FIRST LATIN
178
memor
generis atque prlstinae suae digniconfertissimos hostis incurrit, ibique pugnans
relictum videt, in
tatis,
READER
confoditur.
ON THE EASTERN FRONTIER Ad Familidres, XV,
(Cicero,
LESSON
4)
137
About ten years
after the suppression of the conspiracy of Catiline, against his inclination, was appointed governor of Cilicia neighboring districts. Below are given extracts from a letter which
Cicero,
and
much
he wrote from the east
to a friend at
Rome,
telling
some of
his ex-
periences as a provincial officer.
5
Cum in provinciam pr. K. Sext. venissem, et propter anni tempus ad exercitum mihi conf estim esse eundum viderem, biduum Laodiceae fui, deinde Apameae quadriduum, trlduum Synnadls, totidem dies Philomelil. Quibus cum magni conventus
in oppidls
acerbissimis 1.
tributls
generis.
.
.
et
dignitatis: for
was an ancient and noble family, and he had himself held offices.
2.
hostis
forces.
4.
cum,
i.e.
the government incurro, 3, -curri,
plunge (in among}. etc.
by a
translate pr. K. Sext.
partic. clause.
pridie Kalendas Sextflis, the
i.e.
cf.
bidui,
p.
158,
Laodiceae: see the western
1.4.
end of the map on p. 179.
fui:/
cdnfestim
for the
7. Synnadis pi. city names have the same form for loc. and totidem indeclinable adj., abl.
the
same
melii
winter
wouldnowsoon come on (cf. p. 123, 1. i eundum: not eundem. ff.).
number
for case,
conventus
8.
day
beforethe first of August (Sextilis, -is, -e), namely, July 29, as the calendar was then arranged. 5.
biduum:
6.
aere
et fals5
stopped.
incurrit
-cursum est
usurls
gravissimls
his
high
fuissent, multas civitates
freely,
had
of.
Philo-
domi. conventus, -us, fuissent:
court.
circuit
M.,
cf.
been held.
acerbissimis
tributls, etc. for syntax, cf. aere alieno, p. 174, 1. 12. usurls usura, -ae, p., rate of interest. 9.
