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288.
EXERCISES
First learn the special vocabulary, p. 295.
I.
- Ego et tū[1] in eādem urbe vīvimus.
- Iter ipsum nōn timēmus sed ferās saevās quae in silvā dēnsā esse dīcuntur.
- Ōlim nōs ipsī idem iter fēcimus.
- Eō tempore multās ferās vīdimus.
- Sed nōbīs nōn nocuērunt.
- Caesar ipse scūtum dē manibus mīlitis ēripuit et in ipsam aciem properāvit.
- Itaque mīlitēs summā virtūte tēla in hostium corpora iēcērunt.
- Rōmānī quoque gravia vulnera accēpērunt.
- Dēnique hostēs terga vertērunt et ommīs in partīs[2] fūgērunt.
- Eādem hōrā litterae Rōmam ab imperātōre ipsō missae sunt.
- Eōdem mēnse captīvī quoque in Italiam missī sunt.
- Sed multī propter vulnera iter difficile trāns montīs facere recūsābant et Genāvae esse dīcēbantur.
- Observe that in Latin we say I and you, not you and I.
- Not parts, but directions.
II.
- At Pompeii there is a wonderful mountain.
- When I was I.that place, I myself saw that mountain.
- On the same day many cities were destroyed by fire and stones from that very mountain.
- You have not heard the true story of that calamity, have you?[3]
- On that day the very sun could not give light to men.
- You yourself ought to tell (to) us that story.
3. Cf. § 210.
289.
How Horatius held the Bridge4
Tarquinius Superbus, septimus et ultimus rēx Rōmānōrum, ubi in exsilium ab īrātīs Rōmānīs ēiectus est, ā Porsenā, rēge Etrūscōrum, auxilium petiit. Mox Porsena magnīs cum cōpiīs Rōmam vēnit, et ipsa urbs summō in perīculō erat. Omnibus in partibus exercitus Rōmānus victus erat. Iam rēx montem Iāniculum[4] occupāverat. Numquam anteā Rōmānī tantō metū tenēbantur. Ex agrīs in urbem properabānt et summō studiō urbem ipsam mūniēbant.
4. The story of Horatius has been made familiar by Macaulay’s well-known
poem “Horatius” in his Lays of Ancient Rome. Read the poem in
connection with this selection.
5. The Janiculum is a high hill across the Tiber from Rome.
