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ablative accusative action adnoun adverbs agent animo antepres antepresent antepreterite Aquitanis bacchius bellum Cæsar Cæsarem Cæsura called case-ending catalectic compounds consonant consonant conjugation consonant declension consul contracted dactylic dative declension declension end denotes Dimeter ductus elements EPODE erat essem esset expressed factus feminine finibus flumen formed by adding FUTURE TENSES gender genitive gerund govern the genitive grammar Greek gutturals Helvetii Hence ibus imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD implies infinitive itum labial language Latin Latin language lead legeritis letter masc masculine motion neuter nominative noun object occurs Orgetorix partem participle passive voice penult person-ending plur plural posterior preposition pres PRESENT TENSES pret PRETERITE TENSES pronoun quæ quid quis quod reduplication Roman root sentence short signify sing singular sometimes spondee stems ending SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD sufformative supine syllable third person Trimeter trochee union vowel verb verse volo vowel vowel conjugations word
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Page 55 - Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgse, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtse, nostra Galli appellantur. Hi omnes in lingua, institutis, legibus inter se differunt.
Page 102 - Quibus rebus adductus Caesar non exspectandum sibi statuit, dum, omnibus fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos Helvetii pervenirent. xn. Flumen est Arar, quod per fines Aeduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum influit incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat judicari non possit.
Page 106 - Ego postquam te emi, a parvulo ut semper tibi Apud me justa et clemens fuerit servitus, Scis. Feci ex servo, ut esses libertus mihi, 10 Propterea quod servibas liberaliter.
Page 98 - The prepositions in, sub, super, and subter, govern the accusative, when motion to a place is signified ; but when motion or rest in a place is signified, in and sub, govern the ablative ; super and subter either the accusative or ablative.
Page 55 - Pro multitudine autem hominum et pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis angustos se fines habere arbitrabantur qui in longitudinem millia passuum ducenta et quadraginta, in latitudinem centum et octoginta patebant.
Page 102 - Csesari dediderunt. In quos eo gravius Csesar vindicandum statuit, quo diligentius in reliquum tempus a barbaris jus legatorum conservaretur. Itaque omni senatu necato reliquos sub corona vendidit.
Page 90 - A VERB agrees with the nominative before it in number and person ; as, I read.
Page 86 - Anaxagorae,5wemb veteres nunquam in vita risisse* ferunt. 31. Participles. (§146.) Participles are usually translated after their nouns, with which they agree in gender, number, and case, in the same manner as the adjectives ; and at the same time govern the case of their own verb. Exempla fortune variantis k sunt innumera.b Galli diem venientem cantu nuntiant. Cecrops urbem ' a seccwdftamb appellabatCecropiam.1 • § 47, 6, & 97, 4.
Page 89 - Caesars worte: deorum numero eos solos ducunt, quos cernunt, Solem et Vulcanum et Lunam: reliquos ne fama quidem acceperunt; andere würden zu nennen gewesen sein, auf die sich des Römers beobachtung nicht erstreckte.
Page 6 - The Nominative, the Vocative, the Accusative, the Genitive, the Dative, and the Ablative.