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FIRST LATIN READER

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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,