FIRST LATIN READER
169
"
Exanimis, diff ugientibus cunctls, aliquamdiu donee lecticae impositum, dependente bracchi5, tres
(TV reicvov
iacuit,
servoli
domum
rettulerunt.
Nee
5
An-
in tot vulneribus, ut
medicus exlstimabat, letale ullum repertum quod secundo loco in pectore acceperat.
tistius
est, nisi
THE FATE OF HANNIBAL (Nepos, Hannibal,
LESSON
12, 13)
132
The second Punic War, waged between the Romans and Carthaginians from 218 to 20 1 B.C., ended in a complete victory for the Romans. The latter, however, were suspicious that Hannibal, the most famous general of the Carthaginians, was simply biding his time to renew the war under more favorable conditions and so they desired to arrest and
hold him as a prisoner. for
some
years, of trouble for the
Quae dum siae
1.
(-is,
in the East.
cunctis
-e)
i.e.
omnibus, as
dependente: part.,
bracchio:
cf.
p. 168,
runt:
sc.
cf.
-ae,
p.,
dependens,
down.
1.
5.
servolus, servus.
eum.
in:
M., rettule-
-I,
among.
ut: as.
5.
i.e.
(-1,
M.)
physician.
exitiale (letalis,
-is,
quod: excepting (one)
secundo: lit.
i.e.
specially vul-
pectore:
favorable.
pectus, -oris, N., chest. 6.
quae
i.e.
events narrated Asia i.e.
in previous chapters. Asia Minor. accidit
impersonal
casu: i.e. forte. expression. Prusiae (nom. in -a, or -as) king
The may be rendered "from."
of Bithynia
gen.
medicus
letale:
nisi
-e).
'which.
nerable;
hanging
servoli:
young slave ;
lifeless.
diffugio, 3, -fugi,
-entis,
4.
Hannibal escaped up a great deal
to stir
Asia geruntur, accidit casu ut legati PruT. Quinctium Flaminmum consularem
(cuncti, -ae, -a), lecticae lectica,
litter.
3.
Romans
in
exanimis
scatter.
2.
into exile,
and improved the opportunity
Romae apud
diff ugientibus
noun
By hastening
7.
(cf. p.
consularem:
M., ex-consul.
170,
1.
5).
consularis,
-is,
