Strange helping verbs in Latin

[galen697]

How would one say "intended", as in "The house looked like it was intended to be left alone"? Gratias

"Domus videtur quasi... reliqui"

[Lucus Eques]

How would one say "intended", as in "The house looked like it was intended to be left alone"? Gratias

"Domus videtur quasi... reliqui"

That's a neat question.

I would say,

Domus videbatur ut ii qui ibi viverent eam voluerint insontem.

Domus videbatur [vel]ut melius esset non eam disturbare.

Domus videbatur velut melius foret ne eam disturbarem.

Domus mihi videbatur non disturbanda.

I can explain any of those constructions if they are unfamiliar. But the gerundive (the last one) is probably signifies what you are looking for most precisely.

[galen697]

I like the last one- nice and concise, and on a level that my 10th graders can grasp.

They've been reading fragments of Vergil to get them ready for AP Latin next year, and for their last project of the year they're choosing one of the many unresolved scenes from the Aeneid and composing a 15-25 line "conclusion" to it. The student in question is trying to explain what happened to Creusa after she fell behind in book 2 and has her walking into a trap.

[adrianus]

Pro "The house looked like it was intended to be left alone", dicam hoc

Quasi (seu "ita ut" seu "tanquam") constitutum (seu "statutum" seu "propositum" seu "intentum" seu "designatum") erat eam praetermittendam esse, domus talem faciem representavit (seu "domus talem speciem praebuit").