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421. IDIOMS

postrīdiē eius diēī, on the next day (lit. on the next day of that day)

initā aestāte, at the beginning of summer

memoriā tenēre, to remember (lit. to hold by memory)

per explōrātōrēs cognōscere, to learn through scouts

422.

EXERCISES

I.

1. It, īmus, īte, īre.
2. Euntī, iisse or īsse, ībunt, eunt.
3. Eundi, ut eant, ībitis, īs.
4. Nē īrent, ī, ībant, ierat.
5. Caesar per explorātores cognōvit Gallōs flūmen trānsīsse.
6. Rōmānī audīvērunt Helvētiōs initā aestāte dē fīnibus suīs exitūrōs esse.
7. Legātī respondērunt nēminem ante Caesarem illam īnsulam adīsse.
8. Prīncipēs Gallōrum dīcunt sē nūllum cōnsilium contrā Caesaris imperium initūrōs esse.
9. Arbitrāmur potentiam rēgīnae esse maiōrem quam cīvium.
10. Rōmānī negant sē lībertātem Gallīs ēreptūrōs esse.
11. Hīs rēbus cognitīs sēnsimus lēgātōs nōn vēnisse ad pācem petendam.
12. Helvētii sciunt Rōmānōs priōrēs victōriās memoriā tenēre.
13. Sociī cum intellegerent multōs vulnerārī, statuērunt in suōs fīnīs redīre.
14. Aliquis nūntiāvit Mārcum cōnsulem creātum esse.

II.

1. The boy is slow. He says that the boy is, was, (and) will be slow.
2. The horse is, has been, (and) will be strong. He judged that the horse was, had been, (and) would be strong.
3. We think that the army will go forth from the camp at the beginning of summer.
4. The next day we learned through scouts that the enemy’s town was ten miles off.^[1]
5. The king replied that the ornaments belonged to^[2] the queen.

TUBA

1. to be off, to be distant, abesse.
2. Latin, were of (§ 409).