1. Diei, dierum, diebus. 2. Aciei, aciem, acie. 3. Diem, speciem. 4. Die, specie. 5. Res, spes. 6. Rei, spei. 7.

Victoriae spes. 8. Victoriae spe. 9. Diei horae. 10.

Numěrus dierum. 11. Gloria, cibus, nubes, cantus, facies. 12. Gloriae, cibi, nubis, cantus, faciei. 13. Gloriam, cibum, nubem, cantum, faciem.

1. A day, days. 2. Of the day, of the days. 3. For the day, for the days. 4. The thing, the things. 5. With the thing, with the things. 6. Concerning the thing, concerning the things. 7. Of the thing, of the things. 8. Concerning the battle-array. 9. Wisdom, friend, citizen, fruit, hope. 10. For wisdom, for a citizen, for hope.

CHAPTER II.

ADJECTIVES.

146. The adjective is that part of speech which is used to qualify nouns: bonus, good; magnus, great.

The form of the adjective in Latin depends in part upon the gender of the noun which it qualifies; bonus puer, a good boy; bona puella, a good girl; bonum tectum, a good house. Thus bonus is the form of the adjective when used with masculine nouns, bona with feminine, and bonum with neuter.

147. Some adjectives are partly of the first declension and partly of the second, while all the rest are entirely of the third declension.

I. FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSIONS.

148. Adjectives of this class have in the nominative singular the endings:

1 The dash indicates that the ending is sometimes wanting. See 45, 1.

1. Bonus is declined in the Masc. like servus of Dec. II. (45), in the Fem. like mensa of Dec. I. (42), and in the Neut. like templum of Dec. II. (45).

2. Liber differs in declension from bonus only in dropping us and e in the Nom. and Voc. (45, 3, 1). Aeger differs from liber only in dropping e before r (45, 3, 2).

3. Most adjectives in er are declined like aeger.

RULE XXXIII.-Agreement of Adjectives.

438. An Adjective agrees with its Noun in GENDER, NUMBER, and CASE:

Fortūna caeca est, Fortune is blind.1 Cic. Vērae ămicitiae, true friendships. Cic. Măgister optimus, the best teacher. Cic.

1 Here the adjective caeca is in the feminine gender, in the singular number, and in the nominative case, to agree with fortuna. It is declined like BONUS: caecus, caeca, caecum.

MODEL FOR PARSING.

Vērae ǎmīcītiae, True friendships.

Verae is an adjective (146) of the First and Second Declensions (147): STEM, ver (41, 148, 1). Singular: N. verus, veră, verum; G. veri, verae, veri; D. vero, verae, vero; A. verum, veram, verum; V. vere, veră, verum; A. vero, verā, vero. Plural: N. veri, verae, vera ; G. verōrum, verārum, verōrum; D. veris, veris, veris; A. veros, veras, vera; V. veri, verae, vera; A. veris, veris, veris. It is in the Nominative Plural Feminine, and agrees with its noun amicitiae, according to Rule XXXIII: "An Adjective agrees with its Noun in GENDER, NUMBER, and CASE."

1 The endings a and um belong respectively to the feminine and to the neuter. Thus aureus, aurea, aureum, like bonus, 148.

1. Amicus fidus.1 2. Amici fidi. 3. Amico fido. 4. Amicum fidum. 5. Amīce fide. 6. Amicōrum fidōrum. 7. Amicis fidis. 8. Amicos fidos. 9. Corōnă aureă. 10. Corōnae aureae. 11. Corōnam auream. 12. Corōnā aureā. 13. Coronārum aureārum. 14. Corōnis aureis. 15. Corōnas aureas. 16. Donum gratum. 17. Doni grati. 18. Dono grato. 19. Dona grata. 20. Donōrum gratōrum. 21. Donis gratis. 22. Ager pulcher. 23. Puellă pulchră. 24. Donum pulchrum. 25. Agri pulchri. 26. Puellae pulchrae. 27. Dona pulchra. 28. Beată vită. 29. Aureus annulus. 30. Aurei annuli. 31. Magnă gloria. 32. Egregiă victoriă.

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III.

1. A true friend.

Translate into Latin.

2. The true friends. 3. For a true friend. 4. For true friends. 5. Of the true friend. 6. Of true friends. 7. True glory. 8. With true glory. 9. Of true glory. 10. An acceptable word. 11. Acceptable words. 12. With acceptable words. 13. Of acceptable words. 14. A beautiful book. 15. The beautiful books. 16. With a beautiful book. 17. Of beautiful books. 18. The beautiful queen. 19. The crown of the beautiful queen. 20. The beautiful crown of the queen. 21. A good king, a good queen, a good kingdom. 22. The brothers of the good king.

1 In Latin the adjective generally follows its noun, as in this example; though sometimes it precedes it, as in English. When emphatic, the adjective is placed before its noun; as, Verae amicitiae, true friendships. Fidus agrees with amicus, according to Rule XXXIII.

2 Be sure and put the adjective in the right form to agree with its noun, according to Rule XXXIII.