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1. Some one [has] wanted to pretend that Cicero was only an ordinary man, and that nothing in his life authorized (us) to [a] count him among those Romans who were the honour and glory of their country. But I ask [it] of any [tout] impartial man [pl.]! Will any one* contradict me when I say that he [has] saved Rome, and that in a time when [ou] one scarcely found a true Roman, he was (a) virtuous (man), and a friend to [of] his country? Whoever sacrificed his country to his own advantage found an-adversary2 inhim. Whatever were the dangers he had to [a] encounter, he feared none [of them]. 3. Some, it is true, accuse him of indecision, others pretend that he was by turns courageous and timid. However that may be, he always defended with courage, and (this) before Cæsar himself, the country and its [= the] ancient government. 4. Can any one reproach (him) with cowardice, [him] who wrote a panegyric upon [de] Cato without regarding the danger in which every-friend-of-that-Republican3 was1 then placed [se trouver]?

* See Gr. p. 147. N. b.

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* The student ought to be able to say the Multiplication Table backwards as well as forwards.

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= 44

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EXERCISE 57.

2. The French

3.

I [have] won

4. In a bee

5.

The first

6. A [= the]

I. I shall be in Paris in a fortnight. Academy is composed of 40 members. 100 francs, and my friend 200 sovereigns. hive there are generally 50,000 cells. voyage round the world was made in 1580. leap year has 366 days, a [= the] common year has 365. 7. The royal library in [= of] Dresden contains about 530,000 volumes. 8. We have made a collection which has produced a sum of 890 francs; and, without doubt, a second collection will produce a sum at least as great. 9. I have walked 20 miles to-day. 10. The Russian empire has at least 70,931,000 inhabitants. II. That great country has more than 99,260 square miles. 12. At the beginning of the fourteenth century the number of [the] streets in [= of] Paris was only 300, as one sees from the treatise in verse of a poet called Guillot, who lived about 1300, and who died at 85 years (of age). 13. I know two manuscripts of that treatise bearing the numbers 198 and 200; they each contain So sheets. 14. The author enumerates 36 streets in the city, 80 in the districts of the University, and 184 in the town properly so called.

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Ordinal Numbers (§§ 249-253). ·

EXERCISE 58.

1. What date is it [= have we] to-day? 2. It is [= we have] the 30th of May, the 3rd of July, the 8th of November, the 9th of March, the 7th of June. 3. Peter the First has been surnamed the Great. 4. The 1st book of the Odyssey contains 440 lines, the 22nd 501, and the 24th 548. 5. What place have [are] you in your class? 6. I am the eighth in [= of] the 2nd class, and my brother is the eleventh in [= of] the 1st class. 7. He left for Paris on the 10th of August, and I think that he [will have] arrived there on the 15th of this month. 8. Charles V., king of Spain, was also master of the provinces of Austria, as grandson of the Emperor Maximilian I. 9. The 4th part of 12 is 3, and the 20th part of 100 is 5. IO. In 1800 Napoleon was victor in the battle of Marengo; on the 2nd of December, 1805, he beat the Austrians and the Russians in the battle of Austerlitz; he then beat the Prussians in 1806. 10. Sixtus V. was elected pope in 1585 A.D. II. The late kingdom of the two Sicilies was situated between the 37th and 43rd degree of north latitude and between the 12th and 18th degree of east longitude. 12. Eleven years after the death of Charles I., king of England, Charles II., his son, succeeded in returning to England and in reascending [on] the throne of his ancestors. 13. They are now bringing out a complete edition of Byron in two volumes; the first has already appeared and the second is in the press.

14.

You will find this passage in Phèdre, a tragedy by Racine, 4th act, 2nd scene.

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north latitude east longitude

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le quantième?

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latitude nord
longitude est

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13. bring out to
appear, to
in the press

remonter

publier
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Collective, Fractional, and Multiplicative
Numbers (S$ 254-256).

EXERCISE 59.

(a) Write out and read as quickly as possible:,, 1, 3, 13, 45, 2, 4; one foot and a half, one pound. and a half, one fourth, two fourths; + are 17; one whole less is; + are 17; 2 + 2 + are 33; divide 4300 by 85, and you will have 5019.

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(b) 1. Give to this poor woman half a bottle of wine, 4 pounds of bread and 4 pounds of meat. 2. There were on this table 9 florins in 12 coins, and now I find only [= no more than] 7 florins here in 10 coins; where is the rest of the money? 3. The double of 8 is 16 and the quadruple of 8 is 32. 4. You ask for this dress 3 times as much as your neighbour. 5. Is it true that you have lost at [the] cards several hundreds of francs? 6. No, sir, I only lost about 12 florins. 7. We [have] received to-day about ten letters. 8. Twelve is the double of six, the treble of four, four times as much as three, and six times as much as two. 9. What is the half of sixty? 10. What is the third of 72, the fourth of 76, and the fifth of 90? 11. Eighty is the double of

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