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PARADIGM-continued.

INFINITIVE.

Pres. Fiĕri; Perf. Fact-us essě; Fut. Fact-um iri.

PARTICIPLES.

Perf. Fact-us (ă, ŭm); Fut. Făciendus (ă, ŭm).

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(a) 1. Quid fers manu, mi fili? 2. Is labor utilis est qui auctori laudem fert, aliis utilitatem. 3. Tertio die auxilium tulerunt. 4. Crebri ad eum rumores afferebantur. 5. Dixit Gallos sibi bellum intulisse. 6. His responsis ad Caesarem relatis, iterum ad eum Caesar legātos mittit. 7. Brutus consul factus est.

(b) 1. He has been made king. 2. Do you wish to become king? (No.) 3. Many reports will be brought to you. 4. What reports have been brought to you? 5. Your father has become poor. 6. Shall you not bring us aid? 7. Do you not wish to carry aid to brother? 8. Caesar waged many wars. your 9. Caesar is said to have waged many wars. 10. He has endured many misfortunes. 11. Do you wish to wage war against your father? (No.) 12. We were unwilling to wage war against our country.

LESSON LXXIII,

Irregular Verbs, continued.

419 THE irregular verb, īre, to go, is regular in the parts from the first root.

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Pres. Iens (gen. euntis); Fut. Itūrŭs, ă, ŭm.

GERUND.

Eundi, do, dům, do.

SUPINE.

Itům, ĭta.

REM.-The compounds of īre are conjugated like the simple verb, but generally contract the perfect into it, and most of them want the supine.

420. Eděrě, to eat, is conjugated regularly as a verb of the third conjugation, but has also certain forms like those of esse. These are as follows:

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421. RULE OF SYNTAX.-The words domus and rūs, together with the genitives humi, bellī, and militiae, are construed like names of towns (see 227); e. g.,

Domum rediit, he returned home.

422. VOCABULARY.

Abirě, i, it, to go away, depart.
Domi (gen. of dõmus), at home.
Eděrě (essě), ēd, ēs, to eat.
Et-ět, both-and.

Irě, Iv, it, to go.

Militiae (gen. of mīlītia), on service, in the field.

Něc-něc, neither-nor.

Evŏlarě, v, át, to fly away, to Rědirě, i, it, to return.

flee.

Rus, rūris, field, country.

423. Exercises.

(a) 1. Fracto puĕri brachio, abit. 2. Fundo in tres partes diviso, redit Athenas. 3. Puĕri venātum 18 ivērunt. 4. Est (edit) ut vivat. 5. Nonne estis ut vivātis? 6. Abeat Romam. 7. Scriptis epistolis, abierunt. 8. Balbus, quum manus in aquam immersisset, abiit. 9. Caius rus ex urbe evolavĕrit. 10. Caius nondum rure rediit. 11. Et Caesar et Balbus Romam redierunt. 12. Vēnit sacerdos, ut aram floribus cingeret.

(b) 1. Caesar has not yet returned to Rome. 2. The

boys have gone a hunting." 3. Do you wish to go a hunting? 4. They say he has gone a hunting. 5. He says that he wishes to go a hunting. 6. Do you not eat to live? 7. He says that he eats to live. 8. Balbus, having crowned the boy's head with a garland, went away. 9. Caesar, having conquered his enemies, will return to Rome. 10. They all wish to return to Rome. 11. Do you wish to return home? 12. Balbus is at his own house. 13. He was with me both at home and on service. 14. You have lived many years in the country.

LESSON LXXIV.

Periphrastic Conjugations.

424. THERE are two periphrastic conjugations formed respectively from the future participles in rus and dus, combined with the various tenses of the verb esse. The first periphrastic conjugation represents the action as future, or as one that is about to be done; e. g., Scriptūrus sum, I am about to write.

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425. The second periphrastic conjugation expresses duty or necessity; e. g., Virtus colendă est, virtue must be cultivated.

426. RULE OF SYNTAX.-The agent, or person by whom, is put in the dative with the part. in dus; with other words it is generally governed in the ablative by ǎ or ǎb.

427. RULE OF SYNTAX.-Many adjectives are fol lowed by the dative of the object to which the quality

is directed, or for which it exists; e. g., Pax mihť grātissimă ĕrăt, peace was very acceptable to me.

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(a) 1. Tondendae sunt oves, non deglubendae. 2. Exercenda est virtus. 3. Nonně claudendae sunt urbis portae? 4. Sapientia ars vivendi putanda est. 5. Puer Romam mittendus est. 6. Pauperibus qui ne grano quidem uno fraudandi sunt, subveniamus. 7. Quid facturi estis? 8. Simplex cibus pueris utilissimus est. 9. Luna terrae propior est quam sol. 10. Aqua marīna inutilis est bibendo. 11. Inutiles sunt libri ignaro legendi.

(b) 1. They must be sent to Athens. 2. They must be sent into the country. 3. We must be taught by the wise. 4. The city must be destroyed. 5. The gates must be shut. 6. Must not virtue be learned? 7. Must not virtue be practised? 8. Every opportunity of practising virtue" must be seized. 9. The poor must not be defrauded of even a single grain. 10. Has he not defrauded the poor? 11. Let not the poor be defrauded of a single grain. 12. Is not the moon

nearer the earth than the sun?

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