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age's {Twentieth Genturg Series

iiLATIN

lessons

FOR BEGINNERS*/

J.

c/ROBERTSONf

M.A.

VICTORIA COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

ADAM CARRUTHERS,

M.A.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

W.

J.

GAGE & COMPANY,


TORONTO

Limited

E3/3
oop-3

Entered according to the Act of Parliament of Canada,

in the Office of the


Minister of Agriculture, by W, J. Gage & Co. Limited, Toronto, in the
year one thousand nine hundred and six.

PREFACE
This book is the result of a revision of the Primary Latin Book
The experience of the intervening
which was published in 1892.
years and, in part, the changed conditions in our schools, have led
Yet
to a revision so thorough as bo produce an altogether new book.
in some important respects the point of view of the earlier work has
It is recognized throughout that the primary object
been retained.
of an introductory Latin book is to prepare pupils for the reading of
Latin that the acquiring of a vocabulary, the mastery of accidence
and syntax, are to be regarded as means to that end and, finally, that
;

the only

way

to learn

how

by much practice in
dwell upon what is not essential

to read Latin

is

The temptation to
merely for the sake of completeness, has constantly to
be resisted, and in an introductory Latin book merely to know what
to omit is itself a great merit, if a negative one.
reading Latin.

for beginners,

The improvements made in the order of the lessons do not involve


Most introductory Latin books
any material change in principle.
published in the last two decades follow a plan which some theorists
have criticized as disjointed and lacking in continuity.
It is
claimed that the unsystematic and piecemeal presentation of forms
and syntax, which to day directs attention to the verb, to-morrow to
the noun, and the day after to some rule of syntax, is a violation of
the laws of psychology and of pedagogy. Surely, however, there is no
psychological necessity for our learning a language in the same order
m which reflective analysis and systematized grammar present it no
law of the mind bids us learn all our nouns before we venture upon
the verb, or prescribes that, after becoming acquainted with one
pronoun, we shall forthwith master all the rest. On the other hand,
experience, to which the final appeal must be made, has shown that
there is a distinct gain when topics are varied according to a well
he noun or
If, for example, sonic lessons on
considered plan.
adjective intervene between the lesson on the perfect indicative and
thaton the pluperfect, a much greater amount of <lrill in the perfect
can be obtained than bj the method in which practice in the perfect
;

PREFACE.

IV
in

one lesson must of necessity give place to practice in the plu-

The

perfect immediately afterwards.

now

success of the method which

usually followed depends, however, on having,

is

a wellplanned order of lessons which neither unduly separates matters that


should be closely connected, nor presents too great and too varied an
array of topics in one and the same lesson and, secondly, a series of
exercises that never allows what has been learned at any stage to be
This, with a
forgotten through having been too long neglected.
proper amount of review work, will secure all the systematization
first,

that

is

necessary for the beginner.

To the vocabulary most

careful attention has been given.

Whether

consciously or not, the authors of introductory books are, by their


choice of vocabulary, really preparing the beginner to read some
particular style of Latin.

selection being unavoidable,

it

has

seemed best to prepare for the reading of Caesar, not so much by


selecting sentences from the Gallic War, with little or no change, as
by familiarizing the pupil from the first with words and phrases of
frequent occurrence throughout Caesar's narrative.
At the same
time regard has been had to the usefulness of the vocabulary for
But on the whole the words that are frequent in
other purposes.
Caesar are words that should form part of the vocabulary of every
student of Latin. The absence of such words as ancilla, corona and
Stella may be deplored, but fuga, rlpa and copia are quite as valuable
from any point of view, and for Caesar are incomparably more useful.

The rule has been followed of giving not more than ten new words
with each exercise. This has necessitated a careful selection of fcha
words and phrases that would prove most valuable both for immediate and for later use. Especial care also has been taken that
words once introduced shall not after a time be disused
it is within
the mark to say that the exercises of any group of ten consecutive
lessons employ more than ninety per cent, of all the words hitherto
learned.
Wherever possible, related words have been so grouped in
one vocabulary as not only to help the memory but also to give some
knowledge of the principles of composition and derivation.
At intervals of about five lessons are review word lists, given
alternately in Latin and in English, and variously classified
each
list thus contains the words that have been introduced in the precedThe topical classification of the English lists will
ing ten lessons.
be found especially useful, and will doubtless suggest to the teacher
other groupings and combinations which can be readily made.
;

PREFACE.

The exercises are so graded, and the sentences call for so constant
an interweaving of old matter with new, that it is believed continuous
and rapid progress will be possible, with no sudden increase of
difficulty

any

at

In

stage.

the

latter

exercises are given in a double series,

book the
which is
thus provided abundant
part

the

of

and B, either

of

complete course. There is


matter for review, for oral or sight work, for examination purposes,
sufficient for a

a change in
work from year to year. If the exercises, as well as
the whole book, seem longer by reason of the larger type used, that
for additional practice in ditficult points, as well as for

the routine of

is

a fault that will

be readily forgiven.

Much

exists as to the respective value of translation

difference of opinion

from Latin and trans-

In any case, sufficient material is provided in this


lation into Latin.
book for those who hold the view that translation from English into
Latin, when not too difficult, is an invaluable means of clinching
the knowledge of forms and syntax alike.
In order to relate the work in Latin more closely and more
profitably to

may

or

what the pupil

will already

have learned of grammar,

learn at a later stage, care has been taken in the explanations

given, both to use the terminology already familiar from his study of

English grammar, and to keep in view the statements of Latin

grammar

as they are given in

The constant

more advanced books.

translation of detached sentences

may

easily

become

who, after much toiling, does not


seem to be arriving anywhere. To obviate this, a reading lesson in
the form of a continuous story has been inserted after each word list.
The stories are drawn from Roman legend, the order of chronology
being observed, and for the most part illustrate the resolution, sense
of duty and devotion to country so characteristic of the Romans.
they are not
These lessons are, in the strictest sense, reviews
adaptations of any existing narrative, but have been built up out of
the material afforded by the previous vocabularies and exercises.
They are sufficiently long to give the detail needed to make a story
interesting, and yet are in such close relation to the work just
completed that they can be read without a discouraging amount of

a source of weariness to the pupil,

labor,

and even, by at

Apart from
no small thing for a pupil

least the better pupils, at sight.

the question of interest and practice,

it is

able to apply successfully the knowledge

to

have learned that

In-

already has to the work of translating continuous nanali

In-

is

PREFACE.

VI
For classes

in

which

it

may be

desirable to take

up some

easier

Latin preparatory to the study of Caesar, there have been added a


summary of Caesar's First Campaign in Gaul, and an adaptation of
the Story of Ulysses from Ritchie's admirable Fabulae Faciles.

The

illustrations in the

book are intended

in part to furnish

through

the eye more accurate ideas of the meaning of certain Latin words

and expressions, and in part to interest the pupil in the great


monuments of Rome, and thus in the achievements of that masterful
people whose language he is learning and whose literature he is about
to read.

If

the exercises are largely connected with military opera-

tions, the illustrations

the

Romans were

and the introductory sections will show that


and administra-

architects, engineers, law-givers

tors, as well as warriors.

It remains for the authors to express their indebtedness for valuable

suggestions and criticisms both to their colleagues in the University

and

to

many

of the teachers of Latin in the

Ontario, especially

among

the latter to Mr. H.

secondary schools of
I.

Strang, Mr. H. J.

Crawford, Mr. F. C. Colbeck and Mr. D. A. Glassey.

Toronto, March, 1906.

CONTENTS.
LESSON
Introduction
I.

First

........
.......

and Second Conjugations

III.

IV.

Present Indica-

tive Active
II.

PAGE

and Second Declensions: Nominative Singular and Plural


First and Second Declensions Accusative Singular
and Plural
First and Second Declensions: Genitive Singular
and Plural
Dative Singular
First and Second Declensions
and Plural. Accusative with ad.
Imperfect IndicaFirst and Second Conjugations

13

First

16

18

.20

V.

VI.

tive Active

VII.

VIII.

24

and Second Declensions: Ablative Singular


and Plural
First and Second Declensions Reviewed
Vocative
Predicate Nouns and Appositives
Case.
Word List I. Reading Lesson I. (Romulus and
Id in us and the Founding of Rome)
Nouns in -Mil. Cender
Second Declension
Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions
Second Declension Nouns in -er and -ir. Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions in
-er
Third and Fourth Conjugations Present, IndicaFirst

...

X.
XI.

XII.

34

37

40

List A.

43

.....
...

Reading Lesson

oiid their Neighbors)

X V.
XVI.

32

tive Active

XIV.

28

Word
XIII.

26

IX.

22

II.

(The Romans

Consonant Stems
Third Declension
Third and Fourth Conjugations: Imperfect [ndica
tive Active
:

Third Declension: Consonant Sterna (continued)


Prepositions

46
47

58
i

57

CONTENTS.

VI 11

XVII.
XVIII.

Perfect Indicative Active (continued)

Word

Reading Lesson

List II.

the Sabine

XIX.

XX.
XXI.

.....

Perfect Indicative Active

III.

PAGE
59
61

{The Seizure of

Maidens)

C4

Adjectives of the Third Declension

Sum

67

Present Indicative

70

Complementary

Present Infinitive Active.

Infini-

.....
.......

tive

73

xxir.
XXIII.

Pluperfect Indicative Active

76

Fourth Declension
Word List B. Reading Lesson IV. {The Battle of
the Horatii and the Curiatii)

79

XXIV.

Principal Parts.

....

XXV.
XXVI.

Perfect Indicative Passive

Ablative of Agent.

XXX.
XXXI.
XXXII.

Pluperfect Indica-

List III.

.....

Regular Comparison of Adjectives


Dative with Adjectives.

99
101

........
......
.....
........
.......
......

List C.

97

104

Partitive Genitive

and Second Conjugations

Active

Word

95

Reading Lesson V. {The Battle of


and the Curiatii concluded)

Present Indicative Passive

First

91

....

Accusative and Ablative of Time


the Horatii

XXIX.

Sum.

Ordinal Numerals

Fifth Declension.

Word

84
88

.......

Imperfect Indicative of
tive Passive

XXVII.
XXVIII.

Ablative of Means

HI

07

Future Indicative
110

Reading Lesson VI. {The Seven

XXXIII.

Kings of Borne)
Third Declension
I-Stems

115

XXXIV.

Irregular Comparison of Adjectives

120

Third and Fourth Conjugations: Future Indicative


Active
Irregular Adjectives of the First and Second De-

123

XXXV.
XXXVI.

clensions

XXXVII.
XXXVIII.

Imperfect and Future Indicative Passive


Cardinal Numerals

Word

List IV.

tius

XXXIX.
XL.

Kept

113

126

130

132

Reading Lesson VII. {How Hora-

the Bridge)

Future Perfect Indicative, Active and Passive


Mllle. Accusative of Extent of Space
.

135
138

142

CONTENTS.

IX
PAGE

XLI.

XL11.

Adverbs: Reguh
Formation and Comparison
Quam with Comparatives. Ablative of Com
Present Infinitive

parison

XLI

1.

Adverbs:

Quam
Word

List

Passive.

XLV.

XL VI.

MAIL
XL VIII.

with Superlatives
Reading Lesson VIII. {The Story
I).
.

of Mucins Scaevola)

XLIY.

Irregular Formation and Comparison

Quod

Relative Pronoun.

Perfect Participle Passive

....
....
....

Personal Pronouns

Present Participle Active.


Reflexive Pronoun.

Word

List V.

Dum

Possessives

Reading Lesson IX. {Camilhis and

LI.

the Schoolmaster of Falerii)


Third Conjugation Verbs in -i6
Demonstrative Pronouns
HlC, Ille, Is
Ablative Absolute

LIT.

Perfect Participle Passive (continued).

XLIX.
L.

LIV.

LV.
LVI.
LVII.

LVHI.

......
......
....
:

Accusative and Infinitive (continued)


Questions.

LXIII.

l)e

Ablative with utor


Subjunctive of Sum. Indirect Questions
.

.....

Subjunctive Active
Subjunctive Passive.

The Compounds

Word

List F.

Torquatus)

LXIV.

{Rome

Dative with Special Intran

Dative of Agent.
sitive Verbs.

LX IT.

XL

....

Reading Lesson

List VI.

liveredfrom the Gauls)

LX.
LXI.

Interrogative Pronoun

Active and Passive Periphrastic Conjugations

Word

MX.

Demon

Pronouns Ipse, Idem


Deponent Verbs
Word List E. Reading Lesson X. {Rome Taken by
the OauU)
Accusative and Infinitive
Accusative and Infinitive (continued)
strative

LIIL

of

....

Subjunctive of Result

Sum

......

Reading Lesson XII. ( Titus MwU%V*

Genitive and Ablative of Quality

146

CONTENTS.
PAGE

LESSON

LXV.

LXVL
LXVII.
LXVIII.

The Subjunctive
Fero

in Clauses of

Subjunctive with

Purpose

258

Cum

Vol6, N616, Mal6.

261

Dative of Purpose and In-

265

terest

LXIX:

LXX.
LXXI.

LXXIL
LXXIIL
LXXIV.

Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse


Word List VII. Reading Lesson XIII. (The
.

273

Ablative of Manner

276

279
284

Self-

E6, FI6
Substantive Clauses of Purpose

Word

and Dative Cases


287
and Ablative Cases
.291
Reading Lesson XIV. {The Honor

of Genitive

of Accusative

List G.

296

of Fabricius)

LXXV.
LXXVI.
LXXVII.

LXXVIIL
LXXIX.
LXXX.

Gerund

300

Gerundive Construction

304

Review

Pronouns
Imperative. Subjunctive in Independent Clauses
Supine. Review of Verb-forms
Conditional Sentences. Review of Subjunctive
Word List VIII. Reading Lesson XV. (The Story
Indefinite Pronouns.

of

....

of Regulus)

Supplementary Reading Lessons


Caesar's First

Campaign

The Story of Ulysses

270

......

Devotion of Decius)
Ablative of Specification.

Review
Review

254

in

307
312

315

319

324

Gaul

....
.

328

335

Tables of Declensions and Conjugations

346

Description of Illustrations

362

Latin -English Vocabulary

366

English-Latin Vocabulary

385

Index

397

CONTENTS.

XI

MAPS.
PAGE
Italy

and Gaul

345
362

Rome

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
(For description

see

page 362.)

.........
.......
....
........
.........
........
........
........
........

(tomb of Hadrian
Appian Way

Tomb

Frontispiece.

Fac rag

of Caecilia Metella

Pantheon
Colosseum

Claudian Aqueduct and Cloaca


Trajan's

Column

Arch of Severus
Baths of Caracalla
Forum, looking eastForum, looking west
Forum, restored
Arch of Constantino

Basilica of Constantine

64
81

Maxima

Spoils of Jerusalem

17

32

113
128

160
177

209
224
256

321

>

336

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.


Roman Coins
Roman Eagle
Sword

..........

4
12
15

Soldier

21

Spear

25

........
...
........
.........
..........
.........

The Wall of Romulus


Remains of Roman Camp
Standard

Cains Julius Caesar.

(Bust in the Louvre, Parte)

Soldiers on the March


Arms and Weapons

Writing Implements and Materials.


Porta Appia
Rampart and Trench
Military Standards

Wall-painting at Pomptii)

36

39
45
51

62
86
78

83
89
94

CONTENTS.

Xll

Tomb

of the Horatii

War-galleys.

War-ship.

and

Curiatii near

Alba

.......
....
......

Wall-painting at Pompeii)

(Praeneste Belief)

Roman

....

172

239

Rome)

Capitol,

{Trajan's Column)

Soldiers Crossing a Bridge of Boats.

Coin of Antoninus Pius

145

232

.251

Coin of Hadrian
Fleet in Harbor
Temple at Nismes

137

197

(Museum of the

Roman

127

102

Rome)
Pack
Attack on a Walled City
Aqueduct at Nismes
Soldier's

Gaul.

101

.119

Coin
Statue of Augustus. ( Vatican Museum, Rome)
Transport Ship. {Ancient Relief)
Cicero Addressing the Senate.
(Fresco in Palace of the Senate,

The Dying

PAGE

........

269
283
303
327

344

Latin Lessons for Beginners.

INTRODUCTION.
THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND THE ROMAN PEOPLE.
1.

Latin

is

the language that

people of ancient

Rome.

was spoken by the

The word Latin

is

derived

from the adjective Latinus, meaning belonging to


Lathim. Latium was the district occupying the plain
south of the river Tiber, and its inhabitants, the
Latins, possessed several towns and strong-holds, among"
In time Rome came to be the
which was Rome.
-

strongest of

all

these Latin towns, so that the other

Latins, at first the

became

kinsmen and

allies of the

Romans,

Accordingly from a
very early date the word Latin ceased to be applied to
the people and city of Rome, and was used only of the
other inhabitants of Latium, although it was always
retained in speaking" of the language common to
at length their subjects.

Romans and

Latins.

For several centuries after the founding of their


the Romans were but an inconspicuous
people, holding amid constant struggles a very small
portion of Italian territory.
From about 350 B.C.,
however, their power extended rapidly within a century they had conquered the whole peninsula of
Italy; and by the beginning of the Christian era,
2.

settlement,

Latin Lessons for Beginners.

Rome was mistress of all the lands bordering" on the


Mediterranean, virtually, that is, of the then known
The Roman empire thus established lasted
world.
unbroken for over 400 years, and for more than 1,000
years thereafter the influence of

Rome was paramount

in Europe.
3.

This supremacy of the

on certain

qualities

which we

Roman

people was based


them possessing" from
The Romans were

find

the beginning of their history.

daunted by no reverse or misand untiring stern and ruthless,


though on the whole honorable in their dealings they
were conspicuous for their self-denying patriotism and
their high sense of duty they lacked refinement and
imagination, but were clear-headed, business-like and
and finally they were not a mere fightingefficient
race, but one gifted above all other nations with the
power of governing, framing laws and organizing.
Roman law, Roman organization and Roman institutions persist to this day over most of continental
Europe
and when in the middle ages the power of
the Roman empire passed over to the Roman church,
this genius for organization and government was not
extremely resolute,

fortune, strenuous

Quite as important, too, as these contributions


civilization is the fact that Rome, after
conquering the ancient world, gathered up into her
own civilization all that Greece, Egypt and Asia had
of value for mankind in science, literature, art, philolost.

to

modern

sophy and

religion,

and preserved

it

for the

modern

world.

Roman supremacy
have a peculiar preeminence
which no other language has ever enjoyed. French,
4.

During the

in Europe, Latin

long" centuries of

came

to

Latin Lessons for Beginners.

Spanish and Portuguese are merely the modern


it was spoken in various
parts of the Roman empire (whence they are known as
Moreover all through the
the Romance languages).
middle ages and down to quite modern times, Latin
was the language of learning and diplomacy an educated man in any part of Europe knew Latin as well as
his own language, and both wrote and spoke it freely.
Partly for this latter reason, and partly because of
England's close relations with France from the time of
the Norman Conquest, the English language also has
been profoundly influenced by Latin.* Countless words,
originally Latin, have been introduced from French,
especially during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
and innumerable words also have been taken directly
from Latin during the whole period from the time of
the Roman occupation of Britain to the present day,
but particularly since 1500 A.D. It has been estimated
that fully forty per cent, of our English vocabulary has
in,

representatives of Latin as

thus come, directly or indirectly, from Latin.

THE ALPHABET.
5.

The Latin alphabet

is

the

same as the English,

never used. K occurs in but a few


words and always as an initial letter; even here it is
replaced by C in many books as Karthago or Carthago,

except that

is

Carthage.
* English belongs to a different group of languages from Latin and
French, and Is more akin to Dutch, German, Danish. and Norse. This group
of languages is called Teutonic, and the Teutonic and Latin groups seem to
have descended from some still earlier common language. Henoe there are
resemblances between English and Latin words, even where it is certain
that the English word has not come even Indirectly From Latin; as <'.x-

mother a,nd mater, two and duo. Such related words are called oopnat&t;
ds which have come to us from Latin are called derivatives.

'

Latin Lessons for Beginners.

and Z began to be used in the first century B.C.,


few words borrowed from the Greeks, to represent
sounds foreig-n to Latin. The Romans themselves used
but one sign V for both the vowel U and the semiconsonantal V (pronounced w), and similarly one
sign I for both the vowel I and the semi-consonantal J
For the sake of convenience and
(pronounced y).
clearness, however, many modern books (especially
those for beginners in Latin) follow the custom that
arose in the middle ages, of using distinct signs for the
in a

different sounds.

Only the

were used by
while the use of the smaller
Roman
letters (minuscules) dates from the eighth century A.D.
the

capital letters (majuscules)

Romans

'

'

'

DIWS

IVDAEA CAPTA

IVLIVS

Divus Julius: The Divine Julius.

Roman

Judaea Capta: Judea Conquered.


Coins.

SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS.


Vowels.
6.

Each

of the five* vowels, a,

e,

i,

o, u,

has but two

The long sounds differ


sounds, a long and a short.
from the short chiefly in requiring a distinctly longer
time to utter them.
*Y, which rarely occurs, has a sound between u and

German

il).

(French u or

Latin Lessons for Beginners.


a

is

sounded

father or amen (pronounced as

like a in

in singing"),

when

these words

are uttered slowly, or like the

second a

in aha.

father or

amen when uttered

\\\

in they, veil, or a in /ale.

in

in machine police.

in /, w.

the second o in

ii

'I

'

"

"

ii

"

"

"

briskly, or like the first a in aha.

'

<"W.

?//*/,

',

'i

"

the

<?//#

or propose, or

in melodious, heroic.

like
first o

in oho or propose, or like

in melody, heroine.

ii

N.B.

or 00 in cuckoo, boot, poor.

"

"

7^

in

r/<?,

"

"

in

yW/, cuckoo, or 00 in/oot, good.

11

It is

especially important to avoid the English

short sounds of #,

sound of

it

and

?/

as in hat, hot, hut, or the

you

as in pure, use.

7.
It should also be observed that in Latin a long:
vowel often precedes a combination of consonants before
which, in English, a single vowel is regularly short
as, infensus, ademptum, cresco.
;

Many

foreign

geographical

illustrate the values of the

or biographical

Roman

vowels

as,

names
Tokio,

Yokohama, Amur,
Hegel, Buddha, Hindu

Rio, Pisa, Upsala, Tripoli, Yenisei,

Mikado, [ago, Galileo, Rossini,


so also many musical terms borrowed from the Italian
as trio, do, re, mi, /a.

Latin Lessons for Beginners.

Diphthongs.
8.
The diphthong's in Latin have all arisen from two
vowels sounded in their proper order, but slurred so
that they occupy the time of a single long vowel. Latin
has six diphthongs, of which only ae and au occur

frequently.

ae

is

sounded

au

ii

ii

ou in house,

oe

"

"

ii

oi in boil.

ei

I'

"

ii

ei in vein.

eu

ii

I'

"

ui

it

ii

like ai in aisle.

e-oo in rapid succession.

oo -i in rapid succession.

'i

Among- the Romans themselves in Imperial times,


there was a tendency to replace the diphthongal sound
of ae by the long- sound of e (like ai in pain), and this
from about 300 A.D. became the regular pronunciation.
Consonants.
9.

The consonants have each

in most cases

is

a single sound, which

that usual in English.

The

following-

points deserve special attention


c is

sounded as in come,

sceptic,

get, give,

ii

si'

I'

I'

"

"

'I

mightiest,

ii

ii

ii

exercise

it

ii

ii

"

"

r is distinctly

I'

"

"n

this,

never as in

cent, sceptre.

never as in gem, gin.

gas, never as in his, has.

never as in righteous.

(x = ks), never
(x=gz).

in yet, or as

in Hallelujah.

a'in wet, beware.

sounded in

as in exert

all positions.'

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n before

c, g,

"

in the

ch

or

qu, x,
is

t,

is

sounded as

?ig,

or as n in ankle.

sounded as p.

combinations qu and ngu, as also in the words


suadeo, suavis and suesco, has the sound of w.

is

10.

sounded as

k*

consideration of the following-

may

help to

throw some light on the sounds of certain of the consonants as pronounced in Latin
:

c,

Kaiser from Caesar; Aciles and pulcer, the older


spelling of Achilles andp?ilcher; the variant spellings
recuperb

g,

and

Non Angli
Gregory)

recipero.

sed

An gel

(the exclamation of Pope

gonu and knee

related words like genu,

or genus, gonos and kin.


j,

words like jugum and yoke ; juvenis, junior


and young ; the identity of major and mayor ; Jan
and la?i ; yawl and jolly boat ; Yiddish and Judisch ;
the pronunciation of such foreign words as Jena,

related

Jungfrau, Pompeii.
s,

caussa

and hiemps, variant spellings

for causa

and

hiems.

words like vlcus and -wick (as in Berwick,


Wick ham) ; ventus and wind; vallum and wall ;
vi?ium and wine ; void and will ; vespa and wasp ;
vastus and waste ; vir and wer (in werwolf) ; prudens shortened from providens, junior from juvenior,
auspex from avispex, nolo from ne-volo ; the con-

v, related

fusion of Cauneas with cave ne

the cawing of a crow with

ea's

(Cicero), or

<>t

Ave (Phaedrus).

* It is properly not a Latin combination, but being borrowed from the


Greek to represent a character in the Greek alphabet, it cam.- to be used in
Latin words in place of an earlier c.
\

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syllables.
In dividing written or printed Latin words into
syllables, the rule is to place at the beginning of each
syllable all the consonants that could be pronounced at
the beginning of a word * as, su-pe-ri-or, su-pre-mus,
11.

mon-strum, ser-vo, mit-to. In compounds,


however, the several parts are kept distinct as ab-est,

se-pa-ra-te,

dis-turbo, di-stant.

When

12.

doubled in a Latin word,


heard in each syllable
com-mit-to (contrasted with the English

a consonant

is

the sound of the consonant


as,

ap-pel-lo,

is

words appellant, committee, in which the consonant,


though occurring twice, is pronounced but once).t
13.

The

last syllable of a

word

the one next to the last the penult,

but two the

is

called the ultimate,

and the

last syllable

ayitepenult.

ACCENT.
14.

Illustrative

Examples.

de'-dit,

va'-do,

an'-nus,

su'-o,

de'-dit,

rl'-pas,

con'-sul,

nau-tae.

These representative words


lable

(penult or ultimate)

words of two
15.

will

show on which

the accent falls in

syl-

Latin

syllables.
Illustrative

Examples,

spe-ra-mus,

R6-ma-no'-rum,

con-sen-su,

re-ll'-qui,

sa-lu-tem,

po-ten'-tis.

ge'-ne-ra,

ex-cel'-si-or,

con-sen'-se-ras,

re'-li-qui,

i-do'-ne-us,

ci'-vi-tas.

Some

authorities hold that in the case of two or more consonants the


comes before the last consonant, except in the case of a mute followed by a liquid, and would divide thus, moiis-t rum, cas-tra.
t So in English contrast tattoo with tatter, soulless with solace, penknife with penny, unknown with unowned, missent with missing.
*

division

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These representative words of more than two sylIn the words in


arranged in two groups.
the two upper lines the vowel of the penult is either
a long' vowel, or a short vowel followed by two conin the two lower lines the vowel of the
sonants
penult is a short vowel not followed by two consonants.
On which syllable (penult or antepenult) does the
accent fall in these two classes respectively ?
N.B. In the matter of accent, x is treated as a
double consonant, qu as a single consonant. So also
when the two consonants consist of r or 1, preceded by
a different consonant, the word is accented as though
there were but one consonant
for example, ar'bitror,
lables are

multiplex, ten'ebrae; but impul'sus, vexillum, adver'to,


incur ro, according to the general rule.

For the purposes of

accentuation a .diphthong

is

treated as a long vowel.


16.

There are no

that there are as

silent letters in Latin

many

it

syllables in each Latin

follows

word as

there are vowels and diphthongs.

Pronounce accordingly the following Latin words

Miles, fine, consumes, furore, beatus, excelsior, deslgno,

honor, legionis, scena, salve, oratio, alienus, militia.


17.

Practice in the pronunciation of Latin

may be

obtained from the measured and careful reading of the


following lines, which are a portion of the version by
Professor R. Y. Tyrrell, of Dublin, of Hood's "Bridge
of Sighs," in the metre of the original

A
A

mi sera
Pondere
!

sortis

fessa

temere mortis

Viam

ingressa

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10

Tollite facile

Onus tarn bellum,


Onus tarn gracile

Tamque

Ne

tenellum.

fastidientes

Corpus attingite,
Sed flebilem flentes

Animo fingite
Quod fecerit male
;

Donate tarn bellae

Nil restat ni quale

Decorum

puellae.

humanarum

Quam

raro homullos

Miseriarum

_ Miseret ullos
Eheu, quam flebilis,
!

Urbe

tarn plena,

Jacuit debilis,

Tecti egena.

THE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN.


18. The pronunciation of Latin in use in ancient
times came to be gradually modified in certain respects,
but in all its essential features it was retained for
and as Latin was a constant medium for
centuries
oral communication between various parts of Europe
;

throughout the middle ages, the pronunciation was


By the sixteenth
practically uniform over Europe.
century, however, England had become so isolated
from continental Europe, through her separate political

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11

and religious development, that the traditional pronunciation of Latin was abandoned, and Latin words
Were treated as if they were English
As a result of this,' in our English speech Roman
names and many familiar expressions and phrases
borrowed from the Latin have long been pronounced
according to the English method, e.g. Caesar, Julius
Augustus, Horatius, sine die, et cetera^ prima facie, viva
In such
voce, excelsior, e pluribus unum, vox popull.
English
method
follow
the
not
those
who
do
cases even
,

pronunciation in reading Latin, yet retain the


English pronunciation when these names or phrases
are used in English.*

of

19.

(a) In

method

English

the

Latin, the vowels are given the

English sounds

of

common

pronouncing
long or short

a as in cane, a as in can.
e

ii

ii

me,

7net.

"

pin.

no,

ii

not.

use>

it

its.

pine,

But very often vowels really long are sounded as short,


and vowels really short as long, either through the
influence of similar English words or' for ease of utterance.

No

absolutely fixed rules can be given for these

exceptions, but
as follows

some

of the

more regular

variations are

Exactly the same thing occurs in the ruse of guoh modern foreign
names as Paris, Napoleon, Pyrenees; Luther, Berlin, Munchausen; Madrid,
Manila. Don Quixote. We give each of these words our pronunciation
when we are reading or speaking English, and quite another when vre are
*

reading or speaking the foreign language to which

it

belongs.

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Long vowels

are sounded as short () before two


consonants or x
(6) in most final syllables ending
with a consonant; e.g. densus, duxit, brevitas.
Short vowels are sounded as long (a) before another
vowel or diphthong or h; (6) in the first syllable of
dissyllabic words before a single consonant, e.g. aluit,
-

nihil,

senex, caput.

The diphthongs

(b)
in vie

au as

in author;

ae and

oe

are

eu as in feud ;

sounded as
and ui as

ei

e
i

in pine.
(c)

Of

sound of

and g are given the soft


and / respectively before e and i sounds

the consonants, c
's

before

(that

is

when

final is often

e,

i,

y, ae, oe)

e.g. Cicero, reglna;

sounded like z, as it is occasionally


in other places also through the analogy of some
English word, e.g. pars, causa; and c, s, and t are
often sounded as s/i before i (unaccented) followed by
another vowel, e.g. socius, ratio; j is sounded as in jar,
and v as in vine.

N.B.
are the

The
same

rules for accent in the English


as are given above in 14

^3^

Roman

Eagle.

and

15.

method

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LESSON

13

I.

First and Second Conjugations:

Present

Indicative Active.
20.

Illustrative

Examples.

Pugnat, he fights.

Pugnant,

Vocat,

Vocant,

they call.

he

calls.

key fight.

Habet,

he has.

Habent,

they have.

Videt,

he

Vident,

they see.

sees.

Notice (l) that in these English sentences the subject


of the verb is expressed by a separate word.

a.

(2) that in the Latin equivalent the


is

indicated

by a change

change of subject

in the final letters of the

verb.*
21.

Illustrative

Examples.

Videmus, we

Pugnamus, we fight.

you

Vocas,

you

Habes,

call.

see.

have.

(addressed to one person)

you

Vocatis,

Habetis,

call.

you

have.,

(addressed to more than one person)

What

a.

final

in

letters

express the idea of


plural)

Such

these Latin words serve to


zve

and you (singular and

final letters,

number

in

indicating changes of person

and

the subject of the verb, are called

Personal Endings.
This change in the form of a word to show its grammatical relation Lb
Latin Is an Inflected language, while English Is almost
wholly an uninflected one.
*

called Inflection.

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14

In two of these Latin verbs the personal endings,

b.

it

should be noticed, are preceded by the vowel a,


This
in the other two verbs by the vowel e.

and

common

part

(e.g.

voca-, habe-)

to

which the

various personal endings are attached

is

known

as the Present Stem.

Before which personal endings are these vowels a


and e shortened ?
22.

Illustrative

Pugno, I fight.
Voco,
I call.

Examples.

Video,

see.

Habeo, I have.

What

personal ending expresses / in these verbs ?


Notice that before this ending, a is dropped, while
e is shortened.*

a.

23.

These two

classes of verb (the a- verbs

and the

e-

verbs) are ordinarily called verbs of the First and

Second Conjugations respectively.! In Latin vocabuadded to indicate a verb


of the First Conjugation, ere a verb of the Second
laries or dictionaries are is

Conjugation.!
Paradigms.

24.

Present Indicative Active.


First Conjugation.

Second Conjugation.

SINGULAR.

amo

r.

amas
amat

2.

3.

(/ love)

-a-s

moneo
mones

-a-t

monet

-6

(/ advise)

-e-6
-e-s
-e-t

* It is a rule of Latin that a vowel immediately preceding another vowel


or diphthong is short.
t There are in all four conjugations in Latin, that
verbs according to the form of the present stem.
X

is,

four divisions of

For the further significance of these endings are and ere see Lesson

XXL

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15

PLURAL.
1.

amamus

-a-mus

monemus

2.

amatis

-a-tis

monetis

-e-tis

3.

amant

-a-nt

monent

-e-nt

-e-mus

VOCABULARY.

25.

* pugno, are, fight.

habeo, ere,

have.

moveo,

move.

ere,

need, are,

kill,

teneo, ere, hold.

slay

vasto, are, lay waste.

pareo, ere,

be obedient.

video, ere, see.

paro, are,

prepare, procure.

voco, are,

call

EXERCISES.
26.

i.

mo vet. 2. Necant, tenent,


movent, vastant. 3. Vocamus, vocatis, voco. 4. Habes,
habemus, habetis. 5. Moves, vident, vastatis. 6. Videt,
pug^iamus, moveo.
7.
Necatis, piignant, video.
8.
Paro, pares, parent, paramus.
1.

Vastat, necat, tenet,

1.

They

ii.

2.

call,

He sees, he

hold,

you

they prepare,

fights,

(plur.)

they have, they see.


he holds, he slays. 3. You (sing.)

fight,

he prepares,
hold, you lay waste.

obedient,

6.

Gladius

we

lay

am

obedient.

We

waste.

move, he

Sword.

4.
5.

He

We

is

slay,

calls, I fight.

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16

LESSON

II.

Nominative
First and Second Declensions
Singular and Plural.
:

27.

Illustrative

Examples.

Pugnamus, we fight or we are fighting


/ call or / am calling.
Voco,
they move or they are moving.
Movent,

a.

Parat,

he {she or

it)

Tenet,

he {she or

it)

prepares or
holds or

is

is

preparing.

holding.

Notice (l) the two-fold translation of each form in


the present tense.
(2)

the use of the personal ending -t to indicate

also she or

it.

28.

Illustrative

Examples.

Romanus, a Roman, the Roman.


Roman!, Romans, the Romans.

a.

Filius,

son, a son, the son.

Filii,

sons, the sons.

Nauta,

Nautae,

sailors, the sailors.

Filia,

a daughter, the daughter.

Filiae,

daughters, the daughters.

By what change

sailor, the sailor.

of the endings -us

and

-a, is

the

Form
Latin nouns formed ?
similarly the plurals of the nouns in the following
vocabulary.
plural

b.

of

these

Notice that, as Latin N has no article, the words a or


the may be added or omitted in translating a
Latin noun, according to the requirements of the
context.

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Examples.

Illustrative

29.

17

the son prepares.

Fllius parat,
Filil parant,

the sons prepare.

Filia paret,

the daughter is obedient.

Filiae parent,

daughters are

Fllius et f Ilia parent, the son

and

obedieyit.

the

daughter

are obedient.

Notice that the personal ending' of these Latin verbs


is retained when a noun is the subject, and when

a.

English sentence

in the

he, she

or they

no longer

is

found.

The verb agrees with


Rules.
(l)
number and person.

Two

(2)

may

singular subjects

"its

subject in

take the verb in the

plural.

VOCABULARY.

30.

Belgian.

Belga,

Gaul.

Gallus,

Germanus, German.

Britannus, Briton.

t nauta,

et,

and.

filia,

daughter.

Romanus,

Roman.

fllius,

son.

servus,

slave.

sailor.

EXERCISES.
31.
1.

I.

Romanus pugnat

Roman! pugnant.

videt; nautae vident. 3. Britanni habent


4.

Gall! et

Ocrmani *necant

movent. 6. Nauta
tenemus, movetis, voco.

et vastant.

5.

et servi parant.

filiae

2.

Nauta

Belga habet.
Fllius et
7.

Vocas,

11.
1.

bold.

He
2.

holds;

She

the Briton
is

daughters are calling.

3.

is

the

calling";

holding; the Britons


daughter calls; the

sailor

is

slaying;

slaves

18

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prepare.

4.

5.

6.

The Gaul and

the

German

are fighting

The Belgians are laying waste; the Germans see.


It has; we move; you (sing.) are obedient; you

(plur.) are preparing.

LESSON

III.

First and Second Declensions

Accusative
Singular and Plural.

32.

Illustrative

Examples.

Romanus nautam videt,


Roman! nautas vident,

the

Roman

the

Romans

Nauta Romanum videt,


Nautae Roman os vident,

the sailor sees the

sees the sailor.

see the sailors.

the sailors see the

Roman.
Romans.

Filios et filias habet,

he has sons and daughters.

Belgam

they slay a Belgian

a.

et

Galium necant,

and a Gaul.

What

differences are found in the endings of these


Latin nouns, in the singular and the plural, when
they are used as the subject, and when they are

used as the object of the verb ?


b.

The form used


to be

in

as the subject of a finite verb

is

said

the Nominative case, that used as the

object, in the Accusative case.*


c.

How

does the order of these Latin sentences differ


of the English ?

from that
33.
ject,

The order

followed in the sentences of 32 (sub-

object, verb) is the normal, but

by no means the

* These correspond to the English nominative and objective cases. For


similar changes in the form of English words compare the pronouns him,

them, whom.

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19

and should be retained by


beginner as being the general rule.
It is most
important to observe that in Latin, unlike English, a
change of order will not involve a change of syntactical
The first sentence in 32 will have the same
relation.
invariable, order in Latin,

the

meaning (with

emphasis only)

slight differences of

if it

be written Nautam Romanus videt or Nautam videt


Romanus or Videt Romanus nautam.

VOCABULARY.

34.

cdpia (in singular), plenty,


supply, abundance;
(in plural) forces, troops.

do, are,* givk.

equus,

horse.

fuga,

flight.

locus,

place.

nuntio, are,

announce,

nuntius,

messenger.

prdvincia,

province.

terreo, ere,

frighten,
terrify.

vulnero, are, zvound.

EXERCISES.
35.

i.

Filium et filiam habet.


2. Belgas et Germanos
terretis.
4. German! copias
3. Copiae locum vastant.
et equos parant.
5. Fugam nuntiamus
equum das
copiam habes. 6. Nuntios et nautas vulnerant.
1.

ii.
1.

You have horses; we have

plenty.

place; they lay waste the provinees.


is

5.

wounding the horse.

The

4.

The

is

The verb
formed**,

announcing the
io Lb

see the

6.

They give

a slave

flight.

exceptional, in having shorl


and da (HW.

<1Aiih (271)

2.

The messenger

forces hold the province

flight terrifies the forces.

a slave

3.

a in the stem, exoepl

in

the

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LESSON

IV.

First and Second Declensions

Genitive

Singular and Plural.


36.

Illustrative

Filium nautae videt,

Examples.

he sees the sailor

son

or,

he sees the son of the sailor.

Filium servi videt,

he sees the slave's son.

Fugam copiarum

he announces the flight of

nuntiat,

the forces.

Fugam Romanorum

nuntiat,

he announces
the

a.

What endings

in

Latin nouns indicate the


by the English preposition of or

the English possessive case

Nouns with

of

these

relation expressed

b.

the flight

Romans.

these endings are said

to

be in the

Getiitive case.

The

genitive

is

placed more frequently after than

before the noun


c.

it

modifies.

sentence above were written in the order


Nautae filium videt, could it mean, The sailors see
the son?
What two meanings could Servi filium
vident have ?

If the first

VOCABULARY.

37.

animus,

spirit, heart,

confirmo, are, encourage,


arouse,

porta,

gate.

porto, are,

carry, bear.

praeda,

plunder, booty.
ally.

impero, are,

give orders.

socius,

legatus,

ambassador

supero, are, conquer,

envoy ; lieutenant,

victoria,

victory.

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21

exercises.
38.
1

i.

Copiam servorum habet

habent.
tqriae

Victoria

2.

animum

socii

animos Belgarum confirmant.

superat;

ligati imperant.

4.

copiam equorum

Belg"ae conf irmat


3.

Praedam

vic-

Copias legati

portas

portas

Films legati copias sociorum superat.


6. Animos copiarum terret.
7. Belg'ae copias parant
copiae Belgarum parent. 8. Filii nautae nuntium vucant.
videmus.

5.

ii.

1.

2.

He

The

announcing- the victory of the lieutenant.


horse is carrying the ambassador's son. 3. The
is

conquer the allies of the Belgians.


4.
He
conquers the forces of the allies. 5. The forces of the
province are fighting.
6. The victory arouses the
troops

Britons' spirits.
orders.

8.

You

7.

and of the messenger.


I

They

give a horse; he

is

giving

are wounding the sons of the sailor


9.

The

slaves have the plunder

see the slave's booty; they kill the envoys' slaves.

Miles

Soldier.

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22

LESSON

V.

First and Second Declensions


Dative Singular
and Plural. Accusative with ad.
:

39.

Examples.

Illustrative

Legato victoriam nuntiat, he announces the victory

to the

lieutenant.

Praedam

he gives the plunder to the slaves.

servis dat,

Provinciae imperat,

he gives orders

Belgls parent,

they are obedient to the Belgians.

a.

What endings

in

to the

Latin nouns

the

province.

indicate

relation expressed in the English sentences

the

by the

preposition to?
b.

Nouns with

these endings are

said to be in the

Dative case.

The

dative expressing the indirect object

frequently placed

before

than

after

is

more

the direct

object of the verb.

40.

Illustrative

Examples.

Ad locum copias movet, he moves the forces to the place.


Ad portam servos vocat, he calls the slaves to the gate.
Ad copias et socios praedam portant, they are carrying the
plmider
a.

When

to the forces

and

the allies.

the preposition to is used in an English phrase


implying motion or direction, the dative should
not be used in the corresponding Latin. In what
way is to expressed in these sentences ?

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ti.
ad,

23

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24

LESSON

VI.

First and Second Conjugations


Indicative Active.
43.

Illustrative

b.

Imperfect

Examples.

or they used

Pugnabant, they were fighting


he was moving
Movebat,
Tenebamus, we were holding
Spectabat,
it was faci?ig
a.

or he used

to

or we used

or

it

used

to fight.

move.

to hold.

to J ace.

What new element

is found in these Latin verbs between the present stem and the personal ending ?

Notice that these new forms may be translated in


two ways, past time being indicated in both cases.*
Paradigms.

44.

IMPERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE.


First Confiigation.

Second Conjugatio7i.

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VOCABULARY

45.

Brita in

Britannia,

firmo, are, strengthen.

Gaul

Gallia,

try

now

Germania,

sword.
spear.

hiemo, are, winter^ pass the

trench^ moat.

fossa,

gladius,

hasta,

(the coun-

wi?iter.

called France).

Germany.

Italia,

Italy.

pugna,

battle, fighting.

EXERCISES.
46.

I.

firmabamus, firmabat.
1. Firmabant,
2. Tenebas,
tenebam, tenebatis.
Parebant, parabat, paret,
3.
4. Gladios et hastas reportabat.
parant.
5. Ad Ger-

maniam

et

Italiam

copias

removebam.

gladium dabas nautis respondebant.


Galliam spectat
pugnam Germanis
mant copiae hiemabant.
;

7.

6.

Nautae

Britannia ad

niintiat.

8.

Hie-

ii.

1.

2.

He was

they used to

giving-;

gfive

they give.

They were terrifying; it used to terrify; she terri3. You were strengthening- the place;
I was

4. It used to have walls and trenches.


were procuring an abundance of swords and
Spears.
The lieutenant was holding- Gaul and
6.
Britain; the Gauls and Britons were righting-.
7. We
Were replying to the messenger; the slave used to

wintering.
5.

We

carry water to the trench.

Hasta

Spear.

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LESSON

VII.

First and Second Declensions Ablative


Singular and Plural.
:

47.

Illustrative

Examples.

Servum hasta necat, he kills the slave with a spear.


Servum gladio necat, he kills the slave with a sword.
Nuntium cum nauta et servo necat, he .kills the messenger
together with the sailor and the slave.
Locum murls et fossis firmat, he strengthens the place
with walls and trenches.

Cum copiis hiemat, he is winteri?ig with the forces.


Cum Gallis fcugnant, they are fighting with the Gauls.
a. What endings in these Latin nouns indicate the
relations expressed in the English sentences

by the

preposition with f

Notice where, in these examples, this

new case (known

as the Ablative) has forms identical with the dative.

Notice also the difference in the quantity of a in


the ablative and in the nominative.

Observe that in some of these sentences with has the


force of by means of* in others of together with or
along with. In which sense is the Latin preposition cum used with the ablative case ?

b.

48.

Illustrative

Examples.

In Gallia hiemat,

he

In muro pugnant,

they are fighting on the wall.

is

wintering in Gaul.

Copias ab Italia revocat, he recalls the troops from Italy.


Copias a pugna revocat,

Ab

he recalls the troops from battle.

legato et sociis equos parat, he procures horses

from

the lieutenant a?id the allies.


* Often by means of may be replaced by the preposition by instead of by
with; as, to perish by (means of) the sword; to restrain by (means of) force.

contined,

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ii.

The

slave

was

fighting-

the sailor with a spear.

2.

with the sailor he wounds


He used to procure troops
;

and horses from the provinces. 3. We see islands in


I see a forest on the island.
4. He fills the
walls and the gates with troops they fight with swords
on the walls. 5. You used to winter in Britain with
the lieutenant and the allies. 6. The nature of the
place restrains the Britons from fighting.
7. From the
walls they announce the victory to the ambassador.
8. They were summoning the messengers to the wall.
the ocean

LESSON

VIII.

First and Second Declensions Reviewed


tive Case.

Voca-

Predicate Nouns and Appositives.

51. To give all the forms of a Latin noun in the


order in which the cases are usually arranged is called
declining the noun, and the different series of endings
found in Latin nouns are called the Declensions
These
.

are five in

number

the nouns already learned which in

the nominative singular end in -a belong to the First

Declension,

those

which end

in

-us

to

the

Second

Declension.

As

it happens that no two of the declensions have


same ending in the genitive singular, in Latin
vocabularies and dictionaries the nominative and genitive singular of each noun are regularly indicated, in
order to show to which of the five declensions the
noun belongs. (Compare 56.)

the

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52.

29

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30
a.

In each of these sentences are two nouns referring- to


the same person or thing:, and in each sentence
the two nouns are in the same case.

b.

In the

first

sentence, insula forms part of the pred-

and describes or defines the subject of the


verb est, and is called a Predicate Nominative.
icate

c.

In the second sentence, Britanniam forms part of the


predicate and describes or defines the object of the

verb vocant, and


d.

is

called a Predicate Accusative.

In the third sentence,


identifying- nuntium,
ship with

noun

f ilium,
is

while describing: or

not brought into relation-

Such a

throug-h the verb vident.

it

an Appositive and is said


apposition with the noun it describes.
is

called

to be in

Rule. Predicate nouns and appositives agree

in case

with the noun which they describe.


55.

Illustrative

Examples.

he gives orders

FiliS imperat,

to /its son,

or she gives orders


Socios con vocant,

Cum
a.

copiis

Notice

they

summon

to

her son.

their allies.

hiemamus, we are wintering with our

how

in these Latin sentences

troops.

no special word

used to express his, her, their, our. Latin has


words meaning my, our, your, his, her, its and
their, but seldom uses them when it can readily
be gathered from the context to whom the person
or thing spoken of belongs.*
is

* Accordingly, in translating from Latin, these words have often to be


inserted in the English ; and until Lesson XLVIIL is reached, are to be
regularly disregarded in translating into Latin. At first these words will be
put in parentheses, to indicate their omission.

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vocabulary.

56.

amlcitia, ae, friendship.

amicus,

I,

fluvius,

I,

Rhenus,

river.

ripa, ae,

bank (of a river).

vicus,

village.

habito, are,
est,

incola, ae, inhabitant.

friend.

divell.

he (she or

it) is

I,

I,

Rhine.

non, not.

sunt, they are ;

amicitiam conffrmo, establish friendship.

Phrase:

EXERCISES.
57.

I.

Britanni sunt incolae Britanniae.

1.

Romanorum, habitamus.

provineia

revocat.

fluvii

non

Gallia

4.

5.

In Gallia,

insula;

est

Galliam provinciam vocabant.

2.

Copias a ripa

3.

Filios

et

Roman!
filias

in

Amicitiam cum Gallis, Roman!


confimiatis.
7. Germanos, socios Belgarum, superat.
Roman! Gallos amicos
8. Gall! sunt Romanorum amici
vocant.
vicum muris firmamus.
9. Vicus muros habet
collocant.

silvis

6.

Copiae in ripa

10.

fluvii

piignabant.
II.

We

the inhabitants of the island Britons; an


inhabitant of the island is a Briton.
2. The Romans
1.

used

to

friends
4.

call

dwell in

The

flight of the

inhabitants.

5.

jbe province.
7.

They used

a river.
9.

They

Rhine

Italy.

we summon

8.

6.

3.

(our)

Germans,

We

They

the Belgians

call

friends,

the

establishing friendship with

are

You used

to call the

You were

to have friends, lieutenant.


ocean a river the ocean is not
;

not obedient to (your) lieutenant.

lay waste the villages from the

to the ocean.

the banks.

Belgians.

(their) allies, terrifies the

10.

He

stations

banks of the
troops on

(his)

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58.

WORD
NOUNS

amicitia

LIST

I.

FIRST DECLENSION

Latin Lessons for Beginners.

READING LESSON

33

I.

Romulus and Remus and the Founding of Rome.


(753 b.c.)

(Amulius, the rightful king of Alba, an ancient


town of Latium in Italy, was supplanted by his brother
Numitor. To secure himself on his throne, Numitor
-

59.

slew the sons of Amulius, and when twin sons were


born to his daughter Rhea Silvia, he ordered them to
be thrown into the river Tiber. As it turned out, the
children were not drowned, but being cast ashore were
found and suckled by a she-wolf as if they had been
Soon they were discovered by a
her own young.
shepherd, who brought up the children in his own
home, until they became hardy youths and leaders
among their comrades. At last their parentage was
revealed
and, slaying the usurper Numitor, the
brothers placed their grandfather once more upon his
rightful throne, and then set out to found a city upon
the spot where they had so wonderfully been preserved.)
;

VOCABULARY.
Socius, comrade.
Roma, Rome.
In
filios
filii

habitabat

Italia

Rhea

Silvia.

Rheae,

Huvii occupant {they seize).

firmant,

Romulus

pabent, et pugnant.

ct

Dum

Remus

In pugna Romulus

filiorum

Romam

ex (from, with

(then)

incolas
In

{while)

(two)

locum minis

controversiam

Romulus regnat (is


Rheae Romulo parent.

Turn

Rhea duo

Romulum ct Remum. Romulus et Remus,


amicos et socios convocant. Locum in ripa

habet,*

(dispute)

Remum

necat.

king), et amiei et socii

abl. case)

Itaque (and

so)

locum

Romulo vocamus,

et

vocamus Romanos.

Latin, as in

English, the present

or situations.

This

is

known

ina.\ be used to represent \i\idly


as the Historical Present,

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LESSON
Second Declension
60.

nouns

IX.

Nouns

in -um.

Gender.

In the Second Declension are found not only

nominative singular in
but others also which end in -um and which differ
from servus in certain other case-endings.
like servus, ending- in the

-us,

Paradigm.

second declension

(continued).
Plural.

Singular.

-um

templa

-a

tempi!

-I

templorum

-drum

Dat.

templo

-6

templis

-is

Ace.

-um
-um

templa
templa

-a

Voc.

templum
templum

Abl.

templo

-6

templis

-Is

Nom.

templum

Gen,

{temple)

-a

N.B. Castra, camp, a plural noun with singular


meaning, is declined like the plural of templum; viz.,

Nom.

castra, Gen. castrorum, Dat. castris, Ace. castra,

Voc. castra, Abl. castris.

Gender

has certain peculiarities not


names of males
are masculine, and all names of females are feminine.
But the gender of what is neither male nor female is not
always neuter, as we regard it in English grammar,
but, as a rule, is determined by the ending of the noun.
This is sometimes called Grammatical Gender as dis61.

in Latin

found in English.

As

in English, all

tinguished from Natural Gender.


In the First Declension the nouns ending in -a are

with the exception of words like incola,


nauta and Belga which, as they usually refer to males,
are masculine.
feminine,

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In the Second Declension the nouns ending in -us are


masculine, and those ending- in -um are neuter.
In Latin vocabularies and dictionaries the gender

and

regularly indicated by the letters m.,f.

is

n.

VOCABULARY.

62.

bellum,

oppidum,

war.
camp.

n.

I,

orum,

castra,

n.,

expugno, are,

assault.

grain,

n.,

I,

corn

imperium,

coin maud,

n.,

I,

attack,

storm,
take by storm.

frumentum,

town.

n.,

I,

oppugno, are,
praesidium,

I,

proelium,

n.,

I,

n., garrison.
battle.

-que,

and.

renovo, are,

renew.

control, rule.

N.B.
together

never stands alone, but is always


second of the two words grouped

-que

appended

as

Roman

the

to

a) id

Romanus Gallusque
Gaul*

= Romanus

et Gallus)

EXERCISES.

63.

I.

1.

Frumentum comportabant

portant.

2.

videtis.

copiam frumenti comPortam castrorum videmus portas oppidi


;

Praesidium in oppido

3.

fossa flrmabat.

proelio

5.

continet.

murum

castraque

expiignant.
In eastris

10.

perium

in bellis

collocat.

7.

Praesidio impero.

oppidi oppugnant
9.

Copias

8.

Copiae

copiae oppidum

hiematis,

11.

filio

Im-

habent.

'

i^

shifted to

i~

Castra

6.

Imperium provinciae

Romanorum

When a word has -que appended, \w accent


preceding -que e.g. Gallus but Gallus'que.

*i

4.

Oppida vlcosqnc habemus.

pugnant;
dat.

jAtM~

he syllable

1/

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ii.

They renew

1.

war with the Romans.

the

2.

We

towns with garrisons. 3. He recalls the


Romans from battle. 4. They were killing- the garri-

hold

the

sons of the towns.

5.

We

station

the troops in the

You are obedient to the rule of the Romans.


7. He summons (his) allies, the Britons, to the town.
8. The Gauls move (their) camp.
9. We used to fight
with the Britons we were attacking- the place we take
camp.

6.

the village by storm.

grain
the

is

camp

in the town.

10.

11.

An

abundance of water and


He recalls the troops from

to the towns.

The Wall

of Romulus.

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LESSON
BLdjectives of

X.

the First and Second Declensions.

64.

Illustrative

Examples.

Magnus vicus,
Magnus est vicus,
Magna insula,

a large village.

Magnum

a large town.

oppidum,

magno vied,
Magnae insulae,
Ad magna oppida,
In

a.

Notice

how

37

the village is large,

a large island,
in a large village,

large islands,
to the

large towns.

the Latin adjective, unlike the English,

changes its forms when used with nouns differing


in gender or in number or in case.
The adjective agrees with its noun in gender,
Rule.

number and
65.

case.

Paradigm.

ADJECTIVES OF FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSIONS.


Singular.

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Notice that the masculine of bonus

declined like

is

mensa and the neuter

servus, the feminine like

like

templum.

The

66.

position of the adjective

than in English.

noun;

its

people,

freer in

is

Very frequently the

Latin

adjective follows

so regularly, populus Rdmanus, the Ro?nan

while a good slave

is either bonus servus or


emphatic or when denoting size,

servus bonus.

When

the adjective

commonly precedes

magnae

as

copiae,

large forces.
67.

VOCABULARY.

um, high, deep.


broad, wide,
latus, a, um,
longus, a, um, long.
magnus, a, um, great, large.
multus, a, um, much;

numerus,

altus, a,

many.
Romanus, a, um

number.

m.,

I,

parvus, a, um,

small.

few (used

pauci, ae, a,

in the plural only).

periculum,

n.,

I,

danger.

populus, i,m. people, nation,

(in plural)

(as adjective),

Roman.

EXERCISES.
68.
1.

i.

The

island (sword,

gfarrison)

is

islands (swords, garrisons) are small.


(wars, spears) are long

The

4.

2. The
The swords

large.
3.

trench (river,

g"ate) is

wide. 5. The danger (number, abundance) is great.


the walls are high.
6. The river (trench) is deep
;

7.

Many

(few) provinces (towns, villages.)


11

Parvas insulas et magnum oppidum habent.


Multa oppida oppugnat
paucos vicos expugnat.
Locum fossa lata et muro alto firmant. 4. Periculum

1.
2.

3.

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5. Magnis cum copiis* bellum


Multae provinciae populo Romano- parebant.
7. Longas hastas et parvos gladios habebatis.
9. Magnum
8. Multa oppida muros et portas habent.
numerum longarum hastarum parat. 10. Fluvii alti

populi

Roman! videmus.

renovant.

latique

6.

Romanos

continent.
in.

1.

We

have many provinces and few

allies.

2.

They

were strengthening the camp with broad and deep


trenches.
3. They establish friendship with the Roman
people.
4. It encourages the hearts of many Gauls.
5. To many friends he gives a large number of slaves.
6. The camp has a wide gate.
7. He recalls the troops
from the small camp to the large camp. 8. The Roman
people
of)

is

in great danger.

a long

9.

In

{literally,

war he conquers many

by means

nations.

10.

He

stations a large garrison in the small island.


*This order (adjective, preposition, noun)
if

the order were

cam

is

very frequent.

iuAgiiis copiis.

Remains of Roman Camp.

Translate as


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LESSON
Second Declension
jectives of

XI.

Nouns in -er and -ir.


the First and Second
:

Declensions in

Ad-

-er.

69. Besides the nouns ending: in -us or in -um, the


second declension has others which in the nominative
singular end in -er or -ir. These nouns are all masculine,

and are declined as follows


70.

Paradigms.

second declension (continued).


Singular.

Nom.

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There are also adjectives of the first and second


nom. sing, masc;
and
retain e before
declined
like
puer
some
are
these
of
others are declined like
r in all genders throughout
ager and have e before r in the nominative and vocative
71.

declensions which end in -er in the

singular masculine only.

72.

42
Plural.

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43

exercises.
76.

i.

Periculum viri videtis. 2. Pueri puellam terrent.


Oppida expugnant agrosque vastant.
4. Integris
cum eopils murum oppugnabat. 5. Liberi viris non
1.

3.

parebant.

6.

Belgae multos nautas superant.


8. Crebra praesidia

Pauci

Reliquis Germanis agros dant.

7.

ag^um Romanum

tenent.

Imperium reliquae pro-

9.

tenebam.
10. Ad parvum agrum reliquam
praedam comportant. 11. Pueros puellasque liberos
vocamus. 12. Libei*um populum superabamus.
\nnciae

ii.

The Germans were

1.

Belgians.

the rest of the troops


the

rest

announcing the
the

man

man, not

we

winter in the camp.

of

the

flight of

Roman

6.

He was

Belgians.

many

a slave, not free.

from the

to the boy.

horses to the men.

fresh

together

He announces numerous victories.

2.

slaves are obedient to the

gives

laying waste the lands of the

territory.

9.

7.

sailors.

He
10.

8.

The

3.

4.

With
5.

He

calling

You were
They call

recalls (his) troops

They

reply to the

messengers.
11. He stations fresh forces
in the town.
12. The boy he calls (his) son, the girls
(his) daughters.
frequent

LESSON

XII.

Third and Fourth Conjugations

Present

Indicative Active.
77. Latin

In the

ends in

first

-a

has in

all

four conjugations of the verb.

and second conjugations the present stem


and -e respectively (21. b.)
in the third
;

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44

conjugation in -e (preceded by a consonant or u)* in the


In vocabularies, verbs of the
-I.
;

fourth conjugation in

third conjugation are indicated

second conjugation)

by

by

ere (not ere as in the

verbs of the fourth conjugation

ire.

Paradigms.

78.

PRESENT INDICATIVE ACTIVE.


Fou rth Conjuga Hon

Third Conjugation.
Singular.

re go (/ rule)

i-s

audio (/ hear)
audis

1-0

regis
regit

i-t

audit

i-t

-o

1-S

Plural.
1.

regimus

i-mus

audimus

I-mus

2.

regitis

i-tis

auditis

l-tis

3.

a.

regunt
iu-nt
u-nt
audiunt
Notice (l) that in the third conjugation, as given
above, the stem vowel -e is lost before -6, becomes -u
before -nt and elsewhere becomes -i and (2) that
;

becomes -iu before -nt.


In all four conjugations long stem vowels (-a, -e, -l)
are shortened before -t and -nt, and are either
in the fourth conjugation,

b.

-I

shortened or omitted before


79.

6.

See also

24.

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45

exercises.
80.

I.

Copias cogit; copias ducis

1.

copias mittunt

copias

Copiae convenmnt;
bellum gerunt castra muniunt agros vastant incolas
lerrent. 3. Nuntius venit niintiumaudlmus. 4. Castra
lata fossa munit.
5, Bcllum longum in Gallia gerimus.
proelio
Copias
a
reduco. 7. Legati a reliquis Britan6.
redficimus

copias relinquitis.

2.

veniunt.

nis

8.

Magnum numcrtim amicorum

cogis.

ad castra mittunt.
10. Legatos
(icnnanornm auditis. 11. Panel liberi ad locum conCrebros

9.

veniunt.

nuntios

12.

Praedam

in silva relinquit.
ii.

They

they sec.
hold.

lead

3.
I

fortify
2.

We

You

5.

come; you assemble; he

lead back.

the cam]).

they send
they leave they give
hear; you lead; you call; you

We

4.

They come with

collects;

we

the plunder to

are fortifying the place with a wall.

He sends the lieutenant to the province with a large


number of Gauls. 7. I collect the rest of the men.
8. She is leading a small horse to the bank.
9. The
boys and girls come from the fields to the gate of the
cam]).
10. You arc- leaving a large garrison in the
cam]).
11. They wage wars with the Roman people.
6.

12.

He

leads the rest of the allies back to (their) lands.

Signum

Standard.

46

81.

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WORD

LIST A.

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READING LESSON

47

II.

The Romans and their Neighbors.


Primo {at firsi) Roma parvus est vicus,

82.

et

paucos incolas habet. Mult! popul! in Italia habitant,


Oppida muros poret bella proeliaque sunt crebra.
tasque habent incolae parvis gfladils et long-Is hastis
;

Roman! parvos agros habent et multos flnitimos {neighbors). Saepe {often) flnitiml agrum Romanum
vastant et Romanos servosque in agris necant.
Nuntius
ad reliquos Romanos venit periculum populo nimtiat
Roman! copias eogunt paucos viros in miiris relinquunt
piignant.

et

cum

reliquis copiis flnitimos oppiigfnant.

Roman!

pugnant et victoriae sunt


saepe oppida finitimorum expiignant, et multos liberos populos superant.
Postremo
{at last) populus Romanus imperium Italiae habet
ad
pauca oppida praesidia mittit agros Romanis dat et
oppida magnis praesidiis tenet. Haec {these, neut. ace)
crebrae.

fortiter {bravely)

Etiam

{also)

'

oppida Roman! colonics {colonies) vocant.


Cum reliquis
flnitimls amlcitiam conflrmant et incolas socios vocant.

LESSON
Third Declension
83.

Nouns

Consonant Stems.

of the third declension have their gvnitive

singular ending in
their

XIII.

stem ending

in

-is,

and the great majority have

a consonant.

This consonant stem

may be obtained by omitting the genitive ending -is.


The regular endings of masculine and feminine nouns
are

shown

in the following

paradigm.

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Paradigm.

THIRD DECLENSION CONSONANT STEMS.


Masculine and Feminine Nouns.
:

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with very few exceptions, the words of


more than one syllable whose stem ends in p,
g, c, t, or d, and which have short e in the
final syllable of the nominative and vocative

V. Further,

singular,

have in the other cases short

i;

as,

princeps, principis (stem princip-); miles, militis

(stem milit-)
85.

It follows,

obses, obsidis (stem obsid-).

therefore, that in order to decline a

masculine or feminine noun of the third declension, it


will be necessary to know both the nominative and the
genitive singular, both of which are clearly indicated in
Latin vocabularies and dictionaries.
86.

THIRD

Paradigms

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51

castra munltionibus firma-

Rex obsides Caesari dat prmcipes magnum


humerum obsidum ad Caesarem mittunt. 8. Caesar

mus.

7.

multas legiones cogit


lognnt.

9.

Signum

paucos

equites

in

provincia

proelii (literally of, freely/*?/-) dat;

eopiae ad munitiones eontendunt.


ii.

1.

The king

waging war with the chief men; the


are waging war with the king.
2. He is recall-

chiefs

is

ing the legion from the fortifications; he is leadingback the soldiers of the legion. 3. We are sending
hostages to Caesar; we give the control of the legions
to Caesar.
4. He hastens with a legion to the camp;
he fills the camp with soldiers.
5. A few .soldiers were

fighting with a large


the soldiers.

chief

men

6.

He

number

of cavalry

are not obedient to the king.

king's standard;

7.

We

see the

horses of the cavalry to the hostages.


the

we conquer
men the

we hasten to the standard. 8. The


number of horses he gives the

cavalry have a large

ing in

gives orders to the chief

camp with

the cavalry

9.
;

He

soldiers he leaves in (their) fortifications.

Caius Julius Caesar.

is

winter-

the rest of the

(100-44 B.C.)

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LESSON XIV.
Third and Fourth Conjugations

Imperfect

Indicative Active.
Paradigms.

89.

IMPERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE.


Fourth Conjugation.

Third Conjugation.

Singular.
1.

regebam

-e-ba-m

audiebam

regebas
regebat

-e-ba-s

audiebas

-ie-ba-s

-e-ba-t

audiebat

-ie-ba-t

3.

-ie-ba-m

Plural.
1.

regebamus

-e-ba-mus

audiebamus

-ie-ba-mus

2.

regebatis

-e-ba-tis

audiebatis

-ie-ba-tis

3.

regebant

-e-ba-nt

audiebant

-ie-ba-nt

a.

Compare these forms with the imperfect


active of the first

indicative

and second conjugations

(44),

and observe that in the third conjugation the final


-e of the stem is lengthened to -e, and that in the
fourth conjugation the final -I of the stem is
replaced by -ie. Thus in all four conjugations the
tense-sign -ba- is preceded by a long vowel.
90.

