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Herbert Chester Nutting
A First Latin Reader
Lesson 19
Philip finds Allies
1912

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 18. A Remarkable Deliverance 20. Captain Church 
LESSON 19
Philip finds Allies

Dum[1] haec geruntur, Indī quīdam longinquī, quibus erat castellum maximum, armīs aliīsque rēbus Philippum iuvāre coepērunt. Quō[2] cōgnitō[3], colōnī, quamquam iam hiems erat, id castellum statim oppugnāre cōnstituērunt; nam putābant hanc quoque gentem prīmā[4] aestāte bellum gerere parāre, cōnsiliaque hostium ipsī[5] praeoccupāre volēbant.

Itaque viā[6] nivālī[7] cum exercitū validō profectī, per silvās ad castellum iter fēcērunt. Ibi ācerrimē est pugnātum[8], ac colōni multī interfectī sunt; castellum tamen expugnātum est, Indōrumque cōpiae omnēs ignī sunt cōnsūmptae: quibus rēbus factīs, colōnī vulnerātōs[9] sēcum ferentēs[10] domum lēniter sē recēpērunt.

Hōc dētrīmentō vehementer commōtī, Indī iam undique convēnērunt, oppidaque colōnōrum oppugnāre coepērunt singula[11]. Subitō veniēbant[12] in cōnspectum; tum, colōnīs occīsīs vīllīsque incēnsīs, celeriter in silvās sē recipiēbant, cum[13] interim mīlitēs, quī arma graviōra ferēbant, nūllō modō cōnsequī[14] poterant. Itaque diū colōnī miserī undique interfectī sunt; Standisius enim iam prīdem mortuus erat: sed postrēmō dux alius inventus est, quī fēlīciter cum Indīs bellum gerere[15] sciēbat.

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  1. ↑ dum, etc.: cf. p. 7, l. 16.
  2. ↑ quō: neuter.
  3. ↑ cōgnitō: cf. the note on p. 17, l. 18.
  4. ↑ prīmā: the early, lit. the first (part of).
  5. ↑ ipsi: may be omitted in translation.
  6. ↑ viā: for syntax, cf. quā, p. 5, l. 13.
  7. ↑ nivālī: nivālis, -is, -e, snowy.
  8. ↑ ācerrimē est pugnatum: freely, a desperate battle was fought; lit. what?
  9. ↑ vulnerātōs: as noun, the wounded.
  10. ↑ ferentēs: nom. case.
  11. ↑ singula: modifying oppida.
  12. ↑ veniēbant: for the translation, cf. the note on rapiēbant, p. 7, l. 17.
  13. ↑ cum: while.
  14. ↑ cōnsequī: sc. eōs (i.e. Indōs).
  15. ↑ gerere: cf. the use of the infin. with nesciebat, p. 8, l. 2.
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