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RULES.

1. The adjective agrees with its substantive, in number, case, and gender. 2. The verb agrees with its nominative case, in

number and person.

3. The relative, qui, quæ, quod, agrees with its antecedent in gender, number, and person.

4. If no nominative come between the relative and the verb, the relative is the nominative to the

verb; but when a nominative intervenes, the relative is governed by the verb, or some other word 5. Any verb may have the same case after as before it, when both words refer to the same person or thing.

in the sentence.

6. Substantives signifying the same person or thing, agree in case.

7. One substantive governs another signifying a different person or thing, in the genitive.

8. If the latter of two substantives have an ad

jective of praise or dispraise, joined with it, it may be put either in the genitive or ablative.

9. An adjective in the

neuter gender without a substantive, governs the genitive.

10. Opus and Usus, signifying need, require

the ablative.

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Nempè arida sarmenta boum cornibus alligavit, eaque principio noctis incendit: metus flammæ relucentis ex capite boves velut stimulatos furore agebat.. Hi ergo accensis cornibus per montes, per silvas hùc illùc discurrebant. Romani, qui ad speculandum concurrerant, miraculo attoniti constiterunt: ipse Fabius insidias esse ratus, militem extra vallum egredi vetuit. Intereà Annibal ex angustiis evasit. Dein Annibal, ut Fabio apud suos crearet invidiam, agrum ejus, omuibus circà vastatis, intactum reliquit; at Fabius omnem ab se suspicionem propulsavit: nam eumdem agrum vendidit, ejusque pretio captivos Romanos redemit.

Quintus Fabius jam senex filio suo consuli legatus fuit; quumque in ejus castra veniret, filius obviàm patri progressus est; duodecim lictores pro more anteibant. Equo vehebatur senex, nec appropinquante consule descendit. Jam ex lictori bus undecim verecundiâ paternæ majestatis taciti præterierant. Quod quum consul animadvertisset, proximum lictorem jussit inclamare Fabio patri ut ex equo descenderet. Pater tùm desiliens: "Non ego, fili, inquit, tuum imperium contempsi, sed experiri volui an scires consulem agere." Ad summam senectutem vixit Fabius Maximus, dignus tanto cognomine. Cautior quàm promptior habitus est, sed insita ejus ingenio prudentia bello, quod tùm gerebatur, aptissima erat. Nemini dubium est quin rem Romanam cunctando restituerit.

SCIPIO AFRICANUS.

Publius Cornelius Scipio nondùm annos pueritiæ egressus patrem singulari virtute servavit: nam quum is in pugnâ apuỏ Ticinum contra Annibalem commissâ graviter vulneratus esset, et in hostium manus jamjam venturus esset, filius, interjecto corpore, Pœnis irruentibus se opposuit, et patrem periculo liberavit. Quæ pietas Scipioni posteà Edilitatem petenti favorem populi conciliavit; quum obsisterent tribuni plebis negantes rationem ejus esse habendam, quòd nondùm ad petendum legitima ætas esset: "Si me, inquit Scipio, omnes qui rites ædilem facere volunt, satis annorum habeo." Tanto indè favore ad suffragia itum est, ut tribuni incœpto destiterint.

Quum Romani duas clades in Hispaniâ accepissent, duoque ibi summi imperatores cecidissent, placuit exercitum augeri, eòque proconsulem mitti; nec tamen quem mitterent satis constabat. Eâ de re indicta sunt comitia. Primò populus exspectabat, ut qui se tanto dignos imperio crederent, nomina profiterentur; sed nemo audebat illud imperium suscipere. Moesta itaque civitas erat, et propè consilii inops. Subitò Cornelius Scipio quatuor et viginti fermè annos natus, professus est se petere, et in superiore, undè conspici posset, loco constitit : in quem omnium ora conversa sunt. Deindè ad unum omnes Scipionem in Hispaniâ proconsulem esse jússerunt. At postquàm animorum impetus resedit, populum Romanum cœpit facti pœnitere. Ætati Scipionis maximè diffidebant. Quod ubi animadvertit Scipio, advocatâ concione, ita magno elatoque animo disseruit de bello quod gerendum erat, ut homines curâ liberaverit, speque certâ impleverit.

