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... object of " holding . " This will avoid co - ordination and an awkward repetition of the object . 3 Adeo , followed by ut , is frequently used to give emphasis to an idea in Comparison ; efflare animam is to expire . Erumpere in has a ...
... object of " holding . " This will avoid co - ordination and an awkward repetition of the object . 3 Adeo , followed by ut , is frequently used to give emphasis to an idea in Comparison ; efflare animam is to expire . Erumpere in has a ...
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... object often cedes its normal position to secure emphasis . Here , it certainly would be better at the head of the sentence than in the middle . Paraphrase thus : Marius ( accus . ) who had just then ( am tum ) gone forth from the ship ...
... object often cedes its normal position to secure emphasis . Here , it certainly would be better at the head of the sentence than in the middle . Paraphrase thus : Marius ( accus . ) who had just then ( am tum ) gone forth from the ship ...
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... object , another must be tried , if the fidelity of the Roman allies had been unshaken by the disaster of Thrasymenus , it must be tried by a defeat yet more fatal . - Arnold . Notes . 1 The Main Predication is contained in the words ...
... object , another must be tried , if the fidelity of the Roman allies had been unshaken by the disaster of Thrasymenus , it must be tried by a defeat yet more fatal . - Arnold . Notes . 1 The Main Predication is contained in the words ...
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... object nos should occupy a more prominent position , thus : Nos quidem .... at the commencement of the one sentence will be con- trasted with Hannibal autem at the commencement of the other . 7 Infestus is often used for " hostile " in ...
... object nos should occupy a more prominent position , thus : Nos quidem .... at the commencement of the one sentence will be con- trasted with Hannibal autem at the commencement of the other . 7 Infestus is often used for " hostile " in ...
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... Object to the verb for summoned . To summon anyone to assemble before is advocare aliquem ad aliquem . The genitive of Celeres is Celerum , not Celerium . An office is munus or magis- tratus ; a duty is officium . 3 One Period may be ...
... Object to the verb for summoned . To summon anyone to assemble before is advocare aliquem ad aliquem . The genitive of Celeres is Celerum , not Celerium . An office is munus or magis- tratus ; a duty is officium . 3 One Period may be ...
Common terms and phrases
amicitia animi animo army atque autem avoid beginning called CAMBRIDGE Cicero clause connected construction consul Detached emphasis enemy English enim erat ergo esset etiam Explain expression figure following are examples following examples frequently fuit genitive gerundive give Greek haec hand ibid igitur inter Introduce ipse Italy king Latin Latin Period Livy Lucidity means mihi modo neque nihil Notes Object observe omnes omnia Orat OXFORD Paraphrase particle passage Period person position potest preceding primum Principal Pronoun quae quam quibus quid quidem quis quod quum Relative rendered requires Roman Rome says secure sense sentence simple sint sometimes stands Student style Subject Substantive sunt tamen things thought tibi TRANSLATE verb vero verum words Writing
Popular passages
Page 92 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 59 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 66 - o qui res hominumque deumque aeternis regis imperas et fulmine terres, 230 quid meus Aeneas in te committere tantum, quid Troes potuere, quibus tot funera passis cunctus ob Italiam terrarum clauditur orbis?
Page 51 - The hill of the Capitol, on which we sit, was formerly the head of the Roman empire, the citadel of the earth, the terror of kings; illustrated by the footsteps of so many triumphs, enriched with the spoils and tributes of so many nations. This spectacle of the world, how is it fallen! how changed! how defaced!
Page 18 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 92 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 90 - Dissimulare etiam sperasti, perfide, tantum Posse nefas, tacitusque mea decedere terra ? Nec te noster amor, nec te data dextera quondam, Nec moritura tenet crudeli funere Dido...
Page 89 - Carthaginis horror, cui Roma debet, quod tantum semel capta est, abluebat corpus laboribus rusticis fessum. Exercebat enim opere se terramque, ut mos fuit priscis, ipse subigebat. Sub hoc ille tecto tam sordido stetit, hoc ilium pavimentum tam vile sustinuit.
Page 28 - On foot, with a lance in his hand, the emperor himself led the solemn procession, and directed the line which was traced as the boundary of the destined capital ; till the growing circumference was observed with astonishment by the assistants, who at length ventured to observe that he had already exceeded the most ample measure of a great city. " I shall still advance," replied Constantine, "till he, the invisible guide, who marches before me, thinks proper to stop.
Page 86 - Thybris ea fluvium, quam longa est, nocte tumentem Leniit, et tacita refluens ita substitit unda, Mitis ut in morem stagni placidaeque paludis Sterneret aequor aquis, remo ut luctamen abesset.