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LESSON XXXV.

INTERROGATIVE AND IMPERATIVE SENTENCES.
[1, 15.]

153. LESSON FROM THE GRAMMAR.

I. Interrogative Sentences. 346, II.

1. Single Questions. 346, II. 1.
2. Double Questions. 346, II. 2.
3. Answers. 346, II. 3.

II. Imperative Sentences. 346, III.

III. Moods in Imperative Sentences - Imperative, Subjunc

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THAN GOODNESS, quam bonitas, or bonitāte.

We

1. MODEL I. will use the latter form, which may stand either before or after melius. For the ablative, see Rule XXIII.

2. MODEL III. - HE DID

he did state it, dixit. See G. 346, II. 3.

156. SYNONYMES.

Road, way, path; via, iter, semita.

1. Via, ae, f.; ROAD, WAY,—the usual route.

2. Iter, itineris, n.; (1), ROAD, WAY, -the direct route; (2), JOURNEY, MARCH,

- the

progress

made.

3. Semita, ae, f.; PATH, FOOT-PATH.

157. VOCABULARY.

Four, quattuor, indecl.
Helvetian, Helvetius, a, um.
How large, quantus, a, um.
Journey, iter, itinĕris, n.
Narrow, angustus, a, um.
Path, semita, ae, f.

Province, provincia, ae, f.
Road, via, ae, f.
Route, iter, itinĕris, n.
Show, monstro, āre, āvi, ātum.
Through, per, prep. with acc.

158. EXERCISE.

1. Did you call Caesar the friend of the Gauls? 2. We cannot call Caesar the friend of the Gauls. 3. How large a force had Caesar? 4. I do not know how large a force he had. 5. Did he not make a journey through the Roman province? 6. How many roads are there to the city? 7. There are four roads to the city. 8. I will show you the nearest route. 9. This path is very narrow. 10. Was Orgetorix a Roman or a Helvetian? 11. He was a Helvetian. 12. Who was the bravest of the Helvetians? 13. Orgetorix. 14. Do not wage war with the Romans. 15. Let us bravely encounter these dangers.

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LESSON XXXVI.

COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES.
[1, 19.]

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I. The reasons which you mention are most just.

II. The name of peace is delightful, and the thing itself beneficial. III. Preserve yourselves, your wives, your children, and your fortunes.

IV. Who would seek honor (as eagerly) as he would avoid ignominy?

I. Causae quas commemoras justissimae

sunt.

II. Nomen pacis dulce est, et ipsa res salutāris.

III. Conservāte vos, conjuges, liberos, fortunasque vestras.

IV. Quis honōrem tam expětat quam ignominiam fugiat?

V. We love equity and

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right.

amāmus.

161. REMARKS.

1. Observe that the first model is a complex sentence with the relative clause, quas commemoras; that the second is a compound sentence, consisting of two members connected by et, and that the third has a compound object, vos — vestras.

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COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES.

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2. MODEL I.—WHICH, quas, in the Fem. Plur. to agree with its antecedent, according to Rule XXXIV., and in the Accus. as the object of commemoras, according to Rule V.

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THE THING ITSELF, ipsa res. Res is the subject of

4. MODEL III. — YOURSELVES, vos.

this reflexive use of vos, see G. 448.

Ipsos need not be added. For

5. YOUR, vestras, expressed but once; here with the last object, fortūnas. If not emphatic, it would here be omitted. See G. 447.

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1. How large a force Caesar had at that time is uncertain. 2. Whether those cities could be taken was uncertain. 3. They say that the Gauls were surpassed in valor by the Romans. 4. We crossed the river which flows into lake Lemannus. 5. The river which we crossed is called the Rhone. 6. The enemy must be conquered and . their cities must be taken. 7. Dumnorix, who commanded the cavalry of the Aeduans, fled. 8. Let us not establish peace and friendship with the enemy. remember the ancient valor of the Romans.

9. Let us F

1 Antiquus refers to the remote past; while pristinus generally refers to the more recent past, or else has the force of primitive, pristine.

LESSON XXXVII.

AGREEMENT OF NOUNS.
[1, 24.]

164. LESSON FROM THE GRAMMAR.

I. Agreement of Predicate Nouns. 362. II. Agreement of Appositives. 363.

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1. MODEL I. ATTENDANTS, ministrae, not ministri, to agree in gender with virtutes. See G. 362, 1, 1).

2. MODEL II. - KING OF CARIA, Cariae regis, or regis Cariae. Regis is in the Gen. in apposition with Mausoli. The whole sentence could be arranged in the English order: Artemisia fuit uxor Mausōli, regis Cariae. But in that form it would lose not only in point of euphony, but also of compactness; the modifier, regis Cariae, would be merely an

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