First learn the special vocabulary, p. 288.
Apud antīquās dominās, Cornēlia, Āfricānī fīlia, erat[1] maximē clāra. Fīliī eius erant Tiberius Gracchus et Gāius Gracchus. Iī puerī cum Cornēliā in oppidō Rōmā, clārō Italiae oppidō, habitābant. Ibi eōs cūrābat Cornēlia et ibi magnō cum studiō eōs docēbat. Bona fēmina erat Cornēlia et bonam disciplīnam maximē amābat.
Note. Can you translate the paragraph above? There are no new words.
LESSON XXIII
PRESENT ACTIVE INDICATIVE OF REGŌ AND AUDIŌ
147. As we learned in § 126, the present stem of the third conjugation ends in -ĕ, and of the fourth in -ī. The inflection of the Present Indicative is as follows:
| Conjugation III | Conjugation IV | |
| re´gō, re´gere (rule) | au´diō, audī´re (hear) | |
| Pres. Stem regĕ- | Pres. Stem audī- | |
| Singular | ||
| 1. | re´gō, I rule | au´diō, I hear |
| 2. | re´gis, you rule | au´dīs, you hear |
| 3. | re´git, he (she, it) rules | au´dit, he (she, it) hears |
| Plural | ||
| 1. | re´gimus, we rule | audī´mus, we hear |
| 2. | re´gitis, you rule | audī´tis, you hear |
| 3. | re´gunt, they rule | au´diunt, they hear |
1. The personal endings are the same as before.
2. The final short -e- of the stem regĕ- combines with the -ō in the first person, becomes -u- in the third person plural, and becomes -ĭ- elsewhere. The inflection is like that of erō, the future of sum.
- ↑ Observe that all the imperfects denote continued or progressive action, or describe a state of affairs. (Cf. § 134.)
