These are fine. Your ablative absolute could have been rendered in more idiomatic English, but you’ve clearly grasped the sense and structure of the sentences.
I’m tempted to ask what kind of ablative is expressed by quo, but I won’t. Except I just did by way of praeteritio…
Good question. Now I want to know too. But Isn’t it just a relative pronoun introducing the subjunctive clause of description? I got those sentences from D’Ooge. It’s in the chapter that introduces the subjunctive of description. I’ve been translating the answers and posting them in the forum on D’Ooge’s textbook and bedwere has been adding them to the answer key here on textkit, but I got a little stuck here.
It is a relative pronoun introducing a clause of characteristic, but that does not preclude the fact that it is also an ablative of means. If, however, I am mistaken, I hope those with more expertise will point that out and explain it.
Actually, I was just looking for confirmation as some of the uses of the subjunctive are one of my weak points. Not so much understanding the meaning -which I feel is the more important point- but identifying the type/ label for the usage.