142 NUMERALS
- Rōmānī saepius quam hostēs vīcērunt, quod meliōra arma habēbant.
- Inter omnīs gentīs Rōmānī plūrimum valēbant.
- Hae cohortēs simul atque in aequiōrem regiōnem sē recēpērunt, castra sine ūllā difficultāte posuērunt.
II.
- Some nations are easily overcome by their enemies.
- Germany is much larger than Gaul.
- Were not the Romans the most powerful among the tribes of Italy?
- On account of (his) wounds the soldier dragged his body from the ditch with the greatest difficulty.
- He was able neither to run nor to fight.
- Who saved him? A certain horseman boldly undertook the matter.
- The rumors concerning the soldier’s death were not true.
LESSON LVIII
NUMERALS • THE PARTITIVE GENITIVE
327. The Latin numeral adjectives may be classified as follows:
- Cardinal Numerals, answering the question how many?
as, ūnus, one; duo, two; etc.
- Ordinal Numerals, derived in most cases from the cardinals
and answering the question in what order? as, prīmus, first; secundus, second; etc.
- Distributive Numerals, answering the question how many at a time? as, singulī, one at a time.
328. The Cardinal Numerals. The first twenty of the cardinals are as follows:
| 1 ūnus | 6, | sex | 11 ūndecim | 16, sēdecim |
| 2, duo | 7, | septem | 12, duodecim | 17 septendecim |
| 3, trēs | 8, | octō | 13, tredecim | 18 duodēvīgintī |
| 4 quattuor | 9, | novem | 14 quattuordecim | 19, ūndēvīgintī |
| 5, quīnque | 10, | decem | 15, quīndecim | 20, vīgintī |
a. Learn also centum = 100, ducentī = 200, mīlle = 1000.
329. Declension of the Cardinals. Of the cardinals only ūnus, duo, trēs, the hundreds above one hundred, and mīlle used as a noun, are declinable.