Illustrative

Examples.

Agros non habent, they have not lands, or they do not have
lands.

Non
a.

regebat,

The

he was not ruling, or he did not rule.

present and imperfect indicative

lated also

by means

of do

may

be trans-

and did respectively,

chiefly with a negative or in a question, but

times also for the sake of emphasis.

some-

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vocabulary.

91.

arma, orum,

n.,

(in plural only)

auxilium,

n.,

aid, help; in plural, auxiliaries, rein-

I,

arms.

forcements.
defendo, ere,

defend.

discedo, ere,

depart, withdraw.

hiberna, orum, n., (in plural only) winter

camp; winter

quarters.

impedimentum,!,
impedio,

n.,

hindrance; in plural, baggage.


hinder, impede.

ire,

ask, seek.

peto, ere,

pono, ere,

place.

trado, ere,

give up, surrender.

Phrase

N.B.

castra pono, pitch a camp.

Review the declension of castra

(60).

EXERCISES.
92.

I.

Portam castrorum defendebamus castra munieba1


mus.
2. Castra
ponebant, locumque munitionibus
prmabant.
3. Ab
ad Gaesarem
hibernis discedit
venit. 4. Auxilium a Caesare non petebam.
5. Obsides
populo Romano tradunt. 6. Silva equites non impediebat.
8. Legiones cum
7. Amicos ad anna voeabas.
.

bripedimentis veniebant.
bant.

10.

Auxilia

magno

9.
in

Viri liberos Caesar! trade-

periculo sunt.

11.

Regem

ab injuria defendebatis.
12. Legiones in silva ponit.
l.v Ab agris discedebant et ad hiberna contendebant.
14. Impedimenta armls defendunt.
15. Empediebam
ponitis

petebas

non audiunt.

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II,

arms and baggage. 2. We


friendship
of the king and the leading
seeking
the
were
men.
3. A deep trench hinders the flight of the

They surrender

1.

(their)

They were withdrawing from the war.


we do not wage war.
6. We were pitching (our) camp.
7. They were fortifying (their) winter camp.
8. The legions with the
auxiliaries.

You were

5.

4.

not waging war;

auxiliaries defend the fortifications.


9.
It did not
hinder the war. 10. They used to leave (their) baggage
in the woods.
11. We place a garrison in the island.
12.

She announces the victory of the legion to the


13. They were withdrawing from Britain to

cavalry.
their

winter quarters.

many

seek flight

14.

Few*

the rest give

up

defend the king;


arms.

(their)

LESSON XV.
Third Declension

Consonant Stems

(continued).

93. In the third declension, as in the second, neuter

nouns have the nominative, accusative and vocative


cases alike in each number, and in the plural these
In the nominative singular, neuter
cases end in -a.
nouns of the third declension have no case-ending,
but consist merely of the stem, generally with some
as, caput,
change in the vowel of the final syllable
;

capitis

(stem capit-)

jus, juris

flumen, fluminis

(stem jur-)

tempus, temporis (stem tempor-);

opus, operis (stem oper-).t


itineris

(stem

(stem flumin-);

Especially irregular

is iter,

itiner-).

*The adjective is often used with the force of a noun few=few men.
tThe stems of jus, tempos and opus really ended in -s, but it was the
rule in Latin for s between vowels to become r.
;

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N.B.Nouns

of the third declension are regularly

neuter

when they end

in -ris.

Those ending-

or

-tis

in'

-men, or in -us with genitive

in -us with the genitive in -dis

are regularly feminine.

nouns ending in
a consonant.

-tas, -tudo, -io, -x,

Nouns ending

Feminine

also

are

or in -s preceded by

in -or, -er, or in -es are

(But nouns referring to males are


of course masculine, as rex, a king, and nouns referring
to females are feminine, as mulier, a woman.
See 61.)
regularly masculine.

EXERCISES.
96.

i.

Ab opere discedunt. 2. Salutem non petebant.


Paludes iter agminis impediebant. 4. Magna cum
virtute in flumine pugnat.
5. In paliidibus silvisque
pecora relinquunt. 6. Multa vulnera habent multi vulnerahabent. 7. Agmen a latere oppugnant. 8. Britanni
1.

3.

magnum

pecoris numerum habebant.


neribus ad ripam fluminis contendimus.

9.

Magnis
10.

iti-

Flumen

paludesque reliqua latera castrorum muniunt.


ii.

1. They see the long columns.


2. The rivers did not
hinder the march of the soldiers. 3. On the march
they come to a river and a large marsh. 4. The herds
and the rest of the plunder he gives to the soldiers.
5. In valor is safety.
6. They see the great works of
the Romans. 7. He has a wound in (his) side. 8. The
remaining side of the island looks towards Gaul.
9. They were leading the cattle to the marshes.
10. The columns did not have an abundance of grain,
horses and cattle.

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LESSON XVI.
Prepositions.

cum and in,


some governing the accusative
and a few both accusative and

Besides the four prepositions ab, ad,

97.

Latin has

many

some the

case,

ablative.

No

others,

ablative,

prepositions govern the genitive or the

dative case.
98.

Illustrative

flumine contendunt,

Ad ripam veniunt,
Ante pugnam discedit,

Examples.

they hasten from the river.


they come to the bank.

he withdraws before the battle.

Contra Gallos pugnat,

he fights against the Hauls.

Cum

he hastens with a legion.

legione contendit,

De

proelio audit,

he hears about the battle.

Ex

agris conveniunt,

they assemble out of (or from)


the fields,

In provincia hiemat,

he winters in the province,

In provinciam venit,

he

comes into (or

the

to)

province,
Inter silvas est flumen,

the river is between the forests,

Per silvam venit,

he comes through the forest.

Post

pugnam

discedit,

he withdraws after the

battle.

Propter paludes discedit,

he withdraws on account of the


marshes,

Sine periculo venit,

he comes without danger.

Rhenum contendunt, they hasten across the Rhine,


The meaning of each of these prepositions should be

Trans
a.

learned, and also the ease which follows

it.

Notice

especially the difference between in with the accusative,

and

the ablative

in with the ablative;


;

and ad and

ab and ex with

in with the accusative.

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vocabulary.

99.

cogndsco, ere,

learn,

inopia, ae,

find

consilium,

I,

n., plan, design.

de pace (with venio or mitto)

great-

ness, extent.

pax, pads,

explora-tor,-t6ris, m., scout,

Phrase

want, scarcity,

f.,

magnitu-dd,-dinis,

out, ascertain.

peace.

to treat for

peace,

to seek peace.

EXERCISES.
100.

I.

Sine impedimentis per provinciam in Italiam contendebamus. 2. Post proelium legati ad Caesarem de
1

pace et amicitia veniunt. 3. Auxilia ex hibernis et a


Caesare con veniunt. 4. Propter magnitudinem munitionum castra non oppugnant. 5. Copias trans Rhenum
contra Germanos ducis. 6. Ante proelium equites inter
legiones et auxilia collocat.
7. Propter perlculum in
insula cum copiis non hiemabat.
In itinere per
8.
exploratores de salute legfionis cog-noscit.

tum ex

agris in castra comportabatis.

tibus a Caesare ad legatum veniunt.


iter

cognoscimus.

mina

12.

9.

Frumen-

10. Sine equi11.

Ex

obsidibus

Crebros exploratores trans

flu-

mittebat.
ii.

We

used to have lands across the river Rhine in


On account of the scarcity of corn he leads
the troops back from Britain into Gaul. 3. They come
without danger through the woods and marshes to
Caesar.
4. He stations the auxiliaries on the bank of
the river. 5. Envoys come from the Britons to treat for
peace.
They were fighting between the rivers
6.
against the cavalry.
7. Before the war they ask aid
1.

Gaul.

2.

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After the victory

8.

we were

ascertaining from scouts the plans of the leading men.

On account of the greatness of the danger they


Strengthen the place with extensive (magnus) fortifications.
10. Out of a large number few surrender (their)
arms to Caesar. 11. Without a wound we defend the
9.

12. On account of the


camp against the legions.
wounds of the soldiers he leads the column back across
the marsh into the land of (his) allies, the Belgians.

LESSON

XVII.

Perfect Indicative Active.


101.

Illustrative

Pugnavi,
Pugnavisti,

Examples.

I have fought,
you (s.) have fought,

I fought.
you fought.

or

Pugnavit,

he has fought,

or

he fought.

Pugnavimus,

we have fought,

or

Pugnavistis,

you

or

we fought.
you fought.

(pi.)

have fought,

Pugnaverunt, they have fought,


a.

or

The

or

personal endings of this tense,

Perfect Indicative Active, are

-I,

they fought.

known
-isti,

-it,

as the
-imus,

Observe the twofold translation,


both by the present perfect tense (with have) and
by the simple past tense of English.
-istis,

102.

pugno,

-erunt.

way as pugnavi is formed from


be formed the perfect indicative active of

In the same

may

colloco, firmo, nuntio, paro, supero, vasto, voco, vulnerd,

and their compounds.


is

Similarly the perfect of compleo

complevi; of peto, petlvi, and of munio, munlvi.

The personal endings


tical,

no matter

to

of

all

perfects in -vl are iden-

which conjugation the verb

bel<

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vocabulary.

103.
appello, are, avi,

name,

multitu-do, -dinis,

call,

(with de

and

abl.,

f.,

large number, amount.

despero, are, avi, despair;

= of).

obtineo, ere, hold, possess.

exspecto, are, avi, azvait.

occupo, are, avi,

seize.

homo, hominis, m., man.

postulo, are, avi,

demand.

EXERCISES.
"

104.
1.

i.

Frumentum

in

oppidum comportaverunt.

Cas-

2.

Prmcipes convocavisti. 4. Locum


hominibus complevimus. 5. Imperium occupavi. 6.
Contra populum Romanum pug'navistis. 7. Praedam
postulant.
8. Armis Galliam obtinemus.
9. Locum
muniebas. 10. Auxilium petimus. 11. Auxilia petivimus.
12. De salute desperavit.
13. Multitudinem
hominum ex agris convocaverunt. 14. Copias exspectavimus. 15. Insulam Britanniam appellant. 16. Agros
vastavistis.
17. Locum munitionibus firmaverunt.
tra oppugnavit.

3.

ii.

1.

They have not despaired of victory.


3. You conquered the

seized the town.

He

recalled the soldier.

5.

He

2.

We

have

Belgians.

4.

has taken the town by

taining the

They wounded a man. 7. He was ascernumber of men. 8. They seek safety. 9.

They have

soug-ht safety

storm.

6.
-

the king friend.

11.

We

by

frig-lit.

demanded aid. 13. They hold


14. You announced the battle.
the rest of the island.
17.

They

filled

10.

fortified the

16.

We have called

camp.

12.

They

control of the province.


15.

We have laid waste

He summoned

the trench with water.

the soldiers.

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LESSON XVIII.
Perfect Indicative (continued).
There are

105.

in

four

all,

ways

of forming:

the

perfect tense in Latin.

The
The

(1)

(2)

perfect in -vi (101).

perfect in -ui, as .

veto, are, vetui {forbid).

habeo, ere, habui {have).

colo, ere, colui

aperio, ire, aperui {open).

The

(3)

(////).

perfect in -si (often with euphonic changes

through combination with a consonant

immediately

preceding), as :

maneo,

ere,

mansi {remain),

jubeo, ere, jussi {order).

scribo, ere, scrips! (write),

duco, ere, duxi {lead).

mitto, ere, misi (send).

rego, ere, rexi {rule).

gero, ere, gessi {conduct).

The

(4)

perfect in

-1,

as

sentio, ire, sensl (feel).


:

defendo, ere, defend!

constituo, ere, constitui

( defend)

(determine)

Sometimes accompanied by reduplication, as


do, dare, dedi (give).

:-

cado, ere, cecidi (fall).

Sometimes accompanied by vowel lengthening:, as :


moveo, ere, movi (move).

juv6, are, jiivi (aid).


video, ere, vidi

(see).

ago, ere, egi (do).


106.
a.

lego, ere, legi (read).

venio,

Notice especially that

veni (come).

ire,

No

one of the four methods of forming the perfect


is restricted to one conjugation
nor docs any
conjugation use only one method.
It will Infound, however, that in the first and fourth conjugations, the perfect in -vi is most frequent
in
the second conjugation, the perfect in -ui
in the
;

third conjugation, the perfect in -si or in

-1.

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b.

Though
all

107.

the methods of formation are so various, yet

perfects have the

same personal endings,

-I

-imus

-isti

-istis

-it

-erunt
Paradigms.

PERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE.

viz.,

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vocabulary.

108.

cognosco, ere, cognovi, learn,

mitto, ere, misi,

cogo, ere, coegi, collect.

moveo,

compleo, ere, complevi,

ere,

send.

movl, move.

peto, ere, petivi,

////.

contends, ere, contend!,

ask,

hasten,

relinquo, ere, rellqui, leave.

defendo, ere, defend!, defend,

responded, ere, respond!,

discedo, ere, discessi,

reply.

withdraw,
do, dare, dedi,

trado, ere, tradidi,

give.

surrender.

duco, ere, duxi, lead.


gero, ere, gessi,

N.B.

The

seek.

pond, ere, posui, place.

venio, ire, veni, come.

wage.

video, ere, vidi,

perfect active stem

is

see.

got by omitting-

-I

of the first person singular as given in the vocabulary.

EXERCISES.
109.
1.

i.

Gessimus,

gesserunt.

2.

Tradidit,

tradidisti.

5. ConCoegimus, cogimus, discessimus, discedimus. 7. Respondet, respondit. 8. Movemus, movimus. 9. Venimus, venimus. 10. Defenditis,
3.

Misi, misisti.

venerunt,

4.

viderunt.

Movit, reliquit, relinquit.


6.

contendistis, defendistis.
ii.

He has

we sent. 2. They have sought, <>u


have sought. 3. I placed, you have placed. 4. AW
have given, we have filled.
5. You left, you have
learned.
6. They surrendered, they withdrew.
7. He
lie
saw.
defend, we have detruded.
8. We
9. They are collecting", they have collected.
10. They
have lands, they have had lands.
1.

sent,

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110.

WORD

LIST

II.

nouns: first and second declensions.

The Pantheon.

Interior of the Pantheon.

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III.

of the Sabine Maidens.

VOCABULARY.

111.

muli-er, -eris,

f.,

woman.
Sab hies, a

Sabini, orum, m., the

Primo

Rome.

'Roma magnum numerum virorum

(at first)

habebat sed

tribe living near

paucas mulieres.

Propter inopiam
mulierum Romulus, rex Romanorum, hoc (this) consilium cepit {adopted).
Incolas multorum oppidorum
{but)

ad ludos (games) convocavit.

norum cum mulicribus


Sabini in agris ludos
(sudden ly)

munitiones portant.
legatos ad

Romulum

et

populo

(then)

miserunt et

magnitudinem

Romano

multas

Turn

Romani praedam non

propter

Sabi-

Dum (while)

spectant (are watching), subito

Romulus signum Romanis

mulieres contendunt,

sed

Magna multitudo

liberisque convenit.

Romani ad
Sabinorum in
principes Sabinorum
dat.

filias

filias

postulaverunt,

Itaque (therefore)
Sabini bellum cum

tradiderunt.
injiiriae,

gesserunt, et auxilium ab reliquis incolis

Italiae petiverunt.

Primo copiae Romanorum Sabinos superaverunt


multos homines necaverunt, et pecora frumentumque
kbripuerunt (carried of), etmultaoppida expugnaverunt.
Sed post multa proelia, Tarpeia, puella Romana, portam
;

expldratoribus Sabinorum prodidit (betrayed).

Sabini

magnas copias in munitiones Romanorum


miserunt.
Romani et Sabini aeriter (fiercely) pugnant,
et proelium diu (for a long time) est dubium (////decided).
Subito filiae Sabinorum inter mllites contendunt
nun
sine magno periculo copias a proelio retinent
Sabinos
et Romanos ad pacem et amieitiam voeant.
ItaqUe
per portam

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milites

pacem

arma deposuerunt
et amicitiam

firmavit.

cum

{laid aside)

et

Romulus

principibus Sablnorum con-

Sabini ex suls (their own) oppidis vicisque

cum Romanis habitant.


numerum incolarum duplicat (doubles).
discedunt et

Ita {thus)

Roma

(Tarpeia was punished for her treachery. She bargained with the Sabine leader that for reward she
should receive what the soldiers wore on their left
arms, meaning their gold bracelets. They, however,
either mistaking her meaning or despising her treason,
threw upon her the heavy shields which also they wore
on their left arms. The weight of these soon crushed
her to death.)

Arma

Arms.

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LESSON XIX.

Adjectives of the Third Declension.


Adjectives of the third declension are classified

112.

as

adjectives

of

according to the

one,

number

two or

three

terminations,

of forms used in the nomina-

tive singular for the different genders.

Adjectives of three terminations end in

-er,

m.,

-ris,

and arc all declined like acer; adjectives of


two terminations end in -is, m. and f., -e, n., and are all
declined like fortis adjectives of one termination for
the must part end in -s or in -x, m., f., n., and are
declined like prudens and felix respectively.
f., -re, n.,

Paradigms.

113.

ADJECTIVES OF THE THIRD DECLENSION.


(a) acer, sharp.

Singular.

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vocabulary.

115.

communis,
du-plex,

common, general^

e,

public,

twofold, double.

-plicis,

eques-ter, -tris, -tre, of cavalry, cavalry,

incolumis,

omnis,

intact.

equal.

-itis,

m.,

foot-soldier/ inplur., infantry.

pedes-ter, -tris, tre,

of infantry

m.,

foot.

rec-ens, -entis,

?iew

pes, pedis,

all.

par, pans,
ped-es,

unharmed

safe,

e,

e,

infantry.

recent.

EXERCISES.
116.
1

i.

Translate

saliis,

commune

the

following- phrases *

Communis

consilium, duplex fossa, duplex

mums,

omnes Galli, omnis Gallia, omnia


arma, omnes pedites, omnes pedes, incolumis legio,

equestre proelium,

par numerus, pedestres eopiae, recens injuria, recens


victoria.
ii.

1.

Animos omnium sociorum confirmat.

omnia arma equitibus tradiderunt.


salute desperavimus.

4.

Cum

3.

2.

Pedites

De commiini

pedestribus copiis salu-

femfugrat petivit. 5. Parem numerum pedum omnes


homines habent.
6. Omnes pedites trans dupliceru
lossam ducebat. 7. Propter recentes injurias Gallorura
"These phrases all occur in Exercises rr. and in. These and similar pom*
binat ions should be given the pupil for pracl Ice in declension.
t

Translate fugft here by inflight

(literally,

by means offlight).

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70

obsides postulavit.

8.

Cum

incolumi legione ex oppido

Ante equestre proelium auxilium a principibus petivit. 10. Pedestres copias in omnibus oppidis
discessi.

9.

collocat.

in.

They have

camp with a double wall.


does not see the danger of a cavalry battle. 3.
He has learned the common plan of all the Gauls. 4.
All came safe through the marshes.
5. Caesar has
1.

fortified the

He

2.

terrified all

Gaul by

number

equal

(his)

recent victory.

of foot-soldiers

laying waste all the lands. 7.


without (his) forces of infantry.

and

6.

With an
was

auxiliaries he

He hastens into Italy


He replied to all the

8.

messengers. 9. They wounded the soldier's foot and


side.
10. After the cavalry battles they sent envoys
to treat for peace.

LESSON XX.
Sum

Present Indicative.

Paradigm.

117.

PRESENT INDICATIVE OF

SUHl.

Plural.

Singular.
1.

sum, I am.

es,

thou art

3.

est,

he (she or

How

you

are.

it) is.

1.

sumus, we

estis,

you

3.

sunt,

they are.

are.

are.

far do the personal endings agree with those

already learned ? (The stem is


in certain forms, e is omitted.)

es-,

Review 54 and 64 on the agreement


noun or adjective with the subject.

from which,

of a predicate

;;

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118.

Illustrative

71

Examples.

Iter est per provinciam, there is a road through the province.


Sunt itinera per silvam, there are roads through the forest.

Non
a.

est copia frumentl, there is not a supply of grain.

Note that Latin has no equivalent for the unemphatic


introductory word there ; the subject (which in
English is transposed) is, of course, in the nominative case.

119.

Hitherto the imperfect indicative has been trans-

lated quite differently

from the perfect indicative

ducebat,

he was leading, he used

duxit,

he

led,

he has led ;

appellabat, he

was

calling, he

appellavit,

as,

lead

to call

he called, he has called.

But in such a sentence as


against the enemy,

used

to

it is

He

led his forces annually

clear that he led has the force of

he used to lead, and the Latin equivalent would therefore


be ducebat, not duxit.

So in the sentence They called the island Britain, if the


meaning is that they were in the habit of so calling it,
-

we should use appellabant, but appellaverunt should be


used if the sentence refers to the first naming of the
island.

The English
press

past tense, therefore,

what was habitual or repeated,

by the Latin imperfect indicative


to state that something happened
Latin perfect indicative.

when used

to ex-

be translated
when used merely
will

in past time,

by the

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vocabulary.

120.

aequus, a, um, fair, right.


amicus, a, um, frie?idly.
certus, a,

um,

hostile.

inlquus, a,

fixed, certain,

gravis, e, heavy, severe,

jubeo, ere, jussi, order.

serious.

idoneus, a,

um, unfair,

un'just.

brave.

fortis, e,

um, unfriendly,

inimicus, a,

levis, e, light, slight,

um,

unimportant.

fit, suitable.

N.B. Notice the use of the prefix in- to negative the


meaning- of the adjective to which it is joined so also
;

incertus, uncertain

and impar,

unequal.-

exercises.
121.
1.

i.

Belgae sunt

inimicus es.
est.

6.

4.

fortes.

Mag-no in periculo

Flumen

Amici sumus.

2.

Locus non

est idoneus.

estis.

7.

5.

3. Non
Aequum

Castra parva sunt.

9. Insula ad
Galliam spectabat. 10. Oppidum occupavimus oppida
tenebamus.
11. Jubemus, jubebamus, jussimus.
12.
Equestria proelia sunt levia.
13. Grave est bellum.
14. Rex sum.
15. Oppida muris et fossis muniebant.
16. Certum numerum militum misisti.
17. Fossa est
ante oppidum.
18. Imperium Caesari, viro forti et
idoneo, dederunt.
19. Consilium est iniquum.
20. In
8.

est

inter equites et castra.

Gallia sunt vici et oppida.

21.

Imperium

obtinebat.

ii.

The men are brave and free. 2. The danger is


3. The wounds are serious.
4. You are brave
soldiers.
5. You are the king's daughter.
6. There is
1.

slight.

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treat danger.

You

8.

river

in

7.

You

Gaul.

10.

man of

are a leading-

arc leading.

9.

The

They had lands

73

the Britons.
across the

Britons dwelt in villages.

11.

They were hastening-.


14. The troops are
13. There is a scarcity of grain.
16. The camp is in a
fresh.
15. Victory is certain.
suitable place.
17. They brought their grain into the
18. He named the town Rome
they called the
towns.

He

ordered.

he orders.

12.

inhabitants

Romans.

19.

20. It is unfair.

legion.

There are brave men


21.

LESSON

The

in the

garrisons are equal.

XXI.

Present Infinitive Active.

Complementary

Infinitive.

The formation

122.

of the present infinitive in each

of the four conjugations

may be

and

in the irregular

verb sum

learned from the following paradigms.


Paradigms.

PRESENT INFINITIVE ACTIVE.

a.

First Conjugation.

amare,

to lave.

Second Conjugation.

monere,

to advise.

Third Conjugation.

regere,

to rule.

Fourth Conjugation.

audire,

to

Irregular Verb sum.

esse,

to be.

Notice that

it

is

hear.

the present infinitive endings that

arc given in vocabularies,

in

order

to

which of the conjugations a verb belongs.

show

to

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123.

Illustrative

Locum oppugnare

Examples.

he hastens

contendit,

Copias locum tenere jubet,

to attack the place.

he orders the troops

to

hold

the place.

Discedere contendunt,

they hasten to depart.

Socios jubent convenire,

they order the allies to as-

semble.
a.

In each of these sentences notice how one verb


completes the meaning of the other. The form so
used is in Latin, as in English, the infinitive.

b.

In the

c.

The

first and third sentences the infinitive has the


same subject as the principal verb. In the second
and fourth sentences the subjects of the two verbs
are different, and that of the infinitive is in the

accusative case.

used in this way is called the ComUsually it precedes the


governing verb, and is itself preceded by its
infinitive

plementary

l7ifi?iitive

subject and object

(if

expressed).

Rule. The subject of the infinitive, when separately


is put in the accusative.

expressed,
124.

Illustrative

Examples.

Aequum est respondere, it is right to reply.


Non aequum est Gallos bellum gerere, it is
the Gauls to wage war.
a.

In these sentences notice

(l) that

not right for

the infinitive

is

used as the subject of the verb est, (2) that neither


the- introductory for nor the representative subject
it is expressed in Latin by a separate word, and
(3) that the predicate adjective modifying the subject infinitive is neuter.

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vocabulary.

125.

audeo, ere,

venture, dare.

coepi* (used in the perfect tenses only), began.


compel, force.

cogd, ere, coegi,*


constit-uo, ere, -ui,

determine.

cotidie (adverb),

daily, every day.

difficilis, e,

difficult,

facilis, e,

easy.

hard.

per-moveo, ere, -movi, influence; alarm.


perterreo, ere, ui,

terrify, frighten.

per-venio, Ire, -veni,

come.

Phrases

pervenio ad or in with ace, arrive

at,

reach.

discedo ab with abl., leave.

N.B. In compounds per has the force of (l) through,


and (2) more frequently of thoroughly completely.
,

EXERCISES.
126.
1

1.

Bellum

Romano
bant
est

g-erere constituunt

gerere non audemus.

bellum

2.

Ab

militesabsignisdiscederecoeperunt.

Romanos

perterrere.

4.

cum populo

signis
3.

discedeDifficile

Frumentum ex

agris

comportabant
5. Ad Airmen pervenimus ad flumen Rhenum pervenimus. 6. Non aequum
7. Legatum cum
est Gallos agros sociorum vastare.
omnibus equitibus locum tenere jussit. 8. Britannos
eotidie in castra

arma tradere coegit et obsides dare. 9. Non facile est


Cacsarem permovere. 10. Principes cotidie ad Caesaivm
veniebant.
In <M|iI,

syllables.

oc

is

a diphthong;

in cogI,

o and e belong to different

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ii.

1.

The

cavalry began to lay waste the lands of the

allies.
2. Daily, with all (his) cavalry, Caesar laid
waste the lands of the Britons. 3. They determined to
send ambassadors to treat for peace
the envoys
reached the camp. 4. I determined to hasten to seek
;

safety

by

flight.

5.

It is difficult for

the scouts to find

He

ordered the soldiers to leave


the fortifications.
It is not easy to compel the
7.
legions to be obedient.
8. We began to be in great
danger. 9. It terrifies the chief men
it does not
out the

road.

6.

influence the king.


(their)

camp on

10.

They

did not venture to pitch

the bank of the river.

LESSON

XXII.

Pluperfect Indicative Active.


127.

Misi,

Illustrative

Examples.

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77

Paradigms.

128.

PLUPERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE.


Second Conj.

First Con/.

Third Conj.

Fourth Conj.

Singular.

amaveram

monueram

rexeram

audiveram

amaveras
amaverat

monueras
monuera!

rexeras

audiveras

rexerat

audiverat

Plural.

amaveramus monueramus rexeramus audiveramus


amaveratis

monueratis

rexeratis

audiveratis

amaverant

monuerant

rexerant

audiverant

Paradigms.

129.

PERFECT OF

PLUPERFECT OF SUm.

SUII1.

Pur.
fuimus

Sing.
fill

Sing.

Pli

r.

fueram

fueramus

fuisti

fuistis

fueras

fueratis

fuit

fuerunt

fuerat

fuerant

VOCABULARY.

.130.

altitu-do, -dinis,

height, depth.

f.,

com-mitto, ere, -misi,

send or bring together.

dexter, tra, trum,

right.

fortitu-do, -dinis.
latitu-do, -dinis,
littera, ae,

letter,

f.,

letter (of

f.,

magnitu-d6, -dinis,
multitu-do, -dinis,

Phrase

alphabet)

or despatches,

longitu-do, -dinis,

sinister, tra,

bravery.

width.

f.,

trum,

f.,

f.,

in plural, a despatch,

tetters.

length.

greatness, extent, size.

large number, amount.


left.

proelium committo, Join (or begin) battle, engage.


N.B. The suffix -tudo is used to form from adjectives
abstract
nouns denoting quality or condition.
It
:

appears

in

English

in

the form -tnde.

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EXERCISES.
131.
1.

I.

Itercognoverant.

2.

Litterasmiseram.

3.

Cotidie

ad Caesarem mittebamus. 4. Copias proelium


committere jtisserat.
5. Proelium equestre commlseratis.
6. Legionem a dextro latere oppugnaverant.
7.
Sinistrum latus vulneras dextrum latus vulneraveras.
8. Cum fortitiidine pugnaverunt
magfna cum fortitulitteras

dine

pxigfnaverant.

Propter

9.

latitudinem

fossae

murique altitudinem oppidum oppugnare non audebamus.


10. Magna cum multitudine equitum bellum
g-esseras.

peraverat.

11. Copiis cotidie


12.

Ex

imperat

principibus im-

nuntiis litterisque magnitiidinem

periculi cognoverant.

13.

Rex

fuerat

amici

fuistis.

ii.

1.

He has hastened

pitching (their)

We

3.

had

camp

he had hastened.
they had pitched

collected a large

had compelled the men

On

number

of

2.

men.

6.

camp.
4.

to surrender (their) arms.

You
5.

we had not reached


The chief man we called king. 7. They

account of the depth of the river

the island.

They were

(their)

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79

they had had an abundance of


had grain and cattle
8. They had begun to join battle on
Irak) and cattle.
;

The

scouts had learned the length of


camp. 10. It is not right to surrender (one's) arms
we had surrendered (our) arms.
11. From despatches I had found out about the width
the

left flank.

9.

the right side of the

of the river

the

Rhine.

12.

On

account of the extent of

marshes we had determined

LESSON

to leave the place.

XXIII.

Fourth Declension.
132.

Nouns

declension have their


Most nouns of this declension
the nominative singular and are masculine
-u and are neuter.
of

the

fourth

genitive singular in -us.

end in -us in
a few end in
133.

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80

vocabulary.

134.

adventus, us, m., arrival,

exercitus, us, m., army,


lacus, us, m., lake.

approach.
cornu, us, n., horn; (of an

peditatus, us, m., infantry.

army), wing-.
discessus, us, m., departure,

portus, us, m., harbor.

prlncipatus, us, m., leader-

withdrawal.

ship.

equitatus, us, m., cavalry.

senatus, us, m., senate.

N.B. Equitatus and peditatus are collective nouns,


used in the singular with the same meaning- as the
plurals equites and pedites.
EXERCISES.
135.
1.

i.

Omnem

omnibus

senatum convenire

jussit.

2.

exercitibiis convenire jusserat._ 3.

Legatos ab
In dextro

omnem eqttitatum collocat. 4. A" lacii ad^


anum contenderamus. 5. Caesari prmcipatum et
cornu

perium tradunt.
equitatusque ad

6.

Cum

omnibus

portum perveni.

Caesaris cogfnoveramus.

8.

copiis
7.

De

oce-

im-

peditatus
adventii

Post discessum exercitus

ad senatum misit. 9. Cum equitatii proelium


commiserant. 10. De magnitudine portuum cognoscit.

litteras

ii.

1. We hastened from the harbor to the lake.


2. The
plunder he had given to the cavalry. 3. With the rest
of the infantry he hastened to the right wing.
4. Few
harbors are suitable. 5. We had determined to await
Caesar's arrival. 6. He slew the leading men and all
7. He holds the leadership of Gaul.
the senate.
8.
He found out through scouts about the departure of
9. He gave orders daily to the armies.
the armies.

10. All

had come

safe to the harbors.

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WORD

136.

LIST

B.

plenty

ABSTRACT NOUNS.
number
safety

scarcity

extent

peace

valor

length

amount

friendship

spirit

width

arrival

departure

wrongdoingnature

leadership

height

bravery

design

depth

aid

MISCELLANEOUS NOUNS.

man

river

marsh

king-

lake

road

chief

cattle

harbor

territory

senate

work

war

NOUNS.

army

scout

leg-ion

auxiliaries

standard

soldier

wing
left wing
Hank
column
march

arms

baggage

right

foot -soldier

horse-soldier

infantry

cavalry

fortification

winter quarters
cavalry battle

wound

MILITARY PHRASES.
pitch a

camp

leave (a place)

reach (a place)

send despatch
ask aid
await reinforcements seize
hold command
demand hostages

hinder the march

surrender hostages

defend

learn the plans

come

join battle

to treat for

give the signal

peace
pyforced marches establish friendship

lead back
fresh troops

VERBS WITH COMPLEMENTARY INFINITIVE.


onler

venture

determine

began

compel

hasten

82

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et

83

Inlquum est,
Tullus nuntium audivit el respondit,
omnes incolae Italiae amici esse debent (ought). Sed

Romanus

bopulus

obtinere

Italiae

prmcipatum

neque
Sed facile

stituerunt

barere.

et

imperium omnis

et Albani Hberi esse con{and not) imperio populi Roman!

constituit,

est cxereitus a proelio revocare et

parvum numerum militum juberc pro

Hoe

(on behalf of,

with abl. case) reliquis de principatu pugnare."

prep,

(this) consilium

exercitu

Albani probaverunt (approved)

Romanorum

fuerunt tres

In

(three) fortes fratres,

quos (whom) appellabant Horatios. Hos (these) Tullus


pro reliquis Romanis pugnare. Albani parem
numerum fratrum delegerunt (chose), quos appellabant

jussit

Curiatids.

(Concluded in 163.)

Munis et Porta City Wall and Gate.


The Porta Ap,pia in the Aurclian Wall, Rome.
:


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LESSON XXIV.
Principal Parts.

The

138. (a)

certain forms

verb

may be

Perfect Indicative Passive.

Parts of a Latin verb are


from which, as starting points, the wh61e
Principal

In the regular Latin verb the

inflected.

Principal Parts

are four in number, three of which

have already been met with in the preceding- lessons


(namely, the present indicative active, the present
and the perfect indicative active).

in-

finitive active
(b)

The

four Principal Parts of the model verbs of the

several conjugations are as follows


Conj.

I.

Conj.

II.

amo
moneo
rego

regere

rexi

audio

audire

audivi

Conj, III.
Conj.

IV.

The

amare
monere

amavi
monui

amatum
monitum
rectum
auditum

and second of these principal parts give the


and the conjugation the third gives the
perfect stem, from which the perfect active system is
formed the last gives the participial stem (or, as it is
also called, the supine stem), from which the perfect
first

present stem

passive system
139.

is

formed.
Illustrative

Examples.

Amatus sum, / have bee7i loved,


Amatus es, you (s.) have been loved,
Amatus est, he has been loved,
Amati sumus, tve have been loved,
Amati estis, you (pi.) have been loved,
Amati sunt, they have been loved,

or

/ was

loved.

or you were loved.


or

he was loved.

or

we were

loved.

or you were loved.


or

they were loved.

Monitus sum, / have been advised,

or

/ was

/ have been ruled,


Auditus sum, / have been heard,

or / was ruled.

Similarly,

Rectus sum,

advised.

or / was heard.

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compound forms (known

In these

a.

85

as the Perfect

Indicative Passive) observe (l) the relation of the


first

element in each to the principal parts in 138


the use of the present indicative of

(2)

sum

to

complete the form


(3) the twofold translation.
Compare the twofold translation of the perfect
;

indicative active (lOl).


140.
Filia

Examples.

Illustrative

monita

Audltum

est,

est,

the
it

daughter was advised.

has been heard.

Copiae collocatae sunt, the troops were stationed.

Oppida firmata sunt,

the towns have been strengthened.

Observe how the form (known as the Perfect Participle Passive) which is combined with the verb

a.

sum

to

make

the

perfect

indicative

passive,

changes in gender and number to agree with the


subject.

There are no uniform or regular ways of formperfect indicative passive from either the
present or the perfect stem, and recourse must be had
141.

ing the

But, as a rule,

to the fourth of the principal parts.

have -atus sum,

-Itus sum,
m
-itus sum,
-ui
u
-tus* sum.
-si or -1

verbs whose perfect active ends in -avi


n

11

11

m -lvi

11

11

11

11

..

'i

11

"

'i

11

i!

The vocabulary which

follows gives

the

principal

which have occurred


in the previous lessons.
Compounds (like reduco and
For other words
committo) are like the simple verbs.
parts of the most important verbs

the pupil

is

referred to the general vocabulary at the

end of the book.


winic
HUM.
'

the verb

stem ends

In

;i

consonant,

-lu.s

often become*

hmuot

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vocabulary,

142.

First Conjugatio7i.

The verbs

hitherto used, like amo, have

-5, -are,

-avl,

-atum.

But

datum.

do, dare, dedl,

Second Conjugation

Habeo and terreo, like moneo, have -eo, -ere,


But compleo, ere, complevi, completum,

-ui,

-itum.

jubeo, ere, jussl, jussum,

nioveo, ere, movi,

motum,

video, ere, vidi, visum.

Third Conjugation,
Cdgnosco, ere, cognovi, cognitum,
cogo, ere, coegi, coactum,

duco, ere, duxl, ductum,


gero, ere, gessi, gestum,

mitto, ere, misi, missum,


peto, ere, petivi, petltum,

pono, ere, posui, positum,


relinquo, ere, reliqul, relictum,
trado, ere, tradidi, traditum.

Fourth Conjugation.

Munio and impedio, like audio, have


But venio, Ire, veni, ventum.

-io, -ire, -Ivi,

-Itum.

EXERCISES.
143.

(a)

On

Conjugations

I.

I.

1.

Oppidum occupatum

and

II.

est.

2.

Agri vastati sunt.

Sigtium datum est. 5.


Belgae superati sunt. 6. Fossa completa est. 7. Vul9. Servos
neratus sum.' 8. Servi venire jussl sunt.
3.

Milites perterriti sunt.

4.

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10. Revocati estis


audita es.
11. Consumus. 12. Proelia nimtiata sunt. 13. Hiberna
expugnata sunt. 14. Equus vulneratus est. 15. Eques

venire jussi.

vocati

vulneratus est.
sunt.
20.

Castra mota
Remotae sumus.

16. Viri visi sunt.

18. Britanni

permotl sunt.

17.

19.

Oppida oppugnata sunt.


ii.

1.

The province has been

men have been

2.

The leading

The

legions were

laid waste.

called together.

3.

recalled.
4. The army was terrified.
5.
Hostages
have been given. 6. The camp was filled. 7. We were
seen.
8. You have been ordered.
9. The lands were
seized.
10. They have been wounded.
11. The camp
was moved.
12. The allies were alarmed.
13. The
horse has been removed.
The cavalry were
14.
stationed.
15. The place (the town, the camp) was
attacked.
16. The armies (the troops, the reinforcements) have been conquered.

(b)

On

Conjugations III. and IV.


in.

1.

Consilia Cognita sunt.

Hiberna munlta sunt.

2.

Bellum gestum

est.

3.

Copiae reductae sunt.


5.
Multitudo coacta est. 6. Missus sum missi estis. 7.
Proelium commissum est.
8.
Reducta es
reductae
10.
sumus.
homines audit! sunt.
9. Auditum est
Praesidium relictum est; legiones relictae sunt.
11.
Ripa munlta est. 12. Obsides traditi sunt. 13. Auxilium petltum est. 14. Exercitus ductus est exuivitus
reducti sunt.
15. Iter impeditum est.
16. Auxilia
missa sunt
impedimenta missa sunt.
4.

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IV.

Peace was sought 2.


Scouts have been sent.

1.

The

place has been fortified.

has been ascertained.


were
collected.
The
legions have been
6.
5. Troops
I was led.
letters were
led
7. A letter was sent
sent
we were sent. 8. Wars have been waged. 9.
The plunder was left the baggage was left. 10. The.
arms have been surrendered.
11. The envoys were
heard.
12. You have been compelled.
13. The footsoldiers have been hindered.
14. Messengers were
sent.
15. The column was led back
the camp was
pitched.
16. The children were surrendered.
3.

4.

It

LEvSSON XXV.
Ablative of Agent.
144.

Illustrative

Ablative of Means.
Examples.

Copiae agros vastaverunt, troops have laid waste the fields.

Agri a copiis vastatl sunt, the fields have been laid waste by
troops.

Caesar Gallos super avit, Caesar conquered the Gauls.


Galli a Caesare superati sunt, the Gauls were conquered by

Caesar.
a.

Observe that
object of

in

changing to the passive voice

(l)

the

the active verb becomes the subject of the

passive verb, and


is

(2) the subject of the active verb


expressed by the ablative case governed by the

preposition a (or ab).

This ablative
b.

is

called the Ablative of the Agent.

In what other way also


translated? (48).

is

the preposition a or ab

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Illustrative

145.

89

Examples.

Fossa aqua completa est, the trench ivas filled with water.'
Locus fossa munitus est, the place was protected by a trench.
Magnitudine periculi permoti sunt, they were influenced by
the greatness of the danger.

Observe how the ablative without a preposition is


used to express that by means of which something:
This is called the Ablative of the Means
is done.
In English sometimes by and
or Instrument.
sometimes with is the preposition used.
In what other ways may with and by be translated
into Latin ? (47 and 144).

a.

b.

146.

Illustrative

Insula Britannia appellata

Magnus
(a)

est, the

is

an

island.

island was called Britain.

he was called great.

appellabatur,

Caesar rex non factus

Examples.

Britain

Britannia est insula,

Caesar was not made king.

est,

Observe that a predicate nominative (noun or adjective)

may

follow the passive voice of certain verbs,

such as verbs of calling, choosing, making and


(Compare 54.)
regarding, as well as the verb sum.

Fossa

et

Vallum

Trench and Rampart.

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vocabulary.

147.

cedo, ere, cessi, cessum,

give way,

com-pello, ere, -pull, -pulsum,

drive {together).

con-cedo, ere, -cessi, cessum,

grant, yield.

e-duco, ere, -duxi, -ductum,

lead out.

e-mitto, ere, -misl, -missum,

send out.

ex-cedo, ere, -cessi, -cessum,

withdraw.

ex-pello, ere, -pull, -pulsum,

drive out.

pulsum,

pello, ere, pepuli,

re-pello, ere, reppuli,

vallum,

N.B.

l,

retire.

drive, defeat.

-pulsum, drive back, repulse.


wall, rampart.

n.,

Observe the use of

e or ex in compounds, with
Also note the difference in form

the force of out.

between

pello

and

its

compounds

in the perfect active.

EXERCISES.
148.

I.

Obsides a Gallis Caesari dati sunt obsides a Gallia


ad Italiam missi sunt. 2. Castra lato vallo et duplici
fossa a militibus munita sunt.
3. Ab opere revocatus
sum a principibus rex appellatus es. 4. Ex silvis ab
1

._

equitibus expulsi

sumus

Altitudine murdrum repulsi

Per servos * Caesar discessum Gallorum


cognovit.
A Caesare per exploratores cognitum
7.
est.
8. Fuga sociorum permoti sunt.
9. Copiaepulsae

sumus.

sunt

6.

cedere coactae sunt.

hominum ex

agrls coacta est.

10.

senatu multitudo

11. Jussi estis a legat5

ex proelio excedere. 12. Legio longo itinere f educta


magnis itineribus ad oceanum pervenit. 13. Cum
est
omni equitatu a rege emissus est. 14. Praeda militibus
;

Per with the accusative

is

frequently used to express the person through


It is so used with both

whom anything is done, that is, the secondary agent.

the active and the passive voice.


t The route by which one goes is included under the Ablative of Means.

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concessa est.

15. In

flumen a Germams compulsi sunt.


est.
17. Jussus sum

Adventu copiarum perterrita


legato omnes copias ex hibernis

16.

91

ediicere.

ii.

they came from the


1. Envoys were sent by Caesar
were
filled
with men
the
The
walls
province.
2.
3. They were terrified
trench was filled by the men.
by the departure of the leading men. 4. They were
driven back by the cavalry they were repulsed by the
;

The troops repulsed the Britons from


the in6. The place was called Rome
the ramparts.
7. The land was laid
habitants were called Romans.
fortifications.

5.

waste by the Germans. 8. We have been called friends


9. We have been
by the senate of the Roman people.
driven out of (our) lands by the senate and the Roman
10. The town was fortified by the inhabitants
people.

with a wall and a trench.

11.

You were compelled by

the king's son to grant land to

all

the leading men.

12.

All the cattle have been driven out of the fields.

13.

The cavalry were led out by the

lieutenant.

14.

He

We

were not
ordered by Caesar to retire with the rest of the army.
16. All the towns were taken by storm by the Roman
armies.
17. We were alarmed by the scarcity of grain.
sent out the cavalry

by the

left gate.

15.

LESSON XXVI.
Imperfect Indicative of Sum.

PLUPERFECT

Indicative Passivk.
149. The Imperfect Indicative
sum has not the -ba- which in the

tions is characteristic of that ten-

of the irregular verb


four regular conjuga-

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Paradigm.

IMPERFECT INDICATIVE OF SUm.


Singular.
1.

eram, I was

Plural.
(/

used

2.

eras,

you were.

3.

erat,

he {she or

150.

it)

eramus, we were,

to be),

was.

eratis,

you were.

erant,

they were.

Review the formation of the 'pluperfect indicaand of the perfect indicative passive

tive active (128)

(139) before learning- the following-

paradigms of the

pluperfect indicative passive.


Paradigms.

PLUPERFECT INDICATIVE PASSIVE.


First Conjugation
Singular.
1

2.

amatus eram (/ had been

Plural.
loved)

amati eramus

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Observe the difference

a.

in translation according as

sum

the predicate of the verb


ciple passive or

93

the perfect parti-

is

an adjective or noun.

is

VOCABULARY.

152.

ad-duco, ere, -duxl, -ductum,

bring

influence.

circum-venio, ire, -veni, -ventum, surround.


con-sisto, ere, -stiti,

take up position, halt.

dubito, are, avi, atum,

hesitate,

factum,

facio, ere, feci,

do,

have doubts.
make.

impetus, us, m.,

attack, onset.

in-struo, ere, -struxi, -structum,

draw

militaris, e,

military.

arrange.

tip,

sus-tineo, ere, -tinui, -tentum,

withstand^ sustain, endure.

usus, us, m.,

experience.

Phrases

facio, *

impetum

make an

attack.

experience in war.

militaris usus,

EXERCISES.
153.

i.

Pax a scnatu facta erat senatus pacem fecerat.


Locus erat idoneus locus idoneus munitus erat.
Proelium committere dubitaveratis.
3.
4.
Inopia
irumenti adductus eram. 5. Militarem usum habebat.
1.

2.

7. Milites in dextro cornti


Fossa erat ante oppidum
Circumvcntl suimis
8.
cireuinventi
ramus. 9. Impetus ab omnibus equitibus factus erat.
6.

constitcrant.

lo.

Equitatum peditatumque Instruxerat; copiae equi-

tatus peditatusque instructae erant.

erant.

12.

Silva est inter fliimina.

fortitiidine sustinuimus.

14.

Homo

erat appellatus.

15.

difficile erat.

Coeperant

With

17.

this phrase

071 Is

11.
13.

Castra parva

Empetum cum

Vir fortis erat vir


sum.
16.
Facile
;

in

magno

fortis

est;

periculo esse.

to be translated bj In with the aeeu>ati\e.

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ii.

slave was made king


He was
They had brought hostages to Caesar hostages had
been brought. 3. The column had been compelled to
halt.
5. The
4. He had had doubts about the column.
columns had been surrounded by the cavalry. 6. The
allies used to be free.
7. You had had great experience.
8. All the rest of the Belgians were in arms.
9. The

a slave

1.

the

2.

10. I had
draw up the forces the forces had been
drawn up. 11. We were in Caesar's army. 12. Messengers were sent from all the villages. 13. It was not
right.
14. It had not been done by the boys.
15. An
attack has been made; we made an attack.
16. You
had withstood the legions.
17. There was a great
abundance of cattle.

military standards had been left behind.

been ordered

to

Signa Militaria

Military Standards.

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LESSON XXVII.
Ordinal Numerals.

Fifth Declension.
154. {a)

Nouns

of

genitive singular in

the

-el.

fifth

Nonns

declension have their


of this declension are

feminine, with the exception of dies and


meridies,
(b)

its

compound

which are masculine.

Most nouns of

this declension are

used only in the

lingular; a few are occasionally found also in the nomi-

native

and accusative

plural.

the complete declension.


155.

Dies and res alone exhibit

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they qualify.

They

are

all

of the first

and second]

declensions, like bonus (65).


(6)

The

following- ordinals should

a more complete
primus,

a,

um,

list is

given in 524.

be learned

first

;|

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ii.

1. The troops were influenced by the hope of plunder.


2. The forces had been led back to camp after the fourth
ay. 3. The second line has been surrounded. 4. He
had had great experience in the art of war. 5. They
do not withstand the first attack. 6. The tenth legion
has faith.
7. After midday a double line of battle was
8. The affair had been learned through
drawn up.
scouts.
9. They reached the camp before the eighth
hour of the day.
10. They had come into Gaul not

without great hope of booty.

11.

We

had been

fluenced by the want of everything {literally,


12.

all

in-

things).

Everything had been procured.

LESSON XXVIII.
Accusative and Ablative of Time.
159.

Illustrative

Examples.

Hora septima proelium commlsit, he joined

battle at the

seventh hour.

Tertio die ad Caesarern venerunt, the third day they


to

came

'oesar.

Adventu Caesaris legatos mlserunt, on Caesar's approach


they sent envoys.

Multos dies agros vastant, they lay waste the fields for

many

Omnem

days.

tertium diem pugnabant, all the third day they

fought.

Impetum paucas horas sustinuerunt,


attack (for) a
a.

Which

they withstood the

few hours.

when t Which
By what cases are these

of these sentences express time

express time how long f

ideas respectively expressed

in

the Latin sentences?

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From

the above examples it will be observed that


Latin requires no preposition to express the idea
of time when or time how long, while in English,

b.

as a rule,

during)

various prepositions {on,

are used,

though

at,

in ; for,

sometimes they are

omitted.

VOCABULARY.

160.

annus,

I,

circiter,

m.,

year.

pars, partis,

adverb, about.

lux, lucis,

.,

temp-us,

-oris, n., time.

watch*
prima lux, daybreak, dawn.
media nox, midnight.

night.

Phrases

part.

lowing.

light.

medius, a, um, middle, mid.


nox, noctis,

f.,

posterus, a, urn, next,fol-

vigilia, ae, f.,

EXERCISES.
161.
1.

I.

Prima luce copias eduxit

reductae sunt.

2.

septima hora copiae

Postero die castra oppugnant.

3.

Multos dies pacem petunt. 4. Nocte ad flumen Rhenum


contendit.
5. Propter tempus anni bellum non gesserant.
6. A prima vigilia ad mediam noctem pugnaverant.
aciem mstruere coepit.
7. Ante meridiem
8. Certo anni tempore con venire jussi eramus.
9. Tertiam partem Galliae paucos annos obtinueramus. 10.
Discessu Caesaris hiberna oppugnare audent.
II.

On the third day they moved the camp

they moved
camp daily at daybreak. 2. For a large part of
year we waged war. 3. At midnight they withdraw

(their)

the
*

The Romans divided the daytime

time into four equal watches.

into twelve equal hours; the night-

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from the village.

4.

99

In the second watch he sends out

5. We reached the
harbor the next night before dawn. 6. For many hours
wc were strengthening the place with fortifications. 7.
In the third year of the war they had seized the island.
8. We had withstood the cavalry's attacks from the

the troops with

all

fourth hour to the

the baggage.

first

watch.

of reinforcements the Belgians

They had begun

to

NOUNS

FIRST,

On

the

approach
way. 10.

first

to give

be unfriendly the next year.

WORD

162.

9.

began

LIST

III.

SECOND AND THIRD DECLENSIONS.

100

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101

Sed Horatius magnum in re mllitari usum habuerat,


quoniam (since) ipse (he himself) integer erat et
Curiam omnes vulnerati erant, simulare (to feign) fugam

et

fconstituerat et Curiatios distrahere (to separate) .

[accordingly) propter gravia vulnera

erat tres

necare.

f rat res

Itaque

Albanorum,

facile

distrahere et singillatim (one by one)

Turn Horatius a Romanis incolumis ad castra

reduetus est.

Tomb

of Horatii

and

Curiatii at Alba.

LESSON XXIX.
Present Indicative Passive.
164.

In the perfect and pluperfect tenses the passive

voice in Latin, as has been observed, has

compound

forms (as in English), and the personal endings of the


auxiliary verb sum are those of the active voice
(139, 150); but in the present tense the difference
between active and passive is expressed by using
different personal endings.

102

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Active.


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vocabulary.

167.

audax,

bold, daring-.

-acis,

con-tineo, ere, ui, -tentum,

dictum,

dico, ere, dlxi,

exlstimo, are, avi, atum,


finitimus, a,

restrain,

hem

say,

speak.

tell,

in, enclose.

think, consider.

um, neighboring,

adjace?it ;

nom.

plur.

as substantive, neighbors.
nothing.

nihil, indeclinable, n.,

periculosus, a,

um,

dangerous.

potens, -ends,

powerful.

prohibeo, ere, ui, itum,

keep, prevent.

videor, passive of video,

1.

be seen ; 2. seem.

Prohibeo takes the present infinitive (comple-

N.B.

mentary, 123), to be translated by from with the gerund


in

e.g.

-ing,

prohibeor

venire,

/ am prevented from

coming.

EXERCISES.
168.
1.

I.

Revocatur, revocamur

pedior, impedimini

2.1m-

coguntur, cogens.

contineris, continentur.

3.

Acies

auditur.
4. DIcitur
muniuntur.
non est periculosum. 6. Nihil
5. Consilium est audax
Existimantur pacem
7.
dedimus
nihil habemus.
continemur. 9.
natura
pax petitur. 8. Loci
petere
10.
videntur
copiae
comparantur.
Copias comparare
11.
vastantur.
Multos
A finitimis agri Germanorum
12. Circurm cniniinl
circum
vicos habere dicimini,
14.
ventl estis.
13. Caesari, viro potenti, par&mis.

instruitur

castra

rat

mos

15. Pinitidesperare; desperare visus erat.


L6. Postero die castra

a t>r6s vastare prohibemur.


t

moventur.

17.

Paucas horas impetus sustinetur

;;;

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ii.

He

orders, he

ordered; he compels, he is compelled. 2. They are stationing", they are being stationed;
they are surrounding-, they are being surrounded. 3.
You (s) are ordered, we are compelled, I am stationed,
you (pi) are being surrounded. 4. They give nothing;
nothing is given. 5. It is dangerous; we are safe;
there is a double trench.
6. We are enclosed by broad
and deep rivers. 7. You are awaited by the consul.
8. We are not alarmed by the departure of the allies.
1.

9.

The town

is

He

is

being-

fortified

it

is

announced

to

nothing had been said.


11. You are called bold and powerful men.
12. We
are prevented from sending messengers
messengers
are sent to Caesar.
13. You are considered to have
14. We do not wag-e war with (our)
great experience.
neighbors.
15. The troops are seen from the camp
16. The camp is
the army seems to be giving way.
being- pitched across the river. 17. Part of the adjacent
province is being laid waste.
Caesar.

10.

said nothing

LESSON XXX.
Regular Comparison of Adjectives.
169.

Illustrative

Positive.

Latus (gen.

lati),

broad
Fortis (gen. fortis),

brave

Audax

(gen. audacis),

bold;

Potens (gen. potentis),


powerful;

Examples.

Comparative.
latior,

broader
fortior,

braver
audacior,
bolder
potentior,

Superlative.
latissimus,
broadest.

fortissimus,
bravest.

audacissimus,
boldest.

potentissimus,

more powerful ; most powerful.

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a.

The regular method


superlative

above.

is

adjectives

is

and

illustrated

substituted for the genitive end-

form the comparative ? What is


substituted to form the superlative ?
The superlative degree is frequently used in Latin,
as it sometimes is in English also, to indicate a
ing

b.

of forming the comparative

degrees of

What

105

(-1

or

-is)

to

high degree of the quality


it is most (or very) unfair.
170.

The comparative and

the positive, are declined,

as,

iniquissimum

est,

superlative degrees, like

and agree

in gender,

number

and ease with the substantives to which they refer.


The superlatives are all of the first and second declensions and are declined like bonus (65). The comparatives
^ire of the third declension and are declined as follows :
Paradigm.

COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES.


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a.

Examine

singular and the genitive


and also the nominative and
Are the endings like
accusative plural neuter.
those of the nouns of the third declension (83 and
the ablative

plural of all genders,

94), or like those of positive adjectives of the third

declension (113)

VOCABULARY.

171.

famous.

brevis, e, short, brief.

nobilis, e, ?wble,

densus, a, um, thick, dense.

novus, a, urn, new.

fidelis, e,

prudens, -entis, discreet.

faithful.

flrmus, a, um, strong.

Phrases

iter facio,

utilis, e, useful.

march.

certiorem facio

de,

inform

of,

literally

make

{some one) more certain about*

Novus has no comparative and the superlative


latest, as in novissimum agmen, the rear.
For newer, newest the comparative and superlative of

N.B.

means

last,

recens are used.

exercises.
172.
1.

I.

Fliimine

latissimo

et

iter fecerant.

4.

altissimo continentur.

2.

Per densissimas silvas


Tertio die ad flumen latius perveniunt.

Longiore itinere ducimur.

3.

socii non erant fideles.


Noctes sunt breviores
6. Viro nobilissimo et potentissimo filiam dat.
7.
Caesarem de novo consilio certiorem fecerunt. 8. In
novissimum agmen meridie impetus factus erat.
fossis miiniuntur.
10. Locus
9. Castra latioribus
11. Prudentissima est
firmissimis praesidiis tenetur.
12. Multae res Gallos
consilium est utilius.
puella
prohibent.
utiles amicos esse
5.

*ln this phrase certior agrees with the object of the verb in the active
voice ; but with the subject if the verb is passive.

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n.

They sought denser

1.

seem to
creet

hem

forests.

in the allies.

Deeper rivers

2.

The daughters

3.

garrison

is

5.

left.

The time

night.

6.

time

very short.

is

of the noblest

the sons of the

We
is

are dis-

4.

A stronger

had marched the

rest of the

the daughters were most discreet.

short

the time

is

shorter

the

The hostages are the children


8. They give their daughters to

7.

men.
more powerful

chiefs.

informed of the king's departure.


legions are stationed in the rear.

He had been

9.

The bravest

10.

11.

For many years

he was a most itseful and faithful friend. 12. He was


informed by a famous soldier you are hemmed in by
;

a broader river.

LESSON XXXI.
Dative with Adjectives.
173.

Illustrative

he

Caesarl est inimicus,

Partitive Genitive.

Examples.
is

unfriendly

to

Finitimi sunt Galliae, they are adjacent

Populo Romano periculosum

est, it is

Roman people.
Observe how in these Latin
is

to

Caesar.

Gaul.

dangerous

to the

sentences the adjective

completed by a dative denoting that to which the

feeling or quality in question

is

directed.

This Dative with Adjectives is similar to the Dative


of the Indirect Object with verbs (39) and is similarly
translated.

The

adjectives so defined or completed are chiefly

those

meaning near friendly\


',

known, and their opposites.

like, useful,

agreeable,

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174.

Illustrative

Examples.

Omnium Gallorum sunt fortissimi,

of all the Gauls they

are the bravest.

Partem provinciae vastant,

they lay waste part of the

province.
a.

Observe how the genitive is used in Latin to denote


the whole of which a part is taken. The genitive
thus expressing the whole is termed the Partitive
-

Genitive.

175.

Illustrative

Examples.

Reliquas legiones mittit, he sends the rest of the legions


{the

remaining

In medio flumine

m id-stream

{in
a.

legions).

est, it is in

the middle of the river

Certain relations, as the remainder, and such local


parts of anything" as the top, middle, bottom, begin-

by the

ning, end, Latin prefers to express not

par-

but by an adjective in agreement,


which regularly precedes its noun.
titive genitive,

VOCABULARY.

176.

dissimilis, e, imlike, dissimilar,

fra-ter, -tris,

m., brother.

incognitus, a,

um, ztnknown.

pa-ter, -tris, m., father.

publicus, a,

um, belong-

ing to the people, public.

inutilis, e, useless.

similis, e, like, similar.

ma-ter,

sor-or, -oris,

-tris, f.,

notus, a,

mother.

f., sister.

um, known, familiar.

Phrases

res publica, rei publicae,

f.,

the public interest,

public business, the state.

par esse, be a ?natch {for).

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exercises
177.
1.

I.

Prater sorori incognitus erat.

Belgis erant.

Cacsari es

3.

fidelis.

2.

Galli fmitimi

4.

Potcntissimus

6.
brincipum est. 5. De re publica non desperamus.
Media circiter nocte ad reliquum exercitum perveniunt.
8. Caesari esse inimlci
7. Galli non pares sunt Bclgls.
fortissimi strains.
Omnium
Gallorum
existimamur. 9.
Consilium rei
parent.
11.
ct
matri
10.
Filii patri
12. Periculum commune
publieae periculosum est.

omnibus esse videtur.


14. Media insula
est.
militum

nihil

notum

13.

Italia Britanniae* dissimilis


15. Multis

incolis est inutilis.

erat.

ii.

They had sent the noblest of the Britons to Caesar.


They seem to be friendly and faithful to Caesar. 3.
The harbors were unknown to the Gauls. 4. The war
began to be dangerous to the state. 5. At dawn they
6. They had
joined battle in the middle of the forest.
marched for a large part of the day. 7. The daughter
1.

2.

is

8.

like* (her) father

the sons are like (their) mother.

Nothing was more useful to the senate.

9.

The

He

had
been informed by the more daring of the brothers.
12. The nights are
11. Peace is not similar to war.

brothers arc unfriendly to (their) sister.

unlike the days.


to

all.

Children

14.

13.

The

do not

The

slave's faithfulness

lakes .are

give

10.

like

orders to

large
(their)

is

known

rivers.

fathers

mothers.
After lite and unlike, the preposition

la

now generally omitted.

15.

and

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LESSON XXXII.
First and Second Conjugations
Indicative Active.
178.

Illustrative

Pugnabit, he will fight.


Vocabis,

you will

call.

Future

Examples.

Videbimus, we shall
Tenebitis,

you will

see.

hold.

a.

What new element

b.

Notice the translation of these Latin forms, which,


like their English equivalents, are said to be in

is found in these Latin verbs


between the present stem and the personal ending- ?

the Future Tense.


Paradigms.

179.

FUTURE INDICATIVE ACTIVE.


Second Conjugation.

First Conjugation.
Singular.
1.

-a-b-6

2.

-a-bi-s

3.

-a-bi-t

monebo
monebis
monebit

Plural.

monebimus

-a-bi-mus

a.

-a-bi-tis

monebitis

-a-bu-nt

monebunt

Notice that in the first person singular i of -bi- is


omitted before -6, and that in the third person plural

becomes bu before
of the vowel in -bi- ?

bi

180.

-nt.

What

is

the quantity

In Latin, as in English, adjectives are often

used as substantives, especially in the plural, the


masculine denoting- a class of persons, the neuter a class
or

number

of things

as omnes, all people, everybody;


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omnia, all things, everything ; boni, good people, the good ;


So multi, multa, pauci, reliqui,
bona, goods, property.

and many others.


N.B. In the genitive, dative, and ablative plural,
where the gender is not determined by the case-ending,
as, omnium
res should be used instead of the neuter

rerum, of everything.

VOCABULARY.

181.

cause, reason.

causa, ae,

f.,

de, prep,

with abl.,

1,

dozen from,

from ;

2,

con-

ceriiing.

de-duco, ere, -duxi, -ductum, lead

off,

de-pono, ere, -posui, -positum, lay

down

de-silio, Ire, -silul,

withdraw.
;

deposit.

-sultum, leap dozen.

deterreo, ere, ui, itum, (frighten off) deter, hinder.


de-tineo, ere,

m, -tentum,

detain, delay.

impero, are, avi, atum, demand, require.


locus,

I^m., place; in plural, loca, orum, n., places,

ground,

district.

per-tineo, ere, ui, -tentum, extend, tend.

Phrases with causa {notice the order throughout) :


multis de causis, for (literally from)

pads causa, for

many

reasons

the sake of peace (literally

from

the

reason of peace).

frumenti causa, for the purpose of (getting) corn /

to

get corn.

N.B.
denote
(6)

whom

(a)
(l)

The

down,

prefix

de

is

used in compounds to

(2) from, off.

With impero, the dative denotes the person

to

the accusative denotes that


orders are given
which is demanded or ordered as,
;

Equitibus imperat, he gives orders to the cavalry ;


Equites regi imperat, he demands cavalryfrom the king

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exercises.
182.
1.

I.

Multis de causis in Gallia hiemabimus. 2. Rex


3. Nihil videbitis.

copiasparabit; copiaereglparebunt.
4.

Adventumauxiliorumnonexspectabo.

imperat

obsides Gallis imperabat

5.

Obsidibus

magnum numerum

Belgae pertinent ad
causa impetum
8. De omnibus rebus desperas
sustinebimus.
omnia
10. Omnia loca
9. Milites de vallo deducit.
relinquis.
occupabimus. 11. Amicitiae causa agros finitimis con12. Nihil exercitum detinebit.
cedere non dubitabis.
14. Ex equis ad
13. Multa Caesarem deterrebunt.
pedes desiluerunt. 15. Bonos necabunt bonanobilium
16. Belli causa copias comparabo.
17.
habebunt.

obsidum Gafliae imperabit.

Rhenum.

flumen

7.

Rei

6.

publicae

Imperium

deposuit.
ii.

1.

We

they will

shall not fight without reason.

move

the camp.

3.

2.

At dawn

shall give the signal.

You will have everything we shall have an abundance of everything. 5. For the sake of the common
safety they will give hostages.
6. They leap down
from the wall. 7. I shall demand cavalry and infantry
from the rest. 8. You will not venture to wage war
for a slight cause.
9. The forest used to extend to
the bank of the river Rhine. 10. The place is unknown
4.

the ground was known to everybody.


all
11.
Nothing will deter the senate and Roman people. 12.
Everything had been withdrawn from the fields. 13. It

to

will tend to (ad) the safety of the good.

to assist

him

{literally,

14.

He has many
15. On

for the sake of aid).

account of the lack of everything

we

shall not hesitate

Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct.

Cloaca Maxima.

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to lay

down

victory

from the

17.

16. You will not delay the


demand a large supply of corn

(our) arms.

He

will

113

kinsr's brother.

114

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war.
halt

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Ancus Marcius, rex quartus, Tullo

Numac

similior.

dissimilis erat, et

communis causa Romam


portum fecit apud (at) ostium

Saliitis

lovis muris firmavit et


{the

115

mouth) fluminis Tiberis.

Turn
Etruria

Tarquinius Priscus, qui {who) in urbem ab


rex creatus est.
Tarquinius in
pace nobilis erat.
Multa oppida occupavit et

(then)

pervenerat,

bello et in

agrum Romanum latiorem


Servius

Tullius,

omnium regum.
cepit (formed)

rex

Pauca

(juae

fecit.

sextus,

priidentissimus

bella gessit sed


sal utem

{which) ad

erat

multa consilia
rei

piiblicae

Pacem cum Latinis confirmavit et principatum omnium finitimorum populorum obtinebat. Seppertinebant.

tem

colles (hills) mag"nis et flrmls

(surrounded).

munitionibus cinxit

Post multos annos a Tarquinio,

filio

regis

quinti, necatus est.

