Second Latin Writer: Containing Hints on Writing Latin Prose with Graduated Continuous ExercisesJ. Allyn, 1882 - 190 trang |
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adjectival clause adjective Adverbial Clauses afterwards Alexander Alkibiades answer Ariovistus Aristagoras army asked Athenians Athens attack battle began Brutus Caesar Caligula camp Carausius carried citizens command consul courage death defeated Demosthenes Dependent Clauses emperor enemy English erat escape exclaimed express facere father favour fear fell fight followed force Gaul gerundive give Greeks hand heard Histiaeus honour hope impersonal Interrogative word killed king king's Laestrygonians Latin Latin prose leader letter Mardonius means metaphor mind never night Numitor omit oratio obliqua Patient Grissel Persians praetor present participle prince Principal Sentence principal verb prisoners quam quid quin quod refused replied Romans Rome Samnites senate sent slain slave soldiers soon Spartan Subjunctive Substantives Tenses things thought told took translate troops turn Ulysses valour vessel victory virtually suboblique wife words write
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Trang 182 - my direction. The old story of Pandora's box (which many of the learned believe was formed among the heathens upon the tradition of the fall of man) shows us how deplorable a state they thought the present life without hope. To set forth the utmost condition of misery, they tell us that our forefather, according to the pagan
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Trang 158 - was equal in any degree 6 to the arduous office of governing such extensive dominions, he had never shunned labour nor repined under fatigue ; that now, when his health was broken and his vigour exhausted by the rage of an incurable distemper, his
Trang 136 - Had the consuls been invested with the regal authority to as great a degree as our monarchs, there would never have been any occasion for a dictatorship, which had in it all the power of the three orders, and ended in the subversion of the whole constitution. 1. to omit other things to which any one might fairly
Trang 158 - thoughts and attention to public matters, reserving no portion of his time for the indulgence of his ease, and very little for the enjoyment of private pleasure ; that, either in a pacific or hostile manner, he had visited Germany nine times, Spain six times, France