Here are the answers to Exercise 2 on Past Participles:

1. datus = given; having been given
2. missus = sent; having been sent
3. expulsus = driven out; having been driven out
4. scriptus = written; having been written
5. deletus = destroyed; having been destroyed

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Here are some possible translations of Exercise 3 on past participles:

1. Julia read a letter written by her husband.
2. The citizens buried the bodies of the soldiers who had been killed, with great dignity.
3. These men, expelled from the city, put together an army of robbers and thieves.
4. Adonis, wounded by a wild boar, died.
5. The barbarians set fire to the cities which had been captured.
6. The robbers found the money which had been hidden in the chest.
7. Nero acquired that part of the city which had been destroyed by the fire.
8. Other slaves removed the bodies of these slaves who had been attacked by the lions

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