Practical Latin Composition
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ISBN13: 9780217532037
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: name Hostilius, the Romans were panic-stricken and took to flight.1 7. Now the Sabines set up a shout: Our treacherous hosts are fleeing 8. It is one thing to seize maidens, another to fight with men 9. Now we know that the enemy are 2 cowards 10. We have defeated those cowardly robbers and shepherds 1. Then lifted Romulus his shield and spear to heaven, and vowed a temple to Jupiter. 2. By chance or by divine interposition the Roman army halted and the battle was renewed. 3. Then the women who had been seized3 rushed4 in amid the darts. 4. The hair of the women who had been seized was all dishevelled. 5. They dared to supplicate, on this side, their fathers, on that, their husbands. C. Amid the flying weapons they implored peace. 7. And so the fathers and husbands were reconciled by the women. Notes. ? 1took to flight: began to flee. 2Not the indicative. 3 who had been seized: express by one word. 4 rushed: se Inferebant. tU VII. Liatine Scribenda. Bomulus and Tatius joined battle, and fought most bravely in the place where the Roman forum is now. But a distinguished man having been killed, the Romans fled. Then the Sabines cried out, Fighting with men is a very different thing from seizing maidens. Romulus, having vowed a temple to Jupiter, renewed the fight; but the women rushed in among the flying weapons and besought their fathers and husbands, so that 1 they were no longer 2 enemies. Notes. ? 1 So that: ut. 2 no longer: non lam. / VIII. Latine Dicenda. 1. 1. A treaty with Tatius was struck by Romulus. 2. Tatius, having struck a treaty with Romulus, was received into the city which Romulus had founded. 3. The Sa- bines, together with1 Tatius, their king, were received into the new city. 4. But not very long after, Tatius was killed. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217532037 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217532039 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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