Profectus igitur in Hispaniam Scipio Carthaginem novam, quâ die venit, expugnavit. Eò congestæ erant omnes penè Africæ et Hispaniæ opes, quibus potitus est. Inter captivos ad eum adducta est eximiæ formæ adulta virgo. Postquàm comperit eam illustri loco inter Celtiberos natam, principique ejus

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Jtaking away, govern the Sum, taken for habeo, Verbs, signifying ac- The gerund in dum, accusative and dative. (to have,) governs the da- tively, govern the accu-of the nominative, with tive of a person.

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Sum, taken for affero, Misereor, (to bring,) governs two and satago, govern the datives; the one of a per-genitive. son, and the other of a thing.

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Any verb may govern the dative in Latin, which The compounds of has to, or for, after it in Sum, except Possum, go- English. vern the dative.

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Verbs of asking, and teaching, govern two accusatives; the one of a

The gerund in di, of person, and the other of the genitive, is govern- a thing. ed by nouns, or adjec

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Verbs of loading, bind ing, clothing, depriving, The gerund in do, of and some others, govern the dative, is governed the accusative and the by adjectives signifying ablative. Verbs compounded usefulness, or fitness, &c. Words of the compa- with satis, bene, and male, rative degree govern the govern the dative. ablative when quam is omitted in Latin.

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60. When a verb in the The gerund in dum, active voice governs two of the accusative, is go-cases, in the passive it Many verbs compound-verned by the preposi-retains the latter case. ed with these ten pre-tions ad, ob, inter, ante, Adverbs qualify verbs, positions, præ, ad, con, propter. participles, adjectives, sub, ante, post, ob, in, and other adverbs. inter, super, govern the dative.

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The gerund in do, of the ablative, is governed by the prepositions a, ab, Verbs, signifying to de, e, ex, in; or withprofit, hurt, favour, assist, out a preposition, as the command, obey, serve, re-ablative of cause, means, The prepositions ad, sist, trust, threaten, and or manner. apud, ante, &c. govern be angry with, govern

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Impersonal verbs go vern the dative.

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Miseret, pœnitet, pudet, tædet, and piget, govern the accusative of a person, with the genitive of a thing.

64. Decet, delectat, juvat, and oportet, govern the

son, with the infinitive mood.

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govern the accusative or The supine in u, is accusative of a pergenitive. put after an adjective. The prepositions in, 38. 51. sub, super, and subter, Verbs of abounding Nouns, signifying the govern the accusative, and wanting, govern the price of a thing, are put when motion to a place ablative, and sometimes in the ablative. is signified; but when the genitive. motion or rest in a place

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RULES.

1. The adjective agrees with its substantive, in number, case, and gender.

gentis adolescenti desponsam fuisse, arcessitis parentibus et sponso eam reddidit. Parentes virginis, qui ad eam redimendam satis magnum auri pondus attulerant, Scipionem orabant ut id ab se donum reciperet. Scipio aurum poni ante pedes jussit, invocatoque ad se virginis sponso: "Super dotem, inquit, quam accepturus à socero es, hæc tibi à me dotalia dona accedent;" aurumque tollere ac sibi habere jussit. Ille domum reversus, ad referendam Scipioni gratiam, Celtiberos Romanis conciliavit.

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2. The verb its nominative case, number and person. 3. The relative, qui, qua, quod, agrees with its antecedent in gender, number, and person.

4. If no nominative come between the relative and the verb, the relative

is the nominative to the verb; but when a nominative intervenes, the

relative is governed by the

verb, or some other word in the sentence.

5. Any verb may have the same case after as before it, when both words refer to the same person 6. Substantives signify. ing the same person or thing, agree in case.

or thing.

