Frequently, saepe, adv.; comp. More highly, with verbs of valuing,

5.

1. That which ought to be accomplished by worth is often attempted by means of money. 2. We have learned from good men, that of evils it behooves one to choose the least. 3. It must be admitted that an honorable life is a happy life. 4. No possession, no amount of gold and silver, must be more highly prized than virtue. The arts which minister to pleasures are least to be commended. 6. It must be admitted that a happy life depends upon virtue. 7. Consider, I pray, what we ought to do. 8. All things should be arranged with reference to the highest good. 9. There is need of magistrates, without whose prudence and diligence a state cannot exist. 10. Prompted by a feeling of admiration, I praise Plato more frequently, perhaps, than is necessary. I will not prove to these judges that the praetor took money contrary to the laws.

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LESSON C.

USE OF SPECIAL VERBS.

562. Permission may be expressed in Latin, —

1. By licet, it is lawful, permitted by human law. See Model I.

2. By fas est, it is right, permitted by divine law. See Model II.

3. By conceditur, concessum est, it is allowed, permitted by all law. See Model I.

563. Power, ability, is expressed by possum, I am able, I can. See Model III.

564. Possibility, uncertainty, may be expressed,

1. By fieri potest ut, with the Subjunctive, it can happen that, it may be that. See Model IV.

2. By the Potential Subjunctive. See Model V.

565. The Latin has three principal ways of expressing possession:

I. Sum with the Ablative is used of necessary and permanent possession. This is used especially when the thing possessed is a part, a quality, or a characteristic of the possessor. See Model VI.

II. Habeo is the most common equivalent for the English verb to have, but is used especially to denote external possession. See Models VII. and VIII.

III. Sum with the Dative has the same general force as habeo, but calls attention to the thing possessed by making it the subject of the verb. See Models IX. and X.1

1 In expressions of naming, as in Model IX., sum with the Dative is the regular construction. It is also the usual construction when the

566. MODELS.

subject stands connected with an oblique case with or without a preposition, as in Model X., nihil cum illo, no dealings with him.

567. REMARKS.

1. MODEL IV.—IT MAY BE THAT, Latin idiom, it can take place (be done) that.

2. MODELS VI. — VIII. — Observe the different ways of expressing possession.

3. MODEL IX.-WHOSE NAME IS, Latin idiom, to which there is the name.

568. VOCABULARY.

Acquaintance, experience, usus, | No one, nobody, nemo, inis; nulus, m. A very intimate acquaintance, summus usus. Administer, gero, ère, gessi, gestum.

lus, a, um. See G. 457, 2. Not, followed by either neither - nor, neque or nec —

neque or nec.

or,

Express, utter, eloquor, i, locutus Think, ponder, cogito, āre, āvi,

569. EXERCISE.

1. Whatever is not lawful we ought to regard as wrong. 2. It may be that one may think correctly, and yet not be able to express elegantly that which one thinks. 3. You would not be able to praise Plato either too strongly or too frequently. 4. I do not think that Verres will deny that he has innumerable pictures. 5. O that there had been in Tiberius Gracchus such talent for administering the republic well, as there was genius for speaking well! 6. It is not permitted me to be negligent in this thing. 7. I have, as I think you are aware, a very intimate acquaintance with Marcus Fabius. 8. Hortensius had such a memory as I think I have known in no one (else), so that, whatever he had thought out by himself, he could, without writing, repeat in the same words in which he had thought it.

LESSON CI.

PREPOSITIONS.

570. In many instances where the English idiom uses prepositions, the Latin adopts some different construction.

571. The preposition without may be variously rendered into Latin, but most frequently (1) by the preposition sine, (2) by a participle with non or some other negative word, and (3) by ut non, qui non, or quin, with the Subjunctive. See Models I.—III.

572. The preposition for may generally be rendered (1) by the Dative of the Indirect Object, (2) by pro with the