Contínĕrě, ŭ, to restrain, confine. Ullus, ă, ŭm (113, REM.), any.

Culpă, ae, fault.

Vulnus, ĕris, wound.

297. Exercises.

(a) 1. Aliquid temporis invītus amittes. 2. Non est tua ulla culpa, si te aliqui timuērunt. 3. Aliquis est in horto tuo. 4. Caesar suos a proelio continebat. 5. Legatos ad Caesărem misit. 6. Legati ad concilium venērunt. 7. Christianōrum est fidem suam servare. 8. Turpe est patriae tuae leges violare. 9. Rex urbi bellum indicet. 10. Anguis agricolae vulnus infligebat. 11. Tanta est industria tua, ut multa discas. 12. Tanta fuit industria tua ut multa discerēs.

(b) 1. Some one has accused you of bribery. 2. They have accused certain persons of theft. 3. He will condemn some one to death. 4. We have lost some time. 5. The shepherd has sold his dog for gold. 6. It is the duty of a father to instruct his sons. 7. Who has accused you of theft? 8. No one has accused me of theft. 9. Some one has accused you of treachery. 10. Who has accused me of treachery? 11. The king himself has accused you of treachery.

LESSON LIII.

Verb.-Esse.

298. THE verb esse, to be, is called a substantive verb, except when used as an auxiliary in the passive

voice (not yet examined) of other verbs. Its conjuga

IMPERFECT (might, could, would, or should be).

* The remaining forms are given here in order to complete the Par adigm of the verb esse, although the nature and use of the imperative and infinitive moods, and of the participles, have not yet been examined; a word of explanation will be sufficient for this place.

300. The Imperative Mood denotes a command, and of course is never used in the first person.

301. The Infinitive Mood, as we have already seen (9), represents simply the meaning of the verb, without person or number. It has three tenses, present, perfect, and future.

302. The Participle is that part of the verb which has the form and inflection of an adjective; thus, the participle futurus, ă, um, is declined like the adjective hònŭs, ă, ŭm (112).

(a) 1. Mens sapientis semper erit tranquilla. 2. Est tuum* iter facere. 3. Puer in horto fuĕrat. 4. His honoribus (181) digni sitis. 5. Caius vita indīgnus est. 6. Ferrum et aurum sunt utilia. 7. Haec opěra sunt admiratione digna. 8. Vita est brevis et incerta. 9. Improbōrum est malos laudare. 10. Venimus ut patriae tuae leges violarēmus. 11. Veniant servi ut portas urbis claudant. 12. Multos annos Romae habitaverātis.

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(b) 1. The good will be happy. 2. May you be happy. 3. We all might have been happy. 4. It is

*Est tuum, it is yours: i. e., your duty.

my duty to keep the laws of my country. 5. May he ever be worthy of this honor. 6. He would have been

unworthy of his father.

7. He had been king many years. 8. We will never praise the bad. 9. They will condemn us to death. 10. We will never accuse the good. 11. He had broken his arm at Athens. 12. Virtue is the highest wisdom. 13. We will acquit you of bribery (214.)

LESSON LIV.

Verb Esse, continued.-Comparison of Adjectives. 305. ADJECTIVES in Latin, as in English, may express different degrees of the quality which they denote; e. g.,

Altus,

High,

altior,
higher,

altissimus.
highest.

REM.-In this example, altus (high) is said to be in the positive degree; altior in the comparative; and altissimus, in the superlative. 306. In Latin, adjectives are compared by adding to the root of the positive the following endings:

REM. 1.-Adjectives in ĕr add rimus (ă, ŭm) to the positive, to form

the superlative; e. g.,

Pulcher,

pulchrior,

pulcherrim us.

REM. 2.-A few adjectives in a form the superlative by adding müs

to the root of the positive; e. g.,