FIRST LATIN READER
130
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LESSON 77?^
Enemy
106
Prevail
Accedebat ut milites multi ab slgnis discederent et bona sua carissima ab impedlmentis arripere conarentur ceterl autem, quatnquam a Fortuna deserebantur, tamen omnem
salutis in virtute ponebant, et quotiens quaeque cohors procurrerat, ab ea parte magnus numerus hostium cadebat. Qua re animad versa, Ambiorlx suos procul tela conicere
spem 5
nee propius accedere. Quam ob rem, cum iam aliqua cohors excesserat ex orbe atque impetum fecerat, summa celeritate fugiebant hostes; cum autem cohors rursus ad loaciem se recipere coeperat, turn Galli, undique coorti, noiussit
stros acerrime
Cum
sic
premebant.
a prlma luce ad
horam octavam pugnatum
esset,
T. Balventius, vir fortis et magnae auctoritatis, tragula graviter vulneratus est; Q. Lucanius, fortissime pugnans, isdum circumvento fllio subsidio venit, est interfectus; ac
cum milites hortaretur, funda percussus rebus Quibus permotus Sabinus, cum procul Ambiosuos cohortantem rigem conspexisset, interpretem suum L. Cotta legatus,
est.
i
.
accedebat
impersonal use,
was added (that} freely, matters were made worse by the fact (that). it
ab sigms
in the line.
own 4. cf.
from their places Each cohort had its
i.e.
special standards.
quotiens
p. 72,
1.
i,
.
.
.
procurrerat
with the note on
the pluperfect. cf. the use of this prep. 5. ab in the phrase a tergo. cadebat note the tense.
7.
8.
propius: absol. compar. excesserat excedo, 3, -cessi,
-cessum
move
est,
out.
orbe
cf.
p. 129,!. 12. 10.
aciem
i.e.
orbem.
coorti
freely, closing in. 12. horam octavam:
cf.
the
translate
by a
note on p. 74, 1. 16. i.e. Titus. 13. T.
15.
circumvento
relative clause. 16. funda funda, -ae, F., sling; see the illustration on p. 140.
18.
suos
rigem. -e,tis, c.,
reflexive to
interpretem: interpreter.
Ambio-
interpres,