Tarquinius Superbus, Septimus et ultimus (last)


regum, homo iniquus et audax erat. Filium habebat
quern (whom) vSextum appellabat.
Propter injiirias
ipsius (of himself) et Sexti, rex imperium deponere
coactus est et ex urbe expulsus est.
Post discessum Tarquiniorum, senatus et principes
rem publicam administrabant {governed), et Roman!
consules (consuls,

ace. case)

creare coeperunt.

LESSON XXXIII.
Third Declension

I-Stems.

185. The Third Declension includes also nouns whose


Item ends in i, instead of in a consonant as in Lessons
XIII. and XV.
The difference is observable chiefly in
enitive plural, which, in i-stems,*has -ium instead
of -um, and in the nominative and accusative plural of

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neuters, which have -ia instead of -a.


ablative singular ends in

-I

Occasionally the

(regularly so in the neuter

nouns) and more rarely the accusative singular ends in


-im.
Otherwise the declension of consonant stems and
,

i-stems
186.

is identical.

Paradigms.

THIRD DECLENSION, I-STEMS.


Singular.

Nom.

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former are consonant stems (see 86), as miles, eques,


(So also with nouns in -is.)
the latter are i-stems.
The only frequently occurring- neuter i-stem is
(e)
mare, the sea; Singular, Norn., Ace. and Voc. mare,
pes

Gen. maris, Dat. and Abl. marl. Plural, Nom., Ace.


and Voc. maria, Gen. only once found, in the form
marum, Dat. and Abl. maribus.
188. Certain consonant stems of the third declension
have been so far affected by the nearly similar declension of the i-stems that they may be classed separately
These include masculine and feminine
as mixed stems.
nouns of three kinds (a) nouns ending in -ns or -rs,
(b) monosyllables in -s or -x preceded by a consonant,
and (c) nouns in -tas. These are declined like conson:

ant stems in the singular

The nouns

in -tas,

like i-stems in the plural.

however, have both -um and -ium in

the genitive plural.


Paradigms.

189.

THIRD DECLENSION

MIXED STEMS.

Singular.

Nom. cohors
Gen

(cohort)

urbs

{city)

civitas (state)

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190. (a)

Review the case-endings

third declension (113) which,

it

will

of adjectives of the

be seen, regularly!

follow the declension of i-stems.


(b)

Review

also

the rules for gender in the third

declension (95), to which should

lowing

now be added

the

fol-

Nouns in -is ^with many important exceptions), and


nouns in -es not increasing in the genitive, are feminine
nouns in -e, -al and -ar are neuter.
VOCABULARY.

191.

m.

civis, is,

f.,

civi-tas, -tatis, f.,

hostis,

citizenship ; state, country.

end ; in plural, borders,

m.,

finis, is,

citizen.

m. (usually

is,

territory.

in plural), enemy.

mare, is, n.,


sea.
mons, montis, m., mountain.
navis,

ship.

is, f.,

pons, pontis, m.,

Tamesis,
Tiberis,

bridge.

m. (ace. -im, abl. -i), the Thames.


m. (ace. -im, abl. -l), the Tiber.

is,

is,

Phrase

navis longa, war-ship, war-galley.

EXERCISES.
192.

i.

civitatem habeo.
1. Civis Romanus sum
2. De
navibus desiliunt.
3. In finibus hostium hiemabunt.
4. Propter altitudinem maris ex navi desilire non audent.
6. Mare est
5. Castra in altissimo monte posita erant.
utile; maria sunt utiliora.
7. Finitimis civitatibus
naves longas imperabit. 8. Magnis itineribus ad flumen
Tamesim hostes contendunt. 9. Postera nocte civibus
10. In oceano et in reliquis
fugam hostium nuntiavi.
11. Legati a
maribus multas naves longas habebant.
;

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reliquis

civitatibus

14.

sustinent.

12.

Fines

latissimos

Res piiblica navi similis esse


Impetum hostium magnam partem die!

habere videntur.
dicitur.

venerant.

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15.

13.

Multis civitas data

est.

ii.

1.

The

They assembled from

all

parts of the state.

2.

from the mountains to the sea. 3.


He collects a large number of soldiers and of war-ships.
4. The mountains had been seized by the enemy.
5.
The leading men of all the states assembled at midnight.
6. There was a bridge over {literally on) the
river Tiber.
7. We had marched from the enemy's
territories to the neighboring state.
8. They hasten by
night through the midst of the enemy. 9. The seas are
forest extends

thought to be dangerous. 10. The Romans called the


river Tiber.
11. On account of the scarcity of ships
they had made a bridge.
12. The sea is enclosed by
very high mountains. 13. On account of the height of
the mountains they left part of (their) baggage. 14. He
will carry

back the goods of the Roman citizens in the


15. I have said nothing about citizenship.

war-galleys.

Naves Longae

War- galleys.

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LESSON XXXIV.
Irregular Comparison of Adjectives.
193. Adjectives ending- in -er (whether of the first and
second declensions or of the third declension) form the
comparative regularly (169), but form the superlative
by changing -er to -errimus as,
;

Comparative.

Positive.
.

llberior

liberrimus

acer

acrior

acerrimus

194. Six

-illimus

in -ilis form the comparative


form the superlative by changing -ilis to

adjectives

regularly, but
as,

Comparative.

Positive.

Superlative.

facilis

facilior

facillimus

similis

similior

simillimus

These adjectives are


gracilis
-ilis,

Superlative.

liber

[slender),

e.g.

nobilis

facilis, difficilis, similis, dissimilis,

humilis

and

Other adjectives in

(low).

utilis,

are-

regular

as,

nobilis,

nobilior, nobilissimus.

195.

Many

adjectives in

common

use are in Latin, as

in English, quite irregular in their comparison.

The

following are the most important of these :


Positive.

Comparative.

bonus,

good.

melior, better.

malus,

bad.

pejor,

magnus,
parvus,

greater, larger,

smaller,

greatest, largest.

minimus,

minor,
little.

best.

pessimus, worst.

maximus,

major,

great, large.

small,

worse.

Superlative.

optimus,

less.

multus, much, many, plus, more.

smallest, least.

plurimus, most.

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196.

rare :

The

positive of the following

is

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either lacking- or

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vocabulary.

198.

more (than one).

plures or complures,

several,

prima lux,
proximus dies,

daybreak, dawn.

lit.

the 7iext day.

ultimus or extremus,

most distant, remotest.

superiora loca,

higher ground, heights.

superior annus,

the previous (or preceding) year.

summum

periculum,

the greatest (or extreme) da?iger.

summa virtus,
summus mons,

very great (or signal) valor.

Infimus (or Imus) mons,

the foot of the

the top of the

mountain (175).
mountain (175).

EXERCISES.
199.
1.

i.

Belgae proximi sunt Germanis.

parte fluminis pontes sunt plurimi.

omnium rerum

2.

3.

In inferiore

Summa

erat

Prima luce majorem multitudinem navium ab ulteriore portiimisit. 5. Proxima


nocte superiora loca occupant. 6. Superiore anno majus
oppidum minore cum periculo expugnaverant.
7.
Optimae res non sunt facillimae. 8. Complures sunt
pares.

tenebat.

inopia.

Omnes

9.

superiores

dies

summum montem

In extremis hostium finibus oppida sunt

10.

creberrima.

4.

11.

Primo impetii

repulsi sunt.

12. Iter

per proximas civitates facillimum erat.


ii.

2. They
1. The depth of the river is very great.
3. The previous winter he
hasten to the nearest ship.
had collected very many war-ships and very large forces.

4.

Nothing

the enemy.

5. It is the most distant town of


For the larger part of the year the

better.

is

6.

roads are very

difficult.

7.

It is

best to hasten to the

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upper part of the island.

8.

On

123

his first approach

he

demanded hostages from several states. 9. The trench


extended from the foot of the mountain to the outer
10. The next day they fortified a smaller
fortifications.
camp on the higher ground. 11. On account of their
signal valor they are the freest and noblest of the
12. He had been informed by very frequent
citizens.
despatches.

LESSON XXXV.
Third and Fourth Conjugations

Future

Indicative Active.
200.
Mittes,

Illustrative

you will send.

Mittemus, we shall send.


a.

Examples.

Audies,

you will hear.


you will hear.

Audietis,

Notice that in these Latin future forms, the present


stem has -e- changed to -e- in the third conjugation,
and -I- changed to -ie- in the fourth conjugation.

201.

Paradigms.

FUTURE INDICATIVE ACTIVE.


Third Conjugation.

Fourth Conjugation.

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a.

What

letter replaces -e- as the sign of the future tense

What

in the first person singular ?

ending- in the first person singular

endings
b.

is -e-

changed

Compare the formation

is

to -e- (78. b.)

the personal

Before what

?
?

of the future tense in the first

and second- conjugations (178) with that


third and fourth conjugations.

in

the

VOCABULARY.

202.

swift, speedy.

celer, eris, ere,

celeri-tas, -tatis, f., swiftness, speed.

cohor-s,

cohort (one-tenth of a legion).

-tis, f.,

collis, is,

m.,

hill.

difficul-tas, -tatis, f., difficulty.

dux, ducis, m.,

leader, guide.

facul-tas, -tatis,

Hber-tas, -tatis,

f.,

pauci-tas, -tatis,
regi-6, -onis,

N.B.The

opportunity.

freedom.

f.,

i.,

fewness, small number


district, country, region.

f.,

suffix -tas is

used to form from adjectives

abstract nouns denoting quality or condition. It appears


in English as -ty.

EXERCISES.
203.

i.

omnia videbis. 2. Ab extremis


regionibus venient.
3. Hostes omnes colles tenent.
4. Propter paucitatem portuum summa erat difficultas.
6. Partem cohortis
5. Spe libertatis adductus eram.
A.

1.

emittit.
8.

Nihil audies

7.

Omnes

inimicos ex civitate

Primo impetu hostes

pelletis.

9.

expellemus.

Celerrimis hostium

facultas fugae datur.

B.

10.

Sine duce venire constituent;

venire dubitabunt.

11. In

sine ducibus

summocolle acieminstruam.

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Communis

libertatis causa multos annos bellum


Navis cllcitur esse cclerrima. 14. Magna
15.
cum celcritate contendemus.
Majores copias ex
16. Reliquas cohortes
finitimis regionibus deducet.
in silvas collesque compellunt. 17. Plurimae difficultates
Caesarem impedient
12.

feeremus.

13.

204.

ii.

A.

1.

We

The

leading'

men

pitch (our)

of the district will assemble.

camp on

the top of the hill.


Several had been dismayed by the enemy's swift-

2.

$.

shall

He will not grant freedom to the citizens. 5.


withdraw out of the state. 6. He has been
informed of the difficulty by the guides. 7. We had
ascertained the small number of the cavalry and cohorts.
I shall withdraw the baggage to the nearest hill.
8.
9. Ships are swift; the horses were swifter.
ness.

You

4.

will

B.

10.

heights.

enemy.

He

The

fourth and seventh cohorts* halt on the

11.

Several have been surrounded by the

12.

The guides have found out

will lead out

14.

He

will

of) flight.

16.

On

all

give the rest an opportunity for

15.

Wc

shall hasten to lay

down

13.

{literally

(our) arms.

account of the speed of the cohorts, you will


17. They will leave
sea about midday.

reach

the

(their)

plunder across the river Thames.

C.

the road.

the cavalry with several cohorts.

Decline the following combinations

iter difficile,

homo

nobilis, vir nobilior,

navis longa,

mare magnum,

res publica CO, complures dies (/>/.),


major pars, flumen Tiberis CO, altius vallum, exercitus
er, aeies duplex CO, reliqui Belgae (/>/.).

castra majora,

plural

singular.

noun may

he.

modified by two (or more) adjectivea

tl^

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Irregu

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(a)

127

Notice that while these adjectives have for the most


part the regular endings of the first and second

and dative singular


and have the same form in all
genders. The adjectives which show this irregularity arc nine in number, and are given in the
declensions, yet the genitive

are irregular,

vocabulary below.
206.

Illustrative

Examples.

Alia loca fossis, alia vallis muniebat, some places he

was

fortifying with trenches, others with walls.


Altera legio in Gallia hiemat, altera in Italia, the one
legion

is

wintering in Gaul, the other in Italy.

Reliquas (or ceteras) legiones in acie instruit, the other


legions he
a.

draws up

in line.

In these sentences observe (l) the force of alius and


alter

when repeated

in distinct clauses, (2) the use

of reliqui or ceteri for the others, the

means merely

others.

Navis Longa

War-ship.

rest,

while

alii

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vocabulary.

207.
alius, a, ud,
alii

alter
ceteri, ae,

some

erum,

alter, era,

other, another.

alii,

others.

the bt'her (of two).

the one

alter,

the other.

(in plnr. only), the others, the rest.

neuter, tra, trum, ?ieither.

um,
um,
um,
um,
um,

nullus, a,

no, none.

solus, a,

alone, only.

totus, a,
ullus, a,

unus, a,

all,

one ; alone, only.

which (of two), used in questions.

uter, tra, trum,

N.B.

Notice that while

neuter and uter drop

has

the whole.

any I

-ius

it.

in all the other

alter retains e in declension,

The

g-enitive singular of alter

words the ending-

is -lus.

Notice also the additional irregularity in the neuter


singular nominative and accusative of alius. The
g'enitive singmlar of alius is alius (although alterius is

generally used instead), and the dative

alii.

EXERCISES.
208.

I.

A. 1. Alio tempore conveniunt. 2. Neuter ducum


proelium committere audebit.
3. Alteram partem vici
Gallis concedit, alteram cohortibus.
4. Sine ullo periculo castra muniunt.
5. Ab aliis audiunt; a ceteris
audient.
6. In utra fluminis ripa castra posuerunt?
8. Alia consilia
7. Tota castra hominibus complentur.
rei publicae sunt utilia, alia periculosa.

B.
10.

9.

Cum

Nulla

sdla

civitas

decima legione proelium committam.


obsides

mittet.

11. Toti

Galliae

Trajan's Column.

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13.

12. Alterum
habemus nullum.

imperavit.

equites

Aliud

iter

legatos mittunt.

erat

facilius.

Belgae uni non

15. Ceteri portus aliis not! sunt, aliis

pcogniti.

16. Alter

Britannis.

17.

portus

Gallis

notus erat, alter

Neutra insula idoneos portus habet.

209.

ii.

A. 1. He
orders

iter

14.

129

some

walls.

3.

neither.

gives orders to the whole province.


to

fill

the

2.

He

trenches, others to attack the

To which is it more \iseful ? It is useful to


They made an attack from another part of
5. He places the baggage of the whole army

4.

the town.

on the other bank of the river. 6. No ship is swifter


none of the ships will reach harbor. 7. They hinder
8. He will give freedom to
others without any reason.
the ambassador only.
B. 9. He hastened to the other camp. 10. To which
camp (of the two) did the others hasten? 11. They
were fortifying* the heights during the whole of the
night.
12. Some will lay down (their) arms, others
will give hostages.
13. Neither line will begin the

battle.

14.

He

is

the brother of the one, the friend of

the other.

15.

They seem

alone.

He

is like

16.

to be unfriendly
no other leader.

to Caesar

Decline the following combinations: miles R6C.


manus, vulnus grave, aliud tempus, reliqua cohors,
minus periculum, rex solus, alia res; (in the singular
only) alter portus, nulla spes, media nox, militaris usus,
neutra insula, idoneus locus,

unum

latus,

neuter f rater,

dextrum cornu, nullum aliud iter, utra legio, novissimum agmen, summus mons, tota provincia, villa
civitas, tertia vigilia, prima lux, alius obses, altera ripa,
*

niillus

impetus

(in

the plural only) alia hiberna, ceteri

elves, superiora loca.

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LESSON XXXVII.
Imperfect and Future Indicative Passive.
Paradigms.

210.
(a)

IMPERFECT INDICATIVE PASSIVE.


Third Conj.

Second Conj.

First Conj.

Fourth Conj.

Singular.
1.

amabar*

monebar

regebar

audiebar

2.

amabaris

mcnebaris

regebaris

audiebaris

3.

amabatur

monebatur

regebatur

audiebatur

Plural.
1.

amabamur

monebamur

regebamur

audiebamur

2.

amabamini monebamini
amabantur monebantur

regebamini
regebantur

audiebamini
audiebantur

3.

FUTURE INDICATIVE PASSIVE.

(b)

Singular.
1.

amabort

monebor

regar

2.

moneberis
monebitur

regeris

audieris

3.

amaberis
amabitur

regetur

audietur

1.

amabimur

monebimur

audiar

Plural.

amabimini monebimini
amabuntur mon^buntur

2.
3.

{a)

regemur

audiemur

regemini
regentur

audientur

Compare these forms with

audiemini

those, of the

and future indicative active

imperfect

(44, 89, 179, 201),

and

also with those of the present indicative passive


(164, 165).

-m by
*

A ma liiir

is

-r,

In particular, notice the replacing of

and of

translated

-bis

by

I was being

-beris.

loved,

(119).
t

Amahor is translated I shall be

loved.

I used

to be loved or

I was loved

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Here

it

would be well

to

131

review in each conjuga-

tion the three tenses of the indicative (active

and

passive) formed from the present stem.

VOCABULARY.

211.

de-ligo, ere, -legi, -lectum,

choose.

di-vido, ere, -vlsi, -visum,

divide.

in-cendo, ere, -cendi, -censum, barn.


solvo, ere, solvi, solutum,

Phrases

loose, release.

navem or naves
in

fugam

solvo, set sail.

pat

do,

to flight.

EXERCISES.
212.

I.

A. 1. Mittimus, mittimur, mittemur.


2. Oppida
pppugfnantur hiberna expugfnabuntur. 3. Impediebatur, impediebar.
4. Expellebar, expellar.
5. Hostes
in fug-am dabimus.
6. Naves solvet
servus solvetur.
;

Dividitur, dividuntur.

7.

Locum

9.

tenetur

deligunt

Oppidum

8.

incendebatur.

leg-iones delig-ebantur.

imperium a Caesare obtinebatur

Mons

10.

impetus

sustinebitur.

B.
montibus continebantur
11. LegatI retinentur
naves detinebuntur.
12. Vocamur, convocabamur,
revocabiminl.
13. Castra moventur
castra ponentur.
;

Expelleris,

14.

repelleris.

15.

16.

Fidelis esse existimabar.

15.

vSuperabamini, superaberis.

eireumveniemur.

Rex

20.

213.

A.
2.

It

audieris.

Jubemini, jubebor.
19. Circumvenietur,

amicus appellabatur.

II.

camp

et

17.

Audiris,

1.

will
is

It will

be divided; they used to be divided.

be carried; we shall be carried baek.


the rani]) will be burned.

being- pitched

3.

4.

The

We

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are being- surrounded

was

being- surrounded.

putting the troops to flight

is

They

the signal

is

they have set sail.


they will be summoned. 8.
called brother
you will be called brothers.
seem to be brothers you seemed to be sisters.
6.

will

are setting sail

be chosen

5.

He

given.

7. They
You are
9. You

B.
will

10.
be

We

fortified

hemmed

in by the
by the cavalry.
11.

are

rivers; the

camp

being

filled,

It is

was being filled, it will be filled. 12. It is being


it was being fortified,
it will be fortified.
13. I am led, I was being led out, I shall be led back.

it

fortified,

You used to be sent, we shall be sent out the battle


begun.
15. You (s. and pi.) were thought to be
unfriendly. 16. They are hindered, we shall be hindered
{use both deterreo and impedio).
17. I shall be surrounded, I shall be seen.
18. I used to be called free
I seemed to be a slave.
19. You will be surrounded
we were being surrounded. 20. You will seem to be
unfriendly you will be compelled to set sail.
14.

is

LESSON XXXVIII.
Cardinal Numerals.
214. In the following list of cardinal

numerals these

points should be carefully observed*:


(a)

the similarity in form of the cardinal and ordinal

(6)

the

numerals (156)
method of forming the numerals from
nineteen inclusive

(c)

eleven to

manner of expressing twenty-one, twenty -two,


hundred and one and similar numbers

the

*lt

is

not necessary at this stage to commit the whole

list

to

memory.

one

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the different

((/)

ways

of expressing- eightee?i

133
i

nineteen,

and similar numbers


the ending- of the tens from 30 to 90 inclusive in
-ginta of the hundreds from 200 to 900 inclusive
twenty-eighty twenty -mne,

(e)

in -cent! or -genti.

cardinal numerals.

215.

fduodetriginta

2.

unus, one
duo, two

3.

tres, three

locto et viginti

4.

quattuor, 'four

fimdetriginta

1.

quinque

28. a viginti octo

novem

29.- viginti

Inovem

6.

sex

7.

septem

30. triginta

8.

octo

40.

quadraginta

9.

novem

50.

qumquaginta

10.

decern

60.

sexagfinta

11.

undecim
duodecim

70.

septuaginta

12.

tredecim
quattuordecim

13.
14.

quindecim
sedecim
septendecim

15.
16.

17.

80. octoginta

90.

octodecim

Idecem

et octo

fundevigintl
'

rt

centum
centum unus
f
"Icentum et unus
124. centum viginti
tuor

21

|
'

22.

200.

ducenti

300.

trecenti

400. quadringfentT

quingenti

aovendecim

500.

viginti

600.

sescenti

700.

septingenti
octingenti

(unus

nonaginta

100.

fduodeviginti
18.-

et vigintl

et viginti
_

viginti

unus

800.

duo

vlginti

900. nongent!

e1

wiginti duo

1000. mille

quat-

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216. (a)

Most of the cardinal numerals are unsame form being used for all cases and

declined, the

The

genders.

following, however, are declined

from ducenti

duo, tres, the hundreds


sive,
(b)
(e)

and

unus,

to nongenti inclu-

mille.

The declension of unus has been given in 205.


The hundreds are declined like the plural of bonus,

as ducenti, ae, a.
(d)
(e)

The

declension of mille will be given in 230.

Duo and

tres are declined in the following section.

Paradigms.

217.
Masc.

Nom. duo
Gen. duorum
duobus
duos, duo
duo
duobus

Dat.
Ace.
Voc.

Abl.

&

Fem.

Neut.

duae

duo

tres

tria

duarum

duorum

trium

trium

duabus
duas
duae
duabus

duobus
duo
duo
duobus

tribus

tribus

tres

tria

tres

tria

tribus

tribus

Masc.

Fem.

Neut.

exercises.
218.

A. 1.
educet.

i.

Duas legiones
2.

Cum

ex hibernis
naves solvemus.
feceramus.
4. Ad

relinquet,

tres

sescentis equitibus

Dies circiter quindecim iter


Caesarem cum ducentis obsidibus veniebat.
viginti naves in unum locum coguntur.
3.

5.

6.

DuodeSigna

7. CenEquites circiter

militaria quattuor et septuaginta relinquuntur.

tum

viginti

triginta

B.

quinque vicos habent.

8.

mittentur.

Quattuordecim annos bellum gerebant.


9.
Quingentis equitibus magnam multitudinem hostium repellit. 11. Octo horas castra oppugnant nona
10.

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hora castra expugnantur.

135

Romanis unis concedi-

12.

13. Legionem decimam quarta vigilia educam.


mus.
14. Quadraginta cohortium impedimenta relicta sunt.
15. Incolas trium vicorum necat.

219.

A.

with

ii.

1.

He sends four cohorts

four cohorts.

2.

They

he

will

will

send the cavalry

give five hundred

They were waging: two wars

at one time.
and about two hundred
villages.
5. An attack was made by four hundred and
6. They had collected twenty-eight
twenty cavalry.
ships.
7. Thirty-five soldiers will be chosen from the
whole army. 8. The village is divided into two parts by
a river. 9. About four hundred villages will be burned.

hostages.
4.

3.

They burn

10.

forty-three towns

Two

legions, the sixth and the seventh,


on the other bank. 11. On the fifth day,
five hundred and fifty -five horsemen had been collected.
They are giving up three hundred and sixty hostages
12
13. He left two legions in the camp, and with the
remaining six marched for nine days through the
neighboring states. 14. He orders the lieutenant to set
sail with two legions and one hundred and seventy

B.

will

be

cavalry.

220.

left

15.

We

are adjacent to three states.

136

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ex

agfris

urbem convenerunt,

in

Roma

petiverunt.

alii

muris altissimis

137

proximas silvas

et flumine latissimo

muniebatur sed pons, qui (wAtcA) factus erat in (over)


Tiber!, ab exterioribus munitionibus ad portam urbis
Propter paucitatem civium videbatur facillipertinebat
;

mnm

esse

pontem occupare

et in

mediam urbem

exerci-

tum ducere.
Hac (this) de causa summum erat periculum. Ceteri
Roman! jam (now) de salute desperabant, sed unus
vir fortissimus, Horatius Cocles, communis libertatis
causa pontem defendere constituit. Cum duobus aliis,
Spurio Lartio et Tito Herminio, ad extremam partem
pontis contendit, et tres Roman! omnes hostium
impetus repellunt, dum (while) reliqui cives pontem
Post complures horas major pars pontis
pugna excedere

rescindunt.

rescissa est, et Horatius duos amicos ex


jubet.

Turn

factus est.

(then) a toto exercitu

Summa cum
fugam

virtute

impetus in Horatium

impetum

sustinuit et

ab hostibus paene (almost)


circumventus est. Tandem (at length) reliquam partem
Turn Horatius de ponte in
pontis resciderunt Roman!
medium fliimen desiluit et sine ullo vulnere ad alteram

pliirimos in

dedit, sed

ripamtransnavit.

Ita (t/ms) fortitudo un!us viri totl rei

publicae libertatem dedit.

Roman

Coin.

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LESSON XXXIX.
Future Perfect Indicative, Active and Passive.
Paradigms.

222.

FUTURE AND FUTURE PERFECT INDICATIVE OF SUm.


Singular.
1.

ero (/ shall

eris

3.

erit

fuero (/ shall have been)

be)

fueris
fuerit

Plural.

a.

fuerimus

1.

erimus

2.

eritis

fueritis

3.

erunt

fuerint

Note

(l)

the relation in form to the imperfect and

sum (149, 129); (2) the difference in


the vowels before -nt in the two tenses.
pluperfect of

Paradigms.

223.
(a)

FUTURE PERFECT INDICATIVE ACTIVE.

First Conj.

Second

Co?ij.

Third Cony.

Fourth Conj.

Singular.

2.

3.

amaveris
amaverit

monuero

rexerd

monueris
monuerit

rexeris

audiveris

rexerit

audiverit

audivero

Plural.
1.

2.

3.

amaverimus monuerimus
amaverius
monueritis
amaverint
monuerint
Aiuaverft

is

translated

I shall have

rexerimus

audlverimus

rexeritis

audiverit is

rexerint

audiverint

loved.

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140

the act referred to in the dependent clause must


be completed before the act referred to in the
principal clause, while in the third sentence this

What

not the case.

pendent clauses
b.

is

tenses are used in these de-

Here, as regularly in subordinate clauses, Latin is


more logical and exact than English in indicating
(l) whether the time of the action is present, past,
or future, and

(2)

whether the action

is

main verb, or concurrent with

that of the

prior to
it.

VOCABULARY.

225.

absum, abesse,

afui, be absent, be

far away,

be distant.

augeo, ere, auxl, auctum, increase.


con-sido, ere> -sedl, -sessum, encamp.

di-mitto, ere, -misi, -missum, send out {hi different directions), despatch, distniss.

dis-pono, ere, -posui, -positum, place at intervals, post.


distrib-uo, ere, -ui,

-utum, assign, distribute ; divide.

exploro, are, avi, atum, examine, reco?inoitre

in-venio, ire, -veni, -ventum, come upon, find.


reperio, ire, repperi, repertum, find, discover.

timeo, ere, \xl,fear, have fears.

N.B.

{a)

The

prefix dis- (or di- before certain con-

used in compounds to express the idea of


apart; compare also discedo, depaj't, withdraw. Divido
contains the same element, as do also the adjectives
dissimilis and difficilis.
sonants)

(b)

is

Reperio

is

used of finding, after inquiry or search


by chance or without effort.

invenio of finding

(c) Augeo in the active voice means increase (transitive


= make greater-) in the passive voice it means increase
(intransitive =be made or become greater).
;

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141

exercises.
226.

i.

A.

i.

Numerus augebitur; numerus auctus

numerus major

erit;

numerus major

fuerit.

erit

Navem

2.

portu invenerunt; in idoneo loco consederint. 3.


copiae erunt dimissae. 4. In duas
Copias dimiserit
5. Germanos sine causa timuepartes distribiiti eritis.
in

ramus.

6.

dabitur.

7.

Cum omnis cxercitus dispositus

signum
omnia

erit,

Si socii erunt fideles, facillimum erit

itinera explorare.

$.

A periculo abesse videor

abero

afuero.

B. 9.
ram

Bellum gerimus

mus; misimus.

12. Bella brevia

13. Nihil reppereris

amiei.

10. Alte-

bella gfesserimus.

11. Mitteris

iter difficilius erit.

erunt

causam

miseris
;

mitti-

utiles fueritis

reperis

ab

hosti-

bus reperieris. 14. Cum ad infimum collem pervenerimus, considemus. 15. Si copiae hostium auctae erunt,
16. Si praesidia trans
difficile erit collem tenere.
Rhenum disposuero, Germanos Galliam vastare prohibebo.
227.

II.

A. 1. We shall find we shall have found we shall


2. It will be increased; it will be
have encamped.
found
it will have been found.
3. The matter has
been examined the roads will have been reconnoitred.
it will have been very easy.
4. It will be most useful
you will be absent we had been
5. They are absent
6. The forces have been increased
far away.
the
number had increased. 7. When \ discover the reason,
1 shall despatch
messengers to the neighboring states.
8. If the foot-soldiers fear the sea, the ships will be
;

assigned to the cavalry:

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B. 9. They have encamped he had encamped I


have encamped. 10. The camp was pitched the
;

shall

pitched the camp will have been pitched.


have summoned the leading: men the lead12. They will have
ing- men will have been dismissed.
they will have seen everyone.
13. You
everything'
14.
it will be the freest of all the states.
will be free
When Caesar is absent they will attack the winter camp.

camp had been

He

11.

will

15. If the

number

join battle.

16. If

of the

enemy

you begin

increases,

we

to post gfarrisons,

shall not

we

shall

seek assistance.

LESSON XL.
Mille.

Accusative of Extent of Space.

228.

Illustrative

Examples.

Mille equites mittentur, a thousand horsemen will be sent.

Adventus mille equitum,

Cum
a.

mille equitibus,

the arrival of a thousand horsemen.


with one thousand cavalry.

like most cardinal numerals in


an indeclinable adjective, regularly used

Mille, a thousand,

Latin,

is

with a plural substantive.


229.

Illustrative

Examples.

Tria milia equitum mittentur, three

thousand

horsemen

will be sent.

Adventus sex milium equitum,

the arrival of six thousand

cavalry.

Cum
a.

duobus milibus equitum,

The

with two thousand cavalry.

plural of mille, milia or (as

it is

often spelled)

neuter noun followed by the partitive


genitive (174), tria milia equitum being literally
millia, is a

three thousands of horsemen.

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Paradigm

230.

declension of

231.

milia.

Noni

milia

Gen.

milium

Dat.

milibus

Ace.

milia

Abl.

milibus

Illustrative

Mllle passus* pertinet,

it

Examples.

extends {for) a thousand paces

(or a mile).

Tria milia passuum abest, he

is

three thousand paces (or

three miles) distant.

Fossa est ducentos pedes longa, the trench

is

two hundred

feet long.
a.

Observe that distance how far or extent of space is


expressed in Latin by the accusative without a

Compare the accusative of time (159).

preposition.

VOCABULARY.

232.
agg-er, -eris,

auc-tor, -toris,

mound.

m.

(literally increaser), advocate, adviser.

auctori-tas, -tatis,

f.,

influence, weight.

defen-sor, -soris, m.,

defender.

impera-tor, -toris, m.,

commander

on-us, -eris, n.,

burden, weight.

passus, us, m.,

step, pace.

spatium,

distance, space.

I,

n.,

{in chief).

rooabulary, 232. The Roman passu* is the distance between two


successive positions of the same foot, that is, really two of our paees. A
thousand such paces therefore would be about 5,000 foet, or, roughly speak
iiiK. a mile.

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N.B. The suffix -tor is used to form from verbs nouns


denoting the agent or doer of an action. The form, of
the noun closely resembles that of the participial (or
supine) stem of the verb, -tor becoming -sor in nouns
derived from verbs which have s instead of t in this

EXERCISES.
233.

A.
2.

i.

Milia

1.

Agger

passuum octo a

viginti tres pedes alto

muniunt.

4.

3.

Maximam

Majus onus sustinuimus.


rator aberat.

B.

9.

habere

auctoritatem
8.

7.

Locum muro

Si defensores idonei

delect! erunt, facile erit sine imperatore


5.

consederant.

castris

mille sescentos passus abest.

locum tenere.

existimantur.

Magnum

6.

spatium impe-

Filius imperatoris auctor erat consilii.

Sex milia peditum

et mille equites reliquit.

sex exploratorum dimisit. 11. Ex milibus


triginta tertia pars reducta erit.
12. Agger erat latus
pedes trecentos viginti, altus pedes septuaginta. 13.
10. Milia

Silva multa milia


trecentis

portabant.

passuum pertinebat.

militum

naves

16. Milia

hominum

234.

sol vet.

14.
15.

Cum milibus

Onera gravia

octoginta delecta sunt.

ii.

A. 1 They gave six thousand horses and a thousand


hostages to Caesar. 2. The camp had been pitched
three miles from the mound. 3. At daybreak he was a
mile from the camp.
4. He had learned from the
5. If you begin
scouts the small number of defenders.
.

to collect

an army, you

will

seem

to

be advocates of

* Compare also explorator, spectator, auditor, monitor, rector, inventor,


depositor.
Sometimes the suffix -tor is added to nouns, as gladiator
(primarily one who uses the sword) from gladlus.

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war.

6.

The

lieutenant

145

was sent by the commander-

thousand foot-soldiers and a thousand


horsemen. 7. They had carried the burdens a great
distance.
8. He has' no influence with {literally among-,
in-chief with four

inter) the defenders.

Twenty-three thousand Gauls had come to


shall demand two thousand hostages
from the commander-in-chief.
11. The forests were
thought to extend two hundred miles. 12. The camp
will have been fortified by a trench twenty feet wide
and a rampart five feet high. 13. The right wing: of
the army extends a thousand feet, the left (wing) five
hundred paces.
14. The other legion is a greater
distance away
it was about a mile and a half away.
15. The burden was heavy
the burden will be heavier.
B.

9.

Caesar.

10. I

Imperator

Commander-in-chief.

{Augustus.)

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LESSON

XLI.

Present Infinitive Passive. Adverbs Regular


Formation and Comparison.
:

235.

Illustrative

Examples.

camp

to

be attacked,

Castra mover! jussit,

he ordered the camp

to

be moved.

Castra poni jussit,

he ordered a camp

to

Castra muniri jussit,

he ordered a camp

to be fortified,

Castra oppugnari jussit, he ordered the

a.

Observe the method of formingthe present infinitive passive.


236.

in each conjugation

Compare

Paradigms.

PRESENT INFINITIVE.
Active.

be pitched.

123.

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the genitive singular of the adjective

147
(-1

or

Adjectives in -ns form their adverbs in -nter


potens, gen. potentis,
238.
Positive.
late,

-is).
;

as,

adverb potenter, powerfully.

Illustrative

Comparative.

Examples.
Superlative.

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exercises.
240.

A.

I.

Omnes acerrime

1.

et fortissime

2. Hostium impetum aegre sustinent.


pedes duodecim alto dlligenter muniri
lrberms et audacius.
5. Exercitum

jusserat.

6.

Graviter

7.

pervenit.'

8.

summo monte celeriter


totum montem hominibus compleri.
B.

10.

passuum
castris
12.

jubet.

4. Dicit*

latius

distribui

Imperator multis rebus impediri dicebatur.


vulneratus erat et aegerrime ad castra
Belgae a provincia longissime absunt.

Auxilia in

9.

pugnaverunt.
Castra vallo

3.

Omnia

diligenter facta erant

iter dilig-entissime fecerant.

ediici

collocari jussit et

jubet

et

Oppidum montibus
anno

proelium
altissimis

11

tria

milia

Equitatum ex

equestre committi.
videtur

contineri.

naves celerrime eogi


jusseramus. 14. Omnia oppida vicosque incendi jubet,
et mille ducentos obsides in provinciam adduci.
15.
13. Superiore

Longe

nobilissimus

pliirimas

omnium Gallorum

esse

existi-

mabatur.
241.

ii.

He

ordered the place to be fortified more carefully.


2. They began to fight more bravely and
fiercely.
3. He will speak* most freely;
he speaks
very seriously. 4. You are said to be feared by all.
5. The rest of the army will be three miles distant.
6. They will be farther distant from the rest of the
army. 7. We shall order the enemy's territories to be
laid waste far and wide.
8. The village is said to
be divided into two parts by a river twenty-two feet
deep.

A.

*DIcfl

1.

means speak

as well as say.

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have far the greatest influence among


have ordered all the cavalry and ten
thousand infantry to be sent quickly. 11. The number
12. He orders
of the enemy seems to be increasing.
13. If the
all the other ambassadors to be summoned.

B. 9. He

the allies.

enemy

will

10. I

attack boldly,

hold the

14.

hill.

we shall with

He demands

the greatest difficulty

about a thousand ships


used to order the roads

from the other state. 15. You


be most carefully reconnoitred.

to

LESSON

XLII.

Ablative of

Quam with Comparatives.


Comparison.
242.

Examples.

Illustrative

Belgae fortiores erant


.

-.-,-

quam Galh,
z.

to

Belgae fortiores erant Galhs,


Altera Insula est minor

quam

Britannia,

Ad insulam pervenit minorem


quam Britanniam,
Ad insulam pervenit minorem

were

,.

braver than the

r
j-

Altera insula est minor Britannia,

the Belgians
.

the other island is

smaller than
Britain.

he came

to

an island

smaller than
Britain.

Britannia,

quam provinciae imperat, he demands


larger forces from the allies than front the Province.
Nihil est utilius quam amicos habere, nothing is more
Majores copias

sociis

useful than

to

have friends.

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a.

Observe how, after comparatives, two methods are


used in Latin to express the comparison
:

quam

(1)

(meaning: than)

compared

being: put in the

instead of

(2)

is

used, two substantives

same case

or accusative, the ablative without

This

used.

quam, followed by the nominative

quam may be

called the, Ablative of Comparison.

is

VOCABULARY.

243.

con-suesco, ere, -suevi, -suetum, become accustomed

in perfect, be accustomed.

consuetu-do, -dinis,

custom.

f.,

continens, -entis,

broken

incessa?it,

continual,

un-

continuous.

continenter, adv.,

continually, continuously,

disto, are,

be apart.

lab-or, -oris,

m.,

toil,

labor.

prae-mitto, ere, -misi, -missum, send in advance.

surpass ;

prae-sto, are, -stiti,

quam),

sto, stare, steti,

terra, ae,

Phrases

praestat

(with

preferable, better.

it is

statum,

stand.

land.

f.,

ex consuetudine, according

to

custom

continens terra (or continens alone as fern.

noun, with abl. continent!),

the

main*

land, the conti?ient.

N.B.

(a)

The

prefix prae-

express the idea of before

is

this

used in composition to
appears in English as

pre-, as, predict.


(b)

The

perfect tense

of certain Latin

verbs

may

be freely translated by the English present tense, to


denote the present state resulting- from a completed
action

so, consuevi,

/ have become accustomed, I have

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formed a habit = I am accustomed; cognovi, / have


(The pluperfect of these verbs will
learned = I know.
have the force of an imperfect = / was accustomed, I
m*ew.) Similarly circumvent! sunt may be translated,
surrounded; superatl sunt, they are conquered;

they are

divisum

est, it is divided.

exercises.
244.

A.

I.

1.

Agger altior est quam

ores sunt aggere.


3.

sunt

Breviores

noctes.

4.

steterant.

2.

Tamesis

5.

Britannia

in

Proximi

mums

stabant

Praestat

munitiones

alti-

dicitur esse longior Tiberi.

copias

in

quam

continent!

in

locis

superioribus

instruere

quam fuga

salutem petere. 6. In multis terrls sunt continentes


7. Impedimenta praemissa sunt et
silvae paludesque.
in

summo monte

passuum

collocat?.

distant.

est obsides dare

Non

9.

8.

populi

Insulae

tria

milia

Roman! consuetudo

obsides dare non consuevimus.

11.
10. Prudentiores estis quam bell! auctores.
B.
Insula circiter milia passuum triginta a continent! aberat.
12. Castra majora sunt quam consuetudo exercittis

Ex
quam

consuetudine majorem partem v!c!


14. Altitudo
concessit.
15. Altimiirl minor erat quam latitudo fossarum.
tudo fossae major erit quam fluminis. 16. Belgae cum
Germanls continenter bellum gerebant. 17. Nulla est
postulat.

13.

cohortibus

equitibus

sine labore salus.

18.

Circumvent! sumus

Gallia est

dlvlsa in partes tres.


245.

A.
is

ii.

1.

The land

larger than the

liberty.

3.

The

is

more useful than the sea

land.

2.

Nothing

is

the sea

better than

trenches were twenty-three feet apart.

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4.

They had

other island
Britain.
(their)
8.

6.
toils.

They

ships.

stood continuously for six hours,


is

5.

The

farther distant from the continent than

The Romans
7. I know

are awaiting- the end of

the custom of

all

the Gauls.

are accustomed to send in advance the swiftest

We were

9.

accustomed towage incessant wars.

10. We fear a man more powerful than the king.


B.
11. According- to custom he had sent all the cavalry in

advance at daybreak.
tomed.

By

12.

incessant

toil

they had

camp more quickly than they were accusIt is easier to leap down than to stand on

fortified the

13.

the top of the wall.

14.

He

ordered a smaller portion

of the plunder to be given to the cavalry than to the


rest of the

army.

15.

preferable to laying*
call the

To defend the camp bravely is


down (our) arms. 16. They will

defenders of the bridg-e braver and more daring


17. It seems to be better

than the commander-in-chief.


to seek other lands.

18.

On

the mainland the towns

are not far apart.

LESSON
Adverbs

XLIII.

Irregular Formation and Comparison.


Quam with Superlatives.

formed from adjectives, accordLesson XLI., there


are not a few instances where certain case -forms of the
adjective are used as adverbs (as is regularly the case
246. Besides adverbs

ing- to

the methods described in

in the comparative degree).

In the following-, the accusative singular neuter of


is used adverbially :

the adjective
*

That

is,

'

is

better than to lay down.'

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plurimum, most, very much.

multum, much.
solum,

only.

primum, first,

153

easily.

facile,

in

t lie

first place.

In the following*, the ablative singular neuter or feminine of the adjective

used adverbially :

is

brevi, in a short time, quickly.

primo, at first.

subito, suddenly (from the adjective subitus, a,

una (with cum)

at the

same

common

247. The following are adverbs in


have no corresponding; adjectives :

Comparative.

Positive.

long, for along time

diu,

um, sudden).

time, together, along (with).

saepe, often

use which

Superlative.

diutius

diutissime

saepius

saepissime

almost

fere,

248.

The

following- adverbs

show some

irreg-ularity

in formation (compare the corresponding- adjectives,


195) :-

Comparative.

Positive.

(magfnus) magnopere, greatly


little
(parvus) parum,

(bonus)

bene,

well

(malus)

male,

ill

prope, near, nearly


249.

Illustrative

Quam maximas

Examples.

copias coegit, he collected forces as large as

possible.

Equites

quam maxime

impediunt, they hinder the cavalry

much as possible.
Quam primum iter fecerunt, they marched as soon as possible.
a. Observe how quam with the superlative (both of
adjectives and of adverbs) is used to express the
as

highest

degree possible, the

taking- the

form as

regular translation

as possible.

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exercises.
250.

i.

A. 1. Primo

copiae magnopere

Brevi causam reperiemus.


et inter pedites pugnant.

perterrentur.

2.

Saepe ex equis desiliunt


4. Una cum Caesare multos
annosfuerat. 5. Quam maximum numerum inimicorum
ex civitate expellam. 6. Facile pauci multos montem
3.

Non multum distant.


occupare prohibebunt.
7.
Facillime impetum hostium diutius sustinebimus.
B. 9.
10.

11.

Subito duabus portis

omnem

8.

equitatumemittit.

Diu prmcipatum totius fere Galliae obtinuerant.


Saepius ad senatum litteras mittemus. 12. Primum

13. Una
a proximis civitatibus auxilium petiverunt.
cum ceteris ex proelio excesserant. 14. Propter usum

militarem minime terreri videbantur.


rime ad mare pervenire contendit.

quam amicissimum habere

15.
16.

Quam

celer-

Praesidium

constitueram.

n.

251.

A. 1. They had

fought long" and vigorously. 2. At


first he does not venture to speak freely and boldly.
3. In the first place he ordered corn to be procured as
quickly as possible.
4. They will sustain the attack
more easily the attack will be sustained less easily.
5. He ordered as many ships as possible to be collected.
6. They hesitate to depart farther from the line of
march.
7. We shall not await the auxiliaries (any)
longer. 8. We had been greatly hindered by marshes.
;

B.

camp

9.

As soon

nearer.

began to move the


Suddenly almost all leaped down

as possible they

10.

from the ship along with the guides. 11. The harbor
was less suitable than the lake. 12. He is accustomed
to demand troops from as many states as possible.

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13.

When

more

155

they learn of Caesar's arrival they will be


14. They determined to lay waste the

terrified.

neighboring territories as widely as possible.


are nearly surrounded.

16.

been carefully reconnoitred.

252.

Almost

all

15.

They

the roads have

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divide

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still >ant aegerrime Mucium comprehenderunt (seized) et ad regem adduxerunt.


Mucius minime perterreri videbatur libere et audacter
" Romanus sum civis
dixit.
Regem Porsenam necare

Milites (in! proxjmi

const itueram et

Non

dcrc.

popuhmi Romanum ab

totum exercitum e
non dubitabunt

alii

et

summa

sum

rei publicae

Praestat incendi

fese)."

Simul

Rex
et

ceteris

pericula adire

timed.

ignem

injuria defen-

Romanis. Si Porsena
finibus Romanis non ediixerit, trecenti

audacior

(at the

(to

quam

same

(fire) injecit (thrust),

causa maximos labores

encounter).

Mortem non

libertatem amittere

(to

manum

in

time)

dextram

qui a militibus factus erat.

Romanorum magnopere permotus est


jussit.
Pacem quam celerrime cum
Romano confirmavit et cum omnibus copiis e
Postea (afterwards)
Romanorum discessit.

fortitudine

Muciuin dimitti

senatu.

finibus

Mucius Scaevola* appellabatur, quod


solam manum habebat.

(because) sinistram

LESSON XLIV.
Relative Pronoun.

Quod.

Paradigm.

254.

THE RELATIVE PRONOUN


Singular.

qui.

Plural.

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255.

Illustrative

Legatus, qui missus

has been sent

is

est,

Examples.

prudens

Legatus, quern miserunt, prudens


they have sent

est, the

ambassador zvho

prudent.

is

est, the

ambassador

whom

prudent.

Legionem, quae missa est, exspectamus, we are awaiting


the legion which has been sent.
Adventum legionis quam miserunt exspectamus, we are
awaiting the approach of the legion which they have
sent.

quarum adventum exspectabamus, pervenerunt,


whose approach we were awaiting, arrived.
German!, a quibus missus est, pacem petunt, the Germans,
by whom he was sent, are seeking peace.
GermanI, quibuscum bellum gerebat, pacem petunt, the
Germans with whom he was waging war, seek peace.
a. In connection with these sentences, observe :
(1) that the relative pronoun in Latin changes its
form to indicate gender, number, and case
(2) that the gender and number of the relative are
determined by the word (called the Antecedent) to
which it refers
(3) that the case of the relative is in no way determined by the antecedent, but by its relation to
the dependent clause to which it belongs
Legiones,

the legions,

(4)

that in the

first

noun

that could

which

four sentences the relative pro-

be used in place of who,

whom

or

second and fourth sentences the


might be omitted altogether in English,
something which never occurs in Latin

(5)

that in the

relative

(6)
it

that the preposition

governs.

The

cum is

accent

is

suffixed to the ablative

then on the penult

(13).


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Illustrative

159

Examples.

Oppidum, quod muniverant, expugnatum est, the town


which they had fortified has been taken by storm.

Timent quod oppidum expugnatum

est, they

are afraid

because the town has been taken by storm.

Quod hostes non longe aberant, signum


enemy were not far distant, he gave
a.

dedit, because the

the signal.

Observe that the same Latin word quod is used both


as a relative pronoun (neuter singular nominative
or accusative) and as a conjunction with the force
of because*

VOCABULARY.

257.

barbarus,

I,

barbarian.

m.,

centurion (an officer of


m.,
the Roman army).
com-moveo, ere, -movi, -motum, alarm, dismay.
demonstro, are, avi, atum, point out, mention ; make

centuri-6, -onis,

mention (of=de).
inhabit ; dwell.

in-cold, ere, -colui,

op-primo, ere, -press!, -pressum, overpozver ; burden.

premo, ere, pressl, pressum, press, harass,

beset.

above.

supra, adv.,

tra-duco, ere, -duxi, -ductum, lead across, take across.

transporto, are, avi, atum,

Phrase

premor, graviter premor, be hard pressed.

Trans (or

N.B.

carry across, bring over.

tra-)

is

prefixed to verbs with the

force of across or over.


K\ni

in

found thai

the pare oases \\ here either translation might ffiven, it will


lie context will determine which is the proper rendering.
t

'

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exercises.
258.

I.

Quod vicus

duas partes flumine dividitur, alteram


partem Gallis concessit, alteram legioni. 2. Ad flumen,
3. Ad
quod victim in duas partes dividit, pervenit.
flumen, quo vicus in duas partes dividitur, pervenit.
4. Ex vico, quern Gallis et legioni concesserat, omnes
1.

discedere
Gallis

in

coeperunt.

5.

Ex

altera parte vici,

quam

omnes discedere coeperunt.

concesserat,

6.

Vicus, cujus partem Gallis concesserat, in duas partes

flumine dividitur.
cesserat,

discedere

vici concesserat,

7.

Galli,

quibus partem

coeperunt.

non

discessit.

vici con-

partem

8.

Leg-io, cui

9.

Quod partem

legioni concesserat, Galli discesserunt.

vici

Ex duabus

10.

partibus, in quas vicus flumine dividitur, alteram Gallis


concessit, alteram legioni.
ii.

1.

who

The Belgians

are nearest to (173) the Germans,


dwell across the Rhine (and) with whom they are

continually waging- war.

the Belgians are nearest,

2.

The Germans,

dwell across

to

the

whom
Rhine.

3. They are continually waging- war with the Germans,


because they are nearest.
4. The Gauls, of whom the
Belgians are the bravest, are waging- war with the
Germans.
5. They dwell across the Rhine, which

Germans from the Gauls. 6. They dwell


that divides Germany from Gaul.
7. They dwell across the river by which Germany is
divided from Gaul. 8. The districts which the Belgians
inhabit are nearest Germany.
9. Gaul is divided into
three parts, of which the Belgians inhabit one. 10. One
divides the

across

the river

part of Gaul, which the Belgians inhabit,

Germany.

is

nearest

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in.

259.

A.

161

1.

Ab omnibus

barbarls, qui trans

Rhenum

inco-

Plurimas habemus
longas naves, quibus milites transportare consuevimus.

lunt legati ad
,

3.

Caesarem mittuntur

Frumentum omne, quod

in

oppidum centuriones

4. In
fines Germanorum,
comportaverant, reliquit.
qui proximi Belgis erant, copias quas coegerat traduxit.
5. Reliquum exercitum, quod longe aberat, non exspec6. Vir fortissimus delectus est, cujus pater
tabamus.

amicus a senatu. appellatus erat. 7. Auxilium a Caesare


petimus, quod graviter a Germanis premimur.

Fuga Gallorum, de qua supra demonstravimus,


quacum Caesar erat, commovebat. 9. Castra
quod sine impediments Caesar legiones
minora
erant
10. Omnem equitatum, quern ex omni
transportaverat.
B.

8.

legionem,

provincia coegerat, praemisit.

quod

Quod

inopia frumentl erat,

milites onere

11.

armorum

cultas

Summa

erat

diffi-

oppress! sunt.

12.

centuriones complures in

finitimas civitates friimenti causa dimisit.

decima legione, de qua non dubitabat,


260.

13.

Cum sola

discessit.

iv.

A. 1. They marched through the province because


He will collect all his
2.
they had no other road.
3. The cavalry
ships, of which he has a large number.
is sent in advance through the forest which has been
mentioned above. 4. They are alarmed because he left
everything that he had brought over. 5. As many ships
as possible were gathered to the harbor from which he
had determined to set sail. 6. The auxiliaries we are
awaiting have been suddenly overpowered by the barbarians.
Because neither army ventures to join
7.
his forces back to the camp.
leads
battle, Caesar

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With two legions which had wintered in the


was about a mile
9. The king, with whom he had made peace,
distant.
had great influence in the states into which the armyhad been led across. 10. The other centurion, to whose
father the citizenship had been given by Caesar, was
overpowered by the enemy.
11. The camp that we
have mentioned above was beset by the barbarians,
12. There are
whose lands were being laid waste.
several islands, a majority of which are {literally the
greater part
is) inhabited by barbarians.
13. They
B.

8.

province, he hastened to a river that

are less suitable, because they fear the sea.

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Perfect Participle Passive.
261.

Illustrative

Examples.

Barbari, spe praedae adducti, in Galliam contenderunt,


the

barbarians

hastened
Copiae, in

i?ito

influenced by

unum locum

the forces,

the hope of plunder,

Gaul.
coactae, in provinciam mittebantur,

having

bee?i

gathered

to

one place, used

to

be sent to the province.

Copiae, in

unum locum

the forces,

coactae, in provinciam mittentur,

having been gathered

to

one place, will be

sent to the province.

Aciem instructam inveniet, he will find


drawn up.
a.

These Latin sentences


Participle Passive,

of the verb

sum

passive (140).

to
It

the line of battle

illustrate the use of the Perfect

when no longer used with

parts

form a tense of the indicative


is regularly translated by the

English passive participle,


having been sent.

e.g.

missus,

sent or

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Contrast the following' sentences :


Barbari spe praedae adducti erant, the barbarians had been
influenced by the hope of plunder,

Copiae in

unum locum

gathered

to

Acies instructa
b.

coactae sunt, the forces have been

one place.
erit,

a line of battle

have been drawn up.

Notice that in these sentences the voice of the participle is passive, and that the time of the action
expressed by the participle is prior to that of the
principal verb, but

c.

zvill

The

is

not necessarily past time.

participle is a verbal adjective

action and has distinctions of tense

it

expresses

and voice

and

number and case with the


The perfect participle passive is

agrees in gender,

it

noun

it

modifies.

declined like bonus (65).


d.

Sometimes

this participle becomes little more than


an ordinary adjective, and may in fact be compared as, paratus, ready ; paratior, more ready or
better prepared ; munitissimus, best fortified, or well
;

protected.

262.
sive

is

freer rendering- of the perfect participle pas-

generally permissible and often advisable.

Thus

two sentences of 261, adducti might also be


translated being influenced, and coactae might be transin the first

lated after being gathered, or on being gathered.

Occasionally
possible

all

these methods of

translation

are

as,

'repulsed

Repulsi ab equitatu,

being repulsed

by the cavalry,

in castra contendunt,

having been repulsed


after being repulsed

they hasten to

jOn

being repulsed

the

camp.

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vocabulary.

263.

surrender.

dediti-6, -onis, f.,

dedo, ere, dedidi, deditum,

surrender (transitive).

e-rumpo, ere, -rupi, -ruptum,

break out, sally out.

erupti-6, -onis,

sally, sortie.

f.,

embassy.

legati-o, -onis, f.,

oppugnati-6, -onis,

attack

{.,

assault.

per-rumpo, ere, -rupi, -ruptum, break through.

rumpo,

ere, rupi,

stati-O, -onis, f

telum,

Phrases

ruptum,

break, break down.


outpost,

guard.

weapon, missile.

n.,

l,

in deditionem venio, surrender (intransitive).

in statione, on guard, on outpost duty.

N.B.

The

suffix -tio

used to form from verbs

is

some
So munitio, like

abstract nouns (feminine) denoting- an action, or in

cases the concrete result of an action.

noun

the English

fortification,

may mean

of fortifying- or the works constructed.

either the act

This ending

appears in English as -Hon.


exercises.
264.

A.

i.

1.

Adventu Romanorum magnopere

copias reduxit.

2.

Ab

perterritus,

hostibus circumvent! de miini,

tionibus desihierunt et fuga salutem petiverunt.

nium rerum
miserunt.
5.

4.

3.

Om-

inopia adducti, legationem de* deditione

Paratum

et

Multitudine telorum

superioribus consistunt.
tores belli dedere.

7.

instructum exercitum inveni.


repulsae,
6.

Cum

cohortes

in

locis

Primo parati eramus aucsignum dederit, ex castris

8. Spe salutis adducti, per medios hostes


erumpent.
audacissime perruperunt. 9. Multitudine telorum vulnerati, aegre adt noctem oppug-nationem sustinemus.
* Compare

de pace,

99.

Translate

ad here by

'until'.

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B.

Salutem petere

10.

eruptidncm

fecerunt.

jussi, subito

11.

Ex

165

omnibus

consuetiidine

portis

omnes

communem

eivitates

legationem mittent.
12. Omnia
enmt parata.
13. Magnitudine
celeritate Romanorum permoti, legatos

quae postulaveritis,

mfmitionum

et

14. Ab oppido quod erat maximunitissimumque in insula, non long-e aberant.


In omnibus collibus copias hostium Instructas vident.

Be deditione mittunt.

mum
15.

Pons, qui erat in flumine, ruptus erat. 17. Conors,


quae in statione erat, fuga reliqui exercitus perterrita,
in deditionem venit.
18. Barbari,
commoti quod
16.

pppidum

natiira loci

munitissimum expugnatum

erat,

majores copias parare coeperunt.


265.

A.

ii.

made

After being- driven back into the town, they


a sortie. 2. Being defeated by the first attack of
1.

the cohorts, they are compelled to surrender.

3.

The

cavalry sent out from the winter-camp, quickly put the

enemy

to flig-ht.

4.

On

being- recalled to the continent,

he hesitated for several days to set sail.


5. Havingbeen terrified by the larg-e number of the ships, the
enemy's troops withdraw from the sea. 6. vSix chosen
cohorts will be stationed on outpost duty.
7. The
war-ships seem to be better prepared than the other
(ships).
8. On being- informed of the approach of the
embassy sent by the Belgians, he recalled the cavalry
whieh he had sent in advance. 9. Caesar broke the
middle of the enemy's line.
B.
out.
tin-

The

10.

After being- drawn up in line we shall sally


repulsed by the fortifications and

On being

ii.

they withdrew as quickly as possible.


long awaited auxiliaries had reached the bridge the

missiles,
1

166

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previous night. 13. The attack is hindered by many


circumstances.
14. If you break through the fortifica15. He found the
tions, you will easily reach the river.

guards posted.
16. After being called brothers by the
senate, they have been compelled to surrender all their
towns and to give hostages. 17. On the seventh day of
the assault, having been greatly harassed by the multitude of missiles, they sent ambassadors to Caesar to
18. Burdened by the heavy
treat for a surrender.
weight of their arms, the legions reached the camp
with the greatest difficulty.

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a.

167

Of the double forms in the genitive plural of the


first and second personal pronouns, nostrum and
vestrum are used as partitive genitives (174)
otherwise of us and of you are nostri and vestri.
267.

Nos sunt amici, vos

estis inimici,

we are friends, you are

enemies.

Legionem,

quam mecum

habeo, mittam,

shall send the

I have with me.


Jussit eos impedimenta in uno loco collocare et eum
munire, he ordered them to put the baggage in one
legion which

place andfortify it.


Omnibus vobis utile est,
to you all).

it is

These Latin sentences


a.

useful

to all

of you (literally

illustrate the following points

The nominative of the personal pronoun is expressed


when emphatic, otherwise the personal ending of
the verb suffices.

b.

c.

The

preposition

cum

is

suffixed to the ablatives me,

(For the accent see 255, a. 6.)


te, nobis and vobis.
the
difference
between Latin and English
Because of
in the matter of gender, the pronoun it may frequently be represented by the masculine or the
feminine of is. Where also it is the subject of a
verb, the form of the Latin verb (or of a predicate
adjective) will vary according to the noun to which
thus, it was sent may refer
the pronoun it refers
to an army (exercitus), a legion (legio), a letter
(litterae), or to baggage (impedimenta), and would
;

d.

then be translated missus est, missa


sunt, and missa sunt respectively
The partitive genitive should not be
omnes, since the whole, not a part,

is

est,

missae

used

taken.

with
(174.)

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vocabulary.

268.

or; aut

aut,

concilium,

aut, either

or.

n., meetings council.

l,

et,

and ;

etiam,

also ; even.

memini (found

et

in perfect

both

et,

and.

system only, with force of

present), remember.

memor,

mindful (with genitive).


memory.
neque, nor, and not ; neque
neque, neither
-oris,

memoria, ae,

f.,

sed,

nor.

but.

tim-or, -oris,

Phrases

m. fear.
,

memoriam depono, forget*


memoriam retineo, remember*
EXERCISES.

269.

A.

i.

1.

Pacem vobiscum

cum neque vobiscum


veniemur.

Memini

3.

fecerat

fecerat.

pacem neque
2.

Ab

eis

nobls-

circum-

Tu et mihi et rei ptiblicae iitilis


memor ero vestri. 5. Hiberna

fuisti.

ab eo
Consilium barbarorum non solum mihi, sed etiam tibi, incognitum erat.
7. Magnam inter eos auctoritatem habes
tu etiam
majorem auctoritatem quam ego habes. 8. Nihil a
vobis postulo. 9. Ab eo de periculo legionis cognoscit
et earn reduci jubet.
10. SI legationem de deditione
ad eum miseritis, ad concilium vos convocabit
B. 11. Equites quos tecum transportaveras, reducti
erant. 12. Hostes, timore perterriti, a nobis discedunt.
4.

id;

aberant milia passuum viginti.

6.

13.
*

Tui memoriam retinebo


These phrases, as their

the genitive case.

literal

memoriam

meaning would

vestri

non

indicate, are followed

by

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deponam.
bunt.

equites aut frumentum els imad castra pervenerint, ea oppugnaTimor animos omnium occupavit timor

14.
15.

perabit.

16.

169

Aut

Cum

earn occupavit.

17.

Omnibus vobis

libertatem dedit

ceteris id
18.
Bos omnes opprimere constituit.
19. Amicitiae popull
cognovit, neque ego nuntiavL*

Roman! memoria moveor.


est

20.

Nuntius ad

me

missus

victoria mihi nuntiatur.

270.

ii.

A. 1. He will choose either me or you.


chosen not only a large part of us, but also

2.
all

He

has

of you.

4. He has'
3. He has learned the commander's plans.
compelled them to withdraw from the council. 5. It is
dangerous both to me and to you. 6. Because we do
not venture to carry the bag-gage with us, we are leav7. They have left to us neither
ing- it in the camp.
8. The cavalry I shall
(our) lands nor (our) liberty.
send before me, but the infantry I shall lead out with
me. 9. We slew a large part of them. 10. On account
of (their) fear of me, they are renewing the memory of

former friendship.
11. Having been informed of the recent victory,
12. Hostages will be
we sent ambassadors to him.
given up to you by us. 13. I did not fear him, but you
were terrified by fear. 14. We were eight miles from
him. 15. We shall demand from him not only corn but
16. He has forgotten even you.
17.
also hostages.
(our)

B.

He

orders them {referring to (a) the cohorts, (/>) the


the soldiers) to come as quickly as
(e)

auxiliaries,

possible.

summons

18.
all

not seem to
id

is

to be

Nor do
them

of

me

remember everything.
meeting. 20. And

to a

to be mindful of us.

understood as the object of unniiAvi

also.

19.

He

they do

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LESSON XLVII.
Present Participle Active.
271.

Dum.

Paradigms.

PRESENT PARTICIPLE ACTIVE.

a.

First Conj.

Second Conj.

amans

monens

Third Conj.
regens

Fourth Conj.
audiens

In each of the four conjugations the present participle

ends in
272.

-ns,

and

is

formed from the present stem.

Paradigm.

DECLENSION OF THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE ACTIVE.


Singular.

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273.

Illustrative

171

Examples.

Copias pugnantes video, / see the troops fighting.

Adventum

ejus exspectantes, castra munivimus, while {we

were) awaiting his approach,

Adventum

we fortified

the camp.

ejus exspectantes, castra muniemus, while (we

we shall fortify the camp.


pugnantem vulneraverunt, they wounded
the lieutenant while he was fighting bravely.
Legatum, dum fortiter pugnat, vulneraverunt, they wounded
the lieutenant while he was fighti?ig bravely.
Dum castra muniuntur, hostes impetum fecerunt, while
the camp was being fortified, the e?iemy made an attack.
These sentences illustrate the following points :
a. The present participle in Latin is found only in the
are) awaiting his approach,

Legatum

fortiter

active voice

the time denoted

present, but

is

is not necessarily
always the same as that of the

main verb.
b.

The Latin present

participle

active

is

translated

sometimes by the English imperfect participle


in -ing (so especially after verbs of hearing
seeing) ;

but more often by while (or

participle in -ing, or

by while

gressive form of the indicative

(or as)
;

and

with the
with a pro-

as)

so

coming

',

venientes

may

be

while comi?ig,
while
while

we (you,
we {you,

they) are

they)

coming,

were coming.

is also indicated in Latin by the conjunction


dum, which is regularly followed by the present
indicative, even when the reference is to past time.
(Dum should never be used with the participle).
Dum and the indicative supply the lack of a present

While

participle passive in Latin.

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172

VOCABULARY.

274.

clam-or, -oris, m.,


fleo, ere, flevi,

shout, shouting.

fietum,

weep, bei?i tears.

frumentarius, a, um,

of ox pertaining
interim, adv., meanwhile\ in the meantime.

to

grain.

laboro, are, avi, atum, toil ; struggle, be in distress.

um,
um,

of a legion, legionary.
of burden for burdens.

legionarius, a,

onerarius, a,

resisto, ere, restiti,


tollo, ere, sustuli,

resist.

sublatum, raise ; remove, take away.

undique, adv., on all sides,

from

all sides.

Phrases: res frumentaria, provisions, supplies.


navis oneraria,

N.B.

The

suffix -arius is

transport (ship).

used to form from nouns


to.
This

adjectives signifying pertaini?ig or belonging


-

appears in English as -ary.

Navis Oneraria

Transport Ship.

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173

exercises.
275.

i.

A.

cum

1.

Dum

Caesar naves long-as parat,

de deditione venerunt.

2.

legfati

Caesarcm

ad

leg-atis re-

Bpondentem audiveramus. 3. Fortissime pugnans, gra4. Tertiam legionem laborantem


vitcr vulneratus est.
5. Dum castra muniunt, niillus hostis interim
Vidit.
visus est.
6. Dum castra ineenduntur, subito clamor a
nobis auditur. 7. Auxilium Mens amepetivit. 8. Certo
anni tempore undique ad cum convenire consueverunt
B.

9.

