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DOMUS 119

Here Rōmae, Corinthī, and domī are locatives, being singular and of the first and second declensions respectively. But in

Galba Athēnīs habitat, Galba lives at Athens,

Galba Pompēiīs habitat, Galba lives at Pompeii

Athēnīs and Pompēiīs are locative ablatives. These words can have no locative case, as the nominatives Athēnae and Pompēiī areplural and there is no plural locative case form.

269. The word domus, home, house, has forms of both the second and the fourth declension. Learn its declension (§ 468).

270.

EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 293.

I.

1. Corinthī omnia īnsignia aurī ā ducibus victōribus rapta erant.
2. Caesar Genāvam exercitum magnīs itineribus dūxit.
3. Quem pontem hostēs cremāverant? Pontem in Rhēnō hostēs cremāverant.
4. Pompēiīs multās Rōmānōrum domōs vidēre poteritis.
5. Rōmā cōnsul equō vēlōcī rūs properāvit.
6. Domī cōnsulis hominēs multī sedēbant.
7. Imperātor iusserat lēgātum Athēnās cum multīs nāvibus longīs nāvigāre.
8. Ante moenia urbis sunt ōrdinēs arborum altārum.
9. Propter arborēs altās nec lacum nec portum reperīre potuimus.
10. Proeliīs crēbrīs Caesar legiōnēs suās quae erant in Galliāexercēbat.
11. Cotīdiē in locō idoneō castra pōnēbat et mūniēbat.

II.

1. Cæsar, the famous general, when he had departed from Rome, hastened to the Roman province on a swift horse.^[1]
2. He had heard a rumor concerning the allies at Geneva.
3. After his arrival Cæsar called the soldiers together and commanded them to join battle.
4. The enemy hastened to retreat,

some because^[2] they were afraid, others because^[2]of wounds.

1. Recently I was at Athens and saw the place where the judges used to sit.^[3]
2. Marcus and Sextus are my brothers; the one lives at Rome, the other in the country.

1. Latin says “by a swift horse.” What construction?
2. Distinguish between the English conjunction because (quia or quod) and the preposition because of (propter).
3. used to sit, express by the imperfect.