The sentences aren’t numbered in the first part of this section, but it’s the antepenult sentence of part one.
Aestate filii agricolae perpetuis laboribus exercentur nec grave agri opus est iis molestum.
First of all, I would like some help with the first clause but I would also like to make a correction. The answer key reads as follows:
In the summer the sons of the farmer practice with continuous labour
But exercentur is a passive verb, so shouldn’t it be:
In the summer the farmer’s sons are exercised
Now I need help with perpetuis laboribus. If it’s in the plural shouldn’t it be: continuous labors.
And the correction I would like to make in the second clause is as follows; the answer key reads:
And the heavy work of the fiels is not troublesome to them.
Wouldn’t a better translation be:
And the hard work of the farm is not troublesome to them.
Agri can also mean farm, not just field, and perhaps couldn’t be translated as fields since it’s in the singular.
So shouldn’t the complete correction of the sentence should be:
In the summer, the farmer’s sons are exercised by continuous labors nor is the hard work of the farm troublesome to them.
I would like some feedback on perpetuis laboribus though.
And I almost forgot: section 276 is found in page 23 of the answer key and in page 122 of the workbook.