Dum

naves onerariae quas imperaverat eo-

^untur, interim consilium principum cogfnoscitur.

rugae

spes

vSi

11.

Interim

sublata

dum

erit,

equites

minus

facile

itinera explorant,

milites castra ponere coeperunt.

12.

10.

resistemus.
legfionarii

Graviter vulnerati

13. Naves et longae et


de salute desperare cocperant.
onerariae ineolumes ad eontinentem perveniunt.
14.

Dum

pedites castra fortissime defendunt, equitatum rei

frumentariae causa dimittit.


276.

ii.

A. 1. Weeping they sought peace and friendship


from him. 2. The soldiers of the legion, while resistingbravely, were surrounded by the cavalry.
3. In the
reinforcements,
he
is
awaiting'
meantime, while
he
begins a cavalry battle. 4. We made an attack on the
enemy while they were hastening- to the forest. 5.
Being surrounded by us on all sides, they began to be
in distress.
6. He gave the signal to us as we were
-

7. He heard the soldiers raising


despairing of victory.
a shout
he heard the shouting of the soldiers as they
;

were sallying out.


While the transports
8.
assembling, according to custom he summons
lieutenants.

are

the

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174
B.

9.

number
leaping

was

The enemy, because they have a


of troops, will easily surround

down from

the transports.

10.

larger

you as you are


While the army

he saw the reinforcements withdrawing*.


11. If all fear is removed, they will not
12. While hesitating on
endure toil (any) longer.
account of the lack of provisions, he was informed of
13. While the cavalry withstood the
the assault.
enemy's attack, he meanwhile drew up the legionary
14. By incessant toil
soldiers on the top of the hill.
we shall overcome {use supero) everything.
being" led across,

Singular.

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175

translated sometimes by the English


pronoun (himself themselves), sometimes
by the ordinary third personal pronoun (him, them)
that

it

is

reflexive

',

but that in either ease it refers to the subject of the


The English third personal pronoun when
verb.
not used reflexively
b.

Cum

is

is

translated

me and

suffixed to se as to

by

js (266).

te (267 b.).

Paradigms.

279.

POSSESSIVE PRONOMINAL ADJECTIVES.


First Person.

Second Person,

meus, a um,

tuus, a,

um,

suus, a,

your, yours.

my, mine.
noster, tra, trum,

um,

his, her, hers, its.

vester, tra, trum,

suus, a,

your, yours.

our, ours.
a.

Third Person Reflexive,

um,

their, theirs.

These are all declined like regular adjectives of the


second declensions (except that the
first and
vocative singular masculine of meus is mi). Tuus is
used in addressing one person, vester in addressing
more than one.
280.

Illustrative

Meum adventum

exspectat,

Examples.

he awaits

my

arrival.

Nostrum adventum exspectat, he awaits our arrival.

Adventum

ejus exspecto,

Adventum eorum

(or

I await his

earum)

exspecto,

(or her) arrival.

/ await

their

arrival.

Me adventum suum

exspectare jussit, he ordered

me

to

await his arrival.

Me adventum suum
to

exspectare jusserunt, they ordered

await their arrival.

me

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176
a.

The possessive pronominal adjectives agree in gender,


number and case with the noun which they modify.
main
and eorum (earum) are

Suus, like se (278), refers to the subject of the

verb of the sentence


used for his, her and
*

281.

Arma
Arma

ejus

their

Illustrative

when

not reflexive.

Examples.

Nostri se suaque defendunt,

they gave up their arms.


we gave up our arms.
our men are defending them-

selves and their possessions.


Adventum suorum exspectant,

they await the

tradiderunt,

tradidimus,

arrival of

their friends
a.

In Latin, possessives are seldom expressed except for


the sake of emphasis or clearness
the context
;

b.

being at other times a sufficient guide (55).


These possessives are often used substantively,
especially nostri, gen. nostrorum, our men ; sui, gen.
suorum, his men, their friends ; sua (neuter plural),
his or their possessions.

(Compare

180.)

VOCABULARY.

282.

ab-do, ere, -didl, -ditum,

hide, conceal.

con-jungo, ere, -junxi, -junctum, unite, join (transitive).


conspectus, us, m.,
conver-to, ere,

-ti,

sight, view.

turn (transitive).

-sum,

jungo, ere, junxi, junctum,

join (transitive).

osten-do, ere, -di, -turn, or ostensum, show, disclose.

tergum,

I,

back.

n.,

verto, ere, verti, versum,

Phrases

turn (transitive).

conspectum venio, come in sight.


signa converto, wheel about, face about.

in

terga verto, turn

and flee,

post tergum, in the rear.

take

to flight.

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N.B.

Many English verbs may be used either transi-

tively or intransitively, as turn, surrender.

much

less frequent in Latin,

expressed by the

often

is

177

reflexive

pronoun

This

is

very

where the

intransitive use

transitive

verb with the

as,

Intransitive.

Transitive.

surrender, dedere

surrender, se dedere

turn,

convertere

turn,

se convertere

hide,

abdere

hide,

se abdere

more precise Latin translates he joined


cum Caesare conjunxit (or also se Caesari

Similarly the

Caesar by se

conjunxit), literally he united himself with (or

to)

Caesar.

EXERCISES.
283.

A.

i.

Eos suum adventum exspectare

1.

jussit.

2.

De

de eo dicet.
3. Fratrem tuum ad se vocat.
4. Bellas obs ides sibi dare coeg-it.
5. Se suaque omnia
ei dediderunt.
6. Vestro exercitui non pares sunt.
7. Eorum fugaeramus perterriti.
8. Repulsi anostris,
sese in proximas silvas abdiderant.
9. Nostro adventii
se dicit

cum

permoti, sese

hostibus

ferehostes terga verterunt.

conjung-unt.
11.

10.

Omnes

In conspectum agminis

nostri venerat.

B.
tus

Eum

12.

tin,

agri

certiores facti,

Vestrae

a se dimittit.

mei

13.

vastati sunt.

Galli legatos

ad

In conspectu exerci14.

eum

De

ejus adventii

miserunt.

15.

causa milites secum habet. 16. Auxilia


post tergum subito se ostenderunt.
17. Duae legiones
jungentur omnes adliicem sese convertunt. 18. Multisaliitis

suorum nostram acicm premet. 19.


adventus nostri et discessu suorum perterriti,

tudine

Celeritate
lcgfitos

ad

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178

eum miserunt seque el dediderunt. 20. Legiones sese


conjungunt et convertunt signa.
21. Non solum in
suis* sed etiam in vestris fmibus vos superaverunt.
284.

A.

ii.

1.

He

before him.

hastens to them and sends


2.

On

My

his arrival the

all

the cavalry

Germans

joined the

by your
he has with him
into our province.
he
5. They surrender to him
orders them to send hostages to him.
6. The legions,
after being joined, wheel about in sight of the enemy.
7. They join battle with our men.
8. You have a
leader mindful both of you and of himself. 9. If the
Belgians.

senate.

3.

4.

He

father has been called friend

will lead the legion

legionary soldiers show themselves,

the cavalry

w ill
T

Everybody turned towards us. 11.


While Caesar was restraining his men from battle, a
shout was heard in the rear.
take to

flight.

10.

B.
12. After the flight of their friends they hid
themselves and all their possessions. 13. He resolved
14. They withstand
to lead out with him two legions.
the attacks of our men.
15. He remembers not only
16. If you send
your father but also my brother.
ambassadors to Caesar, he will order you to surrender
your arms to him.
17. They are waging war in your
territories
you marched through their territories.
19. They will
18. They hid out of sight of our men.
20. Some turned and
carry all the grain with them.
fled, others surrendered.
21. When the barbarians
;

come
*

in sight,

With

he will give the signal to his men.

snls, f In i bus is to be understood. English woxild rather put the


first adjective and leave it to be understood with the second.

noun with the

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WORD

LIST V.

179

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READING LESSON

IX.

Camillus and the Schoolmaster of Falerii.


(394 B.C.)

vocabulary.

286.
Falerii,
Falisci,

Drum, m., Falerii, a town in Etruria.


drum, m., the Falis cans the people of Falerii.
,

justitia, ae, f.,

justice.

ludus,

school.

I,

in.

magister,

tri,

virga, ae,

f.,

Anno
dita*,

m.,

master, teacher.
szvitch.

circiter trecentesimo

Roman! cum

Faliscis,

sexagesimo ab urbe conqui

Falerios,

oppidum

Etruriae, incolebant, bellum gerere coeperunt.

Falisci

de adventu hostium certiores facti, primo propter timorem sese in oppido continebant {kept), et Camillus, qui
imperator erat Romanorum, agros eorum vastari jussit.
His {these, abl.) rebus adducti, Falisci partem copiarum
suarum emiserunt, et castra mille fere passiis ab oppido
posuerunt.
Camillus suos longiore itinere in loca
superiora nocte duxit, et prima luce Falisci hostes in

omnibus

datum

collibus Instructos invenerunt.

est.

sustinuerunt

Falisci

sed

Signum

non diu impetum

terga

proelii

Romanorum

et aegerrime ad
In oppidum repulsi,
resistere poterant {were

verterunt,

oppidum pervenerunt incolumes.

saepe eruptiones fecerunt et diu.


able), quod oppidum loci natura munitissimum erat, et
magna copia frumenti in miinitiones undique comportata
Tandem {at length) fortuna {chance) victor iam
erat.
Camillo dedit.
*
^

Literally

founding of

from the city founded ; this is the Latin idiom for after the
the city. Thus 360 a.u.c. = 394 B.C. For the ordinal numerals

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Dum Roman! Falerios opptignant, magister ludi, ad


quern liberi piincipum oppidl mittebantur, ex consuetudine pueros ex urbe in agros cotidie ducebat.
Brevi
liberos

paulatim (gradually) longius

ducere
circumventi
sunt a militibus Romanls qui in statione erant collocati.
Ad imperatorem adductus magister consilium iniquum
a

portis

coepit, et post compliires dies liberi subito

ostendit.

civium.

"Dedo

tibi,

Camille, liberos nobilissimorum

Si eos detinueris,

oppidum

celeriter in dedi-

tionem veniet, quod patres eorum magnam inter elves


auctoritatem habent."
Camillus respondit " Nos bella
juste (justly)

non minus quam

gerere.

Non

sumus.

Roman!

fortiter

consuevimus

contra pueros sed contra viros missi


tibi

sunt dissimillimi.

Tu

injuria

Faliscos superare constituisti, nos virtute nostrorum."

Turn (then) et magistrum


oppidum eos reduci jussit.

et liberos a se dimisit, et

ad

Interim Rentes patres matresque liberorum auxilium


a dis (the gods) petebant,
tollitur.

in

Omnes

sese

cum

subito clamor ante portas

ad clamorem convertunt.

conspectum veniunt.

Mllites

Roman! maniis

Liberi
(hands)

magistri post (behind) tergum illigaverant (had bound)


et puerl eiira ad oppidum virgls agebant (were driving).

magnopere permotl, legatos ad


de pace mlserunt, et se suaque omnia el dediderunt.
Et legatio quae etiam ad senatum missa est dixit
" Su])erati a vobls et imperatore vestro, Roman!, nos*
FaliscI, justitia Camilll

cum

dedimus vobls,
desire).

et

pacem voblscum

facere cupimus

Non solum arma deponemus,

sed

vestrae justitiac semper (always) ivtincbimus."

See the footnote on page

171.

{ive

quam victoria.
etiam memoriam

Justitia vobls melior visa est

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LESSON XLIX.
Third Conjugation

Verbs in

-id.

Certain verbs of the third conjugation end in


and have in the tenses formed from the present
stem many forms which are identical with those of the
fourth conjugationthose forms, namely, which have
two successive vowels (ia, ie, or iu). The tenses formed
from the other stems display no irregularity.
287.

-i5,

Paradigm.

288.

VERBS IN

-i6

OF THE THIRD CONJUGATION.

Active.

Passive.

Present Indicative.
1.

capio

2.

capis

3. capit

capimus

capior

capimur

capitis

caperis

capimini

capiunt

capitur

capiuntur

Imperfect Indicative.
1.

capiebam

capiebamus

capiebar

capiebamur

2.

capiebas

capiebatis

capiebaris

capiebamini

3.

capiebat

capiebant
capiebatur
Future Indicative.

capiebantur

1.

capiam

capiemus

capiar

capiemur

2.

capies

capietis

capieris

capiemini

3.

capiet

capient

capietur

capientur

Perfect System.
Perf. Indic.

cepi, etc.

Plupf. Indic.

ceperam,

Fut. Pf. Indic.

cepero,

captus sum,
etc.

etc.

etc.

captus eram,

captus ero,

etc.

etc.

Present Infinitive.

capere

capi
Participles.

Presentcapieris

Perfect captus

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vocabulary.

289.

-ceptum,

ac-cipio, ere, -cepi,

receive.

captum,

capio, ere, cepi,

take, capture.

cdn-ficio, ere, -feci, -fectum,

end, finish, accomplish.

con-jicio, ere, -jeci, -jectum,

hurl, throw.

con-spicio, ere, -spexi, -spectum, see, observe.

do ; make, build.

factum,

facio, ere, feci,

fugio, ere, fugl, fugitum,


inter-ficio, ere, -feci,

arma

put

slay, kill,

to death.

hurl, throw.

-ceptum,

re-cipio, ere, -cepi,


:

-fectum,

jactum,

jacio, ere, jeci,

Phrases

flee, escape.

regain, recover.

capio, take Jip arms.

vulneribus cdnficior, be exhausted by wounds.


in

fugam

conjicio,

put

to flight.

proelium facio, fight a

battle.

se recipere, (l) betake one's self, retreat.


(2) recover, rally (intransitive).

to

In compound verbs, short a of the simple verb


commonly weakened to i before one consonant, and
e before two consonants
so with the compounds of

N.B.
is

capio, facio

and

and so also prohibed from habeo.


of the simple verb is weakened to i

jacio,

Similarly, short e

before a single consonant (except

r)

as,

premo, opprimo

teneo, retineo.

EXERCISES.
290.

A.

1.

1.

Nostri celeriter

jiciebamus.

3.

arma

capiunt.

Suos laborantes conspicit.

2.

4.

Tela conIn fugam

ad agmen receperunt.
5. Pauci interficiuntur sed multi vulnera accipiunt.
6. Certiorea 06s
facimus eum regem faciemus
multa proelia Eecimus.

conjecti, se

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Ex

7.

valid tela jacitis.

aegerrime conficitur;

Iter

8.

vulneribus conficitur.

Sese ad suos recipiet

9.

in

provinciam fugiam.
10. Fugientes eos conspicimus.
11. Arma de muro in fossam jaciebantur.

12.

B.

Tela conjici jussit

Exhostium

nostros

impetum

facere

Ejus
Centurionem
compluribus confectum vulneribus circumvenimus et
interficimus.
16. Trans Rhenum se in fines Germa-

jussit.

13.

castris conspiciemini.

-adventu nostri se ex timore recipient.

norum

recipit.

17.

Conspiceris

14.

15.

interficieris

jeceris.

oppidum recepero,

pacem voblscum faciam.


Omnia oppida quae conspicimus incendemus omnia
SI

18.
19.

oppida quae conspexerimus incendemus.


accepit
ficitur

tempus fugit

capiuntur.

castra

20. Litteras

291.

ii.

We

announce, we flee, we come.


orders them to be summoned and put to death.
shall do nothing
we determine to do nothing.

A.

Inter-

21.

multis gravibusque* vulneribus confectus.

1.

were fleeing out of

sight.

We

5.

2.

He

3.

We

4. You
The weapons were being

many wounds few


They were betaking them8. We are seen leaping down out
selves to their camp.
I
9. The war will speedily be finished
of the ship.
10. Exshall finish the war as speedily as possible.

hurled boldly.

wounds are

6.

received.

receive

7.

hausted by their wounds, several soldiers are captured


11. He is throwing- himself into the
and put to death.
sea he was retreating: with us across the river.
;

B
you

12.

will

You

be

will fight a battle

killed.

13.

not to give, hostages.


*

We
14.

while fighting bravely

are accustomed to receive,

He was

building-

larg-er

In such sentences the English idiom omits the conjunction and.

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they were marching through our province.


the rest are put to flight.
16. Exhausted by wounds, the enemy turned and fled.
17. We are taking* up arms for the sake of our common
18. If they
freedom; you were hurling weapons.
surrender, they will receive their freedom. 19. I am
being captured; I used to be seen; I shall be slain.
20. He kills a large number of our men as they are
fleeing.
21 While our men were taking up their arms,
the cavalry rallied.
vessels
15.

Several are killed,

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293.

Illustrative

Provincia
that

mea haec

Examples.

est, ilia vestra,

this is

my

province,

yours.

(is)

Hos ad eum mittit, he sends these (or them) to him


Haec ab his nuntiis cognovit, he learned this from

these

messengers.

Eum

locum muniverunt, they fortified that place.


Eos qui fugiunt videmus, we see those who are fleeing.
Cum els legionibus quas reduxerat in fines Belgarum
contendit.

1111

sese in silvas recipiunt,

with those

had

led back, he

legions (or with the legions) which he

hastens into the territory of the Belgians.

They (or

these) betake themselves to their forests

These sentences
a.

Hie,

and

ille

is

illustrate the following- points

are used both as pronouns, and as

adjectives agreeing* with their nouns.


b.

Hie

is

ille

ordinarily to be rendered

by

that (pi. those).

by

this (pi. these)

Hie refers to something-

reg-arded as near the speaker or writer;

ille

to

something reg-arded as more remote.


c.

d.

Is

may be used as a quite unemphatic that or this,


and sometimes may even be best rendered by the
definite article the.
It is often used as the antecedent of a relative, as in the last two sentences.
is (267) but also at times hie and ille may
When so
be used as the third personal pronoun.
used, ille is more emphatic than hie or is, and is
used especially to mark a contrast, e.g\ to empha-

Not only

size a chang-e of subject, as in the last sentence.

N.B.

We may often translate hie by

(one); haec (neut. plur.)

by

this

(man) or

this, literally these

ea quae by what, literally those things which.

this

things; and

(See 180.)

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vocabulary.

294.

happen, befall.

ac-cido, ere, -cidl,

cado, ere, cecidi, casum, fall.

captivus,

m.,

I,

prisoner, captive.

gero, ere, gessi, gestum, in passive, be done, take place.

Roman name.
Marcus a Roman name.

m.,
Marcus, I, m.,

Lucius, a

numquam,

never.

Lucius,

I,

>

adv.,

saepe, adv.,

often.

semper, adv.,

always.

stat im, adv.,

immediately, at once.

Phrase

res gesta, deed, exploit.

EXERCISES.
295.

i.

A. 1. De his rebus gestis ex captivis cognoscit. 2.


Hie f rater Marcus semper appellator, ille Lucius. 3. Ab
iis quos miserat haec cognovit.
4. Neque cum hac
legione neque cum ilia se conjungent.
5. Pauci ex iis
cadunt de equo in aquam cecidit
numquam cadet.
;

Praedam

6.

his et captivos

in Gallia gerebantur.

8.

distribuam.

illis

Hujus

loci

7.

haec erat

Haec

natiira.

His ex consuetudine agros dederant.


10. Ilium
11. Ea impedimenta quae secum
portare non audent, in hac silva deponent.

9.

statim interfecit.

12.

Si

illos

ceperimus,

Haec omnia etiam

13.

illis

hi

statim se

erant incognita.

ante id tempus saepe mihi acciderat

hoc tempus
Strant.

"

tibi aceidit.

Nostri

his legatis

With

15.

numquam

Res gestas

illius

Hoc
ante

demon-

subito tela in* hostes conjiciunt

statim terga vertunt.

Illi

dit

16.

dedent.
14.

17.

respondet.

Ad
18.

tela conjtclft, translate lu bj "/.

haec Caesar responhi de navibus

Dum

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ill!
audacter tela conjiciunt.
19. Interim
haec in his locis geruntur, cum iis copiis quas
acceperat, in castra pervenit.
20. Rerum gestarum

desiliunt,

dum

populi

Haec

Roman! memoriam semper retinebimus.


ab

flens

296.

A.

that

21.

illo petit.
ii.

1.

After this battle they

place.

2.

Of

all

these,

move
the

their

camp from

Belgians are the

3. Nothing will
happen to him it never happens to them. 4. This*
was the cause of that war. 5. They hastened towards
those who were finishing these fortifications. 6. A
larger part of them had fallen her father fell
7 These
states used often to wage war with those.
8. We shall
defend those into whose territories Caesar has sent this
legion.
9. Alarmed by all these things, they send
ambassadors to him. 10. We learn this from prisoners.
11. The exploits of Caesar were unknown to him.

bravest; these are braver than those.


;

B.

12.

They call

this son Lucius, that (son)

Marcus.

Those who had inhabited that district they drove


out.
14. We often do this for the sake of peace.
15. He immediately gave this prisoner his freedom.
13.

When

he has put these to death, he will turn to


On being informed of these things, he
orders them to surrender
they hesitate to give up
their arms.
18. At that time he held the leading place
in this state.
19. It is always more dangerous to these
than to those he never gives more to this one than to
that.
20. This side of that island extends about a
mile.
all this
21. This is thought to be taking place
16.

them.

17.

had taken

place.

* In sentences like this, the demonstrative agrees in gender,


case with the noun. Compare 295, A. 8.

number and

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189

LI.

Ablative Absolute.
297. Review 261 and 262, noticing: especially the
Agreement of the participle, the voice of the perfect
participle, and the various translations possible.
Latin has no corresponding' perfect participle of the
active voice, and therefore such sentences as,

/faring repulsed the cavalry, we were led back to camp,


Having received hostages, he viade peace,
Having drawn up the army, he gave the signal,

cannot be literally translated into Latin.


298. Virtually the same meaning-, however, is given
by the so-called absolute use of the perfect participle

passive

as,

Equitibus repulsls, in castra reductl sumus, the cavalry

having been repulsed, we were led back to camp.


fecit, hostages having been

Obsidibus acceptis, pacem


ceived,

Exercitu Instructo, signum dedit, the

drawn

re-

he made peace.
up, he

gave

army having

been

the signal.

This absolute construction is in Latin in the ablative


and is very common, while in English it is in the
nominative ease, and is comparatively infrequent.
The participle is joined as a sort of predicate to a
noun (or pronoun) which is not the subject of the verb,
nor dependent upon any other word in the sentence
ease,

whence the name Ablative Absolute


299.

Corresponding to the various free translations

for the perfect participle passive suggested in 262,


"The ablative absolute phrase as a whole
modifying the predicate.

is

we

equivalent to an adverb

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have the following free rendering's, by the active voice,


of the perfect participle passive when used in the
absolute construction :
-

'having said

His rebus

dictis,

saying

he withdrew.

after saying this,

discessit,

on saying

So

this,

this,

this,

may be

also the sentences in 298

rendered,
After repulsing the cavalry, we were led back
On receiving hostages, he made peace ;

Drawing up

the

to

camp ;

army, he gave the signal.

VOCABULARY.

300.

ab-jicio, ere, -jecl, -jectum,

throw away.

a-mitto, ere, -misi, -missum, lose.

calami-tas, -tatis,

disaster, defeat.

f.,

de-stringo, ere, -strinxi, -strictum, draw, unsheathe.


e-jicio, ere, -jeci,

-jectum,

throw

out.

frango, ere, fregi, fractum,

break, shatter, crush.

incommodum,

misfortune

I,

6rati-o, -onis, f

6r-do, -dinis,

n.,

m.,

loss

order ; rank.

perturbo, are, avl, atum,

Phrases

',

speech.

throw into confusion, disturb.

se ejicere, rush out.

orationem habeo, make {deliver) a speech.

calamitatem accipio, suffer

incommodum

defeat.

accipio, suffer loss.

EXERCISES.
301.

A.

Hoc

I.

1.

Vicis hostium incensis, copias reduxit.

2.

exercitum reducit.
3.
Clamore
audito, arma statim capiunt.
4. Eruptione facta, ad
flumen Rhenum contendimus. 5. Hac oratione habita,
proelio

facto,

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6.

Hac

191

oratione adducti, acriter

Aeie Instructa, signum equitibus dat.


9.
8.
conjecti, multos ex suis amiserunt.
His rebus odgnitis, naves solvimus. 10. Armisabjectis,
se ex castris ejecerunt. 11. Hoc incommodo perturbati,
sededcreconstituunt. 12. His proeliis calamitatibusque
fracti, obsides dare coacti sunt.
B.
13. Cohortes repulsae in locis superioribus consistunt.
14. Cohortibus repulsis, in locis vSiiperioribus
consistunt.
15. Gladio destricto, subito se ex oppido
ejecit.
16. Re frumentaria comparata, castra movet.
17. Impedimentis relictis, eruptionem subito fecerunt.
18. Omnibus equis ex conspectii remotis, proelium
19. Celeritate nostrorum permoti, legatos
commisit.
ad Caesarem dededitione miserant. 20. Multis amissis,
pugnaverunt.
In

7.

fngam

se

in

agmen

receperunt.

21.

Ab

hostibus repulsi,

magnam

calamitatem acceperamus.
22. Hostibus repulsis, oppida incendimus agrosque vastavimus.
23.
Equitibus praemissis, castra muniri jussit. 24. Primis
ordinibus hostium hoc impetu perturbatis, brevi omnes
in

fugam conjicimus.
302.

A.

ii.

1.

Having pitched the camp, they determined

await Caesar's arrival.

2.

to

Sending- ambassadors, they

from him. 3. After laying- waste (their)


he compelled them to give hostag-es. 4. Having
slain a few, they had thrown the rest into confusion.
5. Drawing- their swords, they seized the gates.
6. On

soug-ht peace

fields,

procuring supplies, we shall set sail. 7. After fightingseveral battles, they sent envoys to Caesar. 8. Having
lost all their ships, they surrendered to Caesar.
9. On
learning this, he sent the third Legion in advance.
10.
Sending scouts in advance, he learned the order of the

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11. On being: informed of his arrival,


line of march.
they betook themselves to the marshes.
12. Having
suffered a great defeat, they will lay down their arms.

B.

13.

Hearing- the shouts in the rear, they rush

out of the camp.

14.

On

being ordered to throw away

their arms, they at first hesitated.

15. Collecting larger

back our cohorts. 16. Having taken


several towns by storm, he sent this despatch.
17.
Being exhausted by wounds, they with difficulty withstand our attack.
18. After receiving many wounds,
they determine to await reinforcements.
19. After
20. Making an
delivering this speech, he withdraws.
21. Having
attack they threw the ranks into confusion
suffered this loss, they will make peace with us.
22.
The ships being shattered are useless.
23. The ships
being shattered, we have sought aid from you.
24.
forces, they drive

After hurling their missiles, they drew their swords.

Orator.

(Cicero addressing the Senate.)

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193

LII.

Perfect Participle Passive


Demonstrative Pronouns
:

(continued).
Ipse, Idem.

303. Various ways have been suggested in 262 and


299 for translating the Latin perfect participle passive,
Whether it be in agreement with the subject or in the

ablative absolute construction.

many

In

when

after,

cases also a dependent clause introduced

or

as*

is

a proper equivalent

by

as,

Repulsl ab equitatu, in castra contenderunt, as they had


been repulsed by the cavalry\ they hastened to the camp.

Equitibus repulsls, in castra reducti sumus, when the cavalry

had been repulsed, we were led back to camp ;


we had repulsed the cavalry we were led back

or, after
to

',

camp.

304. It should be noticed that the free renderings


when,
suggested in 299 are sometimes impossible
namely, the agent or doer of the action expressed in
the participle is not the subject of the main verb as,
Obsidibus ab hostibus datis, Caesar pacem fecit, hostages
having been given by the enemy, Caesar made peace.
Dato signo, facta est eruptio, the sig?ial having been given,
a sortie was made.
;

In such cases the translation by a dependent clause


can always be resorted to as, after the enemy had given
hostages, Caesar made peace ; when the signal was given,
a sortie was made.
;

305.

Rule.

The Ablative Absolute

is

used to define

the circumstances of an action.

With the absolute

participle as with the participle in

tnent with the subject

(261), the exact

relation

*For ".s-, its equivalent rinde may often )>e substituted. Clauses
duced by if OT although may also be used, but, limeli more rarely.

intro-

194

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(whether of time, cause, situation, means or condition)


not expressed in Latin and must be gathered from
the general sense in the English rendering this relation
should, as a rule, be indicated.
is

306.

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307.

Illustrative

195

Examples.

Equitibus praemissis, ipse aciem instruxit, sending the cavalry in advance, he hi ni self drew u/> the line of battle.

Gallls ipsls certior factus est, he


C

was informed by

the

ia u Is tin in st i: 'es

te ipso died, lam speaking of you yourself


Se defendunt, they defend themselves.
Se ad eadem castra recepit, he betook hi m self to the same camp

De

Idem

same thing.

faciunt, they do the

Observe

with these sentences, tnat :

in eonnection

and idem (the same) are used both as pronouns and as adjectives

a.

ipse (-self)

b.

ipse is

used to emphasize or distinguish and is not,


like se, a reflexive pronoun
ipse may be used in any person, being- translated
,

c.

himself,

myself, yourself,

herself,

which

it

ourselves,

itself,

yourselves, themselves, according to the

word with

agrees.

VOCABULARY.

308.

ac-cedo, ere, -cessi, -cessum,

draw

administro, are, avi, atum,

manage, attend
summer.
autumn.

aes-tas, -tatis, f.,

autumnus,
expedio,

I,

m.,

ire, Ivi,

hiems, hiemis,

itum,

near, approach.

set free ;

make

to.

ready.

winter.

f.,

probo, are, avi, atum,

approve favor
,

pro-video, ere, -vldi, -visum, foresee ; provide, secure.

tempes-tas, -tatis,

storm ; weather.

f.,

spring.

ver, veris, n.,

Phrases

legid expedita, a legio?i in light


ordt v

primum

i.e.

7<

marching

ithout baggage.

ver, the beginning of spring.

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exercises.
309.

i.

Eodem tempore eruptionem faciunt. 2.


A. 1.
Caesar ipse idem fecit. 3. Ejusdem legionis centurio
se interfecerat.
4. Remissa legione, ipse in Italiam
contendit.
5. Ipse dux hostium captus est.
6. Haeca
civibus ipsis audiverat.
7. A vere ad autumnum noetes
sunt brevissimae.
8. Prima luce equitatus ad munitiones nostras accedit. 9. Proxima aestate fines hostium
vastat, ipsosque interfecit.
10. Eadem de causa frumentum ante hiemem pro visum non erat. 11. Propter
mag-nitudinem tempestatis, difficile erat naves administrare.

B.

Deditione facta obsidibusque acceptis, copiae

12.

se in hiberna recipient.

13.

Quod ad hostium

accedebat, legionem expeditam ducebat.


ipse

relict5,

15.

in provinciam

Reliquam partem
ipsi

non probabamus.

te ipso concessos.

18.

eodem itinere contendit.


magnae tempestates
16. Omnes idem probant;
17. Agr5s dicitur habere a

aestatis,

nostras a piigna prohibent.

hoc

castra

14. Praesidio

Hoc

consilio probato, celeriter

expediunt proeliumque committunt.


19.
Reliquae naves tempestates oceani ipsius aegre sustinebunt.
20. Id quod ipsi aegerrime fecerant, ille fecit
Galli

sese

facillime.

310.

ii.

The same night

the camp was moved. 2.


drawn up, he himself gfave
the signal.
3. They betook themselves to the same
camp. 4. The two sons of the king- himself surrendered
themselves at about the same time. 5. These are the
same enemies with whom you yourself have often

A.

When

1.

the troops had been

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waged war.

6.

197

Several states arc adjacent to the same

This place he had approved for many


8. In one summer Caesar had himself finished
reas< >ns,
two very gTeat wars. 9. While this was taking- place, it
had begun to be spring. 10. He himself approaches
nearer, with three legions in light marching- order and
two thousand cavalry.
11. As the storm had been
foreseen, there was not the same difficulty.
province.

7.

B . 1 2 We ourselves had set sail at midnight from the


same harbor. 13. As several ships had been shattered,
14. When this was
great loss had been suffered.
learned, even the soldiers themselves were alarmed.
15. For the same reason, the nights are longer in
winter than in summer.
16. If everything- is provided
before autumn, they will easily defend themselves.
17. When this fact (res) was announced, they were
ordered to get their arms ready as quickly as possible.
18. According: to his custom, when the winter was
ended he collected as many troops as possible.
19.
.

After carefully attending to these matters, he himself,


at the beginning of spring, hastened to the army.
20. The legion itself was sent back to the same harbor
from which it had set sail the preceding summer.

Sarcinae

Soldier's Pack.

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LESSON

LIII.

Deponent Verbs.
311.

A considerable number of Latin verbs

no longer

retain the active voice, but use the passive forms with

an active meaning. Such verbs are called Deponents .*


As there is no perfect active stem, the principal parts of
deponent verbs are but three in number e.g.
;

Conj.

I.

Conj.

II.

conor, ari, conatus sum,

sequor,

Conj. III.

Conj.

attempt.

vereor, eri, veritus sum, fear.

IV.

secutus sum,

I,

follow.

sum, allot.
passussum,
allow.

sortior, Iri, sortltus

Conj. III. (in-ior), patior,

312.

I,

Examples.

Illustrative

Conantur,

they attempt.

Conatus,

after attempti?ig.

Verebamur,
Veritus,

we feared.
fearing.

Secuti erant, they

hadfollowed.

Sequi coepit, he began

to follow.

Sortitur,

he

Patitur,

he allows.

allots.

Observe the translation of these forms and note


especially that, with deponent verbs, the difficulty
mentioned in 297 does not exist, as these verbs
have a perfect participle with active force.

a.

313.

A few verbs (called Semi-depone?its) are

in the perfect system only

for example,

deponent

audeo, ere,

ausus sum, venture.


*

From deponO, lay

forms.

aside, because they

have

laid aside their active

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314.

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200

vocabulary.

315.

conor, ari, atus sum,

moror,

ari,

nanciscor,

try, attempt.

atus sum,
I,

delay, wait.

nactus sum,

get, obtain.

sum,
passus sum,
eri, itus sum,

orior, oriri, ortus

patior,

I,

polliceor,

arise, rise.

allow.

promise.

proficiscor,

I,

profectus sum,

progredior,

I,

progressus sum, advance, proceed.

sequor,

I,

secutus sum,

set out.

follow.

vereor, eri, itus sum,

fear.

EXERCISES.
316.

i.

A.

1.

Interfectus est, profectus est; jussi eramus,

passi eramus.

4.

2.

Cognoscitur, nanciscitur

relinquetur,

Timent, verentur timuerat, veritus erat.


Oriebatur, moramini, conaberis.
5. Equitatu prae-

sequetur.

misso,

3.

ipse

cum

legionibus

expeditis

sequitur.

6.

Auxilium Gallls pollicitus, haec ab iis cognovit. 7.


Ante mediam noctem clamor orttfs est. 8. Dum in his
locis Caesar moratur, legati ad eum venerunt. 9. Equites
eosdem secum proficisci jubet.
10. Legatos interfici
non patiar.
11. Inopiam frumenti veritus, constituit
non progredi longius. 12. Praeda quam nacti erant
relicta, se in castra recipere conati sunt.

Non hostem

veremur, sed magnitudinem


progressi, ex equis desiliunt.
15. In aquam progredientes, audacter tela conjichmt.
16. Id, quod polliciti erant, facere conabantur.
17. Si
statim profecti erimus, hostes non diutius morabuntur.
18. Rhenus oriri dicitur in montibus.
19. Multi amicitiae causa Caesarem secuti erant.
20. His rebus
B.

13.

silvarum.

14.

In

aquam

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administratis, paucds dies rei frumentariae causa mora-

bantur.

Ea quae

21.

proficisci ausi

hicme, in* Britanniam


Orto clamore, omnes se ex

seeiita est

sumus.

22.

oppido ejicere conantur.

23. Legatos, conantes dicere,

Naetus idoneam tempestatem, ipse tertia


naves solvit, equitesque in alterum portum pro24.

dimisit.
vigilia

gredi et se sequi jussit.

n.

317.

A. 1. We venture, we have ventured. 2. We were


advancing, you were promising. 3. I shall attempt,

we shall set out. 4. She


we have feared, you had
allowed.
5. He was attempting- to follow us.
6. You
had promised us corn. 7. They fear everything; they
we

shall delay, I shall follow,

had obtained,

has arisen,

it

are thought to fear nothing.

8.

Having attended

everything, he sets out for the army.

to

After advancing seven miles from that place, he reached the same
river.
10. Great losses will be suffered
great mis9.

After waiting several days,


and getting a supply of corn, he will set out for the war,
B. 12. Fearing the danger, he has not ventured to
advance. 13. Drawing their swords, they attempt to
follow.
14. He orders this same legion to set out and
come to him as quickly as possible. 15. All this I
promise you. 16. If they promise this, he will allow
them to wait longer. 17. Setting out from this harbor,
the ships proceed about ten miles. 18. They will attempt
to march through our province.
19. Storms followed
fortunes will arise.

11.

several days.
20. Having left a garrison, he
himself set out against the enemy.
21. The shouts of
those who are following arise.
22. If he demands help
for

from

ns,

\tt.

we

shall

iroii-i*<or,

promise a larger number of ships.

lu with the accusative

is

to

i<-

tranalated/or.

202

318.

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WORD

LIST

E.

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NEGOTIATIONS.

embassy

203

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agros eorum obtinebant. Post multos annos bellum


inter hos Gallos et populum Romanum ortum est.
Hujus belli haec erat causa. Brennus, rex'Gallorum,
cum finitimis Etruriae civitatibus bellum g-erebat.

compluribus

Etrusci,

Romanis petiverunt.

auxilium

superati,

proeliis
Illi,

periculum

veriti,

quod Galli

propius accedebant, constituerunt non auxilium polliceri


Itaque (accordsed bellum componere (to settle) conari.

ad exercitum Etruscorum miserunt


sed multis de causis difficillimum erat pacem facere, et
post complures dies proelium commissum est. Leg"ati
ingly) tres leg-atos

ubi

(when)

Etruscos

cum

captis, se

laborantes

armis

conspexerunt,

Etruscis conjungunt, et iinus ex ducibus

Gallorum

interiicitur.

stituerunt

Romam

Galli hac injuria adducti, con-

oppugfnare, et statim profecti sunt.

De eorum adventu certiores facti, Roman! copias


quam plurimas coegerunt, et ad flumen Alliam, quod
iindecim milia passuum ab urbe aberat, progress! sunt.
Ibi (there) proelium factum est et Roman! raagnam
calamitatem acceperunt. Clamoribus barbarorum perterrit!,

primo impetii perturbat! sunt.

Timor animos

omnium occupavit, et armis abjectis terga verterunt.


Maxima pars exercitus ad proxima oppida fug"it multi
;

vulneribus confecti cadunt, aut fugere conantes interficiuntur


pauci se trans Tiberim in urbem recipiunt
;

incolumes.

Dum

haec g-eruntur,

Galli,

urbem contendunt.
eodem die ad Tiberim

ad

Iter

praeda omni distribute,


celeriter

perveniunt.

conficitur,

Equites,

et

qui

praemissi erant, portas apertas (open) invenerunt, neque


ulla statio pro (before) portis collocata erat.

causa insidias (an ambush)


progfredi

longius,

sed,

veriti,

castris

Hac de

constituerunt

positis,

extra

non

(outside)

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Interim Roman!, hac calamimunitiones morabantur.


fracti, urbcm defendere non conantur, sed cum
conjugibus {wives) et liberis se in arcem rccipiunt.
Postero die, Brennus de timore Romanorum per exploratores certior factus, barbaros in urbem ducit et
tate

Romam

incendi

numquam

jubct.

Tanta

ante id tempus populo

LESSON

calamitas

great)

(so

Romano

acciderat.

LIV.

Accusative and Infinitive.


320. After passive verbs of saying- and thinking,
both Latin and English reg-ularly use the infinitive as,
;

Dlcitur esse inimicus,

he

is

Iter facile esse existimatur, the

said

road

to

is

be unfriendly.

thought

to

be easy.

In the active voice such verbs are, in English, only


occasionally followed by the infinitive (with a subject in

/ believe them to be innocent ; I


More frequently, in English,
verbs of saying, thinking, knowi?ig and perceiving are
followed by a clause introduced by that ; but Latin after

the objective case)

know him

to

as,

be honest.

such verbs always uses the infinitive with a subject in


the accusative case
Dicit

Romanos

Existimat

me

as,

venire, he says that the


esse

amicum, he thinks

Videt nostros castra ponere,

Romans
that

are coming.

am

a friend.

he sees that our

men arc

pitching their camp.


321.

(a)

In each of the Latin sentences just given,

notice that the time of the

two verbs

other words that the original

would

be

put

in

the

is

identical

in

statement or thought

present

veniunt, est amicus, castra ponunt.

tense,

viz.,

Roman!

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(b)

Besides the present infinitive, Latin has also a


and a future infinitive, to express respectively

perfect

time before and time after that of the main verb as,
Dicit Romands venisse, he says that the Romans have come.
Videt nostros castra posuisse, he sees that our men have
pitched their camp.
;

Dicit

Romands venturos

esse, he says that the

Romans

zvill

come.

Existimat

me futurum

esse

amicum, he thinks

be friendly
322.

Paradigms.

THE INFINITIVE ACTIVE.

that

I shall

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a.

As

the infinitive, unlike the indieative, has

207

no per-

sonal endings, the pronominal subject (representingb.

l yoU,
%

he, etc.)

should be expressed.

Notice that the reflexive pronoun sui is used in the


accusative and infinitive clause for he or they,
when denoting- the same person as the subject of
the main verb
to denote a different person the
;

proper form of

should be used.

is

VOCABULARY.

324.
audio, hear.

existimo, think.

certidrem facio, inform.

memini, remember.

cognosco, learn, ascertain;


in perfect tenses,

know,

demonstro, point out, explain, mention.

polliceor, promise.

respondeo, reply, answer.

dico, say.

N.B. These words,

nuntio, announce.
ostendo, shoiv, declare.

video, see ; passive, seem.


all

occurring in previous Lessons,

are followed by the accusative and infinitive.

EXERCISES.
325.

i.

Demonstrat altitudinem fluminis esse magnam.


Nihil videtur esse facilius.
2.
3.
Hostes finitimam
partem provinciae vastavisse audit. 4. Pollicentur sese
in deditionem numquam venturos esse.
5. Video eos
ex equis ad pedes desiluisse.
6.
Nuntiant magnas
hostium copias convenisse neque longe abesse.
7.
Alemini eum fuisse fidelissimum amicum. 8. Omnium
rerum copiam habere existimamur. 9. Dicit se alteram
partem vicl Gallis concessurum esse, alteram cohortibus.
Respondent se aliud iter habere nullum.
10.
11.
Caesarem certiorcm faciunt sese non pares essc> eC-tei-is.
12. Cognoscit toti Galliae equites Caesarem imi)erare.
A.

1.

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Existimat eos ex navi desilire non audere.


nihil fecisse.
15. Vident illud con14.
16.
Magnam inter
silium sibi* fore periculosum.
Gal 16s auctoritatem eum habere cognovi. 17. Finitimae
civitates obsides se daturas esse pollicentur.
18. Respondet se de re publica non desperare. 19. vSine ullo
perieulo proelium fore demonstrat.
20. Dicit alios
21. Respondet se
discedere, alios prop his accede re.
B.

13.

Ostendunt se

obsides accipere, non dare, consuevisse.

Audiunt

22.

Belgas proximos esse Germanis, fortioresque esse quam


reliquos Gallos. 23. Silva dicitur pertinuisse a flumine
Tamesi ad mare. 24. Nuntiant sese castra positiiros

summo

esse in

colle.

326.

ii.

A.

He

1.

announces that Caesar

will

come

quickly.
3.

He

had great experience. 4.


hear that the leading men have assembled from

We

2.

He

thinks that these cohorts are less brave.

points out that you have


sides.
6.

He
He

5.

They promise

that they will

says that they have reconnoitred

do
all

all

all

this.

the roads.

has been informed that the Britons have seized


7.
answers that he is a Roman
heights.
8. He
the
citizen.
9. He sees that we hold all the hills.
10.
They remember that they are free. 11. I learn that he
has been unfriendly to you alone. 12. The war-ships
seem to be very swift.

13.

promise that

part of the citizens.

common

to all of us.

I shall

grant freedom to a large

He thinks that the danger is


15. He explains that on account

14.

of the height of the mountains they are leaving

baggage.
* If

16.

Summoning

for sibi, eis be read,

all

their

the soldiers, he declares

what different meaning

will the sentence

have?

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17. We have heard that


he has demanded hostages from the senate. 18. I say19.
that the time for {literally of) victory has come.
They answer that they will easily withstand the fiercest
20. He sees that the other road is very easy.
attack.
21. He has been informed that there is a bridge over
22. You are thought to
(literally on) the river Tiber.
be the bravest of all the Gauls. 23. He has ascertained
that this is not the custom of the Roman people.
24. The daughter is said to have been very like her
mother.

that he will be their leader.

LESSON LV.
Accusative and Infinitive
327.

Illustrative

(continued).

Examples.

Roman! veniunt, the Romans are coming.


Romanos venire, he says that the Romans are coming.
Dixit Romanos venire, he said* the Romans were coming.
Roman! venerunt, the Romans have come.
Dicit Romanos venisse, he says that the Romans have come.
Dixit Romanos venisse, he said that the Romans had come.
Roman! venient, the Romans will come.
Dicit Romanos venturos esse, he says* the Romans will come.
Dixit Romanos venturos esse, he said* the Romans would
Dicit

come.

These sentences

a.

illustrate the fact that in indirect

assertions, in English, the tense of the verb in the

subordinate clause

is

no such changes occur


*

In English, that

is

by the tense

influenced

the principal verb of saving, etc.

of

while in Latin

in the infinitive.

frequently omitted after verbs of saying, etc.

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of the principal verb may be, in


Latin the rule holds that the present infinitive
represents the same time as that of the principal
verb, the perfect infinitive time before that of the

Whatever the tense

principal verb,

and the future

infinitive time after

that of the principal verb.


therefore, the original statement or thought would
be in the present tense, the present infinitive
should be used
if in a past tense (imperfect,
perfect, or pluperfect), the perfect infinitive
and

If,

if

in the future tense, the future infinitive.

328.

Illustrative

Examples.

sunt se esse venturos, they promised that they


would come, or they promised to come.
Sperat se regem futurum esse, he hopes that he will be
PollicitI

king, or he hopes to be king,


a.

Observe that after verbs signifying


in English the simple infinitive

of that

and a

finite verb,

to hope or promise,

may be used instead

but that in Latin only one

construction prevails, the accusative with the future


infinitive.

VOCABULARY.

329.

arbitror, ari, atus

sum,

think, consider.

renuntio, are, avi, atum,

report,

bring back word.

scrlbo, ere, scrips!, scriptum, write.

spero, are, avi, atum,


suspicor, ari, atus

hope.

sum,

suspect.

EXERCISES.
330.

A.

i.

Omnem

exercitum discessisse renuntiaverunt.


2. Scripsit paucos portus esse idoneos.
3. Suspicati
sunt nostrds in hunc locum esse venturos. 4. Legatis
1.

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missis, obsides se daturos* polliciti sunt.

5.

211

Exnuntiis

6. Nunadventum nostrum exspectare. 7.


Renuntiaverant Gallos adventum nostrum exspectare
8. Sperabant Caesarem Germanos agros
constituisse.
9. Demonstravimus eum milivastare prohibitum m.

ptterisque cognovit magtias eopias convenire.

Gallos

tiaverant

tarem usum habere. 10. Nobis te fidelem fuisse arbiIdem superioribus diebus accidisse
11.
trabamur.
12. Speraverat sibi Gallos principatum
suspieabantur.
tradituros esse.

B.

Renuntiavit flumen ab castris non longfe


id flumen omnes hostes consedisse.

13.

abesse et trans
14.

Respondimus magnam Caesarem injuriam

facere.

15. Arbitratus erat se bellum celeriter esse eonfecturum.

Subito certior factus est ex vico omnes discessisse,


17. Sperabam eos in deditionem
polliciti sunt se in deditionem venturos.
venturos*
16.

montesque tenere.
;

18.

BreViores esse in Britannia

aestates scripsit.

sociorum vastare.
proxima nocte.
331.

A.
the

quam

in

continent!

Respondit non aequum esse agros


20. Sperabamus nos naves soliituros

19.

II.

1.

He answered

following night.

would move his camp


The same day Caesar was

that he
2.

informed that the enemy had fled.


3. He suspected
mat they would always be hostile to him. 4. He wrote
.that he had abundance of corn and cattle.
5. They

used to consider that this had been the cause of the war.
6. We hoped that the other road would be easier.
7. They reported that the commander-in-chief did not
despair of safety.
8. He promised to examine the

in

change

tii.-

of

future infinitive, esse

meaning.

la

very frequently omitted, without any

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matter.

9.

He

wrote that for this reason he had said

10. It was announced that the enemy's


nothing
11. They suscavalry had surrounded the column.
pected that he was hastening- to the right wing.
12. We declared that we should neither send ambas-

sadors nor surrender our arms.

B. 13. I had been informed through scouts that you


had led the troops across. 14. He wrote that Caesar
was increasing the number of hostages.
15. They
reported that the enemy, after taking the town by
storm, had slain a large number of the inhabitants.
16. He said that they were sending despatches to Caesar
daily.
17. We suspected that the leading men had
determined to wage war with us.
18. From the same
guides he ascertained that a town, protected by woods
and marshes, was not far distant from that place.
19. I (he, they) had hoped to receive my (his, their)
freedom. 20. Thinking* that this was a suitable place,
we determined to encamp.

LESSON

LVI.

Accusative and Infinitive


332.

(continued).

Paradigms.

PRESENT AND PERFECT INFINITIVE PASSIVE.

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The

a.

perfect infinitive

passive

perfect participle passive

is

made up

and the

Illustrative

of the

infinitive esse;

the former of these agTees in gender,


case with the subject of the infinitive.
333.

213

number and

Examples.

Agri vastantur, the

la /ids are bring laid waste.


agros vastari, he announces that the lands are

Nuntiat

being laid waste.

Nuntiavit agros vastari, he announced that the lands were


being laid waste.
Agri vastati sunt, the la?ids have been laid waste.
agros vastatos esse, he announces that the lands

Nuntiat

have been laid waste.


Nuntiavit agros vastatos esse, he aimounced that the lands

had

been laid waste.

be seen from these sentences that the same


rules apply in the passive voice as in the active,

It will

a.

for the use of the present

and perfect

infinitives

after verbs of saying, etc.*


Paradigms.

334.

INFINITIVE OF DEPONENT VERBS.


Perfect.

Conj.

HI.

The

a.

(in 4or) pati

conaturus esse

veritus esse

veritiirus esse

secutus esse

seciiturus esse

sortitus esse

sorttturus esse

passus esse

passurus esse

present and perfect infinitives of deponent verbs

are formed in the


of

infinitives
infinitive

Future.

conatus esse

is

the

same way
passive

bsl

it

their

future

like that of the active voice (322).

Tin- |>assi\ 6 voice has also a future inlinil

care occurrence

as the corresponding

voice

is

omitted

in

i\ c,

which

heee Lessons.

is,

however, of HUt'h

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335.

Illustrative

Examples.

Dicit hostes sequi, he says that the

enemy are following

Dixit hostes sequi, he said that the enemy were following

Audit eos profectos esse, he hears that they have

set out.

Audivit eos profectos esse, he heard that they had set out.
Pollicetur

se

secuturum

esse,

he promises that he will

follow (or tofollozv).


Pollicitus est se

follow (or
a.

secuturum

esse, he

promised that he would

to follow).

As is shown by these

sentences, the use of the various

tenses of the infinitive of deponent verbs in the

accusative and infinitive construction

according

is

to the general rule.

VOCABULARY.

336.

credo, ere, credidl, creditum,

believe.

intellego, ere, -lexi, -lectum,

understand, be aware.

nego, are, avi, atum,

deny, say

scio, ire, IvI,

sentio, ire, sensi,

not.

know.

Itum,

sensum,

feel, perceive.

EXERCISES.
337.

A.
esse.

i.

1.

Certior

2.

Scimus

f actus

est oppida

litteras

expugnata

et incensa

a^Caesare ad senatum missas

montibus oriri.
3. Intellegimus Rhenum in
Sperabant se praedam nacturos esse.
5. Omnem
exercitum premi niintiaverunt.
Cum majoribus
6.
copils Caesarem esse profectum audiverant.
7. Credimus omnia dilig'enter facta esse. 8. Negavit se diutius
moraturum.
9. Senserunt reliquos equites se sequi.
11. Intel10. Suspicatur vos ausuros esse progredi.
esse.
4.

leg'it

impetum minus

facile

sustineri.

castra valid decern pedes alto munita esse.

12.

Scripsit

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13.

14.
Arbitrator milites periculum vereri.
proelium equestre commissum esse.
15. R6manos pulsos superatosque esse renuntiaverunt. 16.
Undique bellum renovarl videt
suos interfici vidit.
17. DIxerunt naves onerarias jussas esse se sequi.
19. Scimus
18. Negat se passurum esse nos discedere.
eum multis rebus impedlri. 20. Credidit omnes inimicos
ex civitate expulsos esse. 21. Obsides profectos esse et
frumentum comportari respondit. 22. Legiones collo-

B.

Sentit

catas esse in hibernis cognovit.

23.

Intellexerat auxilia

sjummo monte collocari et totum montem hominibus


24. Centurionem superiore proelio multis
compleri.
confectum esse vulneribus demonstravimus.
in

338.

A.

ii.

1.

He

says that the troops have been led out of

winter quarters.

2.

They hoped

out for the war at once.


place

was

being"

carefully

that Caesar would set

He was aware that


fortified.
4. He was

3.

the
in-

formed that the enemy's territories had been laid waste


5. He perceived that the Britons were
far and wide.
6. He thinks all the
reinforcements have followed as quickly as possible.

advancing- boldly into the water.

She has promised to follow on the same day. 8. We


that the troops had been greatly impeded by the
extent of the forests and marshes.
9. I deny that we
have been terrified by your arrival. 10. He had written
that storms had followed for several days.
7.

knew

I remember that he was called king and


by the senate of the Roman people. 12. He
answered that they had been compelled to give hos13. He suspected that great losses were being-

B.

11.

friend

suffered.

14.

They

see that our

men

are advancing

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farther.

15.

He announced

that they were attempting

march through our province. 16. I knew that a very


great storm had arisen. 17. He showed that the commander had set out for the nearest camp. 18. We
believe a very large part of the whole army has been
slain.
19. They will hear that many battles have been
to

20. He denies that the danger


he said the danger had not increased.

fought.

LESSON
Questions.
339.

(a)

Some

is

increasing;

LVII.

Interrogative Pronoun.

questions seek an answer which has

word (or group of


this
words) placed at the beginning of the question
answer is never "yes" or "no" as, Who has done

especial reference to an interrogative

this f

Whom

At what

do you see f

How many

slaves has he f

time did the messenger come f

Other questions seek a


yes " or
no " answer
to the whole question
as, Have you done this f
Do you
Has he many slaves f Did the messenger
see the king f
come at noon ?
'

(b)

'

'

'

(c) If tjiese questions be compared with corresponding


statements (e.g. You have done this, I see the king, He
has many slaves, The messenger came at noon) it will be
seen that in interrogative sentences in English

(1)

the subject (unless itself an interrogative word)

comes
verb
(2)

after either the

whole or part of the

the verbal phrases with do or did are preferred


to the simple present

and past

tenses.

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In Latin there

those

points

of

is

217

nothing corresponding- to either of


between statements and
1

difference

questions.
340.

Questions of the

first class

mentioned above are

introduced in Latin, as in English, by interrogative

pronouns, adjectives or adverbs


Quis haec fecit ?

Who

Quern vides ?

Whom

Cur nuntius venit ?


Quo tempore venit ?

Why

as,

has done this f

do yon see ?

did the messenger come ?

At what

time did he come ?

may be either a
complete sentence or a portion of a sentence as, Ego
feci, / have done (it) ; Ego, // Regem video, / see the
king ; Regem, the king.
In Latin, as in English, the answer

Paradigm.

341.

THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN,


Singular.

quis.

Plural.

;
.

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342.

(a)

Questions of the second class ("y es or

questions) have in Latin

appended

the

interrogative

an emphatic word, which

to

beginning- of the sentence*

is

word

no"
-ne

placed at the

as,

Do you see the king f


Multosne servos habet ? Has he many slaves f
Questions of this sort may be answered by repeating the
verb as, Video, / see {him) ; Non video, / do not; Habet,
he has ; or by one of the many words equivalent to yes
Videsne regem ?

or no A

may also begin with nonne


which invites the answer yes, or with num,
which invites the answer no ; as,
Nonne habet multos servos ?
Has he not manp slaves ?
{b)

Questions of this class

(non-ne),

(or,

Num

He

has

many

s laves

has he not?)

regem vides ? Surely you do not


You do 7iot see the king, do you f)

king ?

(or,

VOCABULARY.

343.
hie, adv.,

here, in this place.

hue, adv.,
ibi,

see the

adv.,

hither, here, to this place.


there, in that place.

eo, adv.,

thither, there, to that place.

ubi, adv.,

where, in which place, in what place.

quo, adv.,

whither,

where,

to

which place,

to

what

place.

unde, adv., whence, from which place, from what place


cur, adv.,

why.

quantus, a, um,
uter, tra,

trum

how
(205),

large,

how great.

which {of two).

* Words like -ne and -que,' which are always appended to some other
word, are called Enclitics. -Ne must not be used when the sentence contains
some other interrogative word, that is, with questions of the first class.
t Such words are etiam, even so ; certe, certainly ; sane, to be sure
lion, no; in 1 nl in T-, by no means.


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N.B. Ubi, quo and uncle are used both as interrogative


adverbs and as relative adverbs; as, Ubi est? In e6
Where is hef In the place where
loco ubi legio hie mat.
The twofold meaning" and
the teg ion is wintering.

words where, here and

translation of the English

there

should be carefully noted.

EXERCISES.
344.

i.

A.

Nmn

Cur non respondes ? Nonne respondere audes ?

dubitas respondere?

denmt

se abdi-

Quanta est hujus fossae


Marce ? Habitasne hie ?

3.

?
4. Ubi habitas,
Navesne profectae sunt?

latitiido
5.

Qua de causa*

2.

Multis de causis.

Unde

profectae

sunt?

E6 pervenerunt primo vere.

Quo progrediuntur ? 6.
Quo tempore profecti sunt?
autumno,

alii

media

aestate.

gravissime vulneratus

eum

est.

Alii superiore hieme, alii

pugnans,

7.

Ibi fortiter

quo vulneratus

est

Legatus

8. Uter
Navibus amissis, quo se conNonne hue se recipient? 10. Quibus ex
vertent?
regionibus* venistis quasque ibi res cognovistis ? 11.
Quid petunt aliudt Romani ?

Qnis

vulneravit
paret.

imi)eratori

alter! paret

9.

13. Cui
12. Nonne haec onera gravia sunt?
B.
omnia haec incognita erant ? 14. Hie concilium prineipum habebo.J 15. Ibi conspicit defensores laborantes.
17. E6
16. Hue omnia pecora compellere coeperant.
eum Caesar ipse venerit, animos omnium confirmabit.
19. Quanta multi18. Nonne natiira loci continemur ?
20. Quid
tudo ibi eeeidit? Trecentine ceciderunt?
21. Pedestres
postulatis? Cur imperium postulavistis ?
i

This is the regular order when the Interrogative modiiN-s a noun


a preposition.
governed
( Translate iMbeft her* b]
'hold.'
tUterall] other thing,' freelj 'else.'

l>.\

'

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copias
22.

hlberna

in

proficisci,

Nonne proelium

proelii

illms

illud

deposuisti?

ibique

meministl

hiemare

jubet.

Num memoriam

Memor sum,

et

memoriam

all

the ships?

semper retinebo.
345.

A.

Which

ii.

1.

How

large

is

the swiftest of

Who
Why

is more
more daring:?
do we
3.
hesitate to throw away our arms? 4. Did not Caesar
announce that he would quickly come thither ? 5. Have
the enemy come in sight ? Have the guards been posted

of the

two ships

is

the swifter?

2.

powerful?

What

there?

Surely you are not awaiting the approach

of the

6.

is

7.

They

men would come here the next

night.

legionary soldiers here,

suspected that our

are

you?

For what reason have the ranks been thrown into


confusion? 9. With whom are they continually waging
war ? 10. Where are the foot-soldiers betaking themselves? Where have you come from? 11. Where were
the rest of the troops ? They were wintering in the
province where the barbarians had renewed the war.
8.

B.
12. At noon they were led back to the lake from
13. He himself
which they had set out at dawn.
hastens hither by forced marches. 14. Do you see the
place where we are accustomed to assemble ? 15. Had
16.
not a large number of cattle been found there?
Which of the two embassies is the larger? 17. To
whom has he given more ? 18. After seizing the gates,
he stations a garrison there. 19. Fearing this danger,
he sent two cohorts there at once. 20. Surely you do
not approve Caesar's speech, do you? 21. Do you
deny that the enemy's line was put to flight? 22. Are
you not aware that we inhabit this island ?

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221

LVIII.

Active and Passive Periphrastic Conjugations.


Strictly speaking", the

346.

periphrasis

',

term 'periphrastic' (from

a round-about expression) might be applied

to any compound form of the verb, that is, to any form


which is obtained, not by a mere change of ending,
as mlserat, but by compounding a participle with the
But the term is usually
verb sum, as missus erat.
restricted to two sets of forms :
a.

The

Active Periphrastic conjugation,

made up

of the

future participle active and the verb sum.


b.

The

Passive Periphrastic conjugation,

made up

of

a form called the gerundive and the verb sum.

The
is

future participle active ends in -urus

formed from the

(138)

as,

participial (or supine)

-um) and
stem in -um

(-a,

amaturus, moniturus, recturus, audfturus.

The gerundive ends in -ndus (-a, -um), and is formed


from the present stem
as, amandus, monendus, re;

gendus, audiendus.
347.

Paradigms.
(a)

ACTIVE PERIPHRAvSTIC conjugation.


Indicative.

Present
Imperfect

Future
Perfect

Pluperfect

Future Perfect

amaturus sum, es, est


amaturi sumus, estis, sunt
amaturus eram
amaturus ero
amaturus fui
amaturus fueram
amaturus fuero
Infinitive,

Present
Perfect

amaturus esse
amaturus fuisse

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(b)

passive periphrastic conjugation.

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vocabulary.

349.

nemo

223

(neminis), m., no one, nobody.

noctu, adv., by night,

omnino, adv., altogether, in all ; with negatives, at

all.

prope, adv. (248), near; nearly, almost.

quaero, ere, quaesivi, quaesitum, ask, inquire,


rursus, adv., again.

simul, adv., at the


tantus, a,

um,

turris, is,

f\

same

time.

so great, such great.

(ace. im, abl.

I),

toiuer.

una, adv., together, along (generally used with cum).

Phrases

bellum pard,

pontem

prepare for war.

in flumine feicio] build

flumen ponte jungo

N.B.

The

larly, for

declension of

nemo

is

a bridge over

a river.

Regu-

defective.

the genitive and ablative, and often for the

dative, the corresponding cases of nullus (205) are used.

EXERCISES.
350.

i.

A. 1. Proelium committendum est; proelium renovandumerat. 2. Proelium facturi sunt signum proelii
daturas erat. 3. Hostes sunt noctu opprimendi bellum
paraturi suiit. 4. Simul clamor rursus ortus est. 5. Una
mecum profecturus fuerat. 6. Nihil omnino facturi
ramus; pontem in illo flumine facturi eramus. 7. In
tres omnino partes peditatus distribuendus erit.
8. Intellect nostras turrim propius moturos esse
negat
;

turrim

rursus

movendam

fuisse.

neminem ex pugna excessurum

esse.

9.

Sperat prope

10.

De fortitudine

militum quaerere consuevit. 11. Cur tantum


spatium aggeres distant?
12. Quanta erit turrium

et virtiite

altitudo

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B.

Simul ab duobus lateribus impetus acerrime

13.

faciendus

est.

Num

14.

rursus terg-a versiiri estis?

Quis se vobiscum conjuncturus est ? Nemo omnino.


16. Flumen ponte jungi jusseram, et copias, quae
coactae erant, traducturus eram.
17. Copiae, quas
coegeramus, una nobiscum erant traducendae. 18. Dato
signo, cohortes ex castris noctu erupturae erant.
19.
Summa erat difficultas, quod omnia uno tempore faci20. Tanta celeritate commotae, prope
enda erant.
15.

omnes civitatesobsidesdaturae sunt. 21. Num propter


paucitatem defensorum et inopiam rei frumentariae, de
salute desperaturi

sumus?

22. SI

causam ex

captivis

ipse quaes! veris, dicent liberius.


351.

A.

ii.

1.

going- to

The enemy must be driven back; we are


drive the enemy back.
2. The cohorts should

be sent out

he

about to send out the cohorts.


no one will resist more
fiercely.
4. The towns had to be attacked by nigfht.
5. The camp will have to be fortified by a double wall,
and a bridge built over the river. 6. He was g'oing to
compel us to give three hundred hostages in all. 7. All
the horses ought to be removed out of sight at the same
time.
8. The next year, having- set out again, they
were going- to carry all their grain with them. 9. He
answers that you must be surrendered along- with the
10. From whom shall I ask about
rest of the slaves.
the height of the towers ?
3

Almost

is

all resist

vigorously

B.

11.

them.

happened
reason.

No

12.

to
14.

lands at all should have been granted to


Before this time, so great a disaster has

no one.

13.

They think

approach nearer by

nig\ht.

Almost daily he asks the


no one will venture to

that

15.

The advocates

of this

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tin

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225
16.

the other part of the village be granted to the

army?

Which

Must
same

part of the village is Caesar going


Neither
part.
18. At the same time,
to grant to us?
which
Caesar
ships
in*
was going to carry back his
the
19. Is he not
army were being delayed by storms.
going to attempt to lead all his men back again?
20. The scouts had to be recalled along with those who
were hurling their weapons from (de) the tower.

352.

17.

226

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VERBS.

abjicio

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Camillus, de quo supra demonstravimus, in exsilinm


ab inimlcis suls expulsus erat, et eo tempore in oppido,
quod Ardea appellabatur, habitabat.
Certior factus
Romam occupatam et incensam esse, et agros Romanos
vastari, tncolas Ardeae eonvocavit et hanc orationem
" Nonne audivistis, cives, Gallos accedere?
habuit
Qua de causa veniunt? Quid petunt ? Sperant se
Romanos soeiosque Romanorum aut interfecturos esse
Num. populum Romanum a
aut ex civitate expulsuros.
:

barbaris

superari

passuri

auxilium mittimus?

estis?

Cur non

statim

Arbitror occasionem {opportunity)

non amittendam esse."

