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INTRODUCTION TO LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION.

145. In the case of an Instransitive Verb the neuter only of the Gerundive will be used. Thus(e) “I had to walk to the city.”

It was walkable for me to the city.

Erat ambulandum mihi ad urbem. (f) “ You and I must return home.”

It is returnable home for me and for you.

Est redeundum domum mihi et tibi. (g! “ I believe that Caius's sister, being asked who she was and

what she had to do, replied that she was your daughter,

but that she did not know what she must do." I believe the sister of Caius, having been asked who she was,

and what was do-able for herself, to have replied herself to be your daughter, but to know-not what was do-able for

herself. Credo sororem Caii, rogatam quæ esset et quid

esset faciendum sibi, respondisse se esse filiamı

tuam sed nescire quid esset faciendum sibi. (1) “What do you think she said you had expected that I

should say I had had to do ?” What do you think her to have declared you to have expected

me to be about to declare to have been do-able for myself? Quid putas illam dixisse te expectavisse me esse

dicturum fuisse faciendum mihi ?

N.B.-Exercises No. 25 are miscellaneous, upon the

subjects of Nos. 21, 22, 23, and 24.

FINIS.

C. THURNAM AND SONS, PRINTERS, CARLISLE.

LATIN EXERCISES.

LATIN EXERCISES.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISES.

A.

1. He is building.
2. He will walk,
3. He was praising.
4. He was blaming.
5. He is avoiding.
6. He will praise.
7. He is loving.
8. He was building.

B.

1. He will avoid.
2. He walks.
3. He was loving.
4. She will blame.
5. He is blaming.
6. He was avoiding.
7. She is building.
8. He loves.

B

C.

1. She was walking. 2. He will build. 3. She blames. 4. He will avoid. 5. She was praising. 6. He was loving. 7. He will walk. 8. She is avoiding.

D.

1. She was blaming. 2. He builds. 3. He will love. 4. She is walking. 5. He was avoiding. 6. She praises. 7. She will blame. 8. He is blaming.