrap my head around Cases. I have two questions regarding sentence 12 from the Sententiae Antiquae

12. Quid cogitas?—debemus iram vitare.
According to the teacher's guide this translates to
"What are you thinking?—we ought to (must) avoid anger."

Would I have been correct to translate Quid ...

I don't know if this is allowed, but I left my copy of Wheelock's at the dorm over Easter break and need to translate Disillusionment (Loci Antiqui #1) pg.292 for tomorrow.... can anyone post it, please? :)

'saepe stilum verte, bonum libellum scripturus.'

Benissumus's answer here is 'Use the eraser often, you are about to write a good little book.' Which sounds right. But isn't there a case (pardon the pun) for scripturus being in the vocative? i.e. scripture?
My reasoning is that verte is singulare imperative, so you're talking to the person who is about to write, and when you are talking to someone, you put their name (if present), and ...

Why are the words in the vocabularies of chapter two listed as
vita, -ae?
Is that because the first declension are those words forming their genitive singular in -ae, or another reason, or none at all?

Here you go:

CHAPTER 32


Practice and Review (p. 220-21)
At first those three laughable men were able to endure bravely not even moderate things.
We especially asked how much help the seven women would bring and whether they would soon help us..
With the weapons finally having been gathered together, the commander promised that ten thousands of soldiers would depart very quickly.
You (pl.) wish to confer equal benefits, therefore, ...

Salvete!

My name is Scott and I am on a self-study path to learning Latin. So far I have really enjoyed the Wheelock book. I have a couple of very basic questions I hope may be answered here.

On page 6 of the revised 6th edition the 2nd principal part of "do" is written as "dare" with a stress on the -a but no macron. I was under the impression that first conjugation verbs are ...

Another question (by the way thank you so much everyone for helping me out! I was supposed to be in a latin class, but it got dropped because of lack of enrollment, so before I found all of you I was doing this on my own...its so much better to learn a language in community!)

The sentance to translate is
The leader, having been driven out by both the free men and the slaves, could ...

The Latin text is
"Sed quid rides? Mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur!"

My translation is
"But you laugh at what? I change the name, but I have been telling a story about you!"

Benissimus translated it
"But why are you laughing? With a name changed,a story is told about you"

Wait, wait....the "de" is "about" not "but"....I keep getting confused with the greek "de" without even thinking about it.
"Muto nomine" is a ablative ...

Does anyone happen to have a copy of page 369 or possibly just questions 8-17? I have seemed to have left my latin book in my locker and 12 A.M. is a tad late to be wondering the school.
I hope somebody happens to be on and able to post the questions or a copy of the page by about 6:45 Pacific standard time.
I would be very greatful for the help
Thank you.