Simul

pollicitus est se

eorum fore, bellumque celeriter confecturum


omnes bonos cives se sequi jussit.

ducem

esse, et

Hoc consilio probato, nuntius ad arcem missus est et


Romanis, qui ibi obsidebantur, nuntiavit Camillum cum
maximis auxiliis celeriter venturum esse, et jubere
Romanos de re publica non desperare. Hie nuntius
locum nactus est ubi, propter difficilem ascensum, hostes
non diligfenter custodiebant {were keeping guard) et
noctu magrno cum periculo {at great risk) in arcem
Interim omnes bellum parare coeperunt,
ascendit.
et plurimi Romani, qui ad proxima oppida fugerant,
undique ad Camillum convenerunt.
,

Dum
fait.

haec geruntur, interim arx in

Namque

conspexerunt in ea parte
et,

suspicati

magno

periculo

{for) Galli vestigia {footprints) hominis

id

quod

conari constituerunt.

collis ubi

nuntius ascenderat,

acciderat, eodem ascensu sequi


Nullum praesidium ibi a Romanis

nemo credebat hostes ascendere


conaturos esse, et Galli, media nocte profecti, prope ad

collocatum erat, quod

summum

collem

in-rvenerant,

cum

anseres

sacri {the

sacred geese) qui in tcmplo J ononis {the temple of Juno)

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erant,

hostes accedentes

(outcry) sublato

Romanos

celeriter captis, hostes de

audiunt,

et

statim clam ore

excitant (arouse).

muris jaciunt,

armis
iterum (a

HIT,

et

second time) Gallos repellunt.

Sed propter paucitatem defensorum et inopiam rei


frumentariae perlculum cotidie augebatur, et RomanI
prope de salute desperabant cum exercitus Camilli in
conspectum venit. Proelio facto, Galli superati et ad
untim (to a man) interfectl sunt.
Ne nuntius quidem
calamitatis relictus est.

Camillus propter has res

gfestas

a senatu populoque Romano de exsilio revocatus est, et


pater patriae (of his country) et conditor alter (second)
urbis appellabatur.

Haec omnia acciderunt anno trecentesimo sexag-esimo


quarto ab urbe condita.

LESSON
Dative of Agent.

LIX.

Dative with Special IntransiAblative with utor.

tive Verbs.
354.

Illustrative

LegatI a rege missi sunt,

Examples.

envoys were sent by the king.

Legati regi mittendi sunt, envoys should be sent by the king.

Locus ab exercitu munitus


by the army.
Locus exercitu! muniendus

erat, the place

had

erat, the place

had to

been fortified

be fortified

by the army.
a.

Notice that in the passive periphrastic conjugation,


the dative is used with the g-erundive to denote the
person on whom the duty of acting; rests. This is
called the Dative of the Agent.
Contrast the
ablative of the agent with ab used with the
ordinary passive forms of the verb (144).

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b.

229

Latin periphrastic forms

Notice further that the

expressing" duty or obligation are in the passive

and that therefore if an English sentence


expressing this idea is in the active voice, it should
be changed (mentally) to the corresponding passive
voice,

before being translated

by the Latin passive

peri-

Thus, the sentences given


above would correspond also to the king should
said envoys, the army had to fortify the place.
phrastic conjugation.

355.

Regl parent,

they obey the king.

ExercituI imperat, he

Caesarl resistunt,
a.

Examples.

Illustrative

commands

the

army.

they resist Caesar.

Notice that these Latin verbs translated by obey,

command and

resist,

The English verbs


equivalents

are

by a direct
by the dative.

are followed, not

object as the English verbs are, but

are transitive, but the Latin

and might

intransitive,

more

properly be rendered, they are obedient, he gives


orders, they offer resistance, so that the dative quite

naturally follows.
b.

To

this class

belong

many

verbs denoting advantage

or disadvantage, or disposition towards

verbs meaning to

help, favor,

their Opposites, also to believe,


suade, resist,

and

c.

Notice

verb

how
is

tmst,

command,

for

all such verbs are


example, jubeo.

the vocabulary indicates that

of this elass.

and

obey, per-

But not

spare.

followed by the dative

including

please,

Latin

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356.

Illustrative

Hoc

and does

case,

he uses this szuord.

gladiS utitur,

The deponent verb

a.

utor

is

followed by the ablative

like the

riot,

a direct object.

Example.

more

be, he helps himself by

English verb

use,

literal rendering-

means of

this

take

would

sword.

VOCABULARY.

357.

appropinquS, are, avi, atum, approach (with dat.)

sum,* trust (with dat.)

cSnfidS, ere, -fisus

imperS, are, avi, atum, command, govern (with dat.)

damage (with
-cum, -cursum, meet (with dat.)

noceS, ere, ui, itum, harm, ijijure,


occurrS, ere,

dat.)

parco, ere, peperci (or parsl,) parsum, spare (with dat.)

pareo, ere, ui, itum, obey (with dat.)

persuadeo, ere, -suasi, suasum, persuade (with dat.)

(with dat.)

resists, ere, restiti, resist, oppose

utor,

I,

usus sum, use (with abl.)

EXERCISES.
358.

A.

i.

Interim naves Britanniae appropinquabant.

1.

Decimae

2.

Multas

Omnia

4.

Facilius

rendus

hostibus

sunt

gfladiis

est.

providendum

Caesar

legionl

horas

vobis

diligenter

utentur.

7.

erat.

semper confidebat.

aegferrime

6.

Ab

Ante hiemem
8.

nostri

3.

resistunt.

administranda.

5.

hoc consilio deter-

frumentum Caesari

Populus Romanus multis

civita-

imperabat.
9. Ceteris spe libertatis persuasit.
11. Nonne haec
10. Caesari hue venienti occurrunt.
ponti nocebunt ? 12. Communis salutis causa, eis qui
nobis parent parcemus.
tibus

Confido

is

a semi-deponent verb

(313.)

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B.

Parem numerum militum

13.

231

finitimae civitati

suos ab hostibus premi. 15.


Equites, quos Caesar secum transportavit, tibi educendi
16. Confidebant sese incolis persuasuros esse.
sunt.
impcrabit.

17.

14.

Impetus

in

Sentit

novissimum agmen huic legion!

faeiendus erat.

18.

populi

Liberi

injuria defendendi sunt.

19.

Galliae mihi

soli

ab

Integris copiis hostium

Mall elves semper rei publicae nocent.


cedunt et in densissimas silvas
fugiunt.
22. Armis captis, per medios hostes perrumpere conati sunt. 23. Dum haec geruntur, flumen
oeeurrerunt.
21.

20.

Timore

perterriti

ponte jungendum erat.

impedienda
359.

24.

His rebus oppugnatid non

est.
ii.

By

speech he easily persuades the Belattacked again by the


3. Who does not know
that the Gauls were conquered by Caesar? 4. We use
wider ships in this sea. 5. He will injure no one; he
will spare all.
6. You must not lose the military
standards; we must prepare for war.
7. All lands
obey the rule of the Roman people. 8. In the first
place, a good king governs himself.
9. At first he
himself will resist us.
10. You should choose the

A.

1.

this

The camp must be


whole army at the third hour.

gians.

2.

noblest and most discreet men.

11.

While they were

approaching the fortifications, they met the cavalry that


Caesar had sent in advance. 12. He is going to summon the chief men whom he always trusts.

13.

The

which they used were larger.


persuade the other daughter. 15.
At the same time, he demands three thousand horsemen
from the whole province.
16. I think that you should
not take away the hope of safety altogether. 17. Caesar
B.

14.

ships

It is difficult to

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had

to

hill.

withdraw all the troops by night to the nearest


The rampart seems to me to be higher than

18.

the town.

19. If

we

soon be surrounded.

The

left

rounded as quickly as possible.


these things,

we

wing will
wing must be sur21. Influenced by all

halt there, the right


20.

shall resist the senate itself.

22.

The

boys and girls are with difficulty prevented from approaching the banks of this river. 23. Grain has to be
brought by us from the remotest parts of the mainland.
24. He hopes to finish this work without any toil.

C. Decline the following combinations eadem nox,


tua oratio, hie labor, vir ipse, quae res, haec turris, ille
agger, is ager, hoc ipsum tempus, quanta calamitas, ilia
:

pars,

utrum

eadem
latus

qui dies, exercitus suus,

castra, id iter,
(s),

idem

illud ver

Oppugnatio

(s),

nostra consuetudo

Attack.

(s).

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LESSON LX.
Subjunctive of Sum.

The

subjunctive

Indirect Questions.

mood

has four tenses


It is sometimes used in independent sentences, but is far more
often found in dependent or subordinate clauses of
360.

Present, Imperfect, Perfect

various

The

kinds.

in Latin

and Pluperfect.

translation of

the

subjunctive

varies considerably according- to these different uses,

but most

commonly

it

is

rendered by the

English

indicative, as in the present lesson.*

361.

Paradigms.

SUBJUNCTIVE OF

SUD1.

Present.

Perfect.

sim

simus

2.

sis

sitis

3.

sit

sint

Imperfect.
1

essem

2.

esses

essetis

3.

esset

essent

essemus

Notice in these forms :


(a)

The

(b)

the resemblance of the imperfect subjunctive to the

regularity of the personal endingfs

present infinitive (esse) and of the pluperfect subjunctive to the perfect infinitive (fuisse)

the almost complete

(r)

junctive

identity of the perfect sub-

and the future perfect

indicative.

Even

matter of quantity, the resemblance often


caused the Romans to shorten the I of the subin the

junctive forms.
The difficulty of

the Latin subjunctive Is Indeed largely due to the fact


that Ideas regularly expressed by the English Indicative require, In Latin,
sometimes the Indicative and sometimes the suhjunotive. That is, Latin
distinctions of
Is in places where English does not.

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362.

Illustrative

Quae

What

est causa ?

Quaerit quae

sit

is the

he asks what

causa,

Quaesivit quae esset causa,

is

reason f
the reason.

he asked what was the reason,

Where have they been f


I k?ww where they have been.
/ heard zvhere they had been.

Ubi fuerunt ?
Scio ubi fuefint,

Audivi ubi fuissent,


a.

Examples.

In these Latin sentences the indicative

mood

is

used

in the actual direct question, but the subjunctive

mood when
rogative
b.

the clause introduced by the

word

is

inter-

dependent on another verb.

subordinate clause in Latin introduced by an

word is called an Indirect Question


Dependent Question), and has its verb in the
subjunctive mood.

interrogative
(or a

c.

The

various tenses are translated like the corre-

sponding" tenses of the indicative, and as in English

are influenced by the tense of the principal verb.

The Latin perfect subjunctive, however, it should


be observed, is usually to be translated by the
perfect with have, rather than by the simple past
tense.
d.

important to notice that the verb of


may mean not only ask, but
The term
also learn, know, tell, or perceive.
indirect question, then, does not necessarily imply
that a question has actually been asked and
is
being quoted, but merely that a question
exists in the mind or at least may easily be conceived as, / saw what he was doing, I know what

It is especially

the principal clause

he will say.

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exercises.
363.

I.

quaerit quae
Quanta esset insulae mag^nitudo
3. In utra ripa essemus certior factus erat.
ieperiebat.
4. Quanta fuisset virtus militum demonstravit quantum
1

lint

Quaerunt quae*

maxima castra.

sit

firmissima civitas

2.

tuisset

incommodum

ostenderunt.

5.

Quantum

sit

tpatium nuntiant. 6. Quibuscum esses seiebam. 7. Ab


8. Quaerit
his quaesivit quae civitates inarmisessent.
Scisne
ex nobis cur non fideles sibit fuerimus.
9.
nuacum legione sim? 10. Renuntiaverunt qui ager
esset optimus totius Galliae.
11. Uter fuerit utilior
amicus intellegimus. 12. Quibus in locisj sit Caesar ex
captivis quaerunt.
13. Quis cum iis una fuisset
14. Quaesivit quid illl simile bello esset.
jjmdiverat.
ii.

He asked which cohort had been on guard


reported what harbors were suitable. 3. You
1

They
how

see

great is the danger. 4. You saw in what (literally how


gnat) danger we were. 5. They understand for what
reason we have been unfriendly to them.t 6. He suspected what had been the cause of that war. 7. He
has been informed where we are and where we have
been. 8. He asked what was the custom. 9. He asks
what is easier. 10. He shows how great the difficulty
has been. 11. He asks the envoys what town is nearest
to these territories.
12. He knew who had been the
advocates of that war.
13. He learns what (literdlly
how great) is the length of this side. 14. We had heard
for what reasons you were in arms.
The Interrogative may bo translated which as well as who o> what.'
tin indireol questions, as in the accusative and Infinitive construction
(.tj:i). the reflexive pronoun sui in the dependent clause
a ed to refer to the
'

'

'

'

'

subject of the main verb,


\ For the order of wonU tee the footnote on page

J19.

236

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LESSON

LXI.

Subjunctive Active
Paradigms.

364.

SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD, ACTIVE VOICE.


First Conj.

Second Conj.

Third Conj.

Present.
Singular.

Fourth Conj.

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a.

Observe that

in

237

each conjugation, as in sum (361), the


may be formed directly from

imperfect subjunctive

the present infinitive active, and the pluperfect

subjunctive from the perfect infinitive active, and


the

that

perfect

subjunctive

is

almost identical

with the future perfect indicative.


b.

Notice further that the present subjunctive has in


first conjugation the characteristic vowel -e-,

tthe
and
the

in the second, third

acteristic
c.

and fourth conjugations


-a-.

What

is

For the translation of the various tenses

The subjunctive
-io is

the char-

vowel of the present subjunctive of sum

questions see 362


d.

vowel

characteristic

in indirect

c.

of verbs of the third conjugation in

similarly formed, viz.,

Present.

Imperfect.

Perfect.

Pluperfect.

capiam

caperem

ceperim

cepissem

VOCABULARY.

365.

animadverto, ere,

-verti,

-versum,

doceo, ere, ui, doctum,


fluctus, us,

teach, explain.

m.,

fluo, ere, fluxi,

pars, partis,

wave.

fluxum,

jlow.

part; direction,

f.,

perspicio, ere, -spexi, -spectum,

Phrases

notice, observe.

in earn partem,

side.

see clearly, perceive.

in that direction\with

verbs

omnes partes, in all directions of motion.


una ex parte,
on one side.
ex omnibus partibus, on all sides.
magno cum. periculo, at great risk.
in

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exercises.
366.

i.

Per exploratores cognovit quae hostes faNuntiabo quo se recipiant. 3. Docent qua
4. Quinto die quae* ibi perde causa se abdiderint.
spexisset renuntiavit.
5. Quaerit in utram partem fluat
Intellegebat qua de causa ea dicerent.
flumen.
6.
7. Quaerunt quibus ex regionibus veniamus quasque
ibi res cognoverimus.
8. Reperire jussus est quern
A.

1.

cerent.

2.

usum belli t haberent

Britanni.

9.

Quae*

ipse intellegat

Quaerit cur non respondeas quaerit cur


respondere dubites. 11. Animadvertit naves fluctibus

ostendit.

10.

compleri.

qua de causa discessissent


Docuit cur existimaret hoc flumen per
provinciam fluere. 14. Ex nobis quaesivit cur in suam
provinciam venissemus.
15. Animadvertunt quam in
partem hostes iter faciant. 16. Quaesivit qua de causa
nuntios in omnes partes dimitterent. 17. Videtis quanta
sit magnitudo fluctuum.
18. Suspicor quid postuletis
suspicor cur imperium postulaveritis.
19. Quanto cum
periculo eruptionem fecisset, ostendit.
20. Quaerit
quid petam aliud.
21. Ex omnibus partibus oritur
clamor. 22. Virtutem alterius, fidem alterius perspiciet.
B.

12. Certior factus est

hostes.

13.

367.

A.

ii.

1.

He

asked

why

they were coming- to him.

They informed us where they had found

2.

the enemy.

understand at what risk you have done this. 4.


why they despair of safety. 5. Are you not
aware who inhabit this island ? 6. He perceives how
large an army the enemy have.
7. He observed from
3.

He

*
t

asks

Translate what' ; literally what things"


Translate 'in war
literally of war.'
'

'

'

'

(293,

N.B.).

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what direction they were approaching". .8. He learned


where the enemy's forces had encamped. 9. He explains why they have hesitated to leap down into the
waves.
10. He explains that they have hesitated to
leap down.
11. He asked why the waves were larger
there than in our sea.
B.
12. They explain what they have heard or learned
13. Caesar understood for what
about these matters.
reasons they had said this. 14. He was ordered to find
out in what direction Caesar was leading: his army.
15. I do not know why they are waging war with us.
17. They pointed
16. We do not know what they fear.
out to Caesar what the Gauls were saying" about him.
18. He had noticed that the Gauls were fleeing in all
19. He perceived whither the Gauls were
directions.
20. We shall find out where {literally whither)
fleeing.
you are accustomed to assemble. 21. He asked whom
he asks which (of the two) I believe. 22.
I believed
He teaches the boys that the Rhine flows between -Gaul
and Germany.

tit e

j~*'i

T*A

Roman Aqueduct

in Gaul.

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LESSON
Subjunctive Passive.

LXII.

Subjunctive of Result.

Paradigms.

368.
.

SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD, PASSIVE VOICE.

First Conj.

Second Conj.

Third Conj.

Present.
Singular.
1.

amer

Fourth Conj.

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In the subjunctive

369.

mood

241

the passive voice

is

related to the active precisely as in the indicative :


a.

In the present and imperfect tenses of the passive


the personal endings -r, -ris, -tur, -mur, -mini,

b.

In the perfect and pluperfect tenses the passive is


formed by combining- the perfect participle passive

-ntur are substituted for those of the active voice.

with the present and imperfect subjunctive, respectively, of the verb sum.
370.

(a)

The subjunctive passive

third conjugation in

-io,

of verbs of the

and the subjunctive of deponent

verbs, are similarly formed, viz.,


Present.

Perfect.

Pluperfect.

captus sim

captus essem

conatus sim

conatus essem

veritus sim

veritus essem

secutus sim

secutus essem

sim
passus sim

passus essem

sortitus

The

(b)

junctive,

is

using- the subjunctive of

sum

Present.

Imperfect.

amaturus sim
amandus sim

amandus essem

Illustrative

est

essem

periphrastic conjugations also have a sub-

formed by

371.

Tanta

sortitus

as,

amaturus essem

Examples.

militum virtus ut hostes terga vertant, so great

the valor of the soldiers that the e?iemy turn andjlce.

Tanta erat militum virtus ut hostes non resisterent, so


great was the valor of the soldiers that the enemy did
not resist.
Accidit ut nostris id esset incognitum,

it

happe?ied that that

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a.

Observe that dependent clauses with ut {that) and


the subjunctive are used in Latin to express a
result or consequence, and that in such clauses
the present and imperfect subjunctive are used
to express the English present and past tenses

b.

This Subjunctive of Result is found chiefly after words


meaning- so, such (as tantus)
and after verbs of
happening and resulting (as accidit).t

respectively.*

VOCABULARY.

372.
adorior,
coorior,
ita,

-ortus

iri,

-ortus

Iri,

adv., thus ;

natio, -onis,

revertor,

I,

sum,
sum,

attack, assault.
arise,

so.

f., tribe,

break out.

sic,

-versus sum, return

adv., thus ;

so.

tarn, adv., so.

nation.
.

vix, adv. scarcely, hardly.


,

N.B. With adjectives and adverbs tarn (or ita) should


be used for so ; with verbs sic and (more often) ita.
EXERCISES.
373.

A.

i.

1.

Tarn subito impetum fecerunt ut pedites terga

verterent.

2.

Celen'ter hostes

nemo.

in

fug-am dat

sic

ut

Ostendunt quae in concilio Gallorum


de eo sint dicta. 4. Ibi ex captivis cognoscit quae in
hostium castris gerantur. 5. Sic accidit ut ex tanto
numero vix ulla navis amitteretur. 6. Tanta tempestas
coorta est ut naves circiter triginta frangerentur.
resistat

7.

Quaerit

cur

3.

tarn

celeriter

revertantur.

8.

Ita

* Occasionally the perfect subjunctive is used to express the English


simple past, but this is rare in the best Latin. Of course the perfect and
pluperfect subjunctive would be used to translate the English perfect and
pluperfect tenses with have and had ; but these do not often occur.
t In the former case the dependent clause is an adverbial clause, in the
latter a substantival or noun clause.

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243

animadverterat quanta incommoda saepe orta essent.


9. Accidit lit hae nationes majores copias compararent.
10. Nostri tarn acriter adorti sunt ut hostes ex oppido
fcxpellerehtur.

B. 11. Ex

locis

superioribus quae res in nostris

castris gererentur facile perspexerunt.

12.

Tantus

fuit

timorut reverti vix auderemus. 13. Sentit quanta cum


virtute bellum sit gestum. 14. Tarn celeriter eruptionem
faciunt lit compilings circumveniantur.
15. Castra
natura loci sic mfmiebantur ut oppugnare non auderemus. 16. Ita si Roman! se recipere coeperint, agmen
ab tergo adoriemur. 17. Tanta est multitudo ut rerum
omnium inopia esse videatur. 18. Tarn audacter in
itinere nostros adorti sunt ut impedimenta Caesari
relinquenda essent. 19. E6 die accidit ut Caesar longe
20. Tantus
ab agmine discedere neminem pateretur.
subito timor exercitum occupavit ut omnium animi
magnopere perturbarentur
374.

ii.

A. 1. It happened that this village was divided by


a river into two parts. 2. He explains what is being
done (gero) in Gaul. 3. So large are the enemy's forces
that we do not venture (do not attempt) to attack.
4. So great was the storm that scarcely a fourth part of
the ships returned safe.
reasons that

all

5.

happened for many


renew the war.
by Caesar's approach

Tims

it

the tribes were going to

They have hwn so terrified


numerous embassies are being sent

i.

lat

irrender.

7.

to treat for

So great a storm had arisen that few

8. He asks whence
and whither we are proceeding*. 9. He
iked whence we had set out and whither we were

the ships had reached the land.

'e

have

set out

roceeding.

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B.

10.

Such

{literally

so great) storms followed that

11 They often asked


the assault was greatly hindered.
12. Thus we
in what direction they were being- led.
.

learned

how

great a

number

of soldiers these nations

So great is the panic {literally fear)


that I do not venture to draw up the line of battle.
14. Such was the speed of the other messenger that he
15. It so happens
returned before the third watch.
smaller
ships
use
it
happened
never
that war
that we
had scarcely broken out. 16. They pointed out how
much plunder they had obtained. 17. So great is the
valor of the soldiers that he is going: to join battle at
18. The enemy were so terrified by this recent
once.
victory that they fled to their most distant territories.
19. Thus we had foreseen what had to be done.

had promised.

13.

LESSON
375.

LXIII.

The Compounds of Sum.


The verb sum is compounded with many

of the

most cases without any irregularity as,


absum, abesse, afui. But possum, / am able, a compound
of the adjective potis, able, and sum, is more irregular.
prepositions, in

Paradigm.

376.

Possum, posse, potui, be


INDICATIVE.

able.

SUBJUNCTIVE.
Present.

1.

possum

possumus

possim

possimus

2.

potes

potestis

possis

possitis

3.

potest

possunt

possit

possint

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I'l

potero, poteris,

245

etc.

Perfect.
potui, potuisti,

potuerim, potueris,

etc.

etc.

Pluperfect.

potuissem, potuisses,
potneram, potueras, etc.
Future Perfect,
potuero, potueris,

etc.

etc.

INFINITIVE.
Present.

Perfect.

posse

potuisse

PARTICIPLE.
Present.

potens {used as

adjective).

t is changed to s before s, and that, as


compared with sum, the perfect stem does not

Notice that

a.

contain

377.
__

Illustrative
f

Haec facer e possum,

Examples.

/ am

able to do this.
.

\ T

J ,.

\/ can do this.

(I was not able

Haec facere non poteram,

y was unable

\l could not do

L-

..

x.

Dixit se haec facere posse,

to

do

do

to

this.

this.

this.

(he said that he was able

.,,,,,

to

do

this.

,,,,,.

\he said that he could do this.


se haec facere potuisse, he said that he could have

done

Iixit
uperari
.

non possunt,

this.

they cannot be conquered.

how possum is completed


(compare 123), and how it

Notice in these sentences

by a present
is

infinitive

translated in the various tenses.

by

can or could

is

The translation

generally preferable, and with


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vocabulary.

378.

absum, abesse, afui, be away, be distant.


adsum, adesse, adfui, be present, be at hand.
desum, deesse, defui, be wanting, be lacking.
negotium,
patior,

I,

business ; affair.

n.,

I,

passus sum, endure, suffer

possum, posse, potui, be

allow.

powerful.

potens, -entis,
potestas, -tatis,
praeficio,

able, can.

f.,

ere, -feci,

power ; opportunity.
-fectum, set over, put

in

command

{charge) of (with dat.).

praesum, praeesse, praefui, be over, be in command (charge)


of, command (with dat.).

N.B. Praesum and praeficio take the dative of the


person commanded, while praeficio has also the person
placed in command as a direct object in the accusative.
For

prae-, before, at the head, in composition, see 243.

EXERCISES.
379.

i.

Ab

non possunt. 2. Impedimenta secum portare non poterant.


3. Nuntiat R6manos adesse. 4. Tempus defuerat. 5. Arbitratus est
6. Tanta
negotium celeriter confici posse (potuisse).
A.

1.

his se defendere

tempestas coorta est ut opus conficere vix possemus.


7. Auxilia sex milia passuum absunt.
8. Equitatui
legatum praeficit; omni equitatui quern praemiserat
legatum praefecit.
9. Civitati potent! praeest civitati
potentissimae praeficitur.
10. Docent
cur potestatem postulent. 11. Aderant omnes qui huic negotio
;

praefuerant.
13. Revert!

non

12.

Vobis possumus utiles esse amici.


quod naves erant inutiles. 14. Si

potui,

Caesar aderit, hostibus resistere poterunt.

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15. Null! civitati

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persuadere potestis.

Haec

16.

quis pati potest? Quaerit quis haec pati possit.

17.

In

patrem celeriter adfore.


18. Legiones
magnum spatium aberant. 19. Accidit ut naves solvere
20. Ex hostium castris conspici
noetu. non possemus.
21. Quaesivit quis rei frumentariae
non poteramus.
litteris scribit

praefuisset

tiirus

essem.

strat.

23.

24.

quaesivit quern rei frumentariae praefec22. Omnia negotia rei publicae adminiEquites longius progredi non potuerant.

Diutius sustinere

impetum non poterimus.

Potestas nobis non deerit


defore.

26.

Tantam

intellexit sibi

auctoritatem

potentes amicitiam petant.


conati,

copias

habet

ut

25.

non
reges

Oppidum oppugnare

27.

expugnare non potuerunt.

380.

ii.

A. 1. You cannot march through the province. 2.


He has been unable to persuade me. 3. They could
not withstand the attacks of our men. 4. You are in
my power you are powerful 5 Nothing is wanting
.

everything is lacking. 6. He was in command of the


cavalry which had been sent in advance. 7. He asked
whom they had put in command of the army. 8. He
thinks that he can do this without any danger. 9. He
perceived what they could do.
10. Another town is
said to have been farther distant.
11. Having finished
12. We had not been
this business, he can return.
able to use our swords.
13. They cannot defend their
own territories. 14. This alone seems to have been
lacking. 15. They thought Caesar himself was present.
B.

16.

On

account of the scarcity of corn, he will


17. He reported that he had been

not be able to wait.


unable to learn this.
of this business.

18.

put my son in charge


be dangerous to spare the

I shall

19. It will

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most powerful of the leading men. 20. The children


could not be restrained by their mother. 21. We can
very easily prevent them from injuring you. 22. He
trusted the lieutenants whom he had put in command
23. He was aware that cavalry and ships
of the legion.
were wanting to the Romans. 24. For the same reason
the camp could not be pitched. 25. He learns for what

Two

brothers

The storm was

so great

reason they cannot take up arms.

command

these legions.

that two ships

had not been able

WORD

381.

VERBS OF
announce

27.

26.

to reach the harbor.

LIST

F.

SA YING, THINKING, PERCEIVING.

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NOUNS.
business
direction

where
whence

here
there

where
thus, so

near

249

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250
copils

ab urbe profectl sunt,

et

prope pontem consederunt

qui flumen jungebat {spanned). Compltira levia proelia


facta sunt, sed neuter exercitus repelli poterat. Tandem
(at length)

corporis

et

unus ex

pontem progressus

magnitudinem
ad
fortissimum Romanorum ad

Gallls, cui propter

fortitudinem
est et

nemd

resistere potuerat,

" Sic " inquit (said he)


" omnes intelleg-ent utra natio sit melior." Sed tantus
fuit timor Romanorum ut neminl persuadere posset.

pugnam

provocavit (challenged).

Tandem Titus Manlius, adulescens


Romanorum appropinquavit

peratori

nobilissimus, imet dixit " Si

mihi

potestas facta"* erit eg-o huic Gallo occurram et ostendam


,

quanta sit virtus militis Romani." Potestate facta,


Manlius se ad pug-nam expedivit.
Neque diii pug-naverunt, nam (for) ita acriter et audacter Manlius hostem
adortus est ut Gallus gladio uti vix posset et brevi interficeretur.
Hostes hac victoria ita perterriti sunt ut
postera

nocte

castra

moverent,

neque rursus

exercitu Romano proelium committere auderent

cum

Manlius

ad castra a militibus reductus est, torquem g-erens


(wearing) quern de corpore Galli detraxerat
et hac de
causa semper post id tempus Torquatus appellabatur.
;

Post multos annos bellum coortum est inter Romanos


Romani. Consules Titus Manlius Torquatus, qui ter (thrice) consul
factus erat, et Publius Decius exercitum Romanum
eduxerunt et castra posuerunt non long-e ab exercitu
et Latinos, qui diii socii fuerant populi

Latinorum
Turn (then) equites in omnes partes dlmissi sunt, sed,
quod multl in duobus exercitibus fuerant amlci, jussl
sunt solum cognoscere quae in hostium castrls g-ererentur, sed non proelium committere neque ullam inju*The phrase potestateui facio means

give opportunity, give permission.

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riam facere.

Complures horum equitum, quibus Titus

Manlius, consulis

filius,

praefectus erat,

Latmorum appropinquant,
et is

251

dum

castris

equitatui hostium occurrunt

qui equitatui praeerat, ubi (when) perspexit quis


Manlium, quern diu cognoverat, ad pugnam

accederet,

provocavit.

Ira

(by

anger)

neque memor

adductus,

imperii patris, Manlius, destricto gladio, statim hostem

adortus est et interfecit.

Turn anna de corpore ejus detrahit

et

celeriter

qastra revertitur, et patri quid fecerit reniintiat

"
:

ad

Haec

spolia, pater, capta ex hoste interfecto tibi porto." His


rebus auditis, consul milites convocavit et haec dixit:
Titus Manlius, filius meus, cum hoste pug-navit neque
1

imperio consulum parebat.


Communis saliitis causa,
imperator militarem disciplinam {discipline) solvere (to
dest/oy) neminem pati potest.
In hoc bello tan turn est
perieulum ut praestet filium amittere quam rei publicae
nocere."
Hac oratione habita filium interfici jussit,
neque ab hoc consilio deterreri potuit.
.

Torquis

Collar.

The Dying Gaul. J

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LESSON LXIV.
Genitive and Ablative of Quality.
383.

Illustrative

Examples.

Sunt homines magnae virtutis,


Sunt homines magna virtute,
Bono animo sumus,
Dierum decern habent frumentum,
a.

\ they are men of great


/

valor.

we are of good

courage.

they have ten days' grain.

In these sentences observe how phrases composed of


a noun and a modifying adjective, in either the
genitive or the ablative case, are used to describe
some quality or characteristic of a person or thing-.
-

This construction

is

known

as the

Genitive or

Ablative of Quality*
b.

When

the description refers to number, the geni-

must be used physical


be expressed by the ablative
tive

the genitive or the ablative

characteristics should
;

in other cases either

may be

used.

VOCABULARY.

384.

adulescens, -entis, m.,

young man.

classis, is, f.,

fleet.

corpus, -oris, n.,


efficio, ere, -feci,

genus,

-eris, n.,

incredibilis, e,

body.

-fectum,

make ;

incredible.

ingens, -entis,

huge, vast.

triduum,

three days.

l,

n.,

Phrase

construct, build.

kind, sort.

magnitudo

corporis, stature.

* This usage is known also as the Descriptive Genitive (or Ablative), and
as the Genitive (or Ablative) of Characteristic.

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exercises.
385.

I.

Filium, summa virtute adulescentem, ad eosmittit.


Montibus undiquc continentur magna altitudine.
4. Classem
3. Ab his paucdrum dierum iter aberant.
5.
navium ducentarum superiore aestate effecerat.
Anna omnis generis habemus omne genus armorum
habemus. 6. Hi German! erant ingenti magnitudine
7. Tridui* iter procorporum et incredibili virtute.
1.

2.

gress!, rursus revertuntur. 8. Lucius, adulescens


fide,

ex

deligitur.

9.

silvis ejiciunt.

auctoritatis.

11.

saque duodeviginti

Novo genere pugnae


10.

Haec

Castra

civitas est firma et

pedum duodecimt

pedum munituri

sunt.

summa

perterriti, se

magnae

vallo fos12.

Hujus

generis hostibus resistere non poterant.


II.

They have

built ships of an incredible size.


2.
hundred ships of the same sort must be built.
3. A forest of vast size extends through the midst of
These trenches are of the same
4.
the territory.
They marched for three days through
depth.
5.
marshes of vast extent. 6. He put Marcus and Lucius,
young men of very great influence, in command of this
8. The
fleet.
7. They are men of an unfriendly spirit.
1.

About

six

towers are of such great height that they cannot be


moved. 9. They hurled missiles of every sort at the

huge bodies of the barbarians.

10.

The legion advanced

a three days' journey in light marching order.


Men of such great valor will never surrender.

11.

* Triil ui being a compound noun = irium li<Frimi. we have hefe only an


apparent exception to the rule that the genitive or ablativo of quality must
be a noun wit b a modifying adjective.
t The height <>l" a wall and the width of a trench aro the important
dimensions and In Latin, these words are often left to bo understood.

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LESSON LXV.
The Subjunctive
386.

in Clauses of Purpose.

Illustrative

Conveniunt
ut bellum gerant,

Examples.

they assemble

may wage war


may wage

'that they

in order that they

war.

wage war.
wage war.

in order to
\to

Convenerunt
they assembled
;
(that they might wage war,
ut bellum gererent,
\ in order to wage war.
\to wage war.

Arma

np arms,

they take

capiunt,

{that

ne hoc accidat,

may

this

Arma

ceperunt,

they took

ne hoc accideret,

not happen,

happen,

lest this

up arms,
might not happen.

[that this

\lest this should happen,

Statim

he leaps down at once,

desilit,

ne capiatur,

(that he

may

not be taken.

in order not to be taken.


^so as not to be taken,

Statim

he leaps

desilit,

ut non capiatur,

These sentences

is

down

at once, so that he

not taken.

illustrate the following: points

a.

Subordinate clauses with the subjunctive are used in


Latin to express purpose.

b.

These clauses of purpose are introduced by ut, or if


negative by ne, while ut non is used to express
result, not

purpose (see the

last

sentence above).

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In Latin, as in English, the tense of the dependent


verb is influenced by the tense of the principal
verb
the present subjunctive being: used where
English would use /nay, the imperfect subjunctive

c.

whore English would use might.

The

d.

idea of purpose

expressed in English in a

is

variety of ways, one of the

commonest being: by the

with to. But the infinitive should not be


used in Latin to express purpose.
infinitive

387, (a) The principle by which the tense used in a


dependent clause is influenced by the tense of the main
verb is known in Latin Grammar as the Sequence of
Tenses.
1.

The general

rule is as follows

The

Primary Sequence.

perfect indicative (called the

present, future and future


Primary Tenses) are followed

by the present or the perfect subjunctive.


2.

Secondary Sequence.

The

imperfect, perfect

and

pluperfect indicative (called the Secondary or Historical

by the imperfect or the pluperfect


But the perfect indicative, when translated
may take primary sequence, and the historical

Tenses) are followed

subjunctive.

by

have,

present (59, fn.) secondary sequence.


(b)

These rules apply generally

to all kinds of

depen-

In most cases the Latin


sequence corresponds so closely to English usage that the
tense of the English is a sufficient guide (362 c; 371 a.).
dent subjunctive clauses.*

388.

Illustrative

Legatos mittunt
qui pacem petant,

Legatos miserunt

Examples.

(they send envoys to seek peace,


\(literally,
\

qui pacem peterent, (literally,


\

*In clauses

who are

to

seek peace).

they soil envoys to seek peace

of purpose, only the present

who were

to

seek peace).

and Imperfect benses are used.

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a.

Notice that the subjunctive expressing purpose may


be used in a relative clause. The relative pronoun
replaces ut, and has of course an antecedent.
This usage occurs chiefly after mitto and its com-

pounds

sometimes also after relinquo and

deligo.

VOCABULARY.

389.

commeatus,
consequor,

msequor,

us,

I,

I,

m.,

supplies, provisions.

-secutus sum, overtake ; attain, acquire.

-secutus sum,

follow up, pursue.

magistratus, us, m.,


praefectus,

l,

magistrate.

m.,

officer,

commander

(especially of cavalry).
slavery.

servitiis, -tutis, f.,

subsequor,
tribunus,

N.B.

I,

I,

-secutus sum, Jollow closely, follow after.

m.,

tribune (a military officer).

Roman army had

its

(imperator), its staff officers (legati)

tribunes

and

its

(tribuni)

commander-in-chief
in each legion six
;

and sixty centurions

(centuriones)

cavalry officers (praefecti).

EXERCISES.
390.

i.

A. 1 Commeatus causa moratur moratur ut copiam


commeatus nanciscatur. 2. Ut hostes consequi posset,
pontem in flumine fecit. 3. Hostes insequi non audet
.

4. Magnam partem
regem insequeretur. 5. Omnes ex
conspectu removit equos ut spem fugae tolleret. 6.

ne

magnam

calamitatem accipiat.

equitatus misit quae

Magistratus deligunt qui

incommodum
subsequi

civitati praesint.

acciperent, cohortes

jussit.

secum

7.

Nenostri
partem

in earn

The Forum, Looking

East.

The Forum, Looking West,

Restoration.

{Restoration.)

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quam scrvitutem pad. 9.


tribunosque jussit copias longiore itinere
10. Tandticere, ne ex hostium castris conspicerentur.
tam auctoritatem consecutus est ut prmcipatum obtineat
B. 8.

Praestat interfici

Praefectos

Galliae.

totius

11.

Legatum cum legionibus

tribus

subsequi jussit ut novissimum agmen hostium adori12. Legati ad Caesarem missi sunt qui dicerent
retur.
se paratos esse

praemisit quae
vastaret.

14.

13. Partem copiarum


minora oppugnaret, agrosque
Caesar in Britanniam proficiscetur, ne

obsides dare.
castra

ex his nationibus auxilia in Galliam mittantur.


391.

ii.

A. 1. He reconnoitres all
may march without danger.

the roads in order that he


2.

He

sent the cavalry in

advance that they might reconnoitre the roads and seek


supplies.
3. The leader of the Gauls restrains his men
4. He sends the officers
lest we learn of his approach.
of the cavalry in advance to choose a suitable place.
5. He makes the camp so large that it cannot easily be
surrounded
he makes the camp larger that the enemy
may not be able to surround it. 6. They fought bravely
for the sake of freedom
they fought bravely to attain
freedom they fought bravely that they might not be
;

held in slavery.

7.

He summons

the centurions in order to explain

the tribunes and


what must be done.

B, 8. He sends the cavalry to pursue the enemy; he


determines to follow the enemy closely
he hopes to
rtake the enemy.*
9. They sent envoys to promise
that they would lay down their arms.
10. In order not
to be prevented from setting sail, he determined to set
without supplies.
11. The magistrates and leading
;

Bee

886, 123

to.'

and

328 for

varkms ways

of translating the present infinitive

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men

Gaul suspected that Caesar was taking them

of

across to Britain in order to kill

them all

there.

12.

He

sends an officer in advance to see in what direction the

enemy

are marching-.

13.

He

left

the lieutenant on the

continent to find out what was taking place in Gaul.

They began
captured.

to

throw away their arms so as not

14.

to

be

;.

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participles.
Present

ferens

Perfect

Future

laturus

Gerundive ferendus

393.

Ferd

(a)

latus

irregular in the present indicative,

is

present infinitive

and imperfect subjunctive.

other forms fero

is

In all the
conjugated precisely like verbs of

the third conjugation, allowing- for the peculiarity of


the principal parts.
(b)

The

prepositions with which fero

is

compounded

often undergo changes to harmonize their final sound

with the
for

initial letters

example ad and

fero

(f,

and

make

1)

of the three stems

affero, attuli, allatum.

VOCABULARY.

394.

confero, ferre, contuli, collatum, collect, gather.


defero, ferre, -tuli, -latum,

carry douni ; bring ; report*

fama, ae,

rumor, report.

f.,

fero, ferre, tuli,

bear, carry ; endure, stand.

latum,

infero, ferre, intuli, illatum,

bring ; cause,

perfero, ferre, -tuli, -latum,

{carry

to

report*
refero, referre, rettuli, relatum, carry

Phrases

inflict.

bring

the end),
;

bear, submit to.

back; report*

auxilium fero (w. dat.), bring {give, lend) aid.


bellum infero (w. dat.), make war (on or upon)
slgna infero (w. in and ace.) advance against
or on (literally bear omvard the standards)

famam perfero, bring a


pedem

refero,

report.

fall back, give way.

of those who disclose or voluntarily report something ; rcfVrfi of


as part of their duly bring back Information; iMrfVrft with
to the point reached by the report. All three words are followed
land the A.co.

* i>~fVio

pose who

Ience

Vith Iiifrro

tin-

person on or

upon whom something

is

inflicted is

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exercises.
395.

i.

arma fertis. 2. Frumenfrumentum confertur. 3. Multa


vulnera intulerunt; multa vulnera illata sunt. 4. Has
litterae ad eum
litteras servus ad Caesarem defert
deferuntur.
5. Celeriter fama ad omnes Galliae civiA.

1.

Auxilium ferimus

turn conferri jubet;

Legati haec se ad suos relaturos


Negant se populo Romano bellum
intulisse.
8. Quantus est numerus eorum qui arma
9. Tanta tempestas subito coorta est
ferre possunt?
ut omnes fere naves ad Galliam referrentur. 10. Magna
tates perferetur.

esse dixerunt.

6.

7.

illata calamitate,

alias terras petunt.

11.

Frumentum

ex agris cotidie in castra conferebatur.

B. 12. Ea

ad Caesarem; haec statim


Legiones sese conjungunt et signa in
14. Eis qui premi videntur auxilium
hostes inferunt.
ferendiim est.
15. Consilio Caesaris cognito et perlato
ad Britannos, a compluribus insulae civitatibus ad eum
legati veniunt.
16. Si bellum intulerit, quid veremini?
17. Ne haec res deferatur, niintium necarit.
18. Hue
Caesar omnes obsides et impedimentorum magnam
partem contulerat. 19. Impeditis hostibus propter ea,
quae ferebant, onera, nostri subito eruptionem fecerunt.
20. Commisso proelio, nostrorum militum impetum
res defertur

deferemus.

13.

hostes ferre

non potuerunt.

396.

ii.

A. 1. You are bringing aid; you had brought aid.


He is said to have brought aid while bringing aid,
they were slain.
3. He asked who was bringing aid
he asked to whom aid was being brought.
4. They
2.

said that the grain

was being

collected.

5.

Exhausted

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by wounds, they began to give way. 6. Young" men of


such valor ought not to submit to slavery. 7. The ships
were carried down to the lower part of the island. 8.
lie promised to make war neither upon them nor upon
9. Do you not see what great disasters
their allies.
they have borne?
be gathered to

10.

seeking peace, you have

B. 12. He

The

military standards used to

one place.

11.

After

made war on me without

cause.

(literally

sets out at

into)

once in order to bring- aid

they join battle at once lest aid be brought.

13

Alarmed

14. The left


by these things the barbarians fell back.
wing was ordered to advance, because the right wing*
seemed to be hard pressed. 15. On this being: reported
(defero) to the magistrates, they determined to make
war.
16. Meanwhile a report is brought to the fleet of
(de) Caesar's victory.

arms have been

17.

collected

They report (refero)

that the

and hostages 'g'iven up.

18.

Ships of this sort will stand the storms more easily.


19. They understood how great a disaster they had
brought (infero) upon the state they understood how
;

great a disaster had been brought upon us.


the allies

fall

20.

When

back, the legionary soldiers will advance.

LESSON LXVII.
Subjunctive with Cum.

397.

Cum

exercitum cogeret, legatos miserunt, when fie was


an army, they sent envoys.
Hoc cum dlxisset, ex navi desiluit, when he had said this,
collecting

he leaped

Cum

id

down from

nuntiatum

the ship.

esset, statim profectus est,

was announced, he

set out at once.

when

this

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Cum

naves essent inutiles, revert! non poterat, as (or


were useless, he could not return.

since) the ships

These sentences

Cum

a.

illustrate the following- points

(translated sometimes when, sometimes since or

as)

is

used with the imperfect and pluperfect

subjunctive to express in some cases the time, in


others the cause of an action in the past.

In such clauses referring to the past, the imperfect


subjunctive is used when the time of the dependent
-

b.

verb

is

perfect

the

same

when

it

as that of the

main verb, the plumain

earlier than that of the

is

verb.

The

c.

subjunctive with

cum is

translated

by the English

Notice particularly that in English


after when, etc., the simple past tense is often
equivalent to the pluperfect, and that in such cases
indicative.

the subjunctive with

When cum

d.

it

will in

cum should be in the pluperfect.

with the subjunctive

is

translated when,

most cases be found not merely

to express

the time but also to describe the circumstances or


situation.*

An

emphatic word or word of connection may precede the conjunction cum, although forming: part
of the cum clause, as in the second sentence.

e.

N.B.

It will

further be seen, on reviewing 303, that


-

cum with the pluperfect subjunctive could be used to


express any of the participial phrases there given.
used also with the indicative in Latin, chiefly in the following
to express mere time; as, When Caesar conquered Gaul, it was
inhabited by three races ; (2) to express time, circumstances, or situation in
present or future time (224) ; (3) when
has the force of whenever.
"

I'uiii is

cases:

(1)

In the sense of since or as,

cum
cum always takes the subjunctive.

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vocabulary.

398.

apertus, a, urn, open, clear.


instituo, ere, -ui,

^utum, undertake,

set

about ; build,

establish.

now, by

jam, adv.,
mors, mortis,

f.,

this time, already.

death.

nondum, adv.,

not yet.

via, ae, f

way, road, route, journey.

Phrase: latus apertum, the unprotected flank {i.e., the


right side, unprotected by the shield).

N.B.
(123)

Instituo
as,

may

Haec facere

/ set about doing

take a complementary infinitive


instituo,

I undertake

to

do

this, or,

this.

EXERCISES.
399.

A.

I.

1.

Cum jam

appropinquarent Britanniae, tem-

pestas subito coorta

est.

2.

E6 cum

pervenissent,

paucos dies ibi morati sunt. 3. Cum legati ad Caesarem


venissent, ex consuetudine obsides imperavit. 4. His
cum persuadere nondum potuissent, hac via iter facere
non ausi sunt. 5. Cum esset Caesar in hibernis, certior
factus est Gallos celerrimas naves instituere.
6. Cum
jam tridui viam progressi essemus, de morte imperatoris
certiores fact! sumus.
7. His rebus cum iter impediretur, copiae in loco aperto constiterunt.

cum se in
9. Hos cum
B.

10.

castra

reciperent,

8.

Nostri

hostibus occurrerunt.

reliqui conspexissent, subsecuti sunt.

Cum

milia

passuum

tria

Caesar abesset,

barbari oppida incenderunt et pecora in silvas compu11. Caesar cum constituisset in continent!
hiemare, frumentum in Britannia non provisum erat.

lcrunt,

12.

Cum jam

meridies appropinquaret, ad ea castra,

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quae supra demonstravimus, contendit. 13. Cum se


suaque omnia in oppida contulissent, bellum parare
14. Cum jam miiro turres appropinquainstituerunt.
vissent, Galli flentes

pacem petere coeperunt.

15.

Cum

mortis periculo territi essent, in fluctus desillre dubita16. Equites cum multitudine hostium castra
bant.

compleri nostra vidissent, fuga salutem petere conten17. Ibi cum alii fossas complerent, alii tela

derunt.

conjicerent, nostri subito eruptionem fecerunt.

agmen ex

via excesserit,

ab

400.

18.

Cum

latere aperto adoriemur.

ii.

A. 1. When he was bringing aid to his brother, he


was himself surrounded. 2. When we had marched for
three days through their territories, we came to a lake
of great width.

come

3.

When

he ordered

to him, they did not obey.

4.

all the senate to


Since he could not

overtake the army, he recalled the cavalry. 5. When


there, larger forces of the Britons had already
assembled. 6. As the winter was not yet ended, he

he came

could not set about the work.


{literally

when he had found

7.

out)

Having found out


by what road they

were marching, he sent the cavalry in that direction.


8. Thinking {literally since we thought) that after his
death it was dangerous to set out, we approved this plan.

B.9. When he had approached (accedo) nearer, he


was ordered to throw away his arms. 10. As he believed
the rest of the army was following closely, he drew up
his line of battle on open ground.
11. On learning that
Caesar was going to set out that night, they determined
to await his departure.
12. When the Gauls saw that
our legions were being hard pressed, they hastened
towards the camp.
13. As the enemy's troops seemed

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he set about posting garrisons. 14.


he reported what was being done on the left wing,
15. As the
these cohorts were ordered to advance.
open ground did not extend far, our men scarcelyventured to pursue.
to

be

increasing-,

When

LESSON
Volo, Nolo,

401.

Malo

LXVIII.

Dative of Purpose and Interest.


Paradigms.

Volo, velle, volui,

be willing, wish.

Nolo, nolle, nolui,

be tmwilling.

Malo, malle, malui, prefer.

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Imperfect

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the case of a

(4)

word

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in the predicate referring- to

the subject of the main. verb.


404.

Illustrative

Locum

oppido deligit, he chooses a place for the town.

Caesar timet cohort!,


a.

The

Examples.

Caesar fears for the cohort.

sometimes to be translated by for


rather than by to, chiefly with a few phrases to
or, again, to denote
signify purpose or intention
that in which interest or concern is felt.
dative

is

VOCABULARY.

405.

ago, ere, egi, actum, drive, Dioveforward; do.


consulo, ere, -sului, -sultum, consult ; take thought*

adv. and indeclinable adj., enough

satis,

; sufficiently.

studeo, ere, ui, be eager, be zealous.

Phrases

ago cum, treat or confer with.

diem

constituo, fix (or appoint) a day.

facio, satisfy, with dative


enough for).
novae res, change, revolution.

satis

(literally do

exercises.
406.

i.

Audire volumus se dedere nolent discedere


2. Reduci nolueramus
incogfniti esse malemus visne adesse ? 3. Posterum diem piignae constituit. 4. Munitioni castrorum tempus relinqui volebam.
5. lis le.^ionibus, quas una cum legato mi serat, timebat.
lis de rebus te consulere vult
6.
tecum agere malo. 7.
Rel publicae boni cives semper consulunt. 8. Ostendit
id sibi satis futurum esse.
9. Hi tibi student, ill! mihi.
A.

1.

malebant.

4onMiir, when meaning consult, takes the aeeusatlve;


take thought (for), h< .lat \ .-.
l

when meaning

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quod post tergum hostem


Quid ageretur deferre nolle
Quaerit quibuscum agcre velim.

dubitabat

Proficisci

10.

nolebat.

relinquere

videbantur.

12.

11.

B. 13. Defensores oppido idonei


Omnes fere Galll novis rebus studebant
tutem perferre mavultis?
auxilia

partes

proficisci

causis navibus veritus est.


nolo.

19.

16.

15.

17.

14.

Num ser vi-

Demonstravimus

vellemus.
18.

deliguntur.
.

qiias in

Ita multis

de

Diem concilio constituere

Caesari omnia uno tempore erant agenda.

20.

Mons quern a legato occupari voluisti, ab hostibus tene21. Hoc praesidium huic rei satis esse arbitratur.
22 Se senatui populoque Romano satis facturos
bantur
.

.esse

24.

polliciti sunt.

Huic

rei

23.

Amici existimari volebamus.

homo summae

407.

fortitudinis deligendus est.

ii.

A. 1. You wish to be Roman citizens you do not wish


2. He asked
to be a soldier
we prefer to dwell here.
why we did not wish to return here he asked where we
;

he asked where we wished to be


sent.
3. He had fixed a day for the cavalry battle.
5. He wishes to do
4. It is scarcely enough for me.
nothing else he prefers to do nothing at all. 6. They
said that they wished to treat with him about these
preferred to dwell

matters.

7.

follow him.

He

asks

They

8.

how

number wishes

large a

to

are unwilling to take thought for

they prefer to take thought for themSince they are eager for a change, they
collect as large a fleet as possible.
10. He sends scouts

the whole state


selves.

in

9.

advance

to choose a suitable place for a

camp.

B. 11. They fear the sea without cause. 12. He


has fears for the safety of the legion he feared for the
legions.
13. Since he wished to constilt the chief men,
;

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he appointed a day for this business.
willing to leap

down

into the water.

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He is unHe felt that


16. All men

14.

15.

they had been unwilling to satisfy him.


wish to be free; everyone is eager for freedom. 17.
Have our men chosen a place for the camp? 18. I
suspected for what reason they had wished war to be
waged. 19. He says he had rather be killed than be
20. He was aware why they had
severely wounded.
preferred to

encamp

across the river.

V
Soldiers Crossing a Bridge of Boats.

(From Trcyan's Column.)

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LESSON LXIX.
Subordinate Clauses in Indirect Discourse.
408.

Illustrative

Examples.

Copiae quas exspectat pervenerunt, the troops -which he


is

awaiting have arrived.

Audit copias quas exspectet pervenisse, he hears that the


troops which he is awaiting have arrived.

Dixerunt copias quas exspectaret pervenisse, they said that


the troops which he was awaiting had arrived.
Commoti sunt quod copiae missae sunt, they are alarmed
because troops have been sent.
Credit eos commotos esse quod copiae missae sint, he
believes they are alarmed because troops have been sent.

Negaverunt se commotos esse quod copiae missae essent,


they denied that they were alarmed because troops had
been sent.

Jussus est copias quas coegisset mittere, he was ordered

send the troops which he had

to

collected.

Quaesivit quis coegisset copias quae mitterentur, he asked

who had

collected the troops

These sentences
a.

which were being

illustrate the following

sent.

points:

Relative and other subordinate clauses which ordin-

have the indicative, have the subjunctive


when dependent on a clause which is itself
dependent on some verb of saying, thinking,
knowing or perceivi?ig, order big or asking.
arily

instead,

b.

This rule holds not only of indirect statements, but


of indirect questions and commands, all of which
are included under the term Indirect Discourse.
The indicative in fact has no place in the indirect
quotation of another's words or thoughts.

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The

271

tenses of the subjunctive follow the rules for the

sequence of tenses (387). It should be observed


that in English the tense of the dependent clause
similarly influenced

is

by

that of the

main verb.

VOCABULARY.

409.

circumdo, dare, -dedi, -datum, surround, enclose.


m. plur., the Helvetians (a Gallic

Helvetii, drum,

tribe dwelling in

what

is

now

impetro, are, avi, atum, obtain one

Switzerland).
s request, obtain.

reddo, ere, reddidi, redditum, give back, restore.

Phrase

N.B.

ad salutem contends, hasten

The

compounds

to

a place of

safety.

of do with monosyllabic pre-

positions arc regularly of the third conjugation like


But
reddo*; compare abdo, dedo, trado ( = trans-do).
compounds with dissyllabic words are of the first con-

jugation like do

itself,

as circumdo.

exercises.
410.

i.

A. 1. Obsides, quos habemus, reddemus. 2. Polli3.


centur se obsides, quos habeant, redditiiros esse.
esse.
quos
haberent,
reddituros
obsides,
Polliciti sunt se
4.

Obsides qui accept! sunt, redditi sunt.

obsides qui accept! sint, redditos esse.

qui accept! essent, redditos esse.


qui ea loca incolerent expulisse.

7.

8.

6.

5.

Dicit

Dixit obsides

Scripsit se Gallos

Intellegebat

eum

locum, unde Helvetii discessissent, provinciae nostrae


finitimum esse. 9. Arbitrantur facile fore se defendere
quod prope ex omnibus partibus locus flumine et palude
cireumdatus sit. 10. Id cum impetravissent, t polliciti
sunt sein fines suos unde essent profecti reversuros esse.
*The prefix
t The object

re- has the form red- before vowels, as well as with -dA.
can often bebesl rendered by an adjective modifying the word request ; as, hftc liupctro, I obtain tin's requett.
of Impetre'

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-11.

legatos miserunt qui dicerent se


provinciam facere, quod aliud iter haberent
nullum. 12. Audiverant id, quod ipsi aegerrime fecis13. Credunt in acie praesent, ilium fecisse facillime.

B.

Helvetii"

velle iter per

stare interne!

quam libertatem quam acceperint amittere.

ea quae audivissent ad Helvetiosdeferre.


Renuntiavit montem quern a legato occupari voluerit,

14. Jussi sunt


15.

ab hostibus

teneri.

polliceantur

facturos?

16.

Num
17.

creditis Gallos ea

Scripsit

summam

quae
fuisse

quod omnia uno tempore essent agenda.


Quaerit cur ea quae acceperint reddere nolint. 19.

difficultatem,
18.

Cognovit Helvetios, eruptione facta, eisdem itineribus


quibus eo pervenissent ad salutem contendisse.
20.
Ostenderunt Caesarem, quod ad hostium castra accederet, expedites legi5nes ducere.

411.

ii.

A. 1. They have surrounded with a double wall the


town which they are defending. 2. He learns that they
have surrounded with a double wall the town which
they are defending. 3. He found that they had surrounded with a double wall the town which they were
defending.
4. The towns which they have taken by
storm are surrounded* by forests. 5. He reports that
the towns which they have taken by storm are surrounded by forests. 6. He wrote that the towns which
had been taken by storm were surrounded by forests.
7 He replied that he had fears for the prisoners whom
they were unwilling to restore.
8. The Helvetians
hope to obtain from him what they have been seeking.
9. He said that he preferred to be left on the continent,
because he feared the sea.
10. He was ordered to
.

Use the perfect tense

(243

N. B.).

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return to the

army had been

camp where

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the baggage of the whole

left.

B. 11. He announces that he will lead the legion he


has with him into our province. 12. They thought that
it was easy to obtain what they wished.
13. They
promised to do what he had required. 14. He orders
the prisoners whom they are holding in slavery to be
given back.
15. They saw that the Helvetians had
been thrown into confusion because they had been surrounded by the cavalry. 16. He points out that these
are the same enemies with whom we have often waged
war. 17. He asked who was in command of the forces
that were being sent.
18. He perceives that the Helvetians are hastening towards those who are finishing
these fortifications.

He

19.

learns that the ships which

these nations use are smaller.

20.

He

learned that

had been carried back to the same harbor


from which {literally whence) they had set out.
several ships

412.

WORD

LIST

VII.

NOUNS.
aduleseens

fluetus

natio

classis

negdtium

servitus

com meatus

genus
magi stratus

pars

tribunus

corpus

mors

potestas

fama

praefeetus

trkluum
via

ADJECTIVES.
apertus

incredibilis

ingens

potens

ADVERBS.
ita

nondum

sic

jam

satis

tarn

vix

satis

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absum

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Romanos ab lateribus duobus subito adorirentur. Cum


jam maxima pars exercitus in vallem silvis circumdatam
progrressa esset, fama ad consulem perfertur hostes
Ille sensit
adesse.
summum esse periculum, quod
RomanI prope circumvent! essent, sed, cum nollet
hostem post tergum relinquere, exercitum signa convertere jubere dubitabat.

Dum

exercitui timet,

neque

scit

quid faciendum

sit,

adulescens summa virtute,


appropinquavit et haec dixit " Hostes adventum reliqul
exercitus exspectare videntur, et cum novissimum agmen

Publius Decius tribunus,

conspectum venerit, non diutius morabuntur sed


impetum facient. Una est spes salutis. Videsne
collem ilium, quern hostes nondum occupaverunt ? Ex
in

statim

illo colle

hostes a tergo adoriri poterimus,

impetum

facere conati erunt.

si

in nostros

impetus impedietur,
neque Samnites audebunt vos insequi, ne magfnum
incommodum ipsi accipiant. Paucas cohortes huic rel
satis fore arbitror.

Ita

Nos volumus

interne! ut reliqui ex

valle excedant."

Hoc

consilio

probato,

consul

Decium cum paucis

cohortibus expeditls misit qui collem occuparet.

cum

Ipse

reliquis copiis, iisdem itineribus quibus eo perve-

nerat, ad saltitem contendit.

crat periculo.

Nam

hostes

Interim Decius in magfno


animadvertissent quid

cum

agferetur, !ra (by anger) adducti,

omnes

se a leg-ionibus

ad Decium convertunt.

Collem muro circumdare Jnstituunt ut omnes RomanI caperentur.


Sed cum jam nox
appropinquaret neque tempus munltioni relinqueretur,
posterum diem oppu&*nationi constituerunt sed media
nocte RomanI, eruptione facta, per medios hostes audacissime perrumpunt incolumesque omnes se ad suos
;

recipiunt.

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Propter has res gestas Decius magnam inter Romanos


auctoritatem consecutus est, et post tres annos consul
factus est, eodem anno quo Manlius Torquatus, alter
consul,

de quo supra demonstravimus,

f ilium

suum

Post mortem adulescentis illius, proelium commissum est. Superiore nocte uterque (each)
consul somniaverat (had dreamed) se virum videre
interne! jussit.

ingenti magnitudine corporis, qui nuntiaret*

"Alter

exercitus imperatorem, alter victoriam amittet."

Proelio commisso, Decius animadvertit Manlium, qui


dextro cornii praeerat, hostes repellere, sed sinistrum
cornii, cui ipse praefectus erat, premi ab hostibus et

pedem

Itaque (accordingly) ne

referre.

rentur, se pro

(o?i

behalf

of,

Romani

supera-

w. abl.) exercitii devovere

constituit, et statim in medios hostes se conjecit ut


auxilium laborantibus suis ferret. Ibi fortiter pug-nans
brevi cecidit, multis vulneribus confectus. Hoc cum
reliqui conspexissent, subsecuti sunt et hostes in fugam

dederunt.
Ita

illis

bant.

temporibus cives

rei publicae

Htijus generis militibus

nemo

semper consule-

resistere poterat.

LESSON LXX.
Ablative of Specification. Ablative of Manner.
414.

a.

Illustrative

Examples.

Erant virtute pares, they were equal in valor.


Omnia oppida, numero duodecim, incendunt, they bum
all their towns, twelve in mimber.
The ablative without a preposition is used, as in
these sentences, to show in what respect a statement or term is to be taken as applicable. This
usage is known as the Ablative of Specification.
*For the mood see

408, a.,

soninio being a verb of thinking or perceiving.

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Illustrative

Summa

277

Examples.

ad castra contendunt, with the utmost

celeritate

swiftness they hasten towards the camp.

Magno cum

periculo et

magna cum

virtute res sunt ad-

ministrate, operations have been conducted at great


risk and with great valor.
Consuetudine sua desiluerunt, according

to their

custom

they leaped dozen.

The

Ablative of Manner, both with and without the


preposition cum, is used to express the manner or

a.

the attendant circumstances of an action.


exercises which follow,

cum should

In the

not be used

except with the words diligentia and periculum.*

The

ablative is also used without a preposition, to


denote that in accordance with which something- is
done, as in the last sentence.

b.

VOCABULARY.

416.
diligentia, ae, f.,

care, diligence.

modus, I, m.,
nomen, -minis, n.,

manner ; means

praesto, are,

-stiti,

kind, sort.

name.
-statum or -stitum, be superior

surpass (with dative).


ratio, -onis, f.,

method ; manner', way*

studium,

zeal, eagerness.

I,

n.,

supero, are, avi, atum, surpass, excel.

tumultus, us, m.,

noise, uproar,

valeo, ere, ui, itum,

be strong.

vox, vocis,

voice ; cry.

Phrases :

f.,

magna voce, in a loud voice ; (s<


communi consilio, by common
plurimum

No general rule
manner can bo given
'

also with clamor).


consent

(lit.

plan).

valeo, be very strong, be strongest.

(or tin- use or omission of

wit h

>

commotion,

advantage at

nun

with the ahlat ivo of

this slugo of tin; pupil's progress.

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exercises.
417.

I.

Interim ad legatum incredibili celeritate de


2. Haec ci vitas longe
victoria Caesaris fama perfertur.
3. Aduleplurimum totius Galliae equitatu. valet.
4. Disscentem, Lucium nomine, equitibus praeficit.

A.

1.

magna cum diligentia munitiones


Hostes maximo clamore novissimum
agmen adorti sunt. 6. Summo studio viginti naves
praesidiis,

positis

defendunt.
hiijus

5.

modi

instituunt.

7.

Hie vir

ceteris

virtute

et

9.

Magna voce causam


Eadem ratione omnia communi

Cum summa

diligentia milites in castris con-

usu. rei militaris praestabat.

tumultus quaesivit.

8.

consilio facta erant.

B.

10.

eorum permotus vocibus, portas


occupari jubet. 12. Neque hac recenti victoria neque
nomine populi Roman! deterreri possunt. 13. Quod hos11.

tinet.

Simul

tibus appropinquabat, consuetudine sua Caesar legiones

expedites diicebat.
edticerentur,

14.

Quam in partem aut quo consilio

quaerere coeperunt.

imperium

15.

Sic

communi

16. Requod haec ci vitas hominum


multitudine-superaret, sescentos omnino obsides imperare.
17. Omni mod5* huic rei studebimus, ne opprimamur.
18. Sese paratos esse demonstrant omnibus

consilio

totius -Galliae

obtinebat.

spondit se constituisse,

rationibus* Caesari satis facere.


418.

A.
2.

Our

alone.

leaped

ii.

1.

They were

said to excel the others in valor.

ships are superior to the enemy's fleet in speed


3.

When

down

he had said

into the waves.

this in a loud voice,


4.

He

he

perceived at what

* These expressions have the same meaning, by every -means or in every


way.

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{literally
first

how

great) risk they

had done

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this.

the river flows with very great swiftness.

5.
6.

At

First

they collected all their infantry forces, in which they


were very strong". 7. He ordered the camp to be moved
8. War should
at daybreak with less commotion.
have been waged according to another method. 9.
With the same zeal they began to fortify their camp
according to our custom.
B.

was

10.

called

This was the name of the island


Britain.

11.

An

island

of

the island

vast extent,

by name, was not far distant from Gaul. 12.


midnight amid {literally with) great commotion.
13. By common consent the other bank had
been granted to the allies. 14. The camp had not been
fortified on this side with the same care.
15. He orders
all the cavalry, fifteen thousand in number, to assemble
at the beginning of spring.
16. He remembered that
he had come with another purpose (consilium). 17.
They surpass us in everything. 18. They can by no
means overtake you.
Britain

They

set out at

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lverim or

Perfect

lvi or

Pluperfect

lveram or ieram

11

lenm

ivissem or iissem

Future Perfect Ivero or iero.

participles.

INFINITIVE.
ire

Present

iens, (ge?i. euntis.)

Perfect

ivisse or iisse

Future

iturus

Future

iturus esse

Present

a.

eo, while very irregular, belongs on the


whole to the fourth conjugation, the stem vowel
i, however, becoming e before a, o and u, as in eo,

Notice that

eunt, earn, euntis, but iens

the future indicative

formed after the model of the

first

is

and second con-

jugations.
b.

In the perfect system the forms without v are those


commonly used, both in the simple verb and in its

compounds.
Paradigm.

420.
Flo,

fieri,

factus sum, be made, become.

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in the present infinitive

The vowel
b.

is long",

281

and imperfect subjunctive.


fit and before -er.

except in

is used as the passive of facio, which has the


regular passive forms only in the perfect system.
The compounds of facio with prepositions have their
passives throughout formed regularly from the

Flo

voice

active

sum

as,

interficior,

interfectus

interne!,

sum.

conficior, confici, confectus

VOCABULARY.

