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causa redierunt, summaque virtute identidem impetum in aedes fecerunt acerrimum, donee, cum horam amplius dimicatum esset, subito proelio destiterunt et rursus maestl in silvam regress! sunt.

LESSON An in

Quondam

5

aquarum

pater

98

Experience with Robbers

fluminis, qui lingua Indorum appellabatur, plratae multi in speluncls illlus

rlpis

latebant, ut navigia spoliarent, quae illTs temporibus mercibus varils onusta ultro citroque navigabant qum etiam

loco castra parva fecerant, ibique naves vel maxima's adoriebantur.

quodam

10

summa

audacia

Quern locum olim negotiator locuples, ventum idoneum nactus, veils passls incolumis est praetervectus qui autem ad rlpam navem suam appellere non ausus est, donee duo

dies inde adverse flumine navigavit. 15

Interim vero plratae, praetereuntem, nee praedam tarn

navem viderant

qui

pulchram dimittere volebant, recta via per silvam erant seciitl, et loco opportune in Insidils iam latebant qul, nave

identidem:

1.

and

time

adv.,

2. 1.

3,

horam amplius: and the note.

5.

p. 30,

say,

cf.

1.

6.

lingua

1.

cf.

quod,

we would

speluncls

(sing, 9.

of

mercibus

and

pi.)

nactus: freely, with the aid

lit.

what?

passls

seethe

13.

duo dies: for the space of

two days. 15.

praetereuntem: from prae-

spelunca, -ae,

F.,

tereo.

merx, mercis, merchandise.

F.,

1 6. recta: rectus, -a, -um, The robbers straight, or direct. were able to gain upon the trader

cave. 7.

Vocab. under pandd.

17.

" in the language."

6.

12.

101,

p.

of;

proelio: cf. p. 69, qui: for gender,

3.

maximas

vel: even.

10.

the largest size.

again.

ibi: at that point.

because of the bends in the

river.