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Herbert Chester Nutting
A First Latin Reader
Lesson 43. The Surrender of Cornwallis


1912

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LESSON 43
The Surrender of Cornwallis

Sed ut ad Americānōs redeāmus[1], ab eīs diū ac variā fortūnā bellum cum Britannīs gestum est. At paulātim oppida prōvinciārum, quae ad merīdiem spectant, rursus in potestātem Americānōrum venērunt, ac Cornivallis, quī iam ibi[2] bellum gerēbat, in Virginiam postrēmō sē recipere coāctus est; quā in prōvinciā summā cum licentiā[3] rapere et agere[4] coepit omnia.

Vasingtō autem iam aderat cum exercitū sociīsque Gallicīs; et Cornivallis in urbe mūnītissimā[5], quae Eborācopolis appellātur, undique obsessus, oppugnātiōnem duōs mēnsēs aegrē sustinuit. Tum hostēs[6], cum frūstrā ērumpere cōnātī essent parsque mūnītiōnum ab Americānīs esset expugnāta, sē suaque omnia Vasingtōnī dēdidērunt. Cornivallis autem ipse, nē suis[7] oculīs īgnōminiam exercitūs vidēret[8], eō diē sē esse aegrum simulābat, atque in tabernāculō, dōnec dēditiō est facta, maestus morātus est.

Hāc victōriā nūntiātā, Americānī ecfrēnātē gaudēbant; ac senātus in templum convocātus dīs[9] grātiās maximās ēgit.

Omnēs enim sentiēbant Britannīs[10] pācem iam demum esse petendam.

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  1. ↑ ut … redeāmus: to return.
  2. ↑ ibī: in that region.
  3. ↑ licentiā: licentia, -ae, f., lawlessness.
  4. ↑ rapere et agere: freely, rob and plunder; strictly, steal (goods) and drive off (livestock).
  5. ↑ mūnītissimā: strongly fortified.
  6. ↑ hostēs: i.e. the English.
  7. ↑ suīs: cf. again suum, p. 11, l. 6.
  8. ↑ nē … vidēret: freely, in order to avoid seeing.
  9. ↑ dīs: cf. p. 14, l. 19.
  10. ↑ Britannīs: cf. the note on sībi, p. 34, l. 21.
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