421.
adeo,

Ire,

aditus, us,

exeo,

m.,
or

eo, ire, ivi

advance ; approach, visit.


approach; means of approach.

itum,

ii,

ii,

itum,

go, advance.

itum, go forth ; leave (with ex

ire, ii,

and

abl.).

fio, fieri,

factus sum,

be made, be done ; happen

ineo, ire,

ii,

itum,

enter} enter upon, begin,

redeo, ire,

ii,

transeo, ire,

Phrases

itum,
ii,

retur?i.

itum,

cross; cross over.

consilium ineo (or capio),/^rw (adopt) apian.

inita aestate, at

beginniyig of

the

summer

(ablative absolute).

N.B. Adeo, ineo and transeo may be used transitively


and govern the accusative case. As transitive verbs,
they have passives formed in the regular way from the
active

as adiri, initus, transeundus (gerundive)

EXERCISES.
422.

A.
2.

I.

Hac

1.

Rhenum

sueverunt.
eatis.

.4.

poterat.
fiebat.

non poterant

navibus transeunt

eadem

Rhenum

via ibant.

transire con-

scio quo
3. Quaesivit unde rediremus
Propter paucitatem nostrorum nihil fieri
;

5.

6.

via ire

Eodem tempore ab

Inita

hieme

in

latere aperto Impetus


provincial e Gallia exibunt.

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Insulam adire

7.

aditus

et

Peditatu repulso,

cognoscere volebat.

equestre proelium

fit

8.

sine labore

opus efncitur. 9. Exploratores jussit quid fieret cognoquid fiat cognoscent. 10. Scripsit se duabus de
scere
causis Rhenum transiisse.
11. Liberius et audacius de
;

12. Equites, in castra redeuntes,

bello consilia inibant.

hostibus occurrunt.

B.

13. Tertia

potuerant,

cum nuntio. 14. Quid


Omnes vicos quos adire
16. Hoc idem reliquis fit

hora exit una

ostendit.

vellet,

fieri

15.

incenderant.

Quid faciendum esset, providerat.


18.
Proximo anno constituit sibi Rhenum esse transeundum.

diebus.

17.

19.

His

20.

Cum

friimentum ex agrls comportant.


nuntiavit se aditum repperisse.
21. Duas legrones praemisit ut undique uno
tempore in hostes impetus fieret.
22. Ipse, eodem
itinere quo hostes ierant, triduum progressus est.
23.

Tanta

initis consiliis,

ad su5s

rediisset,

celeritate milites ierunt ut hostes

nere non possent.


leg-ione iturum,

24.

Caesar dixit se

sola

susti-

decima

de qua non dubitaret.

423.

impetum

cum

ii.

They were

by that road; they will go


account of the scarcity of
ships, they have not yet crossed
they cannot cross
because ships are lacking.
3. He orders a sally to be
made; he orders them to be put to death. 4. Meanwhile they are informed of his death. 5. They are
reconnoitring the roads that they may go forth from
A.

1.

by another road.

going-

2.

On

their territories.

he

6.

We

shall often visit these nations

remaining states before autumn.


7. They had left the town at the beginning, of the
second watch.
8. He was aware what was happening.
9. They believed that no one would cross over into
is

going to

visit the

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Britain.

He was

10.

informed that those

crossed the river had not yet returned.


that the

he
he

is

camp has an easy approach.

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who had

They report
They believe

11.
12.

returning: (has returned, will return)

they hear

is restoring* (has restored, will restore) the prisoners.

B.

13.

plan.

14.

Influenced by this speech they form a new


We shall not allow the Helvetians to go

through our territories. 15. If he returns, he will be


put to death when he returns he will be made king-.
16. That river the Helvetians were already crossing.
17. Outposts should be stationed lest a sally be suddenly
made. 18. Alarmed by the approach of so great a
multitude, they determine to prevent the Germans from
;

crossing-.

19.

wounded by a
done

While

spear.

{literally to

be done).

He

the river

is

the

points out

21.

also in the adjacent districts.

crossed

marsh he was
what he wishes
This same thing- is done

crossing20.

22.

The

river cannot be

crossed with difficulty.

ships are detained here

23. If the

by storms, a surrender

will be
be finished in a short time.
24. They posted g-arrisons with the greatest care, that
the Germans might not cross over.

made; the business

will

Coin of Hadrian.

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LESSON LXXII.
Substantive Clauses of Purpose.
424.

Illustrative

Examples.

Nobis persuadet ut ad hostes secum transeamus, he persuades us to cross over to the enemy with him.
Suis imperavit ne tela conjicerent, he ordered his

men

not

left

(or

hurl missiles.

to

Petivit ut in Gallia relinqueretur, he asked to be


that he

might be

left)

in Gaul.

In connection with these sentences note the followingpoints

a.

After verbs meaning- ttrge, ask or command, Latin


uses dependent clauses with ut or ne and the
subjunctive, where English has the infinitive (or,
less frequently, a dependent clause with that).

b.

The

ut or ne clause

telling-

what

is

is urg-ed,

a substantive or noun clause

asked or commanded.*

Jubeo furnishes an important exception to the g-eneral

c.

rule.

The sequence

d.

of tenses

is

the same as in clauses of

purpose, the present subjunctive being- used after

primary tenses, the

imperfect

after

secondary

tenses, t

The

e.

reflexives sui

and suus

in the subordinate clause

will refer to the subject of the

main verb,

forms of indirect discourse (323

b.

as in all

363, fn.).

* Latin conceives this as something willed or desired, and accordingly


uses the same form of expression as in the ordinary clause of purpose (386).
t

(59, fn.) may take either primary sequence


form), or secondary sequence (according to its meaning).
427, sentences 2 and 5, or 14 and 15.

The historical present in Latin

(according to

Compare

its

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425.

285

Here may profitably be reviewed the sections


ways of expressing- in Latin the

which explain various

English infinitive with


123.

to

Complementary

infinitive

with audeo, coepi,

cogo, conor, constituo, consuevi, contendo, dubito,

jubeo, patior, possum, volo,

320.

With passive verbs


with videor {seem).

32S.

With

polliceor

and

etc.

of sayi?ig

and thinking and


>

spero.

386. Adverbial clauses of purpose.


388. Relative clauses of purpose.

424. Substantive clauses of purpose.

VOCABULARY.

426.

atque or ac, conj.,

and; and also.

sum,
hortor, an, atus sum,
imper5, are, avi, atum,
moneo, ere, ui, itum,
oro, are, avi, atum,
persuaded, ere,-suasi, -suasum,

encourage, urge, exhort.

cohortor, an, atus

encourage, urge.
order, <:6>;//;//tf7^(withdat.).

advise,

warn.

beg, entreat.

persuade, zW/^(withdat.).

peto, ere, -ivi(or -il),-itum, ask, request (with

N.B.Atque

ab and abl.)*.

used before vowels or consonants, ac


Of the four Latin words for
and, et simply connects -que joins more closely than et
terms which naturally go together, or related clauses
and phrases atque and ac add something- of importance,
something to be more or less emphasized.
is

before consonants only.

)i-t Inguish clearly i>h ween prio wit h a substanl Ive clause of purpose
ask or request with the infinitive) and q micro with an Indirect Question
k or inquire followed by an Interrogal i\ e clause).
]

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exercises.
427.

i.

A. 1. Helvetiis persuasit lit de finibus suis cum


omnibus copiis exirent. 2. Monet centuriones ne signa
3. Suis ut idem faciant imperat.
in hostes mferant.
4. Audacius resistere ac fortius pugnare coeperunt.
5. Hac oratione his persuadet ne diutius morarentur.
6. Hortatur pedites ut simili ratione per medios hostes
perrumpant. 7. Petunt atque orant ut sibi parcamus.
pollicitus
8. Monui legatum ut celeriter reverteretur
celerius reverti non
est se quam celerrime reversurum
ausus est. 9. Cohortatus milites ut ipsum Caesarem
;

adesse existimarent, dat signum proelii.

10.

Legato imperavit ut quae gererentur cogndNos orat ne h5c consilium ineamus. 12.
Servo spe libertatis persuadebit ut litteras ad Caesarem
deferat.
13. Auctores belli jussit capi atque interfici.
14. Monet ut omnia longe lateque oppida incenderentur.
15. Belgas hortatur ut communis libertatis causa arma
capiant.
16. Flentes a Romanis petebant ne sibi nocerent.
17. Milites cohortatus est ne perturbarentur
hoc incommodo. 18. Petebant ut equites qui praemissi
B.

seeret.

11.

essent* revocarentur.
428.

ii.

A. 1. He urged his men to renew the battle; he


urged his men not to give way.
2. They persuade
their neighbors to set out along with them.
3. He

man to visit the nearest states. 4.


advised the leading men and the senate to despatch
embassies in all directions. 5. He asks and urges that
orders this young

He

we

fix

a day for the meeting.

*For the subjunctive see

408 a.,

&.

6.

After encouraging

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warned them not to lose the militaryare begging Caesar to give them
they were begging (me)* to give them aid. 8. He
aid
ordered (jubeo and impero) the scouts to find an easier
the soldiers, he

standards.

7.

They

approach he sent scouts to find the easiest approach


they hoped to find a less difficult approach. 9. They
seem to despair of themselves and of the state.
;

B.

10.

nearer.

They requested Caesar not

11.

He

to niove his camp


ordered the leader of the Germans not

to injure the allies of the

Roman

people.

12.

He

ex-

bravely the enemy's


onset.
13. He promised to induce them to allow the
Helvetians to go through these territories.
14. They
horts

the troops to withstand

begged the commander not to advance further. 15. He


prefers to be called king and friend by the senate and
Roman people. 16. The tribunes and centurions should
be advised to take thought for their own and the
soldiers' safety.
17. We wish to persuade you not to
cross the Rhine.
18. According to his custom, he
urged the troops to attend carefully to everything.

LESSON

LXXIII.

Review of Genitive and Dative Cases.


429. (a) The genitive case as used in these lessons
may be classified under five heads Partitive Genitive
:

Quality (383), Possessive Genitive,


Subjective Genitive and Objective Genitive.
(174), Genitive of

(b)

The

Possessive Genitive is

denote the owner

as, agri

used with a noun to

Helvetiorum, the lands of the

Helvetians ; impedimenta nostri exercitus, the baggage of


our army ; filii regis, the king's sons.
*The person

is

clearly Indicated

l>y

the subject, of the following verb.

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The

(c)

Subjective Genitive is

pressing action or
acts or feels

as, Caesaris adventus,

militum studium, the zeal of the

The

used with nouns ex-

to denote the person

feeling*,

who

Caesar 's arrival

soldiers.

used with nouns express(d)


ing" action or feeling", to denote that to which the action
or feeling is directed ;. as, timor belli, the fear of war 1
Objective Genitive is

munitio castrorum, the fortifying of the camp ; spes salutis,


the hope of safety.

The

is used also with many adjecmeaning, especially with adjec-

objective genitive

tives to complete their

tives denoting desire knowledge or ignorance ; as,


',

memor

vestri, mi?idful of you.

The

430.

be

Object

(39),

case as used in these lessons may


under four heads the Dative of Indirect

dative

classified

the Dative of the

Interest (404)

Agent

and the Dative

(354), the

Dative of

of Purpose (404).

Of

special importance is that variety of the dative of indirect object

found with certain intransitive verbs which


by English transitive verbs

are ordinarily rendered

with a direct object (355).

Closely related to the dative

of indirect object

the dative completing the

meaning

Illustrative

magno

to the

Has

is

of certain adjectives (173).

431.
Gallis

also

Examples.

erat impediments,

it

was a great hindrance

Gauls.

cohortes castris praesidio relinquit,


cohorts as garrison for the

camp

he leaves these

(or to guard the camp).

Auxilio Caesari veniebant, they were coming

to

Caesar's

aid (more literally, as aid for Caesar).


a.

In these sentences the dative of purpose (impediments, praesidio, auxilio) is used in the predicate

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b.

289

which something:
is accompanied

intended to be), and

tends to be or

is

by the dative

of interest (Gallis, castris, Caesari).

This usage (sometimes called the Double Dative) is


confined to a few nouns with such verbs as sum,
mitto, venio

and

relinquo.

With sum the dative of

purpose has almost the force of the ordinary predicate noun.

VOCABULARY.

432.

um,

cupidus, a,

desirous, fond {of); eager (for), (with

genitive).

um, inexperienced

imperitus, a,

unacquainted

(in) ;

(with), (with g-enitive).

peritus, a

um,

skilful,

skilled

(in) ;

acquainted

(with), (with genitive).

subsidium,

I,

support, reinforcements.

n.,

Phrase: usui sum, be useful, be of service


for an advantage)

N.B.

(literally be

The objective genitive, whether with nouns or

adjectives,

may

preposition than

by some other
but this will always be a preposition

often require translation


of,

equivalent to as regards.

EXERCISES.
433.

A.

I.

1.

Vallo

pedum novem hiberna

circumdat.

2.

Hac de causa mihi Rhenus est transeundus. 3. Nostris


laborantibus subsidium fert. 4. Hoc magno sibi usui
fore arbitrabantur.
5. Viros summae virtutis ac rei
militaris peritissimos huic negotio deligunt.
6. Neque
ad concilia veniunt
7. Frater

regis

auctoritatis.

neque imperio Caesaris parent.

cupidus

8. Milites

imperii

est

et

cohortatus est ut

vir magnae
harum victo-

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9. Tantus erat timor


riarum memoriam retinerent.
mortis ut fugae similis discessus copiarum esse vide-

10. Milites qui praesidio castris relicti erant, cum


retur.
clamores barbarorum audivissent, subsidio suis ierunt.

11. Hie rel frumentariae commeatiisque causa


B.
12. Magnam multitudinem hostium
moraturi sunt.
fugientium interfecerunt. 13. Monuit f ilium ut memor
ille pollicitus est se nobis semper fidelem
nostri esset
14. Caesari decima legio praemittenda erat, cui
fore.
;

maxime

confidebat.

15. Milites

legionum duarum quae

novissimo agmine praesidio impedimentis fuerant,


jam in conspectum hostium venerant. 16. Num tantaa.
altitudinis turrim sese moturos esse confidunt?
17.
in

partis harum regionum imperium diu. obtinebat.


Tarn nostrae consuetudinis imperiti erant ut Caesari
19. Num recentium injuriarum
obsides dare nollent.
memoriam deponere possum? 20. Oppidi oppugnatio

Magnae
18.

loci

natura impediebatur.

434.

A.

ii.

1.

Influenced by the hope of booty, they have

made war on

us.

2.

He

the rest of the baggage.

left
3.

a guard of five cohorts for


On being informed of the

flight of the allies, he sent all the cavalry to the assistance of his men. 4. He found that a large part of the
5. We ought to burn
state was eager for a revolution.
the town, that it may not be of service to the Romans.
6. On the top of the hill he drew up a line of four
legions.
7. Our men were so inexperienced in this

kind of fighting that they were no match for the enemy.


B.

8.

He

sent large forces of infantry and cavalry

men. 9. They persuaded


10.
Caesar not to give the Germans lands in Gaul.
This seems to me to be unlike that. 11. The bravest

to the

town

to support our

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and most skilful of the centurions of this legion


pave fallen in sight of their commander. 12. Who
was in command of the cavalry that the Gauls had
sent to aid Caesar

13.

The

exploits of the

Romans

none of us (are known to all of us). 14.


forest of vast size extends through the middle of the

are

unknown

to

province.
C.

15.

of service

Everything was lacking to us which was


they reported to Caesar that there was the

was of

greatest scarcity of everything that

service.

16.

He

assigned the warships to the legions, the transports


to the cavalry.
17. On account of the length of the
column, he feared for the whole army. 18. They had

who were coming to


two does he obey? He

not yet heard the shouts of those


(their) aid.
is

19.

Which

of the

obedient to the rule of neither.

three thousand

horsemen from the

20.

He demanded

rest of the state.

LESSON LXXIV.
Review of the Accusative and Ablative Cases.
The

435.

may be

accusative case as used in these lessons

under six heads

classified

Direct Object of

Predicate Accusative (54), Accusative with Prepositions (97, 98), Subject of Infinitive
transitive verbs (32),

(complementary 123, indirect discourse 320), Accusaof Duration of Time (159) and Accusative of
Extent of Space (231).

tive

The

accusative

is

used not only with the prepositions

ad, ante, contra, in, inter, per, post, propter

and

trans,

but with several others, of which the most important


are apud, circum, intra, ob, praeter and sub.

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436.

be

The

ablative case as used in these lessons may-

classified

Ablative of Means (47,


with utor (356) Ablative

under nine heads

145), including; the ablative

with Prepositions (97, 98), including: the ablative of


agent (144) Ablative of Time When (159) Ablative of
Comparison (242) Ablative Absolute (298, 299, 303)
Ablative of Quality (383)
Ablative of Specification
Ablative of Manner (415)
and Ablative of
(414)
Separation (437).
;

The

used not only with the prepositions


and sine, but with several others,
of which the most important are pro and sub.
ablative

is

ab, cum, de, ex, in

437.

Illustrative

Agris expulsi, in

Examples.

Galliam transeunt, being driven from

their lands, they cross over into Gaul.

Inimicos ex finibus expellunt, they drive their enemies out

of the

Ex

state.

finibus excedunt,| they withdraw from their territories,

Finibus excedunt,
a.

or, they leave their territories.

The

ablative in these sentences is used both with


and without a preposition, to denote that from
which there is removal or exclusion. This usage
is

b.

The

called the Ablative of Separation.

idea of separation

is

commonly expressed by the

ablative with ab, ex or de, especially in the literal


local sense.

With

certain verbs, such as excedo,

expello, egredior, prohibed, intercludo, dejicio


desisto the preposition

omitted

with

verbs

may

of freeing,

depriving

lacking (such as libero) the preposition

omitted.

and

either be used or be

is

or

regularly

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vocabulary.

438.

among.

apud, prep. w. ace,

with,

circum, prep. w. ace,

around, 'about.

dejicio, -ere, -jeci, -jectum,

cast

desisto, ere, -stiti,

egredior,

go forth,

egressus sum,

I,

down

; dislodge.

cease; aba?idon (with abl.)

-stitum,

leave.

intercludo, ere, -clusi, -clusum, cut off.


intra, prep.

w. ace.,
atum,

wit// in.

libero, are, avi,

ob, prep.

w.

praeter, prep.
pro, prep.

free.

on account of because of

ace.,

w.

except.

ace.,

w. abl.,

before,

i?i

sub, prep. w. abl., under, at foot of;

Phrases

front of

w.

ace., close

to.

ob hanc rem, ob hanc causam, for this


reaso?i

sub noctem, at nightfall.


sub lucem, just before dawn.
itinere prohibeo (or intercludo), keep from

marching

keep

from

adva?ici?ig.

navi (or navibus) egredior, land, disembark.


spe dejicio, disappoint in a hope (literally
cast

down from a

hope)

exercises.
439.

A.

i.

1.

Locis superioribus occupatis, itinere exercitum

prohibere conantur.
certior

factus est

2.

Eodem

hostes sub

passuum ab Romanis

octo.

3.

die ab exploratoribus

monte consedisse milia

Omnes

praeter

Romanos

pacem cum
Germanis confirmaverunt, quibuscum multos annos convirlute atque usu belli superamus.

4.

vSIc

tinenter bellum gesserant.


5. Barbari, ea spe dejectl,
oppu.^natione desistunt. 6. Centurio ipse pro castrig
Eortissime

pugnans

interficitur

reliqui sese incolumea

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7. Docet ingenti magntintra munitiones recipiunt.


tudine corporum Germanos esse et incredibili virtute.

Confecto sub lucem itinere, sub altissimo


9. Ob has causas eisdem navibus
exercitum reportavit quibus superiore aestate iisus erat.
10. Romanos re frumentaria intercludi posse confide11. Accidit ut hie vir apud Helvetios longe
bant.
nobilissimus esset ac potentissimus.
12.
Crebris
B.

8.

monte consederunt.

nuntiis

litterisque

dubitare coepit.

13.

commotus,

de

Non aequum

fide

est

finibus egfredi atque in Galliam transire.

trantur agfg-erem altiorem esse muro,

aggerem vix pedes duodeviginti


C.

15.

Omni

Belgamm

Germanos

alii

suis

14. Alii arbi-

demonstrant

esse altum.

periculo liberabit eos qui sub imperio

16. Dum haec apud Helvetios


per exploratores cog-noscit hostes magnum
spatium abesse. 17. Servitutem alio nomine appellant
servitutem deditionem appellant.
18. Prima nocte e
castris egressi, eodem quo venerant itinere ad Rhenum
contendunt. 19. Pecora deducere suaque omnia ex
agris in oppida conferre instituunt, eo consilio* ut fru-

populi

Romani

sunt.

gferuntur,

mento commeatuque nostros prohibeant.


20. Tanta
omnes suos intra castra continebat, ut hostes
suspicarentur nostros neque numero neque virtute sibi
diligentia

pares esse.
440.

ii.

At the beginning of the second watch, they


left the camp amid (literally with) great commotion.
2. He learned that this island, Britain by name, was
A.

1.

smaller than Gaul, but that the Britons were equal to


3. For this reason he filled with

the Gauls in number.

* Translate With this design, explained by the following substantive


clause of purpose, in apposition with cousilio.

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wide (and) of the same


boys sons, and girls daughters.
5. The soldiers who had been stationed on guard before
the gates of the camp, throwing* away their arms, took
6. Being dislodged from the wall and tower,
to flight.
they suddenly made a sortie from {literally by means of)
all the gates.
7. He said that Caesar was doing more
than he had promised.
water two trenches

depth.

4.

We

fifteen feet

call

After waiting for several days, he set sail


he proceeded by night eight miles
just
before dawn he reached the harbor
at daybreak he
disembarked.
9. Being freed from this danger, he
B.

8.

at nightfall

ordered

all

the legions except the tenth to take up their

10. They will by no


who are wintering about that
town from marching. 1 1 They said they had marched
twenty miles the preceding day before noon. 12. They

position at the foot of the wall.

means keep the

legions

are going to free the children whom they have been


keeping with (apud) them in slavery. 13. Exhausted by
their wounds, they withdraw (excedo) from the battle.

14.

These towers were about two hundred feet


As the enemy had hidden themselves in their
thickest forests, he abandoned this plan.
16. He
always has a large number of slaves about him, that he
may be freed from all toil {literally toils). 17. They
asked Caesar to keep the cavalry from fighting for three
days.
18. At the first attack the enemy are thrown
into confusion on the right wing, and are driven within
their walls.
19. Burdened by the heavy weight of their
arms, the legionary soldiers whom he had brought over
hesitated to disembark.
20. Being unable to throw our
C.

apart.

15.

ranks into confusion by this kind of fighting, they sud*


denly began a cavalry battle.

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WORD

441.

N.B.

Words

LIST

marked with an

remaining- Lessons

LXXV.

commander-in-chief
staff officer

to

LXXX.

WAR.
make war
advance
fall back

centurion

cavalry officer

cut off

bring- {or give) aid

enclose

support (noun)

dislodg-e

encourage
pursue

supplies

dawn

*season
"^interval of

be of service
be strongbe superior
*forag-e (verb)

disembark

*sail

at nig-htfall
just before

adopt a plan

fleet

overtake

unprotected flank
^obtain plunder
*carry out a plan

*pillag'e

follow closely

keep from
marching-

*fig-ht

tribune

G.
asterisk occur in the

TIME.
already
not yet

fix

a day

three days

"beginning-

at the beginning- (of

summer,
MISCELLANEOUS NOUNS
vig-or
rumor

time

magistrate
young- man

stature

name

revolution

voice

commotion

death

way, route
approach

slavery

kind, sort

zeal

method
means

^violence, force

by common consent
body

care

etc.)

ADJECTIVES AND PRONOMINAL ADJECTIVES.


incredible

hug-e

skilful

desirous

loud

inexperienced

occupied

open

any

each

enough
some

"certain

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miscellaneous verbs.

297

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298

Roman! cum jam imperium

totius fere Italiae conse-

bellum Tarentinis, qui in inferiore parte


Tarentini legatos ad
Italiae _incolebant, intulerunt.
regem Epiri, Pyrrhum nomine, miserunt^qui peterentut
auxilium contra Romanos sibi ferret. Epirus illo tempore longe plurimum omnium civitatum Graeciae
cuti essent,

Graeci milites omnibus ceteris virtute et


praestare existimabantur. Pyrrhus,
vir summae virtutis ac belli peritissimus, pollicitus
est se auxilium quod peterent legati laturum esse,
valebat,

usu

et

rei militaris

atque in Italiam non solum magnas copias equitatus


peditatusque transdiixit sed etiam complures elephantos
(elephants)

quibus

Roman!

in

bello

uti

non cdnsue-

verant.

Hujus generis ptignae Roman! tarn imperiti erant ut


primo hostibus non pares essent. Ingenti magnitudine
elephantorum perterriti pedem rettulerunt, et ordinibus
perturbatis, magnus numerus militum captus atque
Sed tarn acriter restiterant ut Pyrrhus
interfectus est.
post proelium diceret se,
facile

cum

orbem terrarum superare

militibus tantae virtutis,

posse.

de victoria desperavisse videtur, atque


rare

instituisse.

Pyrrhum de
iniit,

Nam

(for)

Ob hanc causam
alia ratione supe-

cum Roman! legatos ad


novum consilium

captivis misissent, rex

atque ut amicitiam popul! Roman! consequeretur,

respondit se captivos quos haberet sine pretio reddi-

turum.

Hujus

legationis

fidelissimus

prmceps

fuit

ac prudentissimus,

Caius Fabricius, vir


qu! consul fuerat et

magnae inter c!ves auctoritatis erat.


magno sibi usu! fore arbitrabatur.
Fabricium ad se vocat atque quid

hortatur

eum

ut

Hunc virum

fieri velit

Romanos moneat

rex

Itaque (therefore)
ut

ostendit

pacem secum

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atque ex

faciant,

parte Italiae

ilia

Sed

Simul
praemia daturum

discedant.

pollicitus est se Fabricio incredibilia


esse.

299

omnino modo Fabricio persuadere

niillo

poterat, atque ea spe dejectus, hoc consilio destitit.


Atque legati, qui ad senatum ab rege missi erant, renun-

tiaverunt

Romanos pacem numquam cum

els facturos

esse qui suls finibus egress! essent atque in

agrum

Romanum

transiissent.

Proximo anno Roman!


conjecti

praestare

riirsus pulsi sunt et in fug-am

sed Pyrrhus tarn multos ex suis amisit ut vix


videretur

proeliis factis, tertio

superare

anno

belli

quam

His

superari.

Fabricius consul

fit

et

Pyrrhum cum exercitu inita aestate proficiscitur.


Dum RomanI bellum parant, medicus Pyrrhi nocte ad
Fabricium venit et demonstrat se paratum esse Pyrrhum
" Si satis magnum praemium " inquit (said
interficere.
he) "mihi dederis, eg;o in castra hostium redlbo atque
regem, qui de fide mea non dubitat, veneno necabo."
Hunc Fabricius statim ad Pyrrhum reduci jussit, et
una cum eo nuntium misit qui has litteras ad regem
contra

deferret

'

Tii,

videris, bonis

hominibus confidere
Consul Romanus te monet
diligentia saluti tuae consul as.
Hie
Pyrrhe,

bellum

malis

Infers.

ut majore cum
medicus tarn nostrae consuetiidinis imperitus erat ut non
seiret

Romanos

nulla alia ratione

quam

virtute hostes

His litteris acceptis, Pyrrhus


superare cdnsuevisse.''
magna voce dixit facilius esse solem a eursu avertere
(to turn aside) quam Fabricio persuadere ut injuriam
ullam face ret.
Post complurcsannos,

cum jam Romani nullo modo his


commoveri viderentur, Pyrrhus, tertio proelio
superatus, ab Italia discedere constituit, neque postei
victoriis

(thereafter)

populo

Romano helium

inferre ausus est.

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LESSON LXXV.
Gerund.
Paradigms.

443.

GERUND.
Ge7iitive.

Dative.

Accusative.

amandi *amando amandum


monendi monendo monendum
Conj. II.
regendi regendo regendum
Conj. III.
audiendi audiendo audiendum
Conj. IV.
Conj. Illiu -iocapiendl capiendo capiendum
Fero
ferendl
ferendo
ferendum
E6
etmdi
etindo
eundum
Conj.

I.

Ablative.

amando
monendo
regendo
audiendo
capiendo
ferendo

eundo

Deponents.

conandi conando conandum


Conj. II.
verendi verendo verendum
Conj. III.
sequendi sequendo sequendum
Conj. IV.
sortiendi sortiendo sortiendnm
Co?ij. III. in-iorpationdl patiendo patiendnm
Conj.

a.

I.

The Gerund

is

conando
verendo
sequendo
sortiendo

patiendo

a verbal noun found only in the

and ablative singular.


formed from the present stem and belongs to
the active voice, being" one of the few active forms
possessed by deponent verbs.
Of the irregular
verbs, only fero and eo have the gerund.
genitive, dative, accusative
It is

444.

Illustrative

Examples.

Pugnandi cupidi sunt, they are fond offighting.


Pugnandl causa progrediuntur, they advance for
pose offighting (or, in order

Ad pugnandum inutiles erant,


Ad pugnam inutiles erant,

)
)

the pur-

to fig hi).

they were useless


fighting.

for

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The Latin gerund corresponds

a.

English

301

closely in use to the

gerund or verbal noun in -ing*

It

seldom occurs except in the genitive with adjectives and nouns (especially with causa), and in the
accusative with the preposition ad, meaning- with a

view

to,

for.

VOCABULARY.

445.

make war.
atum,
dimico, are, avi, atum,
fight, engage.
frumentor, arl, atus sum, forage.
bello, are, avi,

initium,

I,

beginning.

n.,

and ace. - to).

navigo, are, avi, atum,

sail (with in

praedor, an, atus sum,

plunder, pillage.

Phrases: facultatem dare, )


,
m
(Sive an opportunity
notestatem facere
.

finem facere, make an end of put an end

to

(with genitive).
initium facere, bethefirstto, set the example
t

of (with genitive).

EXERCISES.
446.

i.

A. 1 Reliquas naves paratas ad navigfandum invenit.


praedandi frumentandique
2. Cognovcrat equitatum
3. Sperabat fore
causa trans (lumen missum esse.
.

between the participle and the gerund, both ending in


English in -i>i(/, though with different endings in Latin, should be carefully
observed. Contrast the following:

*The

distinction

Gerund.

Participle.
//c so

m them fleeing.

Riding

We

ear///,

lost sight

The}/ are

we set out at once.


of those crossing

the

The nominative
(121)

is easy).

Rising early will be beneficial.


We lost much time in crossing the
river.

river,
t

the.

asha med offleeing.

as,

gerund Is replaced in Latin by the present inflnihnee facere, doing this is easy (literally to do this

of the

Facile csl

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nullam fugiendi facultatem. 4. Copias bellandi causa


5. Hunc ad egrediendum idoneum locum
6. In mediis Belgarum finibus hiemandl
arbitratur.
traduxerat.

7. Altera pas exercitus itinere proCaesar omnibus obsidibus qui apud se


erant discedendi potestatem fecit. 9. Cum hostes transeundi initium non fecissent, Caesar suos intra castra
10. Monet eos ut finem orandi faciant.
reduxit.

-causa consederat.

hibenda

B.

est.

11.

8.

Ea quae ad oppug-nandum

parare coepit.
tendi erant.
collocat.

14.

usui erant, comfrumentandi causa praemit13. In his locis legionem hiemandi causa
Cur non flendi finem faciunt ? 15. Spe
12. Equites

bellandi dejecti erant.

16.

Potestas revertendi deerat.

17. Helvetii erant tarn bellandi cupidi ut continenter

finitimis

bellum inferrent.

18.

Cotidie iustructa acie,

Cum

finem oppugnandl
nox fecisset, legati de deditione ad eum venerunt. 20.
Quinque cohortes, quas non satis firmas ad dimicandum
piignandi potestatem

19.

facit.

esse existimabat, praesidio castris reliquit.


447.

A.

ii.

1.

They had been summoned

consulting".

2.

the rest were useless for sailing-.

camp

the

for the purpose of

Several ships had been shattered, and

in order to pillag-e.

returning- here.

5.

4.

They

3.

He

is

ag-ain left

desirous

of

After that time there will not be

an opportunity of coming-. 6. The example of fleeing


by the cavalry. 7. They are equal neither in
number nor in zeal for* fighting. 8. These nations are
eager for making war, but they are not ready for (ad)
is set

war.
10.

He

9.

No

opportunity of leaping

perceived that those

in order to forage
*See432,N.B.

who had

down

is

given.

crossed the river

had not yet returned.

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11.

303

For these reasons the difficulty of sailing" was


12. He had now got suitable weather for

very great.

13. The spirit of the enemy is so ready


engaging, that time is lacking for these matters.
14. This was the reason for {literally cause of) crossing.
15. They have not yet put an end to the pursuit
{literally made an end of following").
16. Which of the
two was the first to set out? 17. Larg'e forces had
assembled for the purpose of making- war. 18. Suddenly making a sally, they left the enemy no opportunity of finding" out what was being" done.
19. They
are skilled both in resisting and in pursuing.
20. They
scarcely ventured to send an embassy for the purpose
setting* out.

for

of persuading" Caesar not to advance.

Portus et Classis

Harbor and

Fleet.

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LESSON LXXVI.
Gerundive Construction.
In the sentences of the previous lesson no
example occurred of a gerund with an object in the accu448.

sative,

such

as,

His potestatem

facit

legatos

mittendi,

This
he gives them the opportunity of sending envoys.
construction is found in Latin, but as a rule is avoided
(invariably so after prepositions).

In preference to the gerund governing" the accusative,


Latin uses the gerundive construction (449).

449

Illustrative

Summa
\

erat difficultas

the difficulty of building the

faciendi pontis,

bridge was very great.

\ (faciendi pontem),
Legatos ad eum miser unt
f

Examples.

they sent envoys to

pads petendae causa,

the

purpose

him for
seeking

of

X (pacem petendi causa), peace.


Naves sunt inutiles ad copias the ships are useless for
portandas,
carrying troops.
a.

In all such sentences as these, Latin prefers not to


use the gerund governing a substantive in the
accusative (as in the phrases in parentheses), but
instead, puts the substantive in the case in

which

the gerund would have been, and uses the gerundive in

agreement with

it.

This usage

is

termed

the Gerundive Constructio?i*


450. (a)

more

literal

rendering of the Latin sen-

tences in 449 would be as follows :

The difficulty of the b?Hdge to be built was very great


They send envoys to him for the sake of peace to be sought ;
The ships are useless with a view to troops to be carried.
*With

intransitive verbs, including those like

the dative case

(355),

persuaded which take

the gerund, not the gerundive construction,

is

used.

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One should

305

however, translate the gerundhe would the corresponding" construction with the gerund, i.e. by a verbal noun in
ung in the active voice followed by an object.
same meaning is thus expressed by two
{/>) The
widely differing grammatical constructions :
The gerund is a verbal noun, of the active voice,
governing its object the gerundive is a verbal adjective,
of the passive voice, agreeing with its substantive.
451. It should be observed that the gerund and the
gerundive with causa or with ad furnish additional ways
of expressing purpose in Latin
these constructions are
confined, however, to short clauses.
Thus the sentence,
They sent envoys to him for the purpose of seeking peace,
may be translated
in all cases,

ive construction as

petendae causa (449)


ad pacem petendam (449)

fpacis

eum miserunt

Legatos ad

ut

pacem peterent

(386)

qui pacem peterent (388)

(For a

N.B.

Here

fifth

method see

also should

conjugation,

periphrastic

470.)

be reviewed the passive

the

other

common

use of

the gerundive (346-348).

VOCABULARY.

452.
occupatus, a,

spatium,

Phrases

I,

um,

n.,

occupied, busy, engaged.


space, time, interval.

praedam facio, obtain plunder.


tempus anni,
season, time of year.
res conficio, complete arrangements, carry out
pla?is.

N.B.
left for

Spatium

is chiefly used of the time required or


doing something, or of an interval of' time.

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exercises.
453.

i.

A. 1. In agris vastandis occupati erant. 2. Rursus


ad insequendos hostes proficlscitur. 3. Caesar in his
4. Quanta
locis navium parandarum causa morabatur.
praedae faciendae facultas daretur demonstraverunt.
5. A Caesare petebant ut ad has res conficiendas sibi
6. Spe expiignandi oppidi adtridui spatium daret.
ductus, majores copias cogere coepit.

7.

quae ad pontem faciendum usui erant.

Omnia deerant
8.

Praedandi

ac belli inferendi causa transierant.

B.

Ad _eam

9.

emisit.

10.

dabitur.

11.

regionem

vastandam

Ejus

loci

Naves

latiores faciendae sunt

relinquendi

dinem equorum transportandam.

equitatum

facultas

12.

paucis

ad multitu-

Neminem

belli

inferendi causa in Britanniam transiturum confidebant.


13.

Nonne

tissimos?

dixistis vos esse


14.

ad bellum gerendum paraet de flumine

De expiignando oppido

transeundo hoc consilium inierat. 15. Ad eas res conficiendas negant triduum sibi satis esse.
16. Multis de
causis acciderat ut subito Galli belli renovandi populoque
Romano resistendi consilium caperent.
454.

A.

ii.

They assemble from

all sides to defend the


camp, the province, the fortifications,, their
allies).
2. The next day he set out for the province
in order to ask aid.
3. On account of the season he had
no opportunity of waging war. 4. They had formed this
plan of injuring the enemy. 5. They are occupied in
fortifying the camp and in foraging.
6. Time had not
been given them for (ad) drawing their swords or hurling
their missiles.
7. He answered that this legion should
be sent for the purpose of seeking supplies.

town

1.

(the

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B.--9.

Gauls

is

young man

chosen

to

of

307

^reat influence among" the

carry out these plans.

10.

The

opportunity must not be given them of marchingthrough the province. 11. Raising: a shout, they hasten
to the edge {literally beginning) of the woods in order
to give aid.

12.

He

sends several scouts in advance


13. In forming- their plans
thought for themselves. 14. The

to ascertain these thing's.

they

never take

season was scarcely suitable for


|5.

As time had not been

the

battle.

camp

16.

for drawing-

He

to

sailing-

Britain.

for encouraging- the

he at once gave the signal for

soldiers,
joining-

left

{literally of)

chose a suitable place before

up the

line of battle.

LESSON LXXVII.
Indefinite Pronouns.

Review of Pronouns.

Paradigm.

455.

the indefinite pronoun,


Singular.

quis.

Plural.

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456.

(a)

Certain compounds also of quis or qui are

used as indefinite pronouns.


aliquis, aliqui

aliqua

Such are :
aliquid, aliquod

quisquam
quisque

quaeque

quidam

quaedam

qui vis

quaevis

quidquam (quicquam)
quidque, quodque
quiddam, quoddam
quidvis, quod vis

and the forms with quod are used


should be further noticed that only
aliquis have qua in the nominative singular
and nominative and accusative plural neuter
(b)

Aliqui

tives.

It

as adjec-

quis

and

feminine
the other

compounds have quae.


(c) Aliquis is declined in every respect like
quis.
Quisquam, quisque, quidam and qulvis are declined like
quis or qui with the syllables -quam, -que, -dam and -vis
respectively suffixed to each form.
But quisquam has
only the masculine and neuter singular in use, and in
the declension of quidam, as in that of idem (306), m
becomes n before d, e.g. quendam for quemdam.

(d)

Another

indefinite

pronoun

is

uterque, utraque,

utrumque, a compound of uter, and declined like

it

(205, 208).

457.

Illustrative

Cohortem

ibi collocavit

Examples.

ne quis flumen transiret, he

sta-

tioned a cohort there lest anyone should cross the river.

Negat

se

cuiquam nocuisse, he denies that he has injured

anyone.

Negat se ulli civitati *nocuisse, he de?iies that he has injured any state.
Ad quemvis numerum hostium adire audent, they dare to
advance against any number of the enemy.

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Of the various Latin words meaning a?iy, quis is used


after si, nisi, ne and num
quisquam is used as a
pronoun and ullus as an adjective, in negative sentences*, where the idea of no one or ?io?ie is
quivis (meaning anyone yon wish) is
suggested
used in affirmative sentences, where the idea of
any and every is suggested.
-

458.

Examples.

Illustrative

Aliquis reperietur,

some one will befomid.

Nonnullos ex suis amittunt,

they lose some of their men.

Quidam Gallus

deligitur,

Gaul

certaifi

chosen.

is

means some or other, as


opposed to none, but quite indefinite. Nonnulli
(generally plural) has the force of some few, a
number. Quidam means some, or a certain number,
of what is not specified, but might be specified

Aliquis (generally singular)

a.

more exactly

if

459.

Some

necessary.

be translated by

alii

Illustrative

others is to

alii (207).

Examples.

Militum quemque consistere jubet, he orders each of the


soldiers to take

up

his position

In utraque ripa fluminis dimicabant, they were fighting

on-

each bank (or on both banks) of the river.

Of the two Latin words meaning each, quisque


used when more than two are spoken of, and

a.

especially frequent with the reflexive!

means
both.
'

t'ulque.

uterque

each of two, and thus, by a free translation,


Compare uter and neuter (208).

This will Include clauses containing such wOrds as

QuisqiK-

is

is

regularly follows

tin-

reflexive, as

tii

Mgrf ami .sine.


gaenque* muuu

i\,

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460.

The various classes of pronouns should now be


The pronouns are classified as follows :

reviewed.

Personal pronouns (266, 267).


Reflexive pronouns (277, 278).
Possessive pronouns (279-281).

Demonstrative pronouns (292, 293


Relative pronouns (254, 255).
Interrogative pronouns (340, 341.)
Indefinite pronouns (455-459)j

306, 307).

exercises.
461.

A.

i.

1.

Stationes positae sunt

ne qua subito eruptiS

quemque consulere

jussit.
3. Cuidam
secum proficiscatur. 4.
Neque obsides vobis dabimus neque cujusquam imperio parebimus.
5. Sic accidit ut neque hoc neque
superiore anno ulla omnino navis amitteretur. 6. Ali-

fieret.

ex

2.

Sibi

equitibus

persuadet

ut

quos ex utraque navi egredientes conspexit. 7. Consilio eorum probato, ipse eodem itinere in provinciam
nostram revertitur.
Accidit ut nonnulll mllites
8.
praesidio relicti essent. 9. Postulasne a me ne quam
multitudinem hominum ex Germania in Galliam traducam ?
10. Equites post fugam suorum se in fines
Germanorum receperant, seque cum iis conjunxerant.

B.
11. Ob earn rem eundem numerum obsidum
cuique civitati imperat.
12.
Clamore' sublato, ab
utroque latere impetum fecerunt. 13. Cum quibus-

dam

principibus vult agere.

omnes convertunt.

15.

14.

Ad hunc

se

Praestat quidvis pati

ab

illo

quam

nos dedere. 16. Si qua in parte nostri laborare aut


17.
gfraviter premi videbuntur, vos subsidio mittam.
Quantam quisque multitudinem ad id bellum pollicitus

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esset,

311

18. E suis aliquem ad te mittet.


bellum sine ullo labore et periiculo
Acerrime reliqui resistebant neque

cognoverant.

19. Alii sperant se

confccturos.

20.

quisquam proelio excedebat.


462.

i.

A. 1. He says that he cannot give any lands to us.


For that reason he summoned to him the leading men
3. The leaders of both armies {literally
of each state.
each army) are unwilling- to set the example of recalling
the cavalry. 4. On the same day a means of approach
was observed by a certain soldier. 5. We hope to have
some opportunity of following. 6. He ordered all the
horses to be removed, lest any hope remain {literally
7. Embassies were sent to him from
be left) in flight.
some (other, the other, certain, these, the same, both,
no) states. 8. Some, were unwilling to give up their
arms, others preferred to surrender. 9. Scarcely anyone visits that island except sailors.
2.

B.
to

10.

stand

that

all

You must

build the ships sufficiently strong

any storm.

He

11.

himself informed us

the other Belgians were in arms, and that the

Germans had joined them. 12. Certain of these came


him that same day. 13. They asked him to choose
some place for the meeting they ask me not to choose
anyone for this business. 14. They compel us to report

to

what each of us has heard about each matter.


anyone learns anything, he will .report (it)

15.

to

If

the

16. Our men are hard pressed and no


and not any) reinforcements can be sent. 17.
He begged that they should injure no one (literally that
they should not injure anyone). 18. He advised them

magistrates.
{literally

to say nothing.

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LESSON LXXVIII.
Imperative.

Subjunctive in Independent Clauses.


Paradigms.

463.

THE IMPERATIVE MOOD.


(a)

Active Voice.

Singular.

Irregular Verbs.
Singular. Plural.

(b)

Plural.

ama
mone

amate
monete

Sum

es

este

Nolo

noli

nolite

Conj. III.

rege

regite

Ed

IV.

audi

audite

Fero

fer*

ferte

Conj. III. {in -id) cape

capite

Con/,

I,

Con/.

II.

Conj.

Passive Voice.

(c)

Singular.

Conj.

I.

Conj.

II.

Plural.

ite

Deponents.

(d)

Singular.

amare amammi
conare
monere monemini verere

Plural.

conammi
veremini
sequimini

Conj. III.

regere

IV.

audire

audimini

sortire

sortimini

Conj. III. (hi -ior)capere

capimini

pater

patimini

Conj.

regimini

sequere

In the case of the regular verbs, notice the relation

a.

form of the endings of the singular of the im(active, passive and deponent) to the
endings of the present infinitive active (122), and
in

perative

also of the endings of the plural of the imperative

(passive

and deponent)

to the endings of the second

plural present indicative passive (165).


464.

Illustrative

Examples.

Mihi crede,

believe

Egredere ex oppido,

leave the town.

Noli ex oppido egredi, do


Nolite cedere,
*

The imperative singular


and f'ac.

to die, dfte

?iot

me.
leave the town.

do not yield.
of dlco, dffcco

and facio

is

similarly shortened

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The simple imperative is used, as in these sentences,


to express commands and entreaties, while in prohibitions (i.e. negative commands and entreaties)
the imperative of nolo

is

used with a complementary

infinitive

465.

Illustrative

Examples.

Redeamus,

let

us return.

Captlvus interficiatur,

let

the pri'sorter be

Ne

let

them not venture

redlre audeant,

put

to death.

to return.

While the subjunctive in Latin is most commonly


found in dependent sentences, it is also used
in independent sentences with varying- meaning's.
One such usage is illustrated in these sentences,
namely, that which is sometimes termed the Voltthe Subjunctive (from volo, / will). The volitive
is used in the present tense (a) in the
first person (plural) to express an exhortation, and
(b) in the third person (singular or plural) to express a command. The negative is ne, not non
the subject is of course in the nominative (contrast
subjunctive

the English construction).*


466.

Illustrative

Facultas nobis detur,

Incolumes redeatis,

Ne hoc

accidat,

Examples.

may an opportunity be given vs.


may you return in safety.
may this ?iot happen.

The present subjunctive

is also used independently


wish that something- may or may not
take place, the negative being ne. This usage is
termed the Optative Subjunctive (from opto, /desire).

a.

to express a

When the subjunctive expresses an exhortation, II is often termed the


Sortatory Subjunctive, and when expressing a command the Jussive Sub

junctive, from

hortorandJubeO

respectively.

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exercises.
467.

i.

A.

silite,

Magna voce

1.

veniamus.

accipiant.

Auxilium n5bis

4.

milites.

5.

3.

de-

fluctus

Ne
Ne quod incommodum

in deditionem
referte,

"In

suds hortatur,

Nolite dubitare navi egredi."

milites.

Caesar;

fer,

Omnis senatus

necetur.

2.

pedem
Hoc

6.

sit.
7. Adorimini agfmen novissimum.
Signa convertite signa inferantur. 9. Noli perturgladium destringe.
10. Aliud consilium ineabari
mus. 11. Ite redite revertimini. 12. vSibi quisque

utrique usui
8.

consulat.

B.
14.

13. Tertia inita vigilia, loca superiora

Finem

facite

dimicandi

15. Alter equitatui praesit, alter cohortibus.

nos praedam facere.

meam.
Romani
tarum

18.

Omni

Has

litteras defer

semper

intercludamvir.

retineatur.
22.

Harum rerum

20.

memoriam deponere

16. Patere

ad matrem

19. Inimici populi

periculo liberer.

civitate expellantur.

nolite

nostrae

17.

occupentur.

nolite initium facere fugrae.

memoria

Re

21.

ges-

amicitiae

frumentaria ne

Aliquam facultatem nobis da


24. Haec,
23. Bono animo es.

praedae faciendae.
quae petimus, impetremus.
468.

A.

ii.

Let us await the fleet there. 2. Let us not


delay here (any) longer.
3. Do not make war on us.
may they not suffer
4. May they not be put to flight
defeat.
6. Be prudent
do
5. Set out along with us.
not be bold. 7. May you attain your freedom. 8. Let
someone be present. 9. Spare us do not injure anyone.
10. At the same time let an attack be made on
the unprotected flank.
11
Let us not despair of safety
1.

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do not despair of the state.
increased

may

number

the

12.

315

Let the forces be

of defenders increase.

Let ns not turn and flee. 14. Appoint a day


15. May your influence be very strong
with them. 16. Set sail at midnight; disembark just
17. Let the legion be led thither in light
before dawn.
marching order. 18. Follow closely the Gauls fleeing
towards the river do not give them any opportunity of
19. Let us take tip arms at the
fleeing into Germany.
beginning of spring. 20. May we not be disappointed
21. Do not fear for the ships.
22. Let
in this hope.
us keep the Romans from marching. 23. Abandon the
assault.
24. Let bad citizens lose their citizenship.
13.

P>.

for the meeting".

LESSON LXXIX.
Supine.

Review of Verb-Forms.

469.

Paradigm.

THE SUPINE.
Conj. I.

Conj. II.

Conj. III. Conj. IV.

Conj. III.
{in -id.)

Ace.

amatum monitum

Abl.

amatu.

a.

The Supine

monitu
is

rectum

auditum

captum

rectu

auditu

captu

a verbal noun" (with active force) of the

fourth declension, and found only in the accusative

and ablative singular.


b.

The

principal parts of the verb include one which

is

form with the supine, and which is


But as
therefore said to furnish the supine stem.
the supine is a form of rare occurrence in Latin,
identical in

many grammars

prefer to

regard this principal

part as the neuter singular of the perfect participle


passive, and

t<>

speak therefore of the participial

(not the supine) stem.

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470.

Illustrative

Legatos ad
to

him

The

Examples.

eum mlserunt pacem

petitum, they sent envoys

to seek peace.

Facile est factu,


a.

it is

easy

to

accusative supine

do (literally in the doing).

is

used, as in the

first

sen-

tence, to denote purpose, after verbs of motion,

b.

such as venio, mitto, eo.


ablative supine is used, as in the second sentence, to state in what respect a statement or term

The
is

applicable.

factu

Compare the

This usage

(414).

ablative of specification

found chiefly with the supines


after such adjectives as facilis,
is

and dictu,
and optimus.

difficilis
c.

The

accusative supine furnishes a

frequent)
to those

471. (a)

mode

fifth

(though in-

of expressing purpose, in addition

given in 451.

With the exception

of the comparatively rare

future imperative (active and passive) and future infinitive passive, all the -regular

have now been studied, and

forms of the Latin verb


be reviewed at this

may

stage.
(6)

two

The Latin verb has :

and Passive (Deponent verbs being


an important exception)
voices, Active

four regular conjugations (including the verbs of the


third conjugation in

-io)

in addition to the regular

conjugations, there are also the active and passive


periphrastic

conjugations,

and

certain

verbs, especially sum, possum, fero, eo,


nolo

irregular
fio,

volo,

and malo.

the indicative

mood

(active

and passive), with

six tenses

(present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect

future perfect)

and

;;

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317

and passive), with four


and pluperfect)
imperative mood (active and passive), with two
divisions sometimes called present and future
infinitive (active and passive), with three tenses
(present, perfect and future)
the participles, including: the present and future participles of the active voice, and the perfect participle
and the gerundive of the passive voice.
the gerund and the supine of the active voice.
472.
VOCABULARY.
subjunctive

(active

tenses (present, imperfect, perfect

nisi, if not

unless, except.

rogo, are, avl, atum,

ask*

vis, irregular, f., in singular, force, violence,

might;

in plural, strength, vigor.

N.B.

Vis has in the singular the nominative vis,

accusative vim, and ablative vi, in


plural

is vires,

common

use

the

virium, vlribus, vires, vires, vlribus.

exercises.
473.

i.

A. 1. Dum ea gcruntur, legio ex consuetfidine una


frumentatum missa est.
2. Facilius est dictu quam
3. Naves factae sunt ad quamvls vim perfcfactu.
rendam.
4. Legatos ad eos mittit, rogatum ut sibi
5. Vi coacti erant commeatum
militibusque parcant.
ad cum portare. 6. Negant se quidquam nisi eommfml
Prineipatu dejecti,t novis
acturos esse.
7.
8. Pedestres copias educturus est
rebus studebant.
ab hoc consilio deterrendus est. 9. Respondet optimum}
10. Vires militum
factu esse flumerj ponte jungere.
consilio

integrae esse videntur.


'

t
I

Bogfl la used like both petjD and qnaerO(486,


Translate djlelfl here i>.\ deprive.
Translate the beat thing to do ; similarly r.i.

fn.).

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11.

cum, haec animadvertissent, su;


12. ScTsne quo eas ?
Num terreminl ? Nonne utilissimum erit? 13. Dato
eruptionem faciant eruptio
signo, e castris erumpant
B.

omnia

Ceteri,

in oppida

contulerunt.

Eum

locum, quern probaverat, duplici muro


firmare instituit.
15. His rebus permoti, magnopere
perturbabantur navibus verebar. 16. Ubi habitatis ?
Incolimus extremos fines Belgarum.
17. Gallia est
14.

fiat.

divisa in partes tres.

18.

Monitum venimus

te,

non

Facile factii est propius accedere.

19.
oratum.
20.
Legati vobis ad Caesarem satis faciendi causa mittendi

erant.
474.

ii.

A. 1. He sends out five cohorts to forage. 2. Nothing is easier to say. 3. They ask what is best to do.
4. Being unable to defend themselves, they sent envoys
5. So great a storm has arisen
to Caesar to ask aid.
that we cannot endure the violence of the waves.
6.
What do you wish except to seize our lands by (per)
violence.
7. No one has yielded; some have fallen.
we were approaching
8. We shall be seen by someone
the sea. 9. We found the soldiers occupied in pitching
the camp. 10. They met the foot-soldiers fleeing.
11.
This report will be borne to the most distant regions.
;

B. 12. They had rushed out of the camp that they


might not be surrounded. 13. The swiftest of the
warships had been shattered; a shout arises. 14. Let
us dare to endure anything we shall go out (exeo)
;

we hear anything. 15. He put his brother in


command of the left wing he himself was in command
of the right.
16. They remember that this will be
very difficult to do. 17. The commanders of cavalry
lest

had not vet perceived what was being done

(use both

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ag"6

and

He

18.

facio).

in strength of body.

said to

is

They

19.

319

have been superior


surround (use both

will

they will restore


circumvenio and cireumdo)
they
redeo and revertor). 20. On his
approach they send envoys to ask reinforcements, that
they may be able to withstand the might of the enemy.
;

will return {use both

LESSON LXXX.
Review of Subjunctive.

Conditional Sentences.

complex sentence cona subordinate clause containing- some supposition, and introduced usually in
English by if or unless, in Latin by si or nisi ; (b) a
principal clause containing: the conclusion which follows
475.

sisting of

condition a/ sentence is a

two clauses

the supposition.

(a)

These clauses are termed respectively

the Protasis and the Apodosis.

In conditional sentences in Latin both the indicative

and the subjunctive are used, but regularly the same

mood

occurs in both clauses, that

either both clauses

is,

have the indicative or both have the subjunctive.


476.
SI

Illustrative

Romanus
citizen^

SI

civis

he

est,

Examples.

liber

est,

if

he

is

Roman

is free.

hoc fecerunt,

inimlcl

erant,

if

they

did

this,

they

were enemies.
a.

These

a form of conditional
sentence referring to present or past time, which
states what logically follows upon something: which
may or may not be true. The indicative mood
in both English and Latin, the tenses
is used
sentences

present

having their usual values.

'

\.

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477.

Illustrative

Examples.

Si Caesar adesset, acrius pugnarent, if Caesar were present


they

would fight more vigorously


had

Si Caesar adfuisset, acrius pugnavissent, if Caesar

been present, they would have fought more vigorously


a.

These sentences also refer to present or past time,


but they do not deal with a supposed case which
may or may not be true. Rather, it is implied
that as a matter of fact Caesar was not present,
and therefore the fighting- was not so vigorous.
In conditional sentences contrary

to fact,

Latin

uses the subjunctive in both clauses, the imperfect


subjunctive for present time, the pluperfect subjunctive for past time.
478.
(1) Si

Illustrative

obsides

miserint,

hostages,

we

Examples.

pacem faciemus,
make peace.

if they

send

shall

SI amici esse videbuntur, copias reducet, if they {shall)

seem

to

be friendly

he will lead back his troops.

pacem faciamus,
we should make peace.

(2) Si obsides mittant,

hostages,

if they

were to send

Si amici esse videantur, copias reducat, if they should

seem
a.

to

be friendly 3 he

would lead back

his troops,

All these conditional sentences refer to the future.

The two groups

of suppositions

same

and conclusions

but the latter


group (2) refers to them less simply and directly
than the former (l), treating them rather as conceivable cases. These two groups are often distinguished as the more vivid and the less vivid
form of future conditions.
relate to the

state of affairs,

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b.

It will

321

be noticed that in the more vivid future con-

ditional sentences, English ordinarily uses shall or

and in the less vivid, should or would or were


and further that in the protasis of the more
vivid form Latin has the future or future perfect
Willi

to;

indicative (for the use of these tenses review 224),

and

both clauses of the less vivid form the

in

present subjunctive.
479.

Two methods

conditional sentences
a.

of classifying* these four kinds of

may

be suggested :

method
(Simple
n . rpTime! f
Present or Past

First

t>

("More vivid (478,

.
^
Future Time
.

b.

(476).

Second method

-/..,_*

Contrary to Fact (477).


T

.,

,.,

Less vivid (478,

1).
,

2).

Present or past time (476).


Logical
Vputure time (478, 1).
f

Ideal (478,

Unreal
480.

2).

(477).

The

following uses of the Latin subjunctive

have now been studied :


In indirect questions (362).
In clauses of purpose^
adverbial, with ut or ne (386).
relative,

with qui (388).

substantive, with ut or ne (424).

In clauses of result (37 1).

With cum, causal or temporal

(397).

In subordinate clauses in indirect discourse (408).


In conditional sentences (477, 478).

In independent clauses of exhortation,

wish (465, 466).

command

or

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exercises.
481.

A.

I.

1.

Magna praedae

faciendae facultas dabitur,

Romanos castas expulerimus.

2.

viribus corporttm praestitissent.

3.

esse existimas, cur

roget ?

4. Si

feremus.

non aliquem

Si hoc

si

fecissent,

SI periculosum hoc

qui auxilium
primi ordines graviter prementur, auxilium

5.

Si

mittis

hanc rem impetret, omni periculo

noctu missum esset,


non
potuissemus.
7.
diutius vim hostium sustinere
Etiam si acerrime factus erit impetus, pedem non

liberetur.

6.

Nisi subsidium

8. Si
referemus sed pro castris pugnantes cademus.
Caesari
dentur,
ut
ea
quae
polliceamini
vobis
obsides a

vos facturos intellegat, pacem vobiscum faciat. 9. Hunc


collem si tenebunt nostri, hostes aqua commeatuque prohibebunt. 10. Si hoc fiat, omnin5 spes fugae tollatur.
B.

11.

Hac

oratione

quam

in concilio habuerat, per-

suaserat Helvetiis ut finibus suis exirent.

12.

Cum jam

conspectum agminis nostri venissent, fuga destiterunt.


Primo perspicere non possunt unde aut quam in
13.
partem hoc flumen fluat. 14. FInem subsequendi faciamus, ne ab nostris intercludamur. 15. Morte suorum ita
perterriti erant, ut summo tumultu ad alteram ripam
transiissent.
16. Respondit adulescentem summa fortitudine delectum esse, Lucium nomine, qui apud Gallos
magnam auctoritatem haberet. 17. Si prudens fuisset,
in

sensisset quid hie ageretur.


est ut ante
19.

autumnum

ejus

18.

Primum nos

modi classem

cohortatus

efficeremus.

Reniintiant se tela intra miinltiones conjicere non

potuisse,

quod castra fossa

cumdata

essent.

scripsimus,

20.

plurimum

Cum

incredibili

latitudine

cir-

haec natio, de qua supra

totius fere Galliae equitatii valeat,

longe lateque circum se fines vastaverunt.

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482.

323

ii.

happens, I shall return here at


2. If anything- should happen, I should return
once.
3. If you can hear their voices, they are
there at once.

A.

1.

If anything:

4. If you were to set out at dawn, you


5. Unless you do
would reach the lake at nightfall.
I
shall go alone.
6. If they had been inthis,
experienced in sailing they would not have reached

not far distant.

land so easily.

7.

Since the lower part of the island

faces the continent, the inhabitants

would often cross

they were skilled in sailing-. 8. If they should


prefer to cross the Rhine, lands would be given them
in Gaul.
9. If the number of the enemy increases, the
over,

if

Gauls will gather all their property into one place.


Thus, even if they are fond of making war or of

10.
pil-

laging, opportunity is lacking.

B.

11.

Since Caesar himself

more eager

for fighting.

12. If

is present, they are


Caesar himself is pre-

13. He begged
For these reasons,

sent, they will fight with greater zeal.

them not to seek


they had attempted to cross by (per) force, we
should have prevented (them). 15. Because of the
season, let them not attempt to visit the most distant
nations.
16. These reported that they had found all
safety in flight.

14.

if

who had
commands
the
He
17.
baggage.
the
guard
left to
tribunes, centurions and officers of cavalry to seize the
approaches and roads in a similar manner. 18. Unless
19.
the magistrates satisfy me, I shall spare no one.
If he should ask me what is the best thing to do, I
should urge him not to set the example of flight. 20.
Since all men are by nature eager for freedom, we wish
the troops occupied in foraging, except those

been

to be

made

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483.

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WORD

LIST

VIII.

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READING LESSON XV.


The Story of Regulus.

(256 B.C.

250 B.C.)

VOCABULARY.

484.
Africa, ae,

f.

Africa.

Carthaginienses, ium,

m.

the Carthaginians (in-

pi.,

habiting- the city of Carthag'e in

catena, ae,

f.

North Africa).

chain, fetter ; in plur. freely, prison.

conservo, are, avi, atum, keep.


crudelis, e, cruel.

Graecus,

I,

m., Greek.

Punicus, a, um, Punic, Carthaginian.


senectus, -tutis,

uxor,

f.,

old age.

-oris, f., wife.

Nono annoprimi

Piinici belli,

quod populus Romanus

Roman! consilium

contra Carthaginienses gerebat,

Africam transeundi inierunt

belli inferendi causa.

in

Ad

has res conficiendas classis trecentarum triginta. navium


effecta est, et plurimi milites, spe praedae faciendae
adducti, ad

portum convenerunt.

Regulus consul, qui

huic class! praefectus erat, idoneam ad navigandum

tempestatem nactus, inita aestate naves solvit, et classe


Ibi
Carthaginiensium superata, ad Africam pervenit.
milites, navibus egfressi, complura proelia fecerunt et
multa oppida ceperunt. Primo Carthaginienses neque
virtute neque studio pugnandi Romanis pares erant.
Multis incommodis acceptis, cum se defendefe mm
possent, legatos ad Graecos miserunt rogatum ut sibi
auxilium ferrent, et aliquem mitterent qui exercitui
praeesset.

Dux quidam,
peritissimus,

jam

Xanthippus

missus

Carthaginienses

est,

ad

nomine, rei militaris


proximo anno, cum

atque

dlmicandum

paratoe

esse

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arbitraretur, copias suas contra

Romanos

eduxit, qui in

commisso,
calamitatem
acceperunt
ut
fere
omnes
tantam
Roman!
aut caperentur aut intern cerentur. Vix duo milia se ad
mare receperunt, et Regulus ipse ab hostibus captus et
agris

occupati

vastandis

Proelio

erant.

in catenas conjectus est.

Sed Roman!

consilio desistere

ac finem dimicand!

facere nolebant, at que majoribus copiis coactis bellum

Post quinque annos Carthaginienses,

renovaverunt.

magna

accepta calamitate, legationem ad senatum de

pace mittere constituerunt. Simul Regulum adeunt et


certiorem eum de hoc consilio faciunt
Legatos missuri sumus Romanis persuadendi causa utpacem faciant.
Visne una cum illis proficisci et populo Romano ostendere quid optimum sit factu ? Atque si senatus quosdam
'

adulescentes nobiles,

qui capti sunt, nobis non red-

hue statim ipse redibis ?


facturum pollicitus eris, non te

diderit,
te

Cum

Regulus

cum ad urbem
ingredi

'

Nam

(for) nisi

haec

patiemur."

ire

pollicitus esset, legati profecti sunt, sed

venissent, Regulus noluit in miinitiones

(to enter),

quod

civis esse

Romanus

destitisset.

Sperabant Carthaginienses Regulum, ut ipse liber fieret,


Romanos moniturum esse ne captivos retinerent, sed

pacem cum hostibus confirmarent.


Sed cum senatus
quosdam misit qui cum eo agerent, haec dixit
Monitum vos, Patres, veni, ne pacem faciatis.
Carthaginienses, proeliis fracti, vix ullam spem habent neque
quisquam eorum diiitius bellandi est cupidus.
Bono
animo este
cives ne de victoria desperent.
Nolite
'

'

captivos reddere

vires cujusque illorum integrae sunt

ego, senectute confectus, usui esse rei publicae nullo

modo possum. Nolite mihi timere


quam rei publicae nocere."

pati

praestat quidvis

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Hac

327

oratione senatui persuasit ne quern captivum

jdderet.

At que cum nonnulli eum retinere conarentur,

amicos ut finem flendl et orandi facerent,


quo captus esset, civitatem amisisse.
Lm (then) uxorem et liberos a complexii (his embrace)
jmovit, et ad Africam rediit, nulla vi coactus praeter
Tamen (and yet)
idem (pledge) quam dederat hosti.
:iebat se ad certissimam mortem et ad crudelissimos
>stes se reverti, sed fidem esse conservandam existi>rtatus est

dixit se illo die,

Labat.
la

sset ?

Sed

si sibi

consuluisset,

non

rei publicae,

num

tantae fortitiidinis ad ultimas regiones perlata

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SUPPLEMENTARY READING LESSONS.


Caesar's First Campaign in Gaul,
(b.c.
{a)

485.

num

The

War.

Helvetii proximi sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhe-

incclunt

reliquos

fere cotidianis proeliis

undique

58.)

Helvetian

loci natiira

G alios

virtute praecedunt,

quod

cum Germanis

continentur

contendunt. wSed
una ex parte est flumen

altera* ex parte mons


Jura altissimus tertia ex parte flumen Rhodanus noHis de causis
stram provinciam t ab Helvetiis dividit.
Helvetii non late vagari poterant, nee facile finitimis
bellum inferre. Itaque, cum essent homines bellandi
cupidi, angustos se fines habere arbitrabantur.
His
rebus adducti, oppida sua omnia vicosque incendere et
de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exire constituerunt

Rhenus

altissimus et latissimus

et optimam partem totius Galliae occupare.


