FIRST LATIN
142 et
gnam
READER
rivum hostium multitudinem
pericull res
cum
Erat magni
vldit.
tantls copils iniquo loco dimicare;
turn,
quoniam obsidione llberatum esse Ciceronem sciebat, de celeritate aliquid sibi remittendum existimabat quare con:
5
sedit, et,
quam aequissimo
loco poterat, castra munivit.
LESSON
115
They are Outgeneraled by Caesar Postridie hostium equitatus prima luce ad castra accessit, proeliumque cum nostris equitibus commisit. Caesar au-
tem
imperavit ut cederent consulto seque in castra reciperent; simul ex omnibus partibus castra altiore vallo lomunlrT, portas obstrul, omniaque cum simulatione timoris suls
agi iussit.
Quibus rebus invltatl, hostes copias rivum traduxerunt turn Caesar, omnls, aciemque iniquo loco constituerunt omnibus portls eruptione facta equitatuque emisso, eos
vallem and rivum, and agreeing with the nearer.
a matter.
8.
consulto
9.
altiore
adv.
vallo
not a
new
sc.
rampart, but the old built higher.
turn furthermore. Gall5rum. translate the abl. 3. obsidione
10. obstrul: obstruo, 3, -struxi, simulatione -structus, block up. timoris: the purpose of this ma-
res:
2.
copils
"from."
lit.
remittendum
he should relax somewhat
what
neuver
ing sentence. 12.
loco
po-
part.,
in as favorable a position
as he could.
This
fuller
form
show how quam and the came to mean "as ... as
helps to super!,
munivit
possible."
cf.
the part.
castra
sc. Caesaris.
invitati
invited
clear
by the follow-
invltatus, -a, -um,
ductis, p. 91, 13.
omnis
1.
made
freely,
runt trans rivum;
cf.
bold.
duxeflumen trai.e.
10.
modifier
of
co-
pias. 14.
is
rivum traduxerunt
munitus. 6.
made
?
quam aequissimo
5.
terat
sibi
aliquid
4.
freely,
cf.
omnibus portis
fenestra, p. 76,
1.
3.
for syntax,