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138 IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES
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EXERCISES
First learn the special vocabulary, p. 296.
I.
- Reliquī hostēs, quī ā dextrō cornū proelium commīserant, dē superiōre locō fūgērunt et sēsē in silvam maximam recēpērunt.
- In extrēmā parte silvae castra hostium posita erant.
- Plūrimī captīvī ab equitibus ad Caesarem ductī sunt.
- Caesar vērō iussit eōs in servitūtem trādī.
- Posterō diē magna multitūdō mulierum ab Rōmānīs in valle īmā reperta est.
- Hae mulierēs maximē perterritae adventū Caesaris sēsē occīdere studēbant.
- Eae quoque plūrīs fābulās dē exercitūs Rōmānī sceleribus audīverant.
- Fāma illōrum mīlitum optima nōn erat.
- In barbarōrum aedificiīs maior cōpia frūmentī reperta est.
- Nēmō crēbrīs proeliīs contendere sine aliquō perīculō potest.
II.
- The remaining women fled from their dwellings and hid themselves.
- They were terrified and did not wish to be captured and given over into slavery.
- Nothing can be worse than slavery.
- Slavery is worse than death.
- In the Roman empire a great many were killed because they refused to be slaves.
- To surrender the fatherland is the worst crime.
Reading Selection
LESSON LVI
IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES (Concluded) • ABLATIVE OF THE MEASURE OF DIFFERENCE
315. The following adjectives are irregular in the formation of the superlative and have no positive. Forms rarely used are in parentheses.
| Comparative | Superlative |
|---|---|
| citerior, hither | (citimus, hithermost) |
| interior, inner | (intimus, inmost) |
| prior, former | prīmus, first |
| propior, nearer | proximus, next, nearest |
| ulterior, further | ultimus, furthest |
316. I.the sentence Galba is a head taller than Sextus, the phrase a head taller expresses the measure of difference in height between