Itineribus
omnino duobus domo exire poterant
quorum unum
erat per Sequanos, angustum et difficile
alterum per
;

proyinciam nostram, multo facilius. Caesar, cui provincia Gallia eo anno decreta erat, audivit Helvetios per
provinciam nostram iter facere conari. Statim ab urbet
proficiscitur et in Galliam pervenit.
486.

Ubi de ejus adventu Helvetii

sunt, legatos ad

eum

certiores

facti

mittunt
sed Caesar negat se
per provinciam dare. Relinquebatur una
;

posse iter ulli


per Sequanos via. Mox Caesari renuntiatur Helvetios
per agrum Sequanorum iter in Santonum fines facere,
qui non longe a provincia nostra absunt. Intellegebat
Translate by a second (524).
Since 118 B.C. the southern part of Gaul had been a Roman province.
(Hence the modern name Provence.) See map facing page 1.
*

Rome is meant.

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329

periculosum provinciae fore, si homines bellicosi, populi


Roman! inimici, provinciae finitimi essent.* Ob eas
duas ibi legiones concausas in Italiam contendit
cum his quinque
scribit, et tres ex hibernis ediicit
jegionibus in Galliam per Alpes ire contendit. Helvetii
jam per fines Sequanorum suas copias traduxerant, et
in Aeduorum fines pervenerant, eorumque agros populabantur.
Itaque ne omnes forttinae sociorum consiimerentur, Caesar e castris profectus ad Helvetios pervenit.t
Tres jam partes Helvetiorum Airmen Ararim transierant;
;

magnam partem eorum occidit, reproximas silvas abdiderunt. Hoc proelio


facto, ut reliquas copias Helvetiorum consequi posset,
pontem facit, atque ita exercitum traducit. Turn per
multos dies Caesar Helvetios insequitur, novissimumque

ceteros aggfressus,
liqui sese in

agmen

lacessit.

487.

Tandem

ut rei frumen tariae prospiceret, iter ab

Helvetiis avertit, atque ad

mum et

copiosissimum

oppidum Aeduorum maxiHelvetii Romanos

ire contendit.

timore perterritos esse et discedere a se existimabant.


Itaque, itinere converso, nostros insequi ac lacessere
coeperunt.
suas in

Postquam

id animadvertit, Caesar copias

proximum collem

Helvetii impedimenta in

subdiicit,

aciemque

unum locum

instruit.

contulerunt

ips!

sub primam nostram aciem successerunt. Caesar, coDiu atque acriter


hortatus suos, proelium commisit.
Sed cum diutius sustinere nostrorum
ptignaverunt.
impetus non possent, Helvetii legatos de deditidne ad
Caesarem miserunt. Caesar Helvetios in fines suos,
unde profecti erant, reverti jussit, et oppida vicosque
'Translate by should (or were (<>) be. si vritb ti<' Import or pluperf.
subjunctive mas represent future conditions put Ln indirect dlsooursc (408).
t

Translate by came up with.

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330
restituere.

domo

Helvetiorum trecenta

exierant

et sexaginta octo milia


vix centum et decern milia domum

redierunt.
(6)

488.

Hoc

The War with

Ariovistus.

bello confecto, totius fere Galliae principes

ad Caesarem convenerunt atque petierunt ut sibi auxilium ferret contra Ariovistum, regem Germanorum, qui
multa milia suorum in Galliam traduxisset optimumque
agrum occupavisset, atque Gallos ex finibus pelleret.
Demonstrant Ariovistum Gallorum copias proelio vicisse
et nunc crudeliter imperare atque obsides* nobilissi-

morum

neque posse ejus imperium


His rebus cognitis, Caesar Gallorum
animos confirmavit, pollicitusque est se Galliam ab
Ariovisti injuria defensurum.
Hac oratione habita
principes dimisit.
Simul Germanos consuesceret in
Galliam transire populo Romano periculosum esse
videbat, ne, cum omnem Galliam occupavissent, in provinciam exirent atque inde in Italiam contenderent.
Itaque constituit ad Ariovistum legat'os mittere qui
ab eo postularent ut aliquem locum colloquio diceret.
liberos poscere

diutius sustineri.

489.

Quodj cum

eum Caesar

nollet Ariovistus facere, iterum

legatos mittit qui postularent

ad

primum ne

amplius Germanos trans Rhenum in Galliam tradiiceret


deinde ut obsides Gallis redderet neve bellum iis inferret.
Ad haec Ariovistus respondit se Gallos vicisse
atque jure belli uti constituisse
se obsides redditurum
non esse, neque Gallis injuria bellum illaturum si im;

Translate by as hostages; for the case see

54.

See 124.
I To emphasize the connection with the preceding words, Latin often uses
qui for hie or is, placing it even before a conjunction. Here translate by
this, literally which.
Translate by wrongfully (415).
For parerent and vellet see 486, f n.
t

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perio suo parerent
gredi,

atque

si

331

Caesar vellet secum coninvictorum

intellectnrum quanta esset virtus

Germanorum.
490. Eodem tempore Caesar certior factus est Germanos, qui niiper in Galliam transportati essent, fines
Aeduorum popular!, et magnam multitudinem Sueborum
ad ripas Rheni venisse, qui Rhenum transire conaQuibus* rebus Caesar vehementer commotus,
rentur.
maturare constituit, ne nova manus Sueborum cum

veteribus copiis Ariovisti sese conjungeret.

frumentaria

quam

Itaque re

celerrime comparata, magnis itineri-

bus ad Ariovistum contendit. Cum tridui viam processisset, niintiatum est ei Ariovistum cum suis omnibus
copiis ad occupandum Vesontionem, quod est oppidum
maximum Sequanorum, contendere. In eo oppido
omnium rerum quae ad bellum iisui erant summa erat
Hue
facultas, idque natiira loci egregie miiniebatur.
Caesar contendit, occupatoque oppido ibi praesidium
collocat.

Dum

paucos dies ibi rei frumentariae causa


falsis rumoribus magnopere perturbati
sunt.
Nam Galli ac mercatores Germanos ingenti
magnitudine esse corporum, incredibilique virtiite praeCaesar cum animadvertisset milites propter
dicabant.
491.

moratur, milites

timorem castra movere ac signa contra hostes ferre


nolle,

convocato concilio, demonstrat Germanos saepe

:ib

tamen pares esse exereitui


Romano non potuissent. Turn affirmavit se proxima
nocte quarta vigilia castra moturum, atque si praeterea
nemo sequeretur, tamen se cum sola decima legidne
Hac oratione habita,
iturum, de qua non dubitaret.
Helvetiis superatos esse, qui

See

489, f n.

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332

summa

alacritas et cupiditas belli gerendi innata est,

atque quarta
exercitu.

vigilia,

ut* dixerat, profectus est

cum omnl

Septimo die ab exploratoribus certior factus

est Ariovisti copias milia

passuum quattuor

et viginti

abesse.

Cognito Caesaris adventu, Ariovistus legatos ad


cum Caesar propius
simul postulabat
accessisset, colloqui cum eo jam velle
ne quern peditem ad colloquium Caesar adduceret, sed
vererit se ne per
ut uterque cum equitatu venire t
Planities erat magna
insidias ab eo circumveniretur.
Eo uterque cum
inter castra Ariovisti et Caesaris.
equitatu ad colloquium venit atque cum paucis equitibus
in mediam planitiem progreditur. Reliqui equites medi492.

eum

mittit qui dicerent Ariovistum,

ocri intervallot constiterunt.

493. Caesar initio orationis ostendit quanta a se


senatuque beneficia Ariovistus accepisset simul docebat
;

Aeduos diu socios populi Roman! fuisse. Postulavit


Ariovistus respondit se
deinde eadem quae legati.
rogatum esse a Gallis ut Rhenum transiret non sese
;

Gallis sed Gallos sibi bellum postea intulisse

atque

iniquum esse exercitum Romanum in suos fines venire.


Postulavit igitur ut Caesar decederet et liberam possessi-

onem

Galliae sibi traderet.

Dum

haec in colloquio

geruntur, Caesari nuntiatum est equites Ariovisti propius accedere, et lapides telaque in nostros conjicere.

Caesar loquendi finem

fecit,

seque ad suos recepit,

suisque imperavit, ne quod omnino telum


*

Vt in the sense of as takes the indicative.

Indirect discourse, the verb of saying being understood,

The

ablative, as well as the accusative,

Translate here by

Translate by

at.

made the same demands as.

is

in

hostes

used to express distance.

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333

ne pulsi hostes dicere posscnt se in colloquio


circumventos.
Quibus rebus cognitls,
multo majus studium piig-nandi exercitul injectum est.
rejicercnt,

per Insidias

494.

Post

paucos

dies

Ariovistus,

castris

motls,

praetor eastra Caesaris suas copias tradiixit et milibus

passuum duobus* ultra eum eastra fecit, eo consilio ut


jrumento commeatuque Caesarem intercluderet. Trim
dies continuos quinque Caesar pro castris suas copias
Ariovistus autem, etsi
produxit et aciem mstruxit.
dimicandi potestas non deerat, his omnibus diebus exercitum castris continuitt, et equestri proelio cotidie conUbi eum castris se tenere Caesar intellexit, ne
tendit.

commeatu prohiberetur, ultra eum locum ubi


German! consederant, circiter passus sescentos ab iis,
castris idoneum locum delegit, acieque triplici instructa
ad eum locum venit. Primam et secundam aciem in
armis esse+, tertiam eastra munire jussit. Turn copias
Ariovistus misit quae nostras muni done prohiberent.
Caesar tamen, ut antea constituerat, duas acies hostem
diutius

tertiam opus perficere jussit.


Munltis
duas leg'iones reliquit et partem auxiliorum,
quattuor reliquas in eastra majora rediixit.

propulsare,
castris,

495.

Proximo die Caesar e

castris utrlsque copias

suas ediixit, paulumque a majoribus castris progrcssus

aciem Instriixit, hostibusque pugnandl potestatem fecit.


Ubi ne turn quidem eos prodlre intellexit, circiter meridiem exercitum in eastra rediixit. Postero die praesidio
utrlsque castris quod satis esse visum est reliquit, atque
triplici Instructa acie usque ad eastra hostium accessit.
Turn demum necessario GermanI suas copias ediixerunt,
*

For the ablative see 492, fn. t


Translate by kept in camp.
X Translate by to remain under arms.
t

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omnemque aciem

redis et carris circumdederunt, ne


E6 mulieres impoqua spes in fuga relinqueretur.
suerunt, quae in proelium proficiscentes milites flentes
implorabant ne se in servitutem Romanis traderent.

496. Caesar a dextro cornu, quod earn partem minime


firmam hostium esse animadverterat, proelium commisit.
Ita nostri acriter in hostes, signo dato, impetum fecerunt,

itaque* hostes celeriter procurrerunt, ut spatium pila in


hostes conjiciendi

non daretur. Rejectis

pills,

comminus

Cum

hostium acies a sinistro cornu


pulsa atque in fugam con versa esset, a dextro cornu
vehementer multitudine suorum nostram aciem premegladiis pugnant.

bant.

Id

cum

animadvertisset Publius Crassus, qui

equitatui praeerat, tertiam aciem laborantibus nostris

subsidio misit.

Ita

omnes hostes terga


stiterunt

proelium restitutum

quam ad flumen Rhenum

loco circiter quinque pervenerunt.

reppererunt

int his

fuit

atque

milia

ea

passuum ex eo
qui

salutem
naviculam

profugit.

Reliquos

Ibi perpauci

Ariovistus,

deligatam ad ripam nactus,

omnes consecuti

est,

verterunt, neque prius fugere de-

equites nostri interfecerunt.

proelio trans Rhenum nuntiato, Suebi qui ad


Rheni venerant, domum reverti coeperunt. Caesar
una aestate duobus maximis bellis confectis, matiirius
paulo quam tempus anni postulabat, in hiberna in+
Sequanos exercitum deduxit. Hibernis Labienum lega-

Hoc

ripas

tum

praefecit

ipse in citeriorem Galliam profectus est.

Itaque here = ita + que ; contrast ltaque,


Translate here by among.

Translate here by

among ;

487,

1.

5.

the phrase modifies a verb of motion.

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',

335

Ulysses.
Fabulae Faciles.)

The Trojan War.

Olim Paris, fflius Priami regis Trojanorum,


Graeciam mare transiisset, Helenam, uxorem
Menelai regis Spartae, abduxit. Itaque Menelaus omnes
497.

cum

in

reges Graeciae convocavit, et oravit ut auxilium sibi

Mox, classe mille ducentarum navitim coacta,


magnis cum copiis profectus est ut injuriam ulcisceretur.
Agamemnon, Menelai frater, toti exercitui Graecorum
praefectus est et una cum his duobus regfibus Achilles,
qui omnibus hominibus virtute praestabat, et Ulixes,
ferrent.

vir

summae

prudentiae, naves solverunt.

Trojam vallo fossaque circumdare non conati sunt, sed in litore non longfe a
Inter mare et urberri planities
navibus consederunt.
erat magna, atque ibi Trojani, acie instriicta, saepecum
Graeci, navibus egressi,

proelia committebant.
Post novem annos
plurima oppida expiignaverant, quae circum
Trojam socii Priami habebant, et tanta incommoda
Trojani acceperant ut minus saepe proelium facere

Graecis

Graeci

auderent.
498.

Decimo anno

Agamemnona*
incensus,

et

belli,

controversia

Achillem orta

pugna abstinere

est,

magna

inter

atque Achilles, ira

constituit.

Trojani,

cum

haec cognovissent, Graecos audacius adorti sunt, atque


naves eorum incendissent, nisi Patroclus, qui Achilli
amicissimus erat, eum rogavisset ut auxilio Graecis
veniret.
Neque Achilli persuadere potuit ut ipse in
*Some nouns of the third declension, borrowed from the Greek, have
the Greek ending -a in the accusative singular.

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proelium rediret

sed Achilles arma et equos suos

Patrocld dedit et milites suos subsidio Graecis labo-

Adventu. eorum Trojani repulsi sunt


sed Patroclus ipse ab Hectore, fortissimo ex filiis Priami,
Turn Achilles, mag-no dolore affectus,
interfectus est.
rantibus misit.

mortem amici

ulcisci contendit, et, rursus armis captis,


medios hostes irruit atque Hectora interfecit. Sed
post paucos dies ipse, a Paride vulneratus, cecidit, et
Graeci de victoria jam desperare coeperunt.

in

499.

Cum jam

multi hortarentur ut in Graeciam

reverterentur, Ulixes Graecis persuasit ut aliud con-

Equus Hgneus

silium inirent.

ingenti mag'nitudine est

effectus atque viris armatis completus est.

Turn

reliqui

Graeci in naves conscenderunt et se in Graeciam navigare simulabant. Trojani, non insidias suspicati, equum
in

urbem

eum

traxerunt,

cum

arbitrarentur Graecos miineri

Sed noctu Ulixes et Menelaus


ceterique qui se in equo abdiderant, egressi sunt et
custodes portarum necaverunt.
Turn reliqui Graeci,
dels

reliquisse.

signo dat5, in

urbem ex navibus

irruperunt.

aut interfecti sunt aut in servittitem abducti

Trojani
;

Troja

ipsa incensa est.


500.

Tandem

constituerunt.

Graeci, longo bello fessi,

Omnibus

igfitur

domum redire

rebus ad profectionem

paratis, naves dediixerunt et idoneam ad navigandum


tempestatem nacti magno cum gaudio naves solverunt.

Ulixes, qui

regnum

antequam cum

insulae Ithacae obtinuerat, paulo

ad bellum profectus est,


puellam formosissimam nomine Penelopen"* in matrimonium duxerat. Nunc igitur, cum jam decern annos
reliquis Graecis

* Some nouns of the first declension, borrowed from the Greek, have (in the
singular) -in the nom., -es in the gen., -en in the ace., and -e in the abl.

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quasi in exsilio consumpsisset,

magna

337

cupiditate patriae

vidondae ardebat.
Postquam tamen pauca
milia passuum a litore Trojae progress! sunt, tanta
lempestas subito coorta est, ut nulla navium cursum
Navis autem
renere posset, sed passim disjicerentur.
ilia, qua ipse Ulixes vehebatur, vi tempestatis ad meridiem delata, deeimo die ad litus Libyae pervenit.
et uxoris

The Lotus
501.

Ancoris

Bociis in terrain

jactis,

Eaters.

Ulixes

cxponere, qui

constituit

nonnullos e

aquam ad navem

refer-

rent et qualis esset natura ejus regfionis c6g"noscerent.

Hi igfitur e navi egress! imperata facere parabant. Dura


tamen fontem quaerunt, quidam ex incolis occurrunt
atque hospitio acceperunt. Accidit autem* ut miro quodam fructu quern lotum appellabant hi homines viverent.
Quern cum Graeci g-ustavissent, patriae et sociorum
statim oblitT, affirmaverunt semper se in ea terra mansuros, ut dulci illo cibo in perpetuum fruerentur.
502.

Ulixes,

exspectavisset,

cum ab hora septima ad'vesperum


veritus

net

socii

in

periculo

essent,

cognoscerent.

quae causa esset morae,


Hi igitur in terram expositi, cum ad

vieum qui non

long-e aberat pervenissent, socios suos

nonniillos e reliquis misit, ut,

reppererunt, atque eis persuadere


conabantur, ut secum ad navem redirent. Illi tamen
resistere ac manii se defendere coeperunt, saepe claquasi vino ebrios

mitantes se
ita

numquam ex eo loco

t
\

Quae cum

ad Ulixem redierunt. His


Ulixes ipse cum omnibus qui in navi

essentl, nuntii re infecta

rebus cognitis,
*

discessuros.

Translate aiiloiii by now, and Irfirlfi by on, literally by


After
verb ol fearing, n" tneana lest <>r th<tt.
Translate freely by muttr these circumstances.
;i

means

of.

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et socios frustra. hortatus


sunt ad locum venit
ut sponte sua redirent, manibus eorum post terga vinctis,
Turn, ancoris sublatis,
invitos ad navem reportavit.
relicti

quam

navem

celerrime e portu

solvit.

The Giant Polyphemus.


503.

Postero die postquam totam noctem remis con-

tenderant, ad terram Ignotam pervenerunt.

Turn, quod
naturam ejus regionis Ignorabat, ipse Ulixes cum duodecim e sociis in terram egressus loca explorare conPaulum a litore progress! specum ingentem
stituit.
invenerunt, quern, etsi intellegebant se non sine periculo
Ibi magnam copiam lactis
id facturos, intra verunt.
invenerunt in vasis ingentibus conditam. Dum omnes
mirantur quis eum locum incoleret, subito monstrum
horribile conspexerunt, humana quidem specie et figura,
sed ingenti magnitudine corporis.
Hunc gigantem
cum animadvertissent unum omnino oculum habere in
media fronte positum, intellexerunt hunc esse unum e
Cyclopibus, de quibus famam jam acceperant.*
504.

Graeci igitur, ubi monstrum viderunt, timdre


partem speluncae confugerunt.

perterriti in interiorem

Polyphemus autem

(id

sua in speluncam egit

enim gigantis nomen


;

turn

cum saxo

erat) pecora

ingenti portam

ignem in medio specu fecit. Mox cum


Graecos animadvertisset, magna voce clamavit. " Qui
estis homines ?
Turn
Mercatores ant praedones ?
Ulixes respondit sej neque mercatores esse neque praedandi causa venisse
sed e Troja redeuntes vi tempestatum a. cursu depulsos esse.
Oravit etiam ut se sine
obstruxisset,

'

'

had heard.
an is used with

Translate by

In double questions

Translate by they; Ulysses speaks for himself and his comrades.

the force of or.

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Turn Polyphemus, nullo


corripuit et membris

injuria discedere pateretur.

dato responso, duo e Graecis

eorum

divulsis

339

manu

carnem devorare

coepit.

505. Dum haec geruntur, Graecorum animos tantus


tenor occupavit, ut, omni spe salutis deposita, mortem
Polyphemus autem huml
praesentem exspectarent.

prostratus,

somno

se dedit.

Quod cum

vidisset Ulixes,

tantam oceasionem non amittendam arbitratus, in animo


Sed cum saxum animadhabebat gladio interficere.
vertisset, quo introitus obstructus erat, nihil se profecturum* intellexit, si Polyphemum interfecisset. Tanta
enim erat ejus saxi magnitudo, ut ne decern quidem
homines movere possent. Prima luce, Polyphemus jam
core somno excitatus idem quod superiore die fecit
reptis enim duobus e reliquis viris, carnem eorum sine
;

mora

cum

devoravit.

Turn,

cum saxum

pecore e specu prog:ressus

omnes oves

exierunt,

saxum

The Device

in

est,

locum

removisset, ipse

atque postquam
restituit.

of Ulysses.

Ulixes vero qui, ut supra demonstravimus, vir

506.

magnae

fuit prudentiae, etsi intellegebat

quantum

esset

nondum omnino desperabat, sed hoc cepit


Sub noctem cum Polyphemus ad specum
consilium.
rediisset et eodem modo quot antea cenavisset, Ulixes
periculum,

utrem vini prompsit, quern forte secum habebat, et


giganti dedit. Polyphemus, qui numquam antea vinum
gustaverat, statim hausit.
Hoc facto quaes! vit quo
nomine Ulixes appellaretur. Ille resi^ondit se Neminem
appellari. Quod cum audivisset, Polyphemus italocutus
est:

"

lane

tibi

gratiam pro tanto beneficio referam

From

Translate by as; compare

prfiiiclft. DO<

from

proll<-Is-or
493, fn.,

|.

note the quantity,

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340
te

ultimum omnium devorabo.

gravatus, brevi

His

'
'

somno oppressus
'

convocatis dixit

'

Habemus

dictis, cibo

est.

vinoque

Turn Ulixes

sociTs

quam

peti-

facultatem

Turn postquam quid fieri vellet ostendit, sudem


praeacutam conquirebat. Quam cum repperi.sset, igni
calefecit, atque oculum Polyphemi dum dormit transhoc facto, omnes in ultimas speluncae partes se
fodit

mus."

abdiderunt.
507. Turn ille subito illo dolore e somno excitatus,
clamorem maximum sustulit, et dum per speluncam
errat, Ulixem et socios manu comprehendere conabatur.
Cum tamen jam omnino caecus esset, nullo modo hoc
efficere potuit.
Interea reliqui Cyclopes clamore avidito
undique ad speluncam convenerunt et quid gereretur
quaesiverunt, et quam ob causam tantum clamorem
sustulisset.
Ille respondit se graviter vulneratum esse
cum tamen ceteri quaesivissent quis ei vulnus intulisset
respondit ille Neminem id fecisse. Quibus rebus auditis,
;

iinus e Cyclopibus dixit:

"Si nemo

te vulneravit, ap-

paret consilio deorum, quibus resistere nee possumus

nee volumus, hoc supplicio

te afhei."

His rebus

dictis

discesserunt Cyclopes, eum in insaniamincidisse arbitrati.

The
508.

Escape.

Polyphemus, ubi socios suos discessisse

sensit,

Ulixem iterum quaerere


coepit. Tandem cum portam invenisset, saxum removit,
ut pecus ad agros exiret. Turn ipse in introitii sedit et
ut* quaeque ovis ad locum venerat, tergum ejus manibus
furore atque amentia im pulsus

tractabat,

cum

ne

viri

Quod

inter oves effugere possent.

animadvertisset Ulixes, hoc

iniit

consilium

intel-

Translate as in 491, fn. although the clause here refers, not to manner,
(\\t = whenever).
The pluperfect following should be translated
by the English simple past.
*

but to time

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omncm spem

salutis in dolo magis quam in


Primum tres pingruissimas ex ovibus
quas cum inter se* conexuisset, unum sociorum

enim

lexit

poni.

virtute
delegit

341

ventribusf earum

ita subjecit,

hominem secum

ut omnino lateret. Deinde

ad portam egit.
Id
quod fore} suspicatus erat. Polyphemus enim,
postquam mantis tergfist earum imposuit, oves exire
passus est. E6dem modo Ulixes omnes socios emisit
oves,

ferentes,

accidit

ipse ultimus evasit.

His rebus ita confectis, Ulixes magnopere veritus


dolum sentiret, celeriter cum sociis ad
Polyphemus
lie
contendit
quo cum venissent, ab els, qui navi
fitus
509.

praesidio relletl erant,

Turn Ulixes non


maneret,

quam

magna cum

laetitia accept! sunt.

satis tiitum esse arbitratus si in

celerrime proficisci constituit.

omnes in navem conscendere


paulum a litore in altum provectus
igitur

eo loco
Jussit

et ancoris sublatis

Turn magna

est.

" Tu, Polypheme, qui jura hospitii


et debitam poenam solvisti."
Hac voce
audita, Polyphemus Ira incensus ad mare se contulit et
ubi intellexit navem paulum a litore remotam esse,
saxum ingens maim corripuit atque in earn partem
ponjecit, unde vocem venire sensit. Graeci autem, nullo
voce clamavit,
spernis, justam

accepto incommodo, cursum tenuerunt.

The

Island of Circe, the Enchantress.

BrevI intermisso spati6, Graeci Insulae cuidam


appropinquaverunt quam Circe, fllia Sol is, incolebat.
510.

'

Translate by to one another, literally

having
compound verbs, where
t

Tin- dative,

by the
t

prefix,

Literallj

See

th<>
it

among

la

would
t.

be, freely

is

often used with

freely translated bj the preposition buj

line innfrr (suit), and on <ln>.

502, fn.,

themselves,

Force of with reference to,

would oocur.

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E6 cum

pervenissent, Ulixes friimentandl causa navi

egredi constituit

cognoverat enim frumentum quod in

Sociis igitur ad se connavi haberent jam deficere.


quid
fieri vellet, ostendit.
loco
res
esset*
et
vocatis, quo in

Cum

tamen omnes memoriam retinerent criidelis mortis


eorum qui nuper in terram Cyclopum egressi erant,
nemo repertus est qui hoc negotium suscipere vellet.
Tandem res ad sortem revocatur, atque Eurylochus
cum duobus et viginti sociis in interiorem partem insulae
Vix poterant ei qui in navi relicti erant
proficiscitur.
lacrimas tenere credebant enim se socios suos numquam
;

iterum
511.

dam
ciijus

visiiros.
Illi

interea aliquantum progressi ad villain quan-

pervenerunt,

summa

ad januam cum

summa cum

benignitate

magnificentia aedificatam

adiissent,

omnes

invitavit ut introirent.

Eurylochus autem, insidias suspicatus,


constituit

reliqui

rei

ipsa Circe exiit et

novitate

foris exspectare

adducti intraverunt,

atque convivium magnificum invenerunt omnibus rebus


instructum.
Sed Circe vinum medicamento quodam
miscuerat quod cum illi bibissent, gravi sopore omnes
statim oppressi sunt.
Turn Circe baculo aureo quod
gerebat capita eorum tetigit quo facto I omnes in porcds
Interea Eurylochus ignarus quid
subito conversi sunt.
ageretur ad januam sedebat postquam tamen ad solis
;

occasum frustra exspectavit, ad navem solus reverti


constituit.
*

Translate freely by

how matters

stood.

Translate qui vellet by who was willing or to be willing.


relative
clause with the subjunctive is often used to characterize the antecedent as
belonging to a class.
t

Translate by whereupon, more literally this having been done.

Translate here by

at.

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Ulysses Comes to the Rescue.

Ulixes

512.

cum

intellexisset socios suos

in peri-

culo esse, gladio correpto, Eurylocho imperavit, ut sine

domum monstraret. Ille tamen


Ulixem complexus obsecrare coepit,
ne tantum periculum susciperet. Ulixes autem respondit se neminem invitum secum adducturum
ei licere,
si mallet, in navi manere
se ipsum sine ullo auxilio
mora viam ad

cnm

multis

illam

lacrimis

rem suscepturum.

Hoc cum magna voce

dixisset, e

navi desiluit.

Aliquantuin progressus subito conspexit adnlescentem


forma pulcherrima, aureum baculum manii gerentem.
Hie rogat
Quo proficisceris ? Nonne scis hanc esse
Circes domum? Hie inclusi sunt amici tux, ex humana
Num vis ipse idem malum
specie in porcos con vers!
pati ?
Ulixes simul ac vocem audivit adulescentem
nullo tamen modo ab
esse deum Mercurium sensit
consilio deterreri potuit. Quod cum Mercurius sensisset,
herbam quandam ei dedit, quam contra carmina plurimum valere dicebat. "Hanc cape," inquit, "et ubi
'

'

'

'

Circe te baculo

tetig-erit,

destricto gladio,

impetum

in

earn fac."

The Enchantress

Foiled.

Brevi intermisso spatio, Ulixes ad omnia peri-

513.

cula subeunda paratus ad villain pervenit atque ab ipsa

Omnia eodem modo quo


Circe benigne exceptus est.
Mox, ubi fames cibo depulsa est,
antea facta sunt.
Ille,
Circe poculum aureum vino repletum Ulixi dedit.
venenum sibi paratum esse, poculum
Quo facto, Circe, postquam caput ejus baculo

etsi suspicatus est

exhausit.
tetigit,

ea verba locuta est quibus socios ejus antea in

porcos converterat.

atque

ilia

speraverat.

Res tamen omnino aliter evenit


Tanta enim vis erat ejus herbae

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quam dederat Mercurius, ut neque venerium neque


verba quidquam efficere possent-. Deinde Ulixes, slcut
jusserat Mercurius, gladio destricto, impetum in earn
fecit et

mortem minitabatur.

artem suam

nihil

valere,

Turn
multis

Circe,

cum

cum

lacrimis

sensisset

eum

obsecrare coepit, ne interficeret.


514.

Ulixes autem ubi sensit earn timore perterritam

mora in humanam speciem


minus*, ostendit se statim earn necaturum.
His rebus Circe vehementer commota ad pedes ejus se
projecit et multis cum lacrimis pollicita est se, quae ille
imperavisset, omnia factiiram. Ita sociis receptis Ulixes
nuntium ad navem misit, qui reliquis Graecis quae facta
esse, postulavit ut socios sine

reduceret

si

essent niintiaret.

Atque multa alia pericula Ulixes subiit sed tandem


inpatriam suam ipse pervenit incolumis, omnibus sociis
amissis, atque ibi uxorem Penelopen vivam et salvam
repperit, atque cupide reditum suum exspectantem.
;

Translate si

minus by otherwise

or if not.

Coin of Antoninus Pius.

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517.

347

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348

adjectives.
Adjectives of First and Second Declensions.

520.
(a)

bonus, bona,

bonum

65,

(b)

liber, libera,

liberum

72,

(c)

aeger, aegra,

aegrum

acre

(a) acer, acris,

113,

(6)

fortis, forte

113,

(c)

felix

113,

(d)

prudens

113,

page
"
"
"

67
68

68
68

Declension of Comparatives.

522.

(a) fortior, fortius


(b)

For

72,

Adjectives of Third Declension.

521.

523.

page 37

170,

plus

197,

page 105
" 121

Irregular Adjectives of First and Second Declensions.

unum

(a)

Gnus, una,

(b)

neuter, neutra,

list of* adjectives

205, page 126

neutrum

with gen. in -lus and

"

205,
dat. in

-I,

126

see 207, page

Numerals.

524.
CARDINAL.
1.

2.

unus
duo

primus
secundus or alter

3.

tres

tertius

4.

quattuor

quartus

5.

quinque

quintus

6.

sex

sextus

7.

septem

septimus

8.

octo

octavus

9.

novem

10.

decern

11.

undecim
duodecim

nonus
decimus
undecimus
duodecimus

12.

128.

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13,

349

350

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PRONOUNS.

526.

Personal, Reflexive and Possessive Pronouns.

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351

TLURAL.

SINGULAR.

Cm.

fijusdem

eadem
eaedem
Uidem
Bjusdem ejusdem eorundem earundem eorundem

Dai.

eldem

eldem

Xom. idem

An\
AN.

>adei

eandem
eadem

eundem
eodem

eidem

/eisdem,

eisdem,

uisdem
eosdem

iisdem

iisdem

easdem

eadem

f eisdem,

eisdem,

eisdem,

Uisdem

iisdem

iisdem

eisdem,

Relative Pronoun.

SINGUL

PLURAL.

u;.

NEUT.

FKM.

NEl'T.

MASC.

FEM.

quae

quod

qui

quae

quae

cujus

cujus

cujus

quorum

quarum

quorum

quibus
quas
quibus

quae

IfASC.

Xom. qui
)).

feidem,

idem
eodem

528.

Ch

idem

J)af.

cui

cui

cui

quibus

Ace.

quern

quam

Abl.

quo

qua

quod
quo

quos
quibus

quibus
quibus

Interrogative Pronoun.

529.

SINGULAR.
MASC.

Xom. quis

(qui)

FEM.

NK1T.

quae

quid (quod) qui

MASC.

FEM.

NEUT.

quae

quae

quorum

<!< a.

cujus

cujus

cujus

quorum

quarum

Dot.

cui

cui

cui

quibus

quibus

quibus

Ace.

quern

quam

Abl.

quo

qua

quid (quod) quos


quibus
quo

quas
quibus

quae
quibus

530.

Indefinite Pronouns.

page 307

(a)

quis (qui)

qua (quae)

quid (quod)

455,

(b)

aliquis (aliqui)

aliqua

aliquid (aliquod)

456,

308

(c)

quisquam

quidquam

456,

808

quidque (quodque)
quiddam (quoddam)
quid vis (quodvis)
utrumque

456,

808

456,

308

456,

808

456,

.'{its

{d)
(e)

quisque
quidani

(/) quivis
(g)

uterque

quaeque

quaedam
quaevis

utraque

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VERBS.

531.

Indicative Active.

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532.

Indicative Passive.

Present.
First Conjug.

353

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354
533.

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534.

355

356

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53

357

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358
545.

DEPONENT VERBS.

Indicative, 314, page 199.


'

Subjunctive, 370, page 241.

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PLUPERFECT.
ftteram

fueramus

fuissem

fuissemus

fueras

fueratis

fuisses

fuissetis

fuerat

fuerant

fuisset

fuissent

FUTURE PERFECT.
fuerO

fuerimus

fueris

fueritis

fuerit

fuerint

359

360
IMPERF.

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The Appian

553.

Way

(Via Appia).

(age

363

17.)

" He drove abroad, in furious guise,

Along the Appian way."

The Romans were the most skilful builders of enduring roads the
world has ever known. The most celebrated highway constructed
by them is the Appian Way, which even at the present day well
merits its ancient title "Queen of Roads." It was built by Appius
Claudius Caecus about 312 B.C. and extends some 350 miles south-east
from Rome to Brindisi, the ancient Brundisium, the regular port of
departure for Greece. The road-bed is paved with stones, and is
about 16 feet wide.

Tomb

554.
"

On

of Caecilia Metella.

(Page 32.)

Thus much alone we knowMetella died,


The wealthiest Roman's wife : Behold his

each side of the Appian

love or pride."

Way, near Rome, were tombs of famous

citizens.
One of these tombs is that built in the time of Julius
Caesar in honor of Caecilia Metella, the wife of the triumvir Crassus.
It stands about two or three miles from the city gate, and is an
immense circular pile about 70 feet in diameter, built of great blocks
The marble with
of hewn stone on a quadrangular foundation.
which the basement was formerly coated was removed about three
centuries ago to make the fountain of Trevi in Rome.

The

555.

Pantheon.

(Page

" Sanctuary

Of

art

64.)

and home

and pietyPantheon /pride of Rome."

The Pantheon

(the temple of all the gods), the best preserved


Romans, was built by Marcus Agrippa 27 B.C.,
as an inscription on the portico still bears witness.
It is now the
Church of Sta. Maria della Rotonda. Its diameter is about 140 feet
and its height practically the same. The vast rotunda is lighted by
a circular opening, 27 feet in diameter, at the apex of the dome. In
front is a splendid portico, 1 10 feet wide and 45 feet deep, composed
of 16 Corinthian columns of granite 13 feet in circumference and
39 feet high.
edifice of the ancient

556.

The Colosseum

(Flavian Amphitheatre).

(Page 81.)

" While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand,


When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall."

The Colosseum, of which only about one-third remains, is the


largest theatre and one of the most imposing structures in the world.
It was begun by the Emperor Flavins Vespasianus, and oompleted by
Since the 8th century it has
his son Titus in the year 80 A.n.
generally been called the ( 'olosseom, after the colossal statue of Nero

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which formerly stood close by. It is more than 600 feet long and
The arena was about 280 feet by 175. The encircling
500 wide.
In the Colosseum
wall rises in four stories to the height of 156 feet.
took place gladiatorial combats and fights with wild beasts. It was
capable of holding 87,000 spectators seated, or about 100,000 in all.
557.

The Claudian Aqueduct.

(Page 113.)

This famous aqueduct was built by the Emperor Claudius about


50 a. d. It was constructed for the purpose of conveying water to
Rome from the lakes and springs in the Alban hills, a distance of
about 45 miles. Its ruins are now a striking feature of the Roman
Between 300 B.C. and 300 a.d. fourteen aqueducts were
Campagna.
built to supply Rome, and others were constructed in various parts of
the Empire, such as the one at Nemausus (now Nismes, or Nimes)
in southern Gaul (page 239).

Cloaca Maxima.

558.

(Page 113.)

" The Great Drain," which is about half a mile in length, was constructed in the time of Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth king of Rome
(about 600 B.C.), for the purpose of rendering habitable the low
After an
ground which formed the site of the Roman Forum.
extremely tortuous course it empties into the Tiber a little below the
Island.
Several natural streams of water are collected in this drain
and still run through it. Near its mouth it is formed by three tiers
of arches, one within the other, the innermost being a semicircular
vault about 12 feet high
elsewhere it has a single arch with
;

occasional bands.
559.

Trajan's Column.

(Page 128.)

This column, which stands in Trajan's Forum, is of marble, and


was erected in 114 a.d. It is about 130 feet high, including the
base, with a diameter of 11 feet at the bottom and 10 feet at the top.
It was formerly crowned by a statue of Trajan, but this was replaced
in the 16th century by one of St. Peter.
A series of bas-reliefs representing scenes in Trajan's Dacian campaign, forms a spiral, 3 feet
wide and 660 feet long, round the shaft of the pillar. The reliefs are
2 feet high at the bottom and gradually increase in size as they go
upward, thus making the figures at the top and bottom seem of equal
size.
One of these scenes is represented on page 269. It is said that
the bones of Trajan were buried under the column.
560.

Triumphal Arches.

(Pages 160, 273.)

These arches, so characteristic of the ancient Romans, were erected


in the most frequented streets to commemorate the victories of
generals or emperors.
According to the space available, they had a
single arch, or three arches, a large one in the centre for carriages,
and two smaller ones for foot-passengers. Ancient writers mention
21 such arches in Rome. The arch of Septimius Severus (75 feet high
and 82 feet broad) was erected in honor of that emperor and his two

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sons in \. d. 203 to commemorate his victories over the Parthians and


Arabians.
The arch of Constantine, the best preserved of these
struct inrs, was erected by the Senate and the people of Rome after
the defeat of Maxentius in 311 a.d., when Constantine declared
himself in favor of Christianity.
561.

The Baths

of Caracalla.

(Page 177.)

Many

magnificent baths {thermae) were constructed at Rome by


various emperors, among them those built by Caracalla about 215 a.d.
These were of sncb extent as to accommodate 1,600 bathers at one
time.
The magnificent suite of marble halls devoted to the various
baths, gymnasia and galleries, was surrounded by a belt of gardens;
the halls were richly decorated with statues, columns, bas-reliefs and
mosaics.
These baths covered a space 360 yards square; to-day
they form the largest mass of ruins in Rome, except the Colosseum.
562.

The Roman Forum.


"Now thy Forum roars
fallot

(Pages 209, 224, 256.

no longer,

every purple Caesar's dome."

The Forum, originally the open tract lying between the Capitoline
and Palatine hills, was afterwards closely surrounded by temples,
In the Forum the citizens assembled to discuss
shops and basilicas.
affairs of state and to transact private business; there justice was
administered, and there, from the rostra, orators harangued the
people.
It was, in a word, the heart of the Roman Empire.
According to an old tradition, it was in the Forum that the Sabine women,
in the days of Romulus, intervened to make peace between the
Romans and the Sabines (page 65).
563.

The

Basilica of Constantine.

(Page 321.)

The Basilicas of ancient Rome were splendid public buildings


(commonly adorned with columns and statues) which served both as
halls of justice and as business exchanges.
The basilica became
the ty|>e of the earliest buildings for Christian worship, and the name
is still given to the larger churches in Rome.
The Basilica of Constantine, built about 312 a.d. had a nave and two aisles, and was
320 feet in length and 235 feet in breadth. There remain now only
time gigantic arches of the north aisle.
,

564.

The

Spoils of Jerusalem.

(Page 336.)

Spanning, the Sacred Way is the arch of Titus, erected to 0001


memorate the conquest of Judea by Vespasian and his son Titus in
7<> B.C.
On the inner side of the single arch are has relict's, rcpre
senting on the one side the triumph of Titus, and on the other the
spoils taken from the temple at Jerusalem, including the seven
branched golden candlestick, the golden table and the silver rumpets,
spoils which had been brought to Home and deposited in one of its
t

temples.

VOCABULARIES
LATIN-ENGLISH.
[The numbers refer

to sections.]

adventus,
a, ab, prep, with abl.,

from by on.
abd5, ere -didl, -dltum, hide, con
;

ceal.

abdficft, ere, -duxi,

away, carry

-ductum, carry

off.

-jectum, throw

away.
abstine5, ere, nl, -tentum, hold
aloof, abstain.

absum, abesse,

afiil,

be away, be

distant, be absent.

ac, conj., and,

and

also.

accedo, ere, -cessl, -cessum, approach,

draw

near.

accidd, ere, -cidi, happen, befall.

Acbilles,

is, m., Achilles,

um,

a,

aestas, -tatis,

build.

fair, right.

v.,

summer.

afflclo, ere, -lecl, -fectuni,


affect,
visit, overcome.
affirmo, are, avl, atum, declare.
Agameninfiii, -onis, m., Agamemnon, a Grecian king.

ager, agrl, m., land,

field, territory.

agger, -eris,

m.,

aggredior,

-gressus

I,

mound.

sum,

attack.

n., line of

march,

column.
ago, ere, egl, actum, drive,

the hero

forward

of Homer's Iliad.
acies, 1,

atum,

aegre, adv., with difficulty,


scarcely.

agmen, -minis,

acclpiS, ere, -cepl, -ceptum, re


ceive ; suffer.

arrival, approach.

Aedul, orum, m. plur., the


Aedui,
a tribe in central Gaul.

aequns,

abjicift, ere, -jecl,

f.s, m.,

aedifico, are, avl,

do

alacritas, -tatis,

f., line (of battle).

aliquantum,

move

treat, confer.
p.,

adv.,

ardor, activity.

some

acriter, adv., fiercely, vigorously.


ad, prep, with ace, to,
towards,
against with a view to, for

allquis(-qul), -qua, -quid (-quod),

adduce,

a liter, adv., in another

bring

someone, something [456].

until.

ere,
-dfixi,
-ductum,
influence, induce, move.

adeo, Ire,
approach,

-ii,

.,,,,

advance;

aditus, Us, m., approach,


means of
approach.

adorlor,

Irl,

-ortus

ftvl,

sum,

alter, era,
alt

atum,

-esse, -ful,

at hand.

adulescens, -entis,

II

I,

be present, be

young man.

366

n.,

altum,

as noun, the sea.

amentia, ae,

f.,

frenzy, madness.

a illicit la, ae,

f.,

friendship.

amicus,
m.,

erum, the other [207].

iido, -dials, f., height,


depth.

altus, a, urn, high, deep

attack,

assault.

adsnm,

way; allter

atque, otherwise than.


alius, a, ud, other, another
[207].
Alpes, lum, f. plur., the Alps.

visit.

administro,
Are,
manage, attend to.

distance.

a,

um,

friendly; superl.,

closest or dearest friend.

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amicus.

I,

angeo,

M., friend.

am pit us. adv., co m parative,fuvther,


aurora, no,

angustus,

au cm,

anchor.

P.,

a, urn,

, .

aut, either.

I,

M.,

aiixlllum,

I,

n., aid,

help; plur.,

auxiliaries, reinforcements.

animus. I, m., spirit,


annus, I, M., year.

Averts, ere,

heart.

anlo, prep, with arc, before.


uutcfi, aih:, before, previously.

aiitcquam.

inn. open, clear

a,

baculum,

I, n., staff,

barbarus,

I,

Belga, ae,

m., Belgian.

aside.

wand.

m., barbarian.

un-

um,

hclllrftsus, a,

appareo. fre,

ill.

Hum. be clear.be

appropinquo, are,

avl,

alum,

ap-

proach, with dot.

F.,

beiieffclum,

be n In ne.

m.,

Arar, a riter

kindness, favor.

I, n.,

courteously,

adv.,

with

kindness.

benlg alias,

water.

war.

bene, adv., well.

apud, prep, with arc, with, among.


Arar, Araris,

I, N.,

warlike.

alum, make war.

bellft, Are, Avl,

helium,

evident.

appel 10. are, Avl, alum, name, call.

aqua, ae,

sum, turn

-tl,

conj., before.

protected.

-lalls,

f.,

kindness,

courtesy.

in

bibo, ere, blbl, drink.

(ia ul.

sum,

alus

arbltror. Art,

think,

consider.

bonus,

um,

a,

good.

brevl, adv., soon, in a short time.

Ardeo, ere, ArsI, arsum, burn, be


tired.

brevis,

e, short, brief.

Britannia, ae,

Arlovlslus,

I,

M., Aiiovistus,

a Ger-

It

rif

annus,

Britain.

p.,

I, M.,

Briton.

king,

anna, orum, N. pi in:, arms.


armalus, a, urn, armed.

eado, ere, cceldl, easuni,

ars, arils,

caecus, a,

p.,

ait.

conj., and,

atquc.

and

also.

aiictor, -lorls, m., advocate, adviser.

auetoritas,
weight.

-tails,

P.,

influence,

audax,

fall.

hlind.

Caesar, -arls, m., Caesar, c^prrially


Caius Julius Caesar, /"" 44 B,V,

calamltAs,

-lAtls, v., disaster, de-

ealct'arlft, ere, -reel, -racliun, heat

-Arts, hold, daring.

audio, fro, ausus sum, venture,

cap 10, ere, ccpl, eapluui, take,


capt in-.- take up adopt, form.
;

capilvus,

[813].

audio. Ire,

um,

feat.

audftctcr, adv., boldly.

dare

or.

autumn.

a illiniums,

notice,

however.

conj., but,

-sum,

-II,

observe.

man

golden.

narrow, scanty.

animadvertft, err,

apertus,

um,

aureus, a,

in-

N.B.].

[225,

ant, conj., or ; aut

any more.

auclnm,

anxl,

rrc,

crease

a mi Ho. ere, -mlsl, -nilssum, lose.

367

IvI,

Hum,

hear.

I, m.,

prisoner, captive.

caput, capitis. v,

liead.

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368

carmen, -minis

n.,

song; charm,

incantation,

[125],

cSgnSscS, ere, cSgnSvI, cSgnltum,

faro, mrnls.

f., flesh.

earrus,

cart,

I, M.,

coepl, Isse, began

learn, find out, ascertain

perfect,

know.

wagon.

eastra, oriim, N. plur., camp.


abl.
causa, ac, f., cause, reason
causa, for the sake (of), for the
purpose (of) [181].

cogo, ere, coegl, coactum, collect;


compel, force.

ccssnm, give way,

ceild. ere, cessl,

cohors, cohortls,

hill.

celer, erls, ere, swift, speedy.

col loco, arc, avl.

celerltas, -tat Is, f., swiftness, speed.

colloquium,

quickly,

celerlter, adv.,
speedily, soon.

cend, are,

iivi,

swiftly,

Alum,

n.,

station.

interview, con-

-locutus sum, have

I,

an interview, confer.

a I inn, dine.

co in in cat us, us, m., supplies, provisions.

centurion.

-dn'ls, m.,

I,

ference.

colloquor,

cent nm, a hundred.

centurid,

cohort.

urge, exhort.
col I Is, Is, m.,

retire.

f.,

cohortor, art, iitus sum, encourage,

cerl us, a, nm, fixed, certain


tiorem faclo, inform.

cer-

cCterl, ae, a, the others, the rest.

co in in In us, adv., hand to hand, at


close range.

commlttS, ere, -mis!, -mlssum,


join, engage entrust.
co m moved, ere, -indvi. -indium,
;

dims,

m., food.

I,

lrc5, ?s.

P.,

Circe,

a sea-nymph and

sorceress.

clrclter, adv.

and

prep, with ace,

about.

e,

common,

surround, enclose.

circumvents,

clvis, is, m., citizen.


-t fit

Is, f.,

citizenship

state,

country.

clamlto, are, avl, at nm, cry out.

clamd, are, avl, atiim, shout, cry


out.

clamor,

-oris, m., shout, shouting,

outcry.
classls, Is, f., fleet.

-pull,

-pulsum,

I,

-plexus sum, em-

brace.

compleS,

nearer
('tterlor
Pallia, liither Gaul, south of the
Alps and north of Italy.
-oris,

citerlor,

ere,

get

drive.

complector,

Ire, -venl, -vent nm,

surround.

atiim,

are, avl,
together, procure.

compellS,

clrcumdo, dare, -dedl, datum,

general,

public.

comparS,
with ace, around,

clrciim, prep,
about.

clvltils,

alarm, dismay, disturb, excite.

communis,

ere, evl, ctuni,

fill.

complfires, a {gen. -iiim), several.

comports, are,

avl,
together, collect.

alum, bring

comprehends, ere, -hendi, -hensum, seize, catch.


co ncedd, -ere, -cessl, ecssum, grant,
yield.

concilium, I, N., meeting, council.


condd, ere, -dldl, -dltum, store, put

away; found.
cdnect 5,

-neviii,
ere,
fasten together.

-nexum,

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odnferd, forre, couliilT. collaliim.
collect, gather, convey; se conferre, betake one's self, go.

spend

ere, -tend!, -tenliim.


strive; hasten; contend.

contliicns, -en lis, incessant, continual unbroken, continuous.

dot

sum, trust,

contciidd,

accomplish con feci us, exhausted.


ere, -flsus

with

[3131

coul incus, -en I is,

coiirirmo, arc avi. fiiimi, strengthen encourage, arouse establish


;

coiijircdlnr,

-fftjsi, flee,

-gr CM iM

I,

sum,

en-

gage, fight

coiitliiciitcr, adv., continually, con-

conl hied, ere, ul, -lenluiii, confine,


restrain, hem in enclose, bound.
;

conl limns,

eonjlcld, ere, -jccl. jocluin, hurl,

throw.
unite, join [282, X.H.].

-venl, -veiilum,
Ire,
together, assemble.

come

ediiscendd, ere, -srendl, -scensuni,

eon vlvliim,

embark.

cdiiscrlhd. ere, -scrips!, -scrlptuiii,

attain, acquire.

I,

-verll,

N., feast,

banquet.

alum,

avi,

sire,

-vcrsum,

N.B.].

[282,

call to-

summon.

out.

-sedi,

f., plenty, supply, abundplur., forces, troops.

edpia, ae,

ance

MtMUV, en

cdpidsus. a, u m, rich.

camp.
consilium.

I,

.\\,

communl

pose

mon

consent.

cdnslsid, ere,

plan, design, pur-

cdnsllid,

-si 111,

by com-

take up posi-

halt.

conspectus,

m., sight,

k.,

<

rassus,

I,

lira,

a,

um,

m.,

-repliim.

daily.

Crassus, a

Roman

brum, frequent, nunier

consult

rrftld, ere, -did!,

eriUMlte,

e, ci in

erndriiter,

custom.

ere, -ul, luui,

take thought.

wing.

mis.

cdnsuescd, ere, -siicvl, -siicliiui,


become accustomed [243, N.B.].

cdnsiild,

body.

corrlpld, ere, -rlpul,


snatch up, seize.

ere her,

appoint

cdnsiictudd, -din Is,

N.,

name.

cdnslllud, ere, -ul, Alum, deter


tix,

horn

lis, N.,

corpus, -oris,

cotldlc, adv., daily, every das

view.

see, observe.

corn a,

colldlanus,
lis,

ere, -spexi, -spcrluiii.

rdiisplcld,

mine

eoiivocd,
gether,

-sccutus sum, over-

cdnsldd, ere,

ere,

change

turn,

eoorlor, Irl, -ortus sum, arise, break

enrol, enlist.
I,

quarrel, dis-

con veil Id,

attempt

try.

eonverld,

ennsequor,

f.,

pute.

roiiquTrd. ere, -qulsivl, -qiilsltuin.


look about for.

tion

successive.

con Ira, prep, with ace, against.

ere, -jun\I, -jniietiiiu,

eonor. arl, alus sum.

um,

a,

conl rdversla, ae,

conjuugd,

mainland, con-

tinuously.

cdnfugid, ere,

take

F.,

tinent.

declare.

climb

um,

-sumps!, -slimpl
exhaust, destroy.

rdiisiiuid, ere,

ednfletd. re, -feci, rectum, finish,

con lido,

369

-dllum. believe.

1.

adv.,

cruelly,

cruelty.
;

cum,

prep, with

ttibL,

with.

with

370
cam,

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con*.,

when;

df-mum,

since, as.

densns,

cupide, adv., eagerly.


cupldltfts, -tatis,

F.,

eager,

away, drive, remove.


depono, ere, -posuf, -posllum. lay
down; deposit; put away, abandon.

fond.

dcsllio, Ir, -sllui, -sultum, leap

cur, adv., why.

down.

ciirsns, us, m., course.

custos,

thick, dense.

depello, ere, -pull, -pulsum, drive

desirous,

urn,

a,

um,

eagerness, long-

ing.

cupldus,

adv., at length.

a,

guard, keeper.

-fulls, m.,

Cyclops, -opls, m., Cyclops, one of


a fabulous race of giants, in Sicily..

dfslsto, ere,

-si ill.

-si It

um.

cease,

abandon.
desperfi, are, avl,

alum,

despair.

destringo, ere, -strlnxl, -strlctmn,


draw, unsheathe.
tie,

prep, with abl., down from, from,


concerning, about, of.

down

debit us, a, urn, due, proper, well


deserved.

decedo, ere,
draw.

-cessum, with-

-cessl,

be lacking.
ul,

Hum,

deter,

df'iiiieo,

ere, ul,

-tentum, detain,

I,

m.,

a god.

devoro, are, avl, alum, devour,

nm,

deditio, -onis,

tenth.

surrender

f.,

[263].

df do, ere, -didl, -ditum, surrender

dictum,

dlco, ere, dlxl,


appoint, fix.

say,

speak

dies, el, m., day.

dediied, ere, -dfixl, -ductmii, lead


off, withdraw draw down, launch.

dlfiicultas, -talis, f., difficulty.

defends, ere, -fendi, -fensnm, de-

diligenter, adv., carefully.

fend.

defender.

m.,

dCncio, ere,
give out.

-feci,

-fectmn,

fail,

ere,

-jeel,

dislodge

jectnm, cast

disappoint.

deligd, are, avl, alum,

tie,

moor.

dellgo, ere, -legf, -tectum, choose.

deinonstro, are, avl, alum, point


out, explain mention, make men;

care, diligence.
fight, en-

gage.

dimltto, ere, -misi. -mlssum. send


out, despatch dismiss.
;

disccdo, ere, -cessl, -cessum, withdraw, depart, leave.

delnde, adv., then, next.

f.,

dlmico, are, avl, atuni,

defero, -ferre, -full, -latum, carry


down bring report.

tion.

dillgens, -enlis, careful, diligent.

diligentia, ae,

defensor, -oris,

down

difllcllis, e, difficult, hard.

N.B.].

dejlclo,

eat.

dexter, tra, trnni, right.

cree, assign.
a,

ere,

hinder.

deus,

decernfl, ere, -crevl, -cretum, de-

decimus,

deterreS,

delay.

decern, ten.

[282,

desum, deesse, deful, be wanting,

dlscessns,
drawal.

tts,

M., departure, with-

disjicio, ere, -jeci, -jectnm, scat


ter.

dispono,

ere, -posni, -posllum,


place (at intervals), post.

dissimilis,

e,

dissimilar, unlike.

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dlsto, Are, be apart.
ere,

lisi rlbiio.

-ill,

distribute, allot

Pjlelft,

-Alum,

-vulsum, tear

tlhiilo. ere, -visi,

visum, divide,

separate.

e nl m. conj., for.

docco. ere,

111.

cqiiltls,

horse-soldier;

m.,

ex-

equesler, tra,

Iruiii.

cavalry,

of

cavalry.

dolor, -oris,
I,

MM

equltatiis, As, M., cavalry.

pain, grief.

cunning;

M., craft,

trick.

home dohome, towards home; do-

dooms,

house,

ns, v.,

muiii.

mo, from home,


dormlo, Ire, IvI. itum, sleep.
duhllo, Are, Avi, Alum, hesitate;
have doubts.

two hundred.

dueo, ere, dfivi, duelum, lead.


e,

o,

I,

m., horse.

rriiiiipo.

while

[273].

-ru pi,

ernpllo, -mils,
et, conj.,

and

etsl, conj.,

rnpliim,

f., sally, sortie.

ct

. .

both

et,

and.

even, also.

although.

Eiiryloclius,

Eurylochus, a

m.,

I,

companion of Ulysses.

e"

two.

atum, wander.

ere,

break out, sally out.

sweet pleasant.

conj.,

duo, ae,

equiis,

erro, are, avi,

el lam, adv.,

diicentl, ae, a,

diim,

go.

plur., cavalry.

plain.

dulcis,

Hum,

eo, adv., thither, there, thereon.

eques,

datum, give.
doctum, teach,

do, dare, dedl,

-mlssum, send

ere, -mfsi,

eo. Ire, II (IvI),

asunder.

dolus,

ere, -jeel, -jeeliim, throw


sC fjleere, rush out.

out.

diA, adv., long, for a long time.


dlvellfi, -ere, -velll,

cm It to,

divide.

out

assign,

371

vado, ere, -vAsI, -vasum, escape.

eveulo, Ire, -vCnl, -vcutuiii, turn

duodeelm, twelve.

out.

duodevlglutl, eighteen.

ex, prep, with abl., out

duplex,

exefdfi, ere, -eessl, -cessuiu, with-

twofold, double.

-Iris,

dux, duels,

m., leader, guide.

e,

ceive,

ex. prep, with "hi., out of, from, of.

chrlus,

a,

mil, drunken.

edAco, ere, -dflxl, -duetum, lead


out.
-feel,

eflTiiglo, ere, -fAgl,

escape,

from ago.

ego, mel.

-efpl,

-ccptiim, re-

welcome.

exellfl, are, avi,

exeA, Ire,

-II,

alum,

arouse.

-Hum. go

out,

go

forth, leave.

exhaurlA,

Ire,

I,

land.

egreglc, adv., excellently.

-11111181,

-liaiisliim,

drain.

exlslluio. Are,
consider.

cxprdlft, Ire,

I.

-gressus sum, go forth,


disembark.
lea\ e
forth

egredlor,
issue

of.

exerelliis. As, m., army.

-ledum, effect,
accomplish, make; construct, build.

eftlelo, ere,

egl,

from,

draw.
cxelplA, ere,

of,

make

read]

marching

Avi,

IvI,
;

Alum,

Hum,

evpedllus,

set

think,

free,

in light.

order.

expcllft, ere, -pull, -|ulsum, drive

out.

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fled,

exploriitor, -toris, m., scout.

expldro,

fire,

Pvi,

ere,

etuiii,

reconnoitre.

Hurt us,

put
out In terrain expono, land, put

flfimen, -minis,

cxpdnd,

ere, -posul, -posltuiii,

ashore.

wait

ilre,

(for)

extrf in us,

wave.
n., river.

flud, ere, tliixl, fluxiim, flow.


m., river.

i,

fons, font Is, m., spring, fountain.


foris, adv.,

out of doors, outside.

forma, ae,

P.,

n., exile.

i,

exspeeto,

M.,

fls,

fluvius,

expfigno, are, avl, atum, storm,


take by storm.
cxsilluiii,

weep, be in

tears.

atum, examine,

avi,

alum, await,

avl,

expect

a, urn,

fdrmdsus,

wait.

outermost

most

form, appearance.

um,

a,

beautiful.

by chance, as

forte, adv.,

it

hap-

pened.

distant, remotest.

fortis, e, brave.

fortiter, adv., bravely, gallantly.


I01I

faeile, adv., easily.

if

u do, din Is,

p.,

farills. e, easy.

farlo, ere, feci, far* urn,

do

make,

I'ai-u lias,

-1:11 is,

p.,

opportunity

fossa, ae, P., trench.

shatter

crush.

abundance.

frsiter, -tris, m., brother.

lalsiis, a, inn, false.

from, front is,

fa ma, ae, f.,

rumor, report.

fructus, us, m., fruit.

fames,

hunger.

is, p.,

frii

fer, adv., almost, nearly.

ferox ferre, lull, latum, bear, carry,


bring endure, stand.
;

fessus, a, inn, wearied.

lldes,

el,

faithfulness,

frnmciitum,
i,

flgiira, ae, P., shape, figure.

fllia, ae, p.,

i,

end

P.,

enjoy, with

flee, es-

territory.

sum, be made be
;

happen.

t.allia, ae, F., Gaul.

<<allHs,

i,

gaudlum,
genus,

i,

firmus,

Germanus,

11m, strong.

n., joy, rejoicing.

-erls, n., kind, sort.

<-

rni

a Gaul.

m.,

f Irino, arc, avi, alum, strengthen.


a,

sum,

flight [211, 289].

phir., borders,

flnitimus, a, 11111, neighboring,


adjacent as noun, neighbor.

[271].

grain, corn.

n.,

frflrtus

furor, -oris, M.,rage, frenzy.

m., son.

fio, fieri, faetiis

of grain

fugld, ere, fflgi, fiigltum,


cape.

daughter.

finis, is, m.,

11111,

frfisf ra, adv., in vain.

fuga, ae,

fidelity.

I,

nienl fir I ns, a,

abl.

faitlf,

P.,

forehead.

f.,

frfimentor, siri, atus sum, forage,


get provisions.

fruor,

ttilells. e, faithful.

done

re-

franco, ere, fregi, fractum, break,

build.

f ilius,

bravery.

fortune plur.,
sources, possessions, property.

fortfiiia, ae, f.,

nia. ae,
i,

Germany.
German.

P.,

m.,

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gvrd, ore, gessl, gestmu, carry,
conduct carry on, wage ; passive,
be done, take place; rts gesta,
exploit, deed,

hosulllmii,
host is,

I,

is, m.,

n., hospitality.

enemy.

hfte, adv., hither, here.

human.

hfliiiuiiiis, a, urn,

glgfta, -anils,

giant.

.m.,

tin

Kladlus,

I,

if.,

Graeela, ae,

sword.

v.,

373

ml, adv., on the ground.

Greece.
I

(iraccus,

I,

m.,

Greek.
Ihl, adv., there.

gratia, ae, v., gratitude; grftiiam


refer*, make a return.

gravis,
deep.

e,

idem, eadem, Idem, the same.


Iddiieus, a, urn,

heavy, severe, serious;

fit,

suitable.

Igltur, adv., accordingly, therefore.

gru 'titer,

culv., seriously,

iguuriis, a, urn, ignorant, not

severely.

grave, Are, AvI, Atuiii, overcome

Ignis,

gravAtus, heavy.

m., Are.

in,

Igndrd, Are, Avi, Alum, not know,


be ignorant (of).

gusld, are, avi. alum, taste.

Igiidtus, a, inn,

H
liahro, ere, hi, limn,

have

hold.

habiio, are, avi, Alum, dwell.

11 le, a,

unknown,
n.,

hindrance;

Hum

hinder, im-

I,

plur., baggage.

liaurid. Ire, hausi. haiislum, drink

Imped Id,

Ire, IvI,

pede.

off.

-pulsum,

Heelor, -oris, m.. Hector, the greatest


of the Trojan icarriors.

lui-nelld, ere, -null,

Helena, ae, k.. Helen, the fairest


woman of Greece.

Impcrfitor, -Idrls, m.,

Helvetil,

drum,

n.plur., the Helve-

cite, drive,

herha, ae,

in-

impel.

commander

(in chief).
1

m pe rAl

ii

command,

in, I, n.,

order,

bidding.

tians.
f.,

plant, herb.

hlberna, orimi, n. plur., winter


camp, winter quarters.
hie, haee, hoc, this; the following;
he.

Imperil us, a, urn, inexperienced,


unacquainted.

Imperliim, I, n., command, control,


rule, sway, supremacy, so\ ereignt y.

lmperd, Are, Avi, Alum, give orders,

command,
hie, adv., here.
hiciiid, are, avi,

alum, winter, pass

the winter.

m pel rd. Are,

demand [181,

N'.H.].

alum, obtain

Avi,

(a

request).

lileuiM, lilemls, k., winter.

-luls, M.,

order, rule, govern, with

dat.; require,
I

man

plur., people.

liora, ae, v., hour.

liorrlhiiiH, e, terrible, dreadful,

horlor, Aii, Atus sum, encourage,


urge.

strange.

ud, that, he.

Impediment urn,

liasla. ae,. p., spear.

homo,

know-

ing.
;

Impetus,

As,

If.,

attack, onset.

liupldrd, Are, Avi,

Impdnd,

ere,

Alum

-pusul,

beaeoofa.

-posllum.

place upon, place.


In,

pn/>. irith ad/., in, on,


ace, into, In, 00.

irith

among:

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374

Inrendff, ere, -eendi,


burn inflame.

-<'<~ii.su

in,

Instltuo,

take

-iirixnn, shut

up, imprison.

ere,

set

-ul,

about

-utmii,

[398]

under-

build, estab-

lish.

In< ldo, ere, -cldl, -easiim, fall into.


lii<*ialo, ere, -elfisi,

Instruo, ere, -slrfixi, .strfkctum,


draw up, arrange ; equip, furnish.

Incognit us, a, urn, unknown.

Insula, ae,

Incola, ae, m., inhabitant.

Intellego, ere, -lexl, .leetiim, understand, be aware, perceive.

Inrolo, ere, -colul, dwell, inhabit.

iiirolumls,

unharmed,

safe,

e,

in-

I ii <-o

in

loss,

mod u in,

n.,

I,

misfortune,

Inde, adv., thence


Ine6, -Ire,

upon, begin
In feet us,

Interest., adv.,

then.

-Hum, enter;

-II,

adopt, form

enter

[421].

done

a, 11111, ftot

re In-

fecta, abl. absol., without accomplishing one's purpose.

Inferior,

Infers,

bring

-firls,

lower.

ferre,
Inluli,
lllatiim,
cause, inflict 1394].

liiluilcus, a, mil, unfriendly, hostile;

Inlllum,

I,

beginning

Injuria, ae,

inspire,

f.,

wrong

arouse

sum, spring

up,

dis-

Intra, prep, with ace, within.

alum,

-II (-IvI)

enter.

-Hum, enter.

Hint His,

e, useless.

alum,

Hi Vitus, a,

unwilling, against

11111,

Ira, ae, f., anger, wrath.


111-

sum, follow

Irrumpo,
burst

ere,

in,

rush

-riipt,

Insldlae, Arum,
treachery ; per insldlas, treacher-

ambush,

Is,

ea, Id,

Ita, adv.,

he

upturn,

(in).

Irruo, ere, -nil, rush

up, pursue.
f. plur.,

invite, urge.

Ipse, a, urn, himself, he himself.