7. One substantive governs another signifying a different person or thing, in the genitive.

8. If the latter of two substantives have an adjective of praise or dispraise, joined with it, it may be put either in the genitive or ablative.

9. An adjective in the neuter gender without a substantive, governs the genitive.

10. Opus and Usus, signifying need, require 11. Verbal adjectives,

the ablative.

and such as signify an affection of the mind, govern the genitive.

12. Partitives, and words placed partitively, comparatives, superlatives, interrogatives, and some numerals, govern the genitive plural.

13. Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness, &c. go

vern the dative.

14. These adjectives, dignus, indignus, prædi tus, and contentus; also, natus, satus, ortus, editus, and the like, govern the

ablative.

15. Adjectives, signifying plenty, or want, govern the genitive, or ablative.

16. Sum, when it signifies possession, property, or duty, governs the genitive.

SCIPIO NASICA.

Scipio Nasica censor factus, gravem se ac severum præbuit. Quum equitum censum ageret, equitem quemdam vidit obeso et pingui corpore, equum verò ejus strigosum et macilentum. "Quidnam causæ est, inquit censor, cur sis tu, quàm equus pinguior? Quoniam, respondit eques, ego me ipse curo, equum verò servus. "Minùs verecundum visum est responsum; itaque graviter objurgatus eques, et mulctâ damnatus. Idem Scipio Nasica cum Ennio poëtâ vivebat conjunctissimè. Quum ad eum venisset, eique ab ostio quærenti ancilla dixisset Ennium domi non esse, Nasica sensit illam domini jussu dixisse, et illum intùs esse. Paucis pòst diebus quum ad Nasicam venisset Ennius, et eum à januâ quæreret, exclamavit ipse Nasica se domi non esse. Tùm Ennius: "Quid. ego non cognosco, inquit, vocem tuam? Hîc Nasica: Homo es impudens: ego quum te quærerem, ancillæ tuæ credidi te domi non esse; tu non mihi credis ipsi."

PAULUS EMILIUS.

Confecto bello, Paulus Æmilius regiâ nave ad urbem est subvectus. Completæ erant omnes Tiberis ripe obviam effusâ multitudine. Fuit ejus triumphus omnium longè magnificentis simus. Populus, exstructis per forum tabulatis in modum theatrorum, spectavit in candidis togis. Aperta templa omnia et sertis coronata thure fumabant. In tres dies distributa est pompa spectaculi. Primus dies vix suffecit transvehendis signis tabulisque; sequenti die translata sunt arma, galeæ, scuta, loricæ, pharetræ, argentum aurumque. Tertio die, primo statim mane ducere agmen copêre tibicines, non festos solemnium pomparum modos, sed bellicum sonantes, quasi in aciem procedendum foret. Deindè agebantur pingues cornibus auratis et vittis redimiti boves centum et viginti.

Sequebantur Persei liberi, comitante educatorum et magistrorum turbâ, qui manus ad spectatores cum lacrymis miserabiliter tendebant, et pueros docebant implorandam suppliciter victoris populi misericordiam. Ponè filios incedebat cum uxore Perseus stupenti et attonito similis. Indè quadringentæ coronæ aureæ portabantur, ab omnibus ferè Græciæ civitatibus dono missæ. Postremò ipse in curru Paulus auro purpurâque fulgens eminebat, qui magnam quum dignitate aliâ corporis, tùm senectâ ipsâ majestatem præ se ferebat. Post currum inter alios illustres viros filii duo Emilii; deindè equites turmatim, et cohortes peditum suis quæque ordinibus. Paulo à senatu et à plebe concessum est ut in ludis Circensibus veste triumphali uteretur, eique cognomen Macedonici inditum.

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS ET CAIUS GRACCHUS.

Tiberius Gracchus et Caius Gracchus Scipionis Africani ex nepotes erant. Horum adolescentia bonis artibus et magnâ

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