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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,