-seen t us

Invito, are, avl,


(one's) will.

want, scarcity.

ae, f., madness


In
sanlam ucldo, become mad.

ously.

interval,

n.,

luvlctus, a, 11m, unconquered, in-

iiisfiniu,

I,

I,

doing, wrong,

Hi quit, defective verb, said he.

insequor,

liitervalliiiii,

lnvenld, Ire, -veni, -ventuin, And,


come upon.

be aroused.
f.,

Interior, -oris, inner, interior.


liitermltto, ere, -mlsl, -mlssum,
ptit between passive, elapse.

vincible.

I, iifiliis

Inopla, ae,

the

(in),

injury, violence.

liinascor,

in

kill,

lntroltiis, us, m., entrance.

[445].

Injlelo, ere, -jecl, -jeetum, put in

impart (to),
with dot.

meanwhile.

Interim, adv., meanwhile,


meantime.

Introeo, -Ire,

urn, unfair, unjust.


N.,

between,

'terflclO, ere, -feel, -fectuiu,


slay, put to death.

Intro, are, avl,

as noun, enemy.
a,

ace,

tance.

lugens, -mils, huge, vast.

lnlquus,

with

among.
IntereludS, ere. -Hiisi, .rlfisum,
cut off [438].

damage.

lncr<~dlbllls, e, incredible.

m.,

Integer, gra, grunt, fresh.


Inter, prep,

tact.

island.

v.,

(in).

that, this, the.

thus, so, in such a

Italia, ae, f., Italy.

way.

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iiaque, adv., accordingly, therefore.
itvr, itliicris. \.,ioa(l, route;

march;

passage, right of passing,

item in.

adv., again,

island

liber d, are, avi, atuni, free.

Hbertas,

jaelo, cre, jeel, jactiuii, hurl, throw,

jam, ad v. now, by this time, already.


,

door, entrance.

ae,

permitted,

is

render freely

wooden.

llgiicus, a, urn,

jubed, f re, jussl, jiisMiin. order.

[349J.

Libya, North Africa.

f.,

with dat. and infin.


by may, might.

liltera,

jmigo, ere, juuxl, juiictuiii, join

freedom.

tails. P.,

5re, llcult, it

licet,

oast.

p.,

undisturbed.

Hberl, drum, m. plur., children.

Libya, ae,

jaiiua, ac,

unimportant.

levls, e, light, slight,

liber, era, eriim, free

llberf, adv., freely.

a second time.

Ithaca, ae, r., Ithaca, an


west of Greece.

375

letter

F.,

plur., des-

patch, letter.
-oris, n., shore, coast.

lit us,

locus, I, M., place, position plur.


loca, N., places, ground, district.
;

Jflra, ae,

tains

Jura, a range of mounGaul.

f.,

in

jus, juris, n., right, law.

Justus, a, urn, just.

LablCnus,

m.,

I,

Caesar's

statf' in

labor, -oris.
laboro,

longltudd, -dials,

Labienus, one of
Gaul.

atuni,

ftvi,

toil,

lacrlina, ae,

loquor,

I,

lotus,

mu,

I,

say.

lotus.
M.,

Lucius,

Roman

name.
locls,

P.,

light;

-Hum,

prima

lox,

harass.

P., tear.

maul v

adv.,

more

rather.

laciis. lis, m., lake.

magistral us,
lactltia, ae,

length.

sum, speak,

lor fit us

I, P.,

fir ins,

p.,

long.

daybreak, dawn.

lactls, x., milk.

lacesso, ere, -IvI,

a,

lftx,

struggle, be in distress.

lie

longus,

I.

M., toil, labor.

are,

locuf us, from loquor.

lougc, adv., far.

us,

if.,

magistrate.

joy, rejoicing.

f.,

magultieeiitla, ae,

f.,

splendor.

lapis, -ldls, m., stone.


Ifite,

mftgiillicus. a, urn, splendid,

adv., widely, extensively.

sump

tuous.
lated, Pre,

be hidden.

ill,

lalltudo, -dlnis,

p.,

mauiiitudo, -dials,

width.

rvtcn!.

latus, a, urn, broad, wide.

legatus,
Offloer;

I,

F.,

M.,

ingly.

embassy.
lieutenant,

iiiAgiius. a,
stall'

ambassador, envoy.

leglo, -Ollls.

legUtaArlns,

F.,

a,

legion [8000 nun).

am,

legionary,

greatness,

milgnopere, adv., greatly, exceed

latus, -erls, n., side, flank.


lcgatlo, -mils,

f.,

size.

Km, great,

[95]; loud [416];

male, adv.,

maio

ba.ll>.

miiiie,

rather

large; forced

strong [600].

[401].

uiaiui

prefer,

bad

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376
malum,

mishap, mis-

evil,

n.,

I,

mains,

iiionsti'iim,

evil.

mans!, mansiim,

ere,

re-

main.

man us.

us, F.,

Marcus,
name.

hand band,
Marcus, a
;

m.,

I,

mare, marls,

force.

Roman

N., sea.

ma Iris,

mater,

mature, adv.,

mat ii id, are,

a,

avl,

fit

mem brum,

i,

n.,

I,

drug.

middle,

multltudd, -dlnis,
amount.

in,

adv.,

tii ii

1 1

ii

eh

1 1

us, a,

ii

[175].

muiiltid,

-diils,

i'ii s, I,

conj., for.
I, nactus sum,
meet with.

nanclscor,

trader.

midday,

noon

tain,

nau la,

um, my, mine.

in In lino, adv., least,


nil

ii

II

or, arl,

minus,

arl,

minis,

a,

of war.

um,

ii si

by no means.

minus, if
atus sum, wonder.
;

si

not.

manner, fashion kind,


sort means.
mom d, ere, ul, It um, advise, warn.
nidus, inoiit is, m., mountain.
;

m.,

ae, m., sailor.


F.,

boat.
sail.

vis, is, F., ship.

ne, adv.,

lest,

that

not; not.

nee, conj., nor, and not


neither
nor.
.

nee

nee,

necessarid, adv., necessarily, of necessity.

wonderful.

mlsced, ere, miscul, mlxtiim, mix.


initio, ere, misl, missum, send.

modus, I,

nature.

ml vigil, are, avl, alum,

atus sum, threaten.

adv., less

mlror,

get, ob-

nation.

f., tribe,

f.,

uavicula, ae,

miles, milltis, m., soldier.


military

fortification,

f.,

N
nam,

south.

e,

many.

fortify, pro-

m., wall.

n al ura, ae,

mllltarls,

plur.,

um,

in on us. -eris, n., gift, offering.


in Ti

mil Id, -dnls,

a,

II

fortifying.

meridles,

meus,

much.

um, much

llercurius, I, m., Mercury, the messenger of the gods.


m.,

large number,

f.,

multd, adv., much.

Menelaus, king of

Sparta in Greece.
mercator, -torls, m.,

el,

death.

tect.

mid

N., limb.

m.,

I,

F.,

muiild, Ire, IvI,

memlnl, isse, remember [268].


memor, -oris, mindful.
memoria, ae, f., memory [268].
Menclsliis,

mors, mortis,

moved, dre, nidvi, mdtiim, move.


mox, adv., soon.
in ii lei*, -eris, F., woman.

um, make haste.

moderate.

e,

um,

monster.

n.,

early, soon.

medicamentn in,
mediocris,

I,

mora, ae, F., delay.


moror, arl, atus sum, delay, wait.

mother.

m.,

mat rimdnliiiii, I, n., marriage in


mat N mdn u in duco, marry.

medius,

out,

show.
u in, bad,

a,

mancd,

Alum, point

mdiisti-o, are, avl.

fortune.

need, are, avl,

sit

um,

kill, slay.

negd, are, avl, alum, deny, say

not.

negdtium,

nemo
in

I,

n., business, affair.

iiemiiils), m.,

506, 507,

no one, nobody;

Noman [349].

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neqiic, conj., nor, and not;
iM'quc, neither
nor.
.

eater,
neve,

Ira, ti-uui, neither

conj.,

and

nisi, conj., if not

noceo, ere,

ubslriio,

-slrAxi, strQctum,

ere,

barricade,

[205J.

alum, obey.

obtlnco, fre, ul, obtentum, hold,

unless, exeept.
;

famous.

barm, injure,

11AIA, nolle, noliil,

occaslA, -on Is,

opportunity.

f.,

oecasus, As, M., setting.


nccldo, ere, -cldl, -eisum, slay,

damage, with dot.


nueiA, adv., by night.
not wish

obses, obsldls, m., hostage.

obtciiipcro, Are, Avl,

ltmii,

ill,

nothing,

x.,

well-born, noble

e,

not.

nihil, indeclinable,

nohllls,

neque

377

be unwilling, do

oecupAtus,
engaged.

um,

a,

oeeupo. Are, Avl, Alum,

[401].

liftmen, -minis,

x.,

possession

name,

seize,

take

of.

oeeurro, ere, -eurrl,


meet, tenth dat.

lion, adv., not.

kill.

occupied, busy,

-eursuui,

not yet

iioikIiiih. adv.,

oecanus,
limine, not, in questions
noiiiiAlIi, ac, a,

m., oeean.

i,

[342].

oe!5, eight.

some, some few.

oe u lus,
nos, nostruni, we.

M., eye.

I,

olim, adv., once upon a time.

nosier, tra, triim, our [282].

notus, a, uni, known, familiar.

oiuiiino, adv., in all, altogether;


entirely ; only ; at all.

noveni, nine.

omuls,

noWlas,

oncrarliis,

-tails, p., novelty.

novns, a, u in, new


change, revolution.
nov, noetls,

f.,

novae

res,

num. in questions [342].


Humerus, I, M., number.

now.
I

I,

If.,

miner, adv.,

because

attack, as-

Are, Avl,

Alum,

attack,

opflmus,

a,

um,

-erl.s, v.,

best [196].

work, task.

k.,

ipeeoh

[300],

of,

orlor, Irl, orlus


ArA, Are, Avl,

sum.

Alum,

line.

arise, rise.

beg, entreat.

oblllus sum, forget,

oslendo, ere, -lendl, -iensuiii or

be forgetful, with gen.


ohscerft, ftre, Avl,

seech.

v.,

ordo, -dluls, M., Order; rank,

of.
T,

-mils,

oiaMo, -mils,

lately.

prep, with ace., on account

bllvlscor,

ere,

assault.

opus,

messenger.

O
oil,

town.

-pressl, -pressum,
overpower, overcome, burden.

opnrlmo,

oppAgnA,

alum, announce,
nun lain in est, word was

brought.
liAiillus,

burden, weight.

N.,

sault.

liAiitlo, are, Avl,

report

I,

oppAguAUA,

iiuuiqiiaiii, adv., never,


iiiiue, di/i\,

a,

-erls, N.,

opplduui,

inn, no, none, not one [205].

iiulliis, a,

uni, for burdens


nuvis uuerarla, transport.

onus,

night.

every.

e, all,

Alum,

beg,

be

-lenfiim, sliow, disclose, declare.


ovls,

Is,

I''.,

sh<

c|i.

;;

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378

pa

-nil Is, f.,

(is,

marsh.

par, paris, equal

pernclo, ere,

-feci,

perlculosus,

a, urn,

perieulnm,

[176].

I,

peril us. a,

pareo, ere, ul, Hum, be obedient,


obey, with dat.

permoveo,

Paris, -Irils, m., Paris, a prince of


Troy.

perpauel, ae,

parft, are, iivl, atiim, prepare, pro-

cure

[349]

pariitus, a, uni, ready.

pars, partis,
tion

part

f.,

[365].

parvus,

in

every direction.

passus, us, m., pace


mile [231, fn.].

in I lie passfts,

patrla, ae,

p.,

Patroclus,
warrior.

I,

panel, ae,

pan rll as,

a,

en-

very few.
last

ere,

-ruptnm,

-rfkpl,

break through.

persuader*, ere, -suasl, -suasuiu,


persuade, induce, with dat.

Hum,

terrify,

pertlneo, ere, ul, extend

tend.

little,

shortly, some-

a short

dis-

alarm.

[394].

pet5, ere, petlvi, petitniu, seek


ask, request.

pllum,
little,

pervenlo, Ire, -venl, -venliim,


come, arrive, reach [125].
pes, pedis, m., foot

small number.

n., javelin.

1,

ping uls,

e, fat.

pi fin Hies, el, F., plain.

tance.
f.,

peeus, -oris,

pin rim ii m, adv., most, very much.

peace.

n., cattle,

peril Us,

m.,

herd

plus, plu rls,

flock.

pociilum,

foot-soldier

plur., infantry.

pedester,

lis,

pulsum, drive

defeat.

prep,

throughout

f.,

Penelope, the wife

with ace, through,


about [507].

perfero, -ferre, -tuli, -latum, bring


report ; bear, submit to.

more [197].

N., cup, goblet.

f.,

penalty.

it us snm, promise.
Polyphemus, I, n., Polyphemus,
the famous Cyclops.

polllceor, Sri,

M., infantry.

pello, ere, pepull,

Penelopg, s,
of Ulysses.

I,

poena, ae,

-trig, -tre, of infantry.

peri Hat us,

per,

a,

perpetuus, a, inn. unbroken,


ing In perpel iiiim, for ever.

into confusion, confuse

a Greek

few.

-l fills, f.,

pax, pads,
pedes,

in-

pertnrbo, are, avi, alum, throw

native land.

paiilum, adv., a

-milium,

fluence, affect, alarm.

frighten.

sum, allow

m., Patroclus,

paulo, adv., a
what.

[432].

ere, -indvi,

perterreo, ere, ul,

pater, patris, m., father.


pallor, I, passus
dure, suffer.

danger, risk.

persplclo, ere, -spexi, -speetuiu,


see clearly, perceive.

a, inn. small.

passim, adv.,

finish.

dangerous.

skilful, skilled, ac-

quainted, with gen.

perrumpo,

side, direc-

n.,

am,

parco, ere, pepercl, parsum, spare,


with dat.

-tectum,

pono, ere, posnl, posltum, place


pitch (camp) passive, depend (on).
pons, pontls, m., bridge [349].
populor, arl, atus snm, devastate,
;

lay waste.
lopii Ins,

porens,

I,

I,

m., people, nation.

m., pig, swine.

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porta, ae,

f.,

gate.

alum, (any,

porlo, are. Avl,

port us.

lis, m.,

bear.

possession, oc-

P.,

ace, beyond,

irith

praetereA, adv., besides,

harbor.

posco, ere, poposi-i, demand.


posscsslo, -onls,

pructcr, prep,
past except.

379

else.

pre mo, ere, pressl, prcssum, press;


harass, beset pass., be hard pres;

sed.

cupation.

possum, posse, potuf. be

can

able,

[377].

posl,

ace., after,

irit/i

/>></>.

behind.

IM'lamus.
of Troy.

I,

prima, adv., at

prliuum,
posiea, adv., afterwards.

posterns,

COnJ., after,

primus,

when.

potestas, -talis,
tunity [4451

pracarAtus,

power, oppor-

v.,

urn, sharpened

a,

at

inn,

first [308].

man,

chief

chief.
m., leadership.

print, adv., earlier ; prlus . . qiiam


than).
until (literally, sooner
.

pro, prep, with abl., before, in front


of instead of, in return for.
;

the end.

pro ho. Are, Avl, alum,

prneeedA, ere,

-ccssl,

-eessum, sur-

pass.
[452].

assert.

praedo, -don Is,

M., robber, pirate.

sum, plunder,

At us

Arl,

test;

ap-

prove, favor.

proccdo, ere,
plunder, booty

k.,

praedleo, are. avl, alum, announce,

-ee.ssl,

-eessum, ad-

vance, proceed.
procurrft, ere, -eurrl, -eursum, run
forward, charge.

prodco.

come

Ire,

-Hum, come

-II,

forth,

out.

prodAcA, ere, -dD\I. -duetum, lead

pillage.

praefeet us, I, m., officer, commander.


ere, -fe>I, -feetum, set

praeficio,

command

(charge) of

praemitto, ere, -mlsl,


send in advance.

inlssum,

over, put in
[378, N.B.].

prjK'sens,

-cutis,

forlh.

proelliim,

battle.

I, N.,

profeetlA, -Anis,
parture.
prAflelA,

k.,

-feel,

ere,

Immediate,

in-

proflelseor,

I,

-rectus

proftliA. ere, -fAgl,

praesldliim,

I,

setting out, de-

-feetum, ac

oomplish.

stant.
N., garrison.

Are, -slltl, slAtuin or


-stiiiim. be superior, surpass, with
dat. ; praestat, it, is preferable or

pracslo,

sum.

tlee.

set out.

make one's

escape.

progredlor,

I,

-uressus sum.

ad

vance, proceed.

prohlhcA, Pre.

better.

vent

|lf,7.

ul.

Hum,

keep, pre

\.M.|.

-esse, -fill, be over, be in

command
with

a,

prlnclpatus. As,

potens, -cutis, powerful.

praeda, ae,

first

prlneeps, -clpis, m., leading man,

require, ask.

praesum.

the

in

first,

postulo, Are, avl, fitum, demand,

praedor,

first.

(i<li\,

place.

inn, next, following

a,

postquam,

Priam, the last king

m.,

tint.

(charge)

of,

command,

proJIclA, ere, -JPel, -jeetuui. throw

down, throw.

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promo,

ere, prdiupsl,

prSmptnm,

quhlaiu, quaedam,

quoddam,

bring out.

certain

qulddam

or

[458].

prope, adv., nearly, almost, near;


prep, with ace. near.

quldem, adv., to be sure, indeed;


lie . . quldem, not even.

propter, prep, with

quindeeliu,

ace.,

on account

of.

prdpulsd,

avl,

iire,

alum,

repel.

prdspleld, ere, -spexl, -.speetiim,


provide (for), attend (to), secure.

prdsternS, ere,

-striivl,

-stratum,

fifteen.

qulngeutl, ae,

a, five

qiilnquagliita,

fifty.

quiuque,
q

ii

ii

hundred.

five.

us, a, uui, fifth.

quls, quae, quid, who, which, what

stretch prostrate.

prSvehS, ere, -vexl, -vectuiu, carry


forward passive, proceed.

[341].

priidcus, -eutls, discreet, prudent.

quid or quod, any [457].


qulsquam, quldquaui, any [457].
qulsque, quaeque, quldque or
quodque, each [459].
qulvis, quaevis, quidvis or quodvis, any [457].
quo, adv., whither, where [343, N.B.].

prfldeutla, ae,

quod,

conj., because.

ratio,

-dills,

pro* hied, ere, -Tldl, -visum, foresee

provide, secure.

prdvlueia, ae,
proxliiius,

province.

F.,

urn,

a,

nearest,

next

[196].

prudence, sa-

p.,

quls, qua,

gacity.

publhus,
Publlus,

a,

uui, public, of the state.

a Roman

m., Publius,

I,

name.

pur

way.

la, ae, P., girl,

puer,

maiden.

avl,

fighting, battle.

alum,

ask, inquire (ab=o/)

qua in,
as

of

quaesitum,
seek.

adv., than ; with superlatives


- as possible [249].
a,

uui,

se,

betake one's

self,

reda, ae,

wagon.

p.,

how

great,

reded, Ire,

-Hum.

-II,

return.

redltus, us, m., return.

what sort, what.

quant us,

with

back, restore.

ere, quaeslvi,

e,

reddd, ere, reddldi, reddilum, give

Q
quails,

recover

retreat, recover, rally.

fight.

pulclier, chra, clirum, beautiful.

quae rd.

manner,

reelplo, ere, -cepl, -eeptum, regain,

p., fight,

pugnS, are,

method

receus, -entis, recent, new.

crl, M., boy.

pfigua, ae,

p.,

how

redued, ere, -diixl, -duetuiii, lead


back restore.
;

refers,

-ferre, rettull, relatuui,


bring back, carry back
report
;

large.

[394].

quart us,

a, uui, fourth.

quasi, adv., as

if,

as

it

were.

quattitor, four.

que, enclitic conj., and

regio, -Suis,
region.

reguuui,
[62].

qui, quae, quod, who, which, what,


that [254].

I,

p.,

n.,

district,

kingdom,

country,
rule, sov-

ereignty.
rejieiS,

back

ere,

-jeel,

throw away.

-jeetuui,

hurl

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llctum,

relluqud, ere, llqul,


leave behind, leave.
rellquus,

saepe. adv., often.

mu,

a,

remaining, rest
salus, -nils,

[75, fn.].

removed, ere, -innvl, -indium,


move, withdraw.
renins,

re-

safety

k.,

[409].

um, safe, well.


Saiitoues, um, m. plur.,
salvus, a,

tones,

m., oar.

I,

381

a tribe on

the San-

the west coast of

Gaul.

renovd, are, avl,

attnti,

rciiuntld, are, avl,

renew.

alum,

and

satis, adv.

report,

indeclinable adj.,

sails faclo,
enough, sufficiently
satisfy, apologize, with dat.
;

bring back word.


repelld, ere, rcppull,
drive back, repulse.

repulsum,

find, discover.

rcpletus,

a. urn, filled.

rel, P., thing, matter, affair,


circumstance; res piibllea, public

res.

interest, state, public business.


resist,

oppose,

-spondl,
sum, reply, answer.

-spdn-

ere, -still,

with dat.

Hum, know.

ere.

responsuni,

I,

x.,

rest It no, ere, -ul,


restore, replace

seded, ere, sdl, session,

semper, adv., always.


scnatiis,

lis,

senate.

sent id. Ire, sCnsI, sensuni,

feel, per-

ceive.

septlmus,

a,

um,

sequor,

renew

servltlls, -mils, f., slavery.

rebuild.

servus,

I,

I,

M., slave.

si,

Itliodanus,

I,

m.,

thine.

the Rhone.

conj.,

if.

sir, adv., thus, so.

sleut, adv., as.

sign u m,
v.,

I, n.,

bank.
sllva, ae,

rogd, are, avl, Atuni, ask.

Itdmanus,

a,

um, Roman.

Kdmaniis,

i,

M.,

follow.

sescentl, ae, a, six hundred.

sexaglula, sixty.

the

sum,

sectttus

rex, regis, m., king.


M.,

seventh.

-Mum, put back,

revord, are, avl, alum, recall.

rlpa, ae,

sit

answer, reply.

return.

I,

I,

sit,

down.

Sequanl, Brum, M. plur., the Sequani, a tribe of east central Gaul.

rellneo, ere, ni, -tent um, restrain.

Itlienns,

scrlptnm,

serlpsl,

ere,

seplem, seven.

responded,

reverter,

serlbd,
write.

sed, conj., but.

reportd, are, avl, alum, tarry back,


bring back.

reslslo,

N., stone.

I,

seld, Ire, IvI,

repperl, rcpertum,

reperid. Ire.

saxum,

toman.

rumor, report,

rumor,

-oris, M.,

rnmpo,

ere, rlipl, rupliiiu, break.

rursus, adv., again.

v.,

signal

wood,

slmllls,

e, like!

slmill,

iiilr..

slmul
slmiild,
slue, /in

standard

[282].

forest.

similar.

at

the

same time;

ae, as soon as.


aire,
/>.

Avl,

With

sinister, Ira.

alum, pretend.

nl>/.,

in in,

witliout.
loft.

;;

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sarins,

I,

ally

sun

s51, soils, m.,

comrade.

succedo, ere, -cessl, >cessum, come


close up, advance.

the Sun-god.

sud Is,

solum, adv., only.


solus, a, mil, only, alone

[205].

solvo, ere, solvl, solutum, loose,


release ; navem soivS, set sail
poena solvo, pay a penalty.

soiiious,

I,

summits,

ad sortem

Tocarl, be decided by

greatest, utmost,

top

superior, -oris,
former [198].

f., sister.

re-

him [278].'

mn,

a,

extreme, signal

sopor, -5ris, m., sleep, stupor.

sors, sort Is, f., lot

stake.

snl, sibl, himself,

m., sleep.

soror, -oris,

is, F.,

Suebl, or ii m, m. plur., the Suebi,


tribe of north-western Germany.

[175].

higher,

snperS, are, avl,

fit

upper

urn, conquer;

surpass, excel.

lot.

Sparta, ae, f., Sparta, a famous city


of Greece.

snpplicium,

spat 1 ii m, I,

suselpld, ere, -cepl, -eept urn, undertake, incur.

speciSs,

n., space,

el, f.,

distance time.
;

appearance, form.

specto, are, avl,

fit

mn,

look, face.

specns, us, M., cave, cavern.


s prlu iiea. ae, F.,

cave, cavern.

sperno, ere, sprevl, spretum, de-

suspicor, arl, situs sum, suspect.


sustineo, ere, ul, -tentum, withstand, sustain, endure.
snstulf, from tollo.
their

spero, are, avl, atuiii, hope.


f.,

spon te,

f.,

(one's)

own [281,

only in abl. sing., of

own accord.

tain, adv., so.

tamen,

adv.,

statiiu, adv., at once, immediately.

Tamesis,

statlo, -onis, f., outpost, guard.

tandem,

statmu, stand.

N., zeal,

I,

eagerness.

snb, prep, with ace. and


close to

abl.,

under

in mn,
I

draw

ere,

-dtixf,

yet,

however.

Thames.

adv., at length, at last.

-dncimii,

mn,

taut us, a,
such.

[438].

subdued,

still,

Is, m.,

tango, ere, tctigl, tiictum, touch.

studed, 5re, ul, be eager, be zealous.

studiiim,

their,

oj.

hope.

sto, are, stetl,

own;

suns, a, uni, his, his

spise, scorn.

spes, el,

punishment.

N.,

I,

supra, adv., above.

N.,

I,

so great, such great,

weapon,

missile.

em pest sis, -talis, f., storm, weather.

tempus,

-oris, N, time.

off.

snbeo. Ire,

-II, -It

u in, undergo.

teneo, ere, ul, tentum, hold, keep,


restrain.

subitd, adv., suddenly.


subjieio, ere, -jeci, -jectum, place
beneath, with ace. and dot.
s ii

b la t u s,

a,

subsequor,

I,

ments.

I,

n.,

n.,

f.,

back, rear [282].

land ; country.

rify.

follow-

closely, follow after.

subsidium,

I,

terra, ae,

tcrreO, ere, ul, Itum, frighten,

mn, from tollo.


-secutus sum,

tergum,

support, reinforce-

terror, -oris, m., terror, panic.


tetigl, from tango.

Tlberis,

is, m.,

Tiber.

ter-

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Mineo

fre, ul, fear,

Minor, -oris.

have

fears.

ii

sunlAtmii. raise
remove, take away with ancoia,
weigh [502].

tollo, ere, sustull,

Mm us,

um, most

a,

lotus, a. inn, whole, all

ultra, prep, with ace, beyond.


ftna, adv., along, together.

mule, adv., whence, from which


(what) place

[205].

alum, handle,

feel.

give up,

Irfulo, ere, -dldl, -dltiiiu,

undlque,

um, one

a,

url>s,

Ira ho, ere, trAxI, Iraeluiu. draw.

usque, adv., even

with arc, aeross.

rails, prep,

Iraiisiodlo.

-fodl,

Ire,

-fossmu,

Iraiisporlo. are, avl,


aeross. bring over.

alum, carry

i,

triduum,

I,

Trojan,

IC,

an

in-

habitant of Troy.

up

(to).

use, ser-

[432].

utra, ulruiu, which

uxor,

llsus

I,

(of

two)

sum, use, withabl. [356].

-oris, F., wife.

vagor, arl, Atus sum, wander, roam


abotit.

tu, tul, you, thou.

valeo, Cre, ul,


turn, adv., then, thereupon.

lumullus,

right

[205].

ntor,

Troja, ae, F., Troy, a city in the


north-west of Asia Minor.
I,

(to),

experience

filllls, e, useful.

three days.

triplex, -plleis, triple.

Tro jan us,

[205].

especially

city,

nterque, utraqne, utruniq ue, each


(of two) [205, 459].

m., tribune.
N.,

alone, only

nter, Atrls, m., skin, leather bottle.

treeentl, ae, a, three hundred.


ii'litumis.

F.,

ut, conj., that, in order that; so that;


with indicative, as ; when.
liter,

pierce.

all

Rome.

vice

-ituin, cross.

-II,

urbls,

ttsns, lis, M.,

transdfieo, see trAdtleft.

Iranseo, Ire,

from

sides.

nuns,

surrender.

[343, N.B.].

adv., on all sides,

trAduro, ere, -dfi\l. -dnetiim, lead


aeross, take across, lead, bring.

distant, re-

last..

traoto, are, avl,

motest;

fear.

II.,

383

ns, m., noise, uproar,

com-

Hum, be strong [416];

have power, be efficacious [512].


vallum, I, N., wall, rampart.

motion.
vAs, vAsis, N., vessel, jar.
turris,

is, F.,

tower.
Avl,

vAstfi, Are,

lulus, a, inn, safe.

um,

tuns, a,

vehementer,
greatly

U
ubi, adv., where
ulclseor,
I

lives,

I,

velifl,

when

before Troy,
of the Greek
and the hero of Homer'a Odyssey.
Alius, a,

um, any

[206, 457].

exceedingly,

vexl, veetiim,

ere,

carry;

sail.

N.B.].

(Jlysses, the shrewdest


kii></s

adv.,
vigorously.

passive,
[343,

ultus sum, avenge.

is, m.,

alum, lay waste,

ravage.

your, thy.

venerium,

I,

N.,

veil 1ft, Ire, vPnl,

venler,

drug; poison.
veiilum, come.

Iris, m., belly.

xPr, vfrls, N., spring.

\erhiim,

I,

n.,

word.

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Tereor, erl, Itus sum, fear.

vlnclo, Ire, vliixi, vluetnm, bind.

vero, adv., but, however.

vlueo, ere, vlel, viclum, conquer.

verto, ere,
vlnuiii,

I,

-II,

n.,

-sum, turn

[282].

wine.

vlr, vlrl, m.,

man.

virtus, -lulls,

p.,

valor.

vim, vl, F., force, violence,


might; power, virtue [513]; plur.,

Vesoutio, -on is, f., Vesontio, a town


in eastern Gaul.
vesper, erl, m., evening.

vis,

vester, tra, Irani, your.

vlsurus, from video.

vetus, veterls, old.

vlvfi, ere, vlxl,

via, ae, v.,

way, road, route, journey.

vires, linn, strength, vigor

vlvus,

a,

um,

vlelum,

live.

alive.

vlcl, from vineo.

vix, adv., scarcely, hardly.

vlctftrla, ae, f., victory.

voeo, Are, avl,

vlcus,

volft, velle,

I,

m., village.

video, ere, vldl, visum, see ; videor,

alum,

call.

volnl, wish, be willing

[401].

vos, vestrum, you.

seern.

vlgllia, ae,

[472].

f.,

watch.

vox, voels,

f.,

voice; cry.

vlgiutl, twenty.

vuluero, are, avl, alum, wound.

villa, ae, f., country-house.

vulnus,

-erls, n.,

wound.

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[For the principal parts of the verbs reference

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Page

Vocabulary,

The numbers

jj.8.

may

made

be

and for numerals

to

to the

5-y,

refer to sections.}

altogether, omnino.

abandon,

always, semper.

desisto, ere.

able. bo. possum, posse, potui.

ambassador,

about

(-around), oircum (ace);

among, inter, apud


amount, multitudo

{with numerals), circiter.

and,

concern inn), de (abl.);

legatus,

et, -que,

m.

1,

(ace).
-dinis, p.

atque, ac

absent, be, absum, abesse, afui.

announce, nuntio,

abundance, copia, ae, F.


account, on
of, propter, ob (ace).
accustomed, be, consuevi [243].

another,

any [457].

acquire, consequor,

apart, be, disto, are.

I.

alius, a,

adjacent, finitimus,

a, urn,

adopt (plan), capio, ere ineo, ire.


advance, progredior,
advance, send In, praemitto, ere.
;

1.

answer, respondeo,

[205].

ere.

ere.

approach (noun), adventus, us, m.


(=mean8 of approach), aditus,
us, M.

approach

accedo, ere

(verb),

propinquo, are

approve, probo,

are.

advocate, auetor,

arise, orior,

coorior,

-toris, m.

after, post (ace).

iri

arms, arma, orum,

army,

against, contra (ace).

arrival, adventus, us, m.

N\

permoveo,

all,

omnia, e

at all, in all, omnlno.

allow, patior,

I.

ally, sodas,

m.

almost,

I,

uni

v.

dum

= whil<),

or

inquire), quacro, eic

rogo,

are.

ask = r< (/in


a,

cum

ascertain, eo^nosco, ere.

ask (=

fer8.

alone, solus,

as = since),
cum.
(

ere.

iri.

exercitus, us, m.

art of war, res militaris,


;

ap-

n.

again, rursus.

alarm, commoveo, ere

(dat.).

advise, moneo, ere.

T,

and

are.

ud

appoint, constituo,

across, trans (ace).

aid, auxilium,

[426]

not, neque.

above, adv., supra.

unus,

a,

am.

sf).

peto, are

assault, oppugnatio, -onis,

nc

along (with), una (cum).

assemble, coin

already, jam.

assign, dlstribud, ere,

also, etiaxn.

assistance, auxilium,

cnio,

l,

rogo, arc.
r,

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attack (noun), impetus,

us, m.

op-

pugnatio, -onis, F.

attack

oppugno, are

(verb),

adorior,

Iri.

both
both

boy, puer,

brave,

attain, consequor,

attempt, conor,

I.

autumnus,

I,

eri,

M.

fortiter.

break, rumpo, ere

M.

et.

bravery, fortitudo,

attend to, administro, are (ace).


antiiniii,

f ortis, e.

bravely,

ari.

and, et

[459].

-dinis, F.

frango, ere.

break out = arise), coorior, Iri.


break through, perrumpo, ere.
(

orum,

auxiliaries, auxilia,

N.

await, exspecto, are.

aware, be,

away, be

bridge, pons, pontis, m.

intellego, ere.

far,

bring, fero,

absum, abesse.

[349].

ferre.

bring back word, renuntio,

bring over, transporto,


bad, malus,

Britain, Britannia, ae,

um.

a,

baggage, impedimenta, orum,

bank,

Briton, Britannus,

N.

brother, frater,

rlpa, ae, f.

build,

barbarian, barbarus,

i,

battle, pttgna, ae, f.

proelium,

be, sum, esse,

m.
I,

n.

fui.

bear, fero, f erre,

tuli,

latum perfero.

m.

-tris,

m.

efficio, ere.

burden (noun), onus, -eris, n.


burden (verb), opprimo, ere.
burn, incendo,

ere,

business, negotium,

of, propter,

become,

flo, fieri,

f.

I,

because, quod.

because

I,

n.

but, sed.

ob (ace).

factus sum.

before (of time or place), ante

(ace.)

(of place) pro (abl.).

call, voco, are

camp,

castra,

appello, are.

orum, N.

beg, oro, are.

can, possum, posse, potui.

began,

capture, capio,

coepi[125].

begin battle, proelium committo,


ere.

ere.

care, dlligentia, ae, f.

carefully, dlligenter.

beginning, initium,

I,

n. [308, 421].

carry, porto, are.

Belgian, Belga, ae, M.

carry across, transporto,

believe, credo, ere

carry back, reporto, are;

best, optimus, a,

betake one's
better, It

are.

are.

is,

um.

self, serecipere.

praestat.

between, inter
body, corpus,
bold, audax,

(dat.).

(ace).

-oris, n.

carry down, defero,

carry out (plans),

ferre.

(res) conficio, ere.

cattle, pecus, -oris, N.

cause (noun), causa,

ae, F.

(verb), Infero, ferre.

cavalry (noun), equites, um, M.

boldly, audacter.

booty, praeda, ae,

refero,

ferre.

cause

-acis.

are.

f.

equitatus, us, M.

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cavalry

custom, eonsuetudo,

{adj.), equeeter, tris, tre.

cnl

cease, desist o, ere.

centurion, centurio,
certain, quldam

off,

-onto, m.

dally, cotidie.

charge, put in
(dat.)[m, X.H.J.

man.

ere

of, praeflcio,

danger, perlculum,

prlnceps, -cipis, m.

dare, audeo,

choose,

daughter,

deliffQ, ere.

eobnrs,

day,

-tatis, F.

command

commander,

deed, res gesta,

praesum.

of,

of,

prae-

N.B.J.

[378,

praefectus,

J.

m.,

im-

e.

ere.

defend, defendo,
delay, moror,

demand,
[181,

are.

consent, by

common, communlcon

silio.

arbit ror,

ere.

an.

m.

-oris,

ari.

postulo, are

impero, are

N.B.].

deny, nego,

um.

a,

are.
ere.

departure, disoossus,
depth, altitudo,

conquer, supero, arc.

-tatis, f.

(verb), pello, ere.

depart, discedO,

confusion, throw Into, perturbo,

consider,

defeat

dense, densus,

coiiimotioii. tumultus, us, m.

compel, oogo,

F.

um.

a,

defeiider. defensor,

commanderperator, -toris, M.
In-chlef, imperii tor, -toris, m.
comiiion. communis,

deep, altos,

defeat (noun), calamitas,

In

pill

ere (dat.)

put to

n.

I,

impero-, are (dat.);

praesum, esse (dot.).


command, he In
flcio,

declare, ostendo, ere.

eomniand (verb),

F.

-minis, n.

(noun), imperium,

ulat.)

dawn,

see

death, mors, mortis,


death, interficio, ere.

collect, oogo, ere; confero, ferre.

column, agmen,
eome, venid, Ire.

ae, F.

dies, el, m.

daybreak,

is, k.

-t

filia,

sub lucem.

M.

citizenship, eivitas,

eohoH.

[313].

-acis.

dawn, prima lux; just before dawn,

res, eel, f.

is,

a, urn.

ausus sum

Sro,

daring, audax,

citizen, civis,

I, fir.

dangerous, perlculosus,

children, liben, -drum, m.

circumstance,

-dinis, v. [243].

intercludo, ere.

[458].

change, novae rea

chief, chief

387

us, m.

-dinis, F.

design, consilium,

I,

desirous, cupidus,

a,

um.

despair, desperd, are

(dc).

despatch (noun),

n.

littcrac,

arum,

K.

consult, cuiisulo, ere.

despatch (wro), dUnitto,


continent, continens,

-cutis, f.

detain, del Ineo,

continually, cont Inenter.


corn, fnimcnt uni,

i,

ere.

<-re.

determine, const

n.

cross, cross over, branseo,

crush, opprimd,

tre.

it

dltlicnlt, dillicilis.
Ire.

uo, civ.
c.

dllllcnlty.ditil-ulta-.. talis.
dltllciilt>.

Mgre,

(<nir.l

'

Wltl

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direction, pars, partis, F.

enemy,

disappoint, sp dejicio,

engage, dlmico,

disaster, calamitas,

ere.

hostis,

enough,

-tatis, F.

are.

satis.

disclose, ostendo, ere.

enter, ineo,

discover, reperio,

entreat, oro, are.

Ire.

disembark, navi egredior,

distant, be,

i,

escape, fugio, ere.

be

even, etiam not even, ne

N.

every, omnis,

*;,bsuin, esse.

distant, most, ultimus,


tremus, a, um.
distress,

uni

a,

ex-

in, laboro, are.

exhort, cohortor,

quidem.

nisi.

ari.

exhausted, confectus,

ago, ere
geror, I.
;

set an, initium facio, ere.

except, praeter (occ);

divide, divido, ere.


fio, fieri

example,

e.

excel, supero, are.

district, regio, -onis, F.

do, facio, ere

M.

I,

equal, par, paris.

I.

dislodge, dejicio, ere.


distance, spatium,

ire.

envoy, legatus,

discreet, prudens, -entis.

m.

is,

be done,

experience, usus,

a,

um.

us, m.

explain, doceo, ere demonstro,


;

double, duplex,

-icis.

draw (sword), destringo,


draw up, Instruo, ere.

ere.

exploit, res gesta,

F,

extend, pertineo,

ere.

extent, nmgnitudo, -dinis,

are.

F.

drive, compello, ere.

drive back,

repello, ere.

drive out, expello,


dwell, habito, are

face, specto, are (ad).

ere.

faith, fides,

incolo, ere.

faithful,

el, F.

fidelis, e.

fall, cado, ere.

each

fall

[159].

eager, cupidus, a, uni (gen.);


eager, studeo, ere.

be

back, pedeni refero,

famous,

nobilis,

far, longe.

easily, facile.

far, be,

easy, facilis,

father, pater,

either

e.

or,

aut

aut.

absum, abesse.
-tris,

fear (noun), timor,

else (adj.), alius, a, ud.

fear

embassy,

feel, sentio, ire.

encamp,

legatio, -onis, F.

consido, ere.

encourage, hortor,

ari

(verb),

m.
-oris,

timeo, ere

few, pauci, ae,

enclose, circumdo, dare.

s\.

vereor,

eri.

a.

held, ager, agri, m.


;

cohortor,

ari.

liercely, acriter.
fight, pugno, are

dlmico, -are

end (noun), finis, is, M. [445].


end (verb), conficio, ere.

fighting, pugna, ae, F.

endure,

fill,

fero, ferre.

ferre.

e.

a battle, proclium
compleo, ere.

facio, ere.

light

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find, invenio, ire
li

nil out.

reperio, Ire.

OOgnOscO, ere.

garrison, praesidium,

finish, oOnficiO, ere.


lire, [gnis,

gale, porta, ae,

m.

Is,

{ad <.),

lirsl

at first, prime,.

ere

flee,

berga

verio, ere.
IIm*I

elassis,

is, F.

fug-am do,
terga verto, ere.

ae, F.

I.

give, do, dare.

give hack, reddo,

follow closely,

I;

give up, trado,


go, eo. Ire,

following, posterns,

am.

a.

e upid us, a, urn.

fool, pes, pedis, m.


117.')];

M.

girl, puella, ae, F.

put to flight, in
dare; take to flight,

follow, seqnor,
subsequor, I.

m.

I,

I,

Germany. Germania,
gel, naneiseor,

flight, fuga, ae, F.

fond,

{country), Gallia, ae, k.

(ermaii, Germanus,

.\.

turn and

Haul

tiaul (native), Gallus,

latus. -eris,

Hot', fugio.

N.

I,

v.

gather, confero, ferre.

prlmum

iiv. eonstituc. ere.

Hank,

389

foot (of

sub

ul foot of,

hill, etc.)

(al)L).

ere.

ere.

itum

il (IvI),

go forth, exeo,

Ire.

good, bonus,

um.

a,

govern, impero, are


grain, frumentum,

[550].

(dat.).

I,

n.

fool-soldier, pedes, -peditis, m.

grant, concedo, ere.

forage, frumentor,

great, magnus, a, um
so great,
sueh great, tantus, a, um how
great, what great, quantus, a, um.

ari.

farce, vis, V.

[472].

forced (marches), magnus.


forces, cOpiae,

arum,

greatly, magnopere.

f.

foresee, prOvideO, ere.

greatness, magnitudO,

forest. silva, ac, F.

ground, loca, Oram,


ground, apertus loens,

forget,

form

memoriam

depOnO, ere.

guard,
(plan*. capiO, ere

-dinis, v.

n.

ftf.

statid, -onis, v.

ineO, Ire.

guide, dux, duels, M.


fortification, munitiO, -Onis,
fortify,

muniO.

f.

ire.

free {adj.), liber, era,

ci'tnii.

hand, he

free {verb), Uber6, are.

freedom, Ubert&S,

halt, eunsisto, ere,

-talis, k.

happen,

at, adsnni, esse.

accidd, ere;

flO, fieri

harass, premd, ere.


freely, libere.

harbor, portua,
frequent,

crfiber, bra,

hard,

fresh, integer, gra, grum.

friend, amicus,

[,

friendly, amicus,

difficilis, e.

harm,

noceO, ere (dat.).

M.

hasten. contendO,

a, urn.

iiave, tiabeo,

friendship, amlcitia,
frighten. berreO,

us, m.

brum.

fire.

ae, f.

ear,

audio,

ere,

fire,

[re,

heart, animus,

I,

m.

open

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heavy, gravis,

e.

Inform, certiorem

height, altitudo,

facio, ere [171].

inhabit, incolo, ere.

-dinis, F.

heights, superiora loca, N.

inhabitant, incola, ae, M.

help, auxilium,

injure, noceo, ere

N.

i,

inquire, quaero,

Helvetians, Helvetii, drum, M.


here, hie

hue

(dat.).

ere.

interval of time, spatium,

[343].

hesitate, dubito, are.

island, insula, ae, F.

hide, abdo, ere

Italy, Italia, ae, f.

N.B.].

[282,

um.
higher ground, superiora
high, altus,

n.

i,

a,

loca, n.

join, jungo, ere conjungo, ere [282]


join battle, proelium committo.
;

hill, collis,

is,

m.

hinder, impedio,

ire.

journey,

iter, itineris, n.

hither, hue.

hold, teneo, ere

obtineo, ere.

keep, teneo, ere; keep (from), pro-

hope (noun), spes, ei, F.


hope (verb), spero, are [328].
horse, equus,

I,

hibeo, ere

M.

kind, genus,

horseman, horse-soldier,

eques,

equitis, m.

quantus,

a,

huge, ingens,

large,

modus,

M.

N.B.]

how much,

um.

i,

king, rex, regis, M.


;

ae, F.

how great, how

interflcio, ere.

-eris, n.

know, scio, ire cognovi [243,


known, notus, a, um.

hostage, obses, obsidis, m.

hour, hora,

[167].

kill, neco, are

lacking, be, desum, deesse.


lake, lacus.us, m.

-entis.

hurl, conjicio, ere.

land, terra, ae,

f.

ager, agrl, m.

large, magnus, a, um
so large,
tantus, a, um how large, quantus,
;

If, si

a,

if not, nisi.

incessant, continens,
increase, augeo, ere

ere.

lead, duco, ere.


-entis.

[225,

incredible, incredibilis,

induce, persuadeo, ere

lead back, reduco,

N.B.].

lead out, educo,

ere.

ere.

e.

lead across, traduco,

ere.

(dat).

inexperienced, irnperitus,

a,

um

leader, dux, ducis, M.

leadership, principatus,

(gen.).

Infantry {noun), pedites, um, m.

leading man, princeps,


leap down,

(adj.), pedester, tris, tre.

influence (noun), auctoritas, -tatis,F.

influence (verb),
adduco, ere.

permoveo,

ere

us, m.

-cipis,

m.

peditatus, us, m.

Infantry

um.

lay down, depono,

immediately, statim.

desilio, ire.

learn, cognosco, ere.


leave, relinquo, ere (= depart from)
discedo, ere exeo, ire.
;

left, sinister, tra,

trum.

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legion, U'Kio,

memory, memoria,

-<"i

legionary, legionarius,
length, longitiido,
less,

a,

messenger, nuntius,

-dinis, F.

method,

Ileiiteiiant, leg&tUS,

light (adj.), levis,

In

light.

midst, medius,

If.

I,

might,

f.

a,

um 1175J.

um [175].

a,

vis, f. [472].

mile, mille passus

e.

niarehlng order, exam.

peditus, a,

M.

midnight, media nox.

P. [130J.

light (noun), lux, lueis,

are.
i,

ratio, -onis, P.

middle, medius,

lest, ne.

Arum,

ae, f.

mention, demonstro,

am.

minor, minus.

letter, litterae.

391

[231].

military, militaris,

mindful, memor,

e.

-oris.

like, similis, e (dat.).

misfortune, incommodum,

line of inarch, agmen, -minis, n.

missile, telum,

line of hattle, acies,

more,

long

(adj.),

long

(adv.), for

longus,

ei, P.

a, urn.

mound,

diu.

lose, amitto, ere.


loss,

loud

incommodum,
(voice),

magnus,

lower, inferior,

a,

um.

much (adv.),

he,

fio, fieri,

factus

magistrate, magistrates,

us, m.

orum, m.

N
name (noun), nomen, -minis,
name (verb), appello, are.
nation, natio,

-onis, p.

nature, natura,

n.

populus,

i,

m.

ae, F.

near, prope, propior, proximus.

neighboring, finitimus,
p.

i.

march (noun), iter,

itineris, n.

of march, agmen, -minis,


(verb), iter facio, ere.

palus, -Mis, P.

n.

line

neighbors,

neither

res, rei, 9.

nor, neque

aeque.

tra,

new, no\

as, a,

mo

a,

tram [205],

reoftns,

um

tut

Is.

proxiiui].-.

by night,

um.
ni>\.

DOOttfl,

r.

QOOtCL

n.

um.

never, numquam.

night.

(dat.).
I,

a,

orum, m.

neither (adj.), neater,

a,

meeting, concilium,

. .

finitimi,

next, posterus,

means, modus, i, m.
meanwhile, interim.
meet, occurro, ert

-dinis, p.

nearly, prope.

manage, administro, are.


manner, modus, i, M. ratio, -onis,
many, mult ae, a.

matter,

um.

a,

marsh,

m.

n nil turn.

sum [551].

luarch

m.

multitude, multitude,

mainland, continens, -entis, p.


make, facio, ere.
man, vir, viri, m. homo, -inis, m.
his men, sui, orum, m. our men,
nosfcri,

-tris, p.

-eris,

much, how, quantus,

ins.

M
made,

agger,

mountain, mons, montis,


move, moveo, ere.

n.

I,

N.

plus, pluris.

mother, mater,

a long time,

i,

n.

i,

ulghtrall, at.
no, iiullus, a,

siil> iioci.'iu.

um

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nobody, no one, nemo


noble, nobilis,

none, nullus,

overpower, opprimo,

N.B.].

1349,

overtake, consequor,

e.

um [205].

a,

noon, meridies,

el,

m.

nor, neque.

pace, passus, us, M.

not, non

part, pars, partis, f.

nothing,

ne.

peace, pax, pacis,

nihil, indeclinable, n.

numerus,

number,

m.

i,

small

paucitas, -tatis, f.

nuniber, multitude,

numerous,

large

brum.

obey, pareo, ere


observe,

perceive, sentio, ire

perspicio, ere.

(dat.).

pitch camp, castra pono,


place (noun), locus,
ere.

place

(dat.).

(verb),

animad-

i,

ere.

m.

pono, ere.

plan, consilium,

ere

conspicio,

m.;

pillage, praedor, arL

O
obedient, be, pareo,

i,

(=persons), homines.

persuade, persuadeo, ere

-dinis, f.

creber, bra,

f.

people (= nation), populus,

notice, animadverto, ere.


nniiiber,

ere.
I.

n.

I,

plenty, copia, ae,

f.

verto, ere.

obtain, nanciscor, I obtain a request, impetro, are.


;

occupied, occupatus,
ocean, oceanus,

i,

a,

plunder, praeda, ae, f.


plunder, praedam facio.
point out, demonstro,

um.

obtain

are.

position, take up, consido, ere.

m.

possess, obtineo, 6re.


officer, praefectus,

i,

m.

possible, be, possum, posse; as


as possible [249].

often, saepe.

once, at, station.

post, dispono, ere.

only, solum.

power,

onset, impetus, us, m.

open, apertus,

a,

opportunity,

um.

facultas,

potestas, -tatis, f.

oppose,

potestas, -tatis, F.

powerful, potens, -entis.


preceding, superior, ius.
-tatis,

f.

prefer, maio, malle, malui.

[445].

preferable,
resisto, ere (dat.).

praestat

it is,

prepare, paro,

[243].

are.

or, aut.

order (noun = rank), ordo,

order
are

(verb),

jubed, ere;

present, be, adsum, adesse.


-dinis, m.

impero,

press, premo, ere

be hard pressed,

premor, L

(dat.).

orders, give, impero, are.

ud [205] the other,


alter, era, erum the others, eeteri,

other, alius,

a,

prevent, prohibeo, ere

[167].

previous, superior,

ius.

prisoner, captivus,

i,

m.

proceed, progredior,

ae, a.

outpost, statio,

-onis, f.

over, be, praesum, esse (dat); set


over, praeflcio, ere (dat.) [378, N.B.].

i.

procure, paro, are; comparo,

promise,

are.

polliceor, eri [328].

property, their, sua, oruni, n.

[281].

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provide, pro video.

f erre

pursue, Insequor,

request, pete, ere.

n.

F.

for the

rest,

of, reliquus, a, urn [175].

the

restore, reddo, ere.

restrain, retineo, ere ; contineo, ere.

i.

retire, cedo, ere.

retreat, se recipere.

celeriter.

return, redeo, Ire

rank, ordo,
rallier,

i,

Rhine, Rhenus,

N.

expedio,

a,

rise, orior,

(ad).

urn;

make ready

rear, novissimum agmen


ihe rear, post tergum.

[171J;

I,

N.

river, flumen, -minis, N.


I, M.

In

road,

tra,

Iri.

risk, perlculum,

Ire.

reason, causa, ae,

m.

(of direction), dexter,


trum ; (=just) aequus, a, urn.

had, malo, malle.

reach, pervenio, Ire

I,

I.

res, v.

right

-dinis, M.

ready, paratus,

reverter,

revolution, novae

raise, tollo, ere, sustuli, sublatum.

rampart, vallum,

[181, N.B.].

resist, resiste, ere (dot.).

Q
quickly,

are; defero,

f erre [394],

require, impero, are

public business, res publica,

refero,

repulse, repello, ere.

V.

prudent, prudens, -out is.


i,

r.

provisions, res frumentaria,


conimeatus, us, M.

purpose, consilium,
of, causa (gen.).

(verb), renuntio,

report

ere.

province, provineia, ae,

39;

iter, itineris, n.

fluvius,

via, ae, f.

Roman (noun), Romanus, M.


Roman (adj.), Romanus, a, um.
I,

F.

recall, revoeo, are.

route, via, ae,

F.

receive, accipio, ere.

rule, imperium,

recent, reeens, -entis.

rumor, fama,
rush (out), se

reconnoitre, exploro, are.

n.

I,

ae, f.
ejicere.

recover, reeipio, ere.

regain, reeipio, ere.


region, regio, -onis,

v.

safe, iiicolumis, e.

reinforcements, auxilia, Drum, n.


subsidium, I, N.

release, solvo, ere.

remaining, reliquus,

a, urn.

f.

sail, navigo, are ; set snll,


naves solvu, ere.

navem or

sailor, nauta, ae, M.

remember, ineinini [288] memorial.!


;

relineo, ere.

remove, removed, 8re;


renew, renovo, arc

safety, salus, -utis,

tollo, ere.

sake, for the


sally, erupt

-Of,

io,

causa

(tjen.).

-onis, F.

sally out, erumpo, BTt.

same,

reply, responded, Bre.

bear

report (noun), f&ma, ae, P.;


(bring) a report, famam perfera,

the

Ilie,

Idem, eadem. itlem

same time,

Blmul.

satisfy, sat isfaeio. en- idat.).

ay, dn<>, ere

sa>

110I, DO)

at

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scarcely, vix

aegre.

slavery, .servitus,

scarcity, inopia, ae, f.

scout, explorator,
sea, mare,

is,

slay, neco, are

M.

-toris,

small, parvus,

um

a,

ber, paucitas,

n.

-tutis, f.

interflcio, ere.

small

season, tempus annl, n.

so, sic, ita, tarn [372].

secure, provideo, ere.

so great, tantus,

see, video, ere

soldier, miles, mllitis, M.

conspicio, ere.

um.

a,

seek, peto, ere.

some, some one, aliquis

seem,' videor,

son,

erl.

filius,

seize, occupo, are.

sort, genus, -eris, n.

sortie, eruptio, onis, F.

send, mitto, ere.

spare, parco, ere

(dat.).

send out, emitto, ere.


send In advance, praemitto,

spear, hasta, ae,

f.

speech, oratio, -onis, f. ; deliver


(make) a speech, orationem ha-

ere.

seriously, graviter.

be

of,

sum

usul

beo.
[432].

speed, celeritas,

set about, Instituo, ere

i,

m.

i.

set over, praeflcio, ere

[378,

spring, ver, veris, n.

N.B.].

stall* ofllcer, legatiis,

several, complures,

m.

i,

a.

stand,

severe, gravis,

-tatis, f.

[398].

spirit, animus,

set out, proflciscor,

[458].

m.

i,

senate, senatus, us, m.

service,

num-

-tatis, F.

sto,

stare

e.

(-endure)

feio,

ferre.

severely, graviter.

standard, signum,

I,

n.

shatter, frango, ere.


state, clvitas, -tatis, f.

ship, navis,

is,

F.

brevi.

show, ostendo,
parte
undique.

-oris,

m.

from

on

side,

ex

(on) all sides,

signal, signum,

similar, similis,

i,

pugno, are.
strength, vires, ium,

submit

magnitudo,

f.

peritus,

conflrmo,

um

be strong,

to, perfero, ferre.

such, such great, tantus,

a,

um.

suddenly, subito.

-dinis, f.

skilled,

-tatis, f.

take by storm, ex-

strong, flrmus, a,
valeo, ere [416].

n.

e.

sister, soror, -oris, f.

a,

ura

suffer (loss, defeat), accipio, ere.


sufficient, sufficiently, satis.

(gen.).

slave, servus,

(verb),

are.

since, cum.

skilful,

(noun), tempestas,

strengthen, flrmo, are

sight, conspectus, us, M.

size,

station, colloco, are.

storm
storm

ere.

side, latus, -eris, n.


.

res publica,

stature, magnitudo corporis, f.

shout, shouting, clamor,

rel publicae, f.

short, brevis, e; In a short time,

I,

m.

suitable, idoneus,

a,

um.

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gammer, aestas, -tat is, f.
summon, coiivocii, air.
superior,

{supply,

lie,

through, per (ace).

throw,

cdpia, ae,
V.

supplies, res
f.
eonuneatus, us, M.
;

support, subsidiuin,

n.

I.

jacio, ere

throw away,

praestS, ire.

frumentaiia.

395

thus*

sic, ita.

Tiber, Tiberis,

time, teuipus,

surpass, praesto, are (dot.); supero,


a iv.

conjiciS, ere.

abjiciS, ere.

M.

is,

-oris, n.

spatium, I, N.

together (with), una (cum).


toll, labor, -oris, m.

surrender (noun),

deditio, -onis, w.

surrender (n //>), dedo,

ere
N.H.]; deditionem facio, ere.

[282,

top, summits, a, ura

tower,

surround, circumvenid,

Ire

turris,

is, f.

cir-

town, oppidum,

cunido dare
suspeet. suspicor,

for, de

treat, to

swll't. eeler. eris, ere.

trench, fossa, ae,

swiftly, celeriter.

I,

P.

treat (with), ago, ere (cum).

sustain. BUStined, ere.

sword, gladius,

n.

I,

transport, navis oneraria,

arl.

swiftness, celeritas,

[175].

towards, ad (ace).

[99].

F.

tribe, natiS, -Snis, F.

-tatis, F.

tribune, tribunus,

li.

I,

M.

troops, copiae, arum, F.


trust, confldS, ere (dot.).
try, conor, arl.

take, capio, ere.

take aeross, traduco,

take away,

turn, verts, ere converts [282, N.B.]


turn and flee, terga verto.

ere.

tolls, ere.

take plaee, geror,

I.

take up (amis), capio,

unable, be, non possum, posse.

ere.

teaeh, doceo, ere.

unbroken, continent,

-entis.

tend, pertineS, ere.

unfriendly, inimlcus,

a, urn.

terrify, terreS, ere

ager,

territory,
ium, M.

perterreS, ere.
M.

agri,

fines,

m.

is,

eS

thlek, densus,

thing,

res, rel, F.

exist imo. are

thither.

<

[118].

urge, bortor,
use,

a, uni.

think,

incognitos,

a,

nm.

nisi.

(dat.).

unprotected (flank), apert


unwilling, he, nolo, ndlle,

[343].

there (introductory)

intellegS, ere.

unlike, dissimilis, e

than, quani.
ibi,

unknown,
unless,

Thames, Tamesis,
there,

understand.

lit

or,

usel'ul. ut
;

arbitror, arl.

oohortOTi

(lib!.).

ilis, e.

useless, imitilis,

e.

<>

thought, take, conaulo,


three dajs, triduuin,

arl

i,

ere,

n.

valor,

ill

vast, Lngen

us,

tui

us, a, urn.

nolui.

ML

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396

venture, audeo,

ausussum

ere,

[313].

um [205].

whole,

vigor, vires, ium, P.

why, cur.
wide {adj.), latus, a, um.
wide (adv.), widely, late.

vigorously, acriter.
village, vicus,

violence,

M.

I,

-dinis, F.

willing, be, volo, velle, volui.

voice, vox, vocis,

wing

f.

W
gero, ere.

wait, inoror,

arl.

wall, miirus,

I,

vallum,

I,

N.

terre (ivith dat.).

wish, volo,

f.

cum (abl.); apud (ace).


withdraw (trans.), deduco,
removeo, ere
;

discedo, ere.

within, intra (ace).

ere.

without, sine

(abl.).

withstand, sustineo,

Match,

wood, silva,
work, opus,

vigilia, ae, F.

ae, F.

fluctus, us, m.

pedem

refero,

ferre.

-eris, n.

i,

-tatis,

M.

-eris, n.

wheel about, signa


when, cum.
whence, unde.
ubi,

quo

injuria, ae, p.

N.

weather, tempestas,
weep, fleo, ere.
weight, onus,

n.

write, scribo, ere.

Mrong, wrong-doing,

weapon, telum,

where,

ere.

ae, P.

wound (noun), vulnus, -eris,


wound (verb), vulnero, are.
;

ere

(intrans.) excedo,

waste, lay, vasto, are.

way, via, ae, P.


way, give, cedo, ere

n.

velle, volui.

with,

ere

war-ship, navis longa,

wave,

n.

hiemo, are.

wanting, be, desum, deesse.


make war, bello,
I, n.
are make war on, bellum infero,

water, aqua,

iis,

winter quarters, hibema, orum,

m.

war, bellum,

(of army), cornu,

winter (noun), hiems, hiemis, f.


winter (verb), pass the Mintcr,

wage (war),

warn, moneo,

totus, a,

width, latitudo,

vis, p. [472],

visit, adeo, ire.

whither, quo.

victory, victoria, ae, f.

converto, ere.

year, annus,
yet, not,

i,

m.

nondum (adv.).

yield, concede, ere.

young man,

adulescens, -entis, M.

[343],

which (of two), uter, tra, trum [205].


while, dum, cum, or pres. partic.

zeal, studium,

I,

n.

INDEX
[The numbers refer
Ablative, threefold force,
with prepositions, 97, 98;
means, 17; 145; of agent,
time, 159; of comparison,
solute, 296, 299
35fi

303-306

48

Dative, of indirect object, 39; with


adjectives, 173; with special verbs,

436; of
144; of
242; ab-

with

fn.

fttor,

355; of agent, 354; of interest, 404,


431

manner,

of

415

of separa-

of purpose, 404, 431.

Declension, combinations for prac-

of quality, 383; of specifica-

tion, 414

to sections.]

tice in, 116

204

209

359.

Deponent verbs, 311, 312 545.


DO, compounds of, 409, N.B.
;

tion, 137.

Accent,

Want clauses,

14, 15.

itive

and

infinitive construc-

tion, 320-335.

predicate, 54; with


97,

object,

32;
prepositions,

98; 435; subject of infinitive,

of time, 159 ; of extent


; 320
of space, 231.
123, 124

Eo, conjugation of, 419 550.


Fer5, conjugation of, 392-394 549.
FI5, conjugation of, 420 551.
For, introductory, 124.
Gender, natural and grammatical,
61 ; in third declension, 95, N.B. ; 190.
;

direct

of

itive,

273.

Enclitics, 342, fn.

Adjectives, agreement, 64; of first


and second decl., 65, 72; of third
decl., 112, 113 irregular, with gen.
in -Ins, 205, 207 as substantives,
180; with dative, 173; with genitive, 429 instead of partitive gen.,

Genitive, partitive, 174; of quality,


383; possessive, 429; subjective,
429

objective, 429; 432, N.B.

with

adjectives 429;

432.

175.

Adverbs, formation, 237


246-248
comparison, 238.
Agent, ablative of, 141; dative of,

Gerund, 443, 444.


Gerundive construction, 448-450.
Gerundive with .sum, 31(5-318.
I

si

cms

of third decl., 185-189.

394.

Apposition,

54.

Causal clauses, with quod,


ruin,

256

with

397.

Commands,
Cemparal

Mil.

Ives,

declension

of, 170.

Comparison, of adjectives, regular,


169; irregular, 193-198; of adverbs,

287-288; 543,541
It,

238.

Complementary

as representative Buhjeut, 124.


adjeotivea with genitive

-ins,

infinitive, 123.

Composition, vowels weakened

Halo, conjugation
clauses,

'J-l

221

In,

207.

In,

289.

Conditional sentences,

Cum

Imperative, 463, 464; 537, 538.


Indirect discourse, 320-335; 40&
Indirect questions, 362.
Infinitive, formation, 539, 540; coin
plementary, 123; as substantive,
124; with accusative in indirect
discourse, 320-335; various w
rendering English Infinitive, 1-5.
-lfi, verbs of third conjugation in.

lllllle, lllllla,

i,

'.''>!.

of, 228

397

23L

of, 101

dcelcnsion and

s\ nt;i\

;;

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398

NS15, conjugation of, 401 548.


Nouns, declension of, 515-519; changes
;

in consonant

stems of third declen-

sion, 84.
list of, 524; cardinal, 214-

216 ; 228-230 ; ordinal, 156.


Participles, present, 271-273

perfect,

304; future, 322, a.,


346; gerundive, 346; perfect participle of deponents, 312.
261, 262; 303,

Perfect stem, formation of, 105, 106.


Periphrastic conjugations, active
passive, 346-348.

Personal endings, 164.


Plus, declension of, 197.
Possessive pronominal adjectives,
279-281.

Possum, conjugation and use


376, 377

of,

Prohibitions, 464.
Pronouns, personal, 266, 267; reflexive, 277, 278 ; possessive, 279-281

demonstrative

(hie, ille, Is), 292,

Idem)

306, 307

relative,

255; interrogative, 340, 341;


indefinite, 455-459 ; se and Is in in-

254,

direct discourse, 323

Pronunciation,

6-9;

b.

English method,

18, 19.

371.

Semi-deponents,

313.

Sequence of tenses, 387.


Subjunctive, a., independent uses:
volitive (jussive, hortatory), 465
optative, 466; 6., dependent uses:
in indirect questions, 362 ; of result,
371; of purpose, 386, 388, 424; in
subordinate clauses in indirect
discourse, 408
with cum, 397
conditional, 477, 478.
;

Suffixes, 130; 202; 232; 263; 274.


546

of,

clauses,
;

com-

of, 375, 378.

Superlative, force of, 169 &.


Supine, 469, 470.
Tenses, historical present, 59 fn. ;
imperfect and perfect representing
English simple past, 119; perfect
translated by English present, 243
future or future perfect translated
by English present, 224 sequence,
;

387.

There, introductory,

118.

lltor, ablative with, 356.

Verbs, conjugation of, 471


Vocative, 53.
Yolo, conjugation of, 401
;

adverbial, 386;
substantive, 424
relative, 388
expressed by gerund or gerundive,
451 by supine, 470.
;

indirect,

clauses, 256.

pounds

146.

Prefixes, 41 ; 49 ; 120 ; 125 ; 147 ; 181


225 ; 243 ; 251 ; 378 ; 409 f n.
Prepositions, 97, 98; 435, 436, 438.
Principal parts, 138 ; 469.

293; (Ipse,

Quod

Result clauses,

Sum, conjugation

547.

Predicate nouns, 54

Purpose

Questions, direct, 339-342

242;

362.

Numerals,

and

Qiiam, with comparatives,


with superlatives, 249.

Word
285

lists,

352

Latin, 58

412

381

441.

548.

110

162

220

136

183

252

483.

Word lists, English, 81


318

531-551.

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