ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF THE ORATIO OBLIQUA, THE ABOVE EXAMPLES TURNED INTO THE DIRECT FORM, 104 V. EXAMPLES OF THE HISTORICAL OR DESCRIPTIVE INFINITIVE, 105 KEY TO LATIN EXERCISES. CONCORD OR AGREEMENT. I. AGREEMENT OF THE QUALIFYING WORD, WITH THE WORD QUALIFIED, IN GENERAL. (Exercises, p. 1.) I. As a THE recollection of past pain, without present concern, is delightful. Every Helvetian state is divided into four communities. The consciousness of right intention is the greatest comfort in3 misfortunes. Consistency through the whole life, and an unvarying countenance,5 are excellent. Bulls contend with the utmost force and violence against lions in defence of their calves. There are distinct classes of offences and different punishments. Daily intercourse and conversation with this most excellent and prudent man are a great relief to me. field without cultivation, though (naturally) fertile, cannot be (actually) fruitful, so the mind without instruction: thus each is impotent without the other. What life is long, or what has man at all that is long?7 Demosthenes was possessed of such zeal and activity, that he overcame the obstacles of nature by diligence and industry. Friends have the same inclinations and wishes. Affection and good-will being taken away, all sweetness is taken out of life. 1 Literally, the unconcerned recollection.-2 Has delight.-3 Of.-4 Uniformity (of character and conduct).-5 Always the same countenance and forehead.-6 Of.-7 What is there long to man.-8 In Demosthenes were.-9 In friends are. II. Officia non eadem disparibus aetatibus tribuuntur; aliaque sunt juvenum, alia seniorum. Inter fines Helvetiorum et A Allobrogum Rhodanus fluit, isque nonnullis locis vado transitur. Mago cum classe sua copiisque in Hispaniam mittitur. Quid quaeque nox aut dies ferat, incertum est. Divitias et prudentiam non semper vides conjunctas. Iram et metum a sapiente alienum1 judico. In pugna navali multae naves et multi milites capti sunt. Major alacritas studiumque pugnandi Imajus exercitui injectum est. Proelium uno animo et voce una poscunt. Summa 2 et doctoris auctoritas et urbis; quorum alter te scientia augere potest, altera exemplis. Lucius et Spurius Mummii mediocres erant oratores. Celer et Nepos Metelli non indocti erant. 1 We might also have aliena; see Gram., § 240 (b).-2 Very great. Supply est. II. THE RELATIVE PRONOUN. (Exercises, p. 2.) I. The moon, which is, as the mathematicians shew, larger than half of the earth, throws upon the earth that light which it receives from the sun, and is itself subject to various changes of light. A definition is a short and summary 2 exposition of those things which are peculiar to that which we wish to define. Concord is in the state, what the musicians call harmony in singing. There were in all two ways by which the Helvetii could go out from home. In the camp of the Helvetii lists made out in Greek characters were found and brought to Caesar, in which an account had been drawn up under distinct heads, what number of those who could bear arms had gone out from home. The violent spirit of Catiline was harassed by poverty and by the consciousness of his crimes, both of which 5 he had increased by those practices which I have mentioned above. Sall. Cat. 5. Socrates seems to me-a thing on which all are agreed to have been the first to withdraw philosophy from hidden things, and to apply it to common life. I have often heard-and they say that this statement was left by Democritus and Plato in their writings-that no good poet could arise without a kindling of the soul, and without a kind 2 of mad enthusiasm 8 as it were. Concerning Pompey you have 1 Is subject to has.-2 Quidam implies here that the word to which it is attached does not express the precise sense of the writer. It may therefore be rendered by a kind of, a sort of.-3 What is called by musicians. Want of fortune.-5 The relative is here in the neuter plural, although the two substantives to which it refers are both feminine. See Gram., § 232, 1, note 1.-6 To have first withdrawn-applied.—7 That which they say was left.-8 Inspiration of madness |