TRANSLATION EXERCISES

218. A. 1. Quis eōs militēs hūc (hither) duxit?

2. Hic dux hic, ille dux ibi, castra ponere studet.

3. Ubi incolae sunt timidiores et infīdissimi, ibi amīcī meī. habitare non audent.

4. Cicerōnī ipsi nihil erat commodius quam disputare cum amīcīs dē nātūrā amīcitiae.

5. Eo tempore copiae Caesaris non erant integrae atque multa impedimenta celeritatem eōrum tardābant.

B. 1. From there (illinc) that consul will within a year send the first legion thither. 2. I lead forward your horses where (whither) that slave of yours has carried your baggage. 3. The same wrongs were mentioned by Caesar himself. 4. What queen most unjustly demanded from (ab) these farmers both fields and money? 5. What do you yourself

think of the words of that scout?

will these barbarous sailors demand?

6. What manner of life

219. Derivation Exercise, Type I. Find for the notebook ten English words related to putō.

220.

The cobbler becomes a doctor.

Pōculum

LATIN SELECTION

THE COBBLER PRACTICES MEDICINE

Olim (once upon a time) fuit in Graeciā sūtor qui inopiā labōrābat. Post paucōs annōs in oppidum magnum emigrare constituit. Ibi nōn sūtor, sed medicus (doctor) falsus fuit. Antidotum (remedy) egregium-sic ipse dicebatvēnditābat.1

1 venditō, -āre, etc., vend, sell, peddle (cf. "vendor").

He doesn't take his own medicine.

His patients see their folly.

Et famam et pecuniam comparabat. Sed non multo post ipse morbo occupatus est. Aegerrimus erat ubi (when) illum rex oppidi petiit, neque regem salūtāre potuit. Rex statim poculum (cup) poposcit et antidotum illud in poculō posuit; deinde (then) medico falso cum his verbis dedit, "Tuum antidotum - sic ipse dixisti aegros semper sanat." 2 Medicus falsus iam perterritus est neque propter timōrem dicere potuit. Tandem vērō (but) exclamavit, "Veniam (pardon) implōrō, Domine; sutor, non medicus sum."

Itaque rex populum convocavit et haec dixit, "Capita (lives) vestra commisistis non medicō, sed sutōri impudicissimo (most shameless), cui nēmō (no one) soleas (sandals) committere debet."

1 morbus, -i, m., illness, disease (cf. "morbid ").
2 sānō, -āre, etc., cure, make well (cf. "sane," " sanitary ").

Liberae sunt enim nostrae cogitātiōnēs. (Cicero)

For our thoughts at least are free

CHAPTER XXIV

CARDINAL NUMERALS ORDINAL NUMERALS
DECLENSION OF ŪNUS, DUO, TRĒS

FIRST SECTION

221. Numerals. The Cardinal Numerals from one to twenty and the Ordinal Numerals from first to twentieth are given below.

Both the cardinals and ordinals are adjectives. The cardinals here given are, however, indeclinable, except ūnus, duo, trēs (see p. 321). The ordinals are declined like bonus, -a, -um.

fingers to indicate the numten are called digits, from

1 These signs originated in holding up the bers; therefore the numbers from one to digitus, finger. I, the Roman sign for one, stands for one finger, II is for two fingers, V (representing the angle between the thumb and the rest of the hand) for five fingers (the whole hand), VI for the hand plus one finger, X for two hands (crossed), i.e. ten fingers, etc.

222. Suggestions for Study. On a sheet of paper place the Roman signs (I-XX), and opposite each write the cardinals and the ordinals, marking long vowels and the accent.

decem, duodecim

=

undecim = ūnus +

duo + decem, etc. In the numerals from thirteen

to seventeen the ending -decim corresponds to -teen (i.e. ten) in English. 2 Each of the two ordinals is declined; e.g. annō tertiō decimō, in the thirteenth year.

3 duo-dē-vīgintī, two-from-twenty; ûn-dē-vīgintī, one-from-twenty ; duo-dē-vīcēnsimus, two-from-twentieth; ūn-dē-vīcēnsimus, one-from

twentieth.

TRANSLATION EXERCISES

224. A. 1. Primus quidem ōrātor incitatus erat agricolārum iniūriīs; dē hīs iniūriīs multa verba dixit.

2. Deinde cum illo disputāvērunt longum tempus et secundus et tertius ōrātor.

3. Itaque his tribus ōrātiōnibus excitatus est populus ūni-.

versus.

4. Etiam tunc Cicerō nōn visus est; tandem ex templō est ēductus à consule ipsō.

5. Ibi quindecim equites et vīgintī peditēs ā frātre meō iam

visi sunt.

B. 1. This judge, once upon a time, was more unjust than that friend of yours. 2. But no longer is the punishment of good men pleasing to him. 3. And so the seventh legion remained that summer in the same camp. 4. At last two farmers came hither from that place with three horses. 5. To Cicero indeed it was displeasing to be stirred (excitāri) by the shouts of bad men.

225. Derivation Exercise. numerals unus to decem.

Find English words related to the Latin

THE ROMAN PUBLIC BATHS

(Optional)

226. The magnificent Thermae, or Public Baths, were a great feature of Rome under the Empire. Among the most famous of these were the Baths of Caracalla (one of the halls of which is reproduced in the great central hall of the Pennsylvania Station in New York, N. Y.). The Baths of Caracalla could accommodate 1600 bathers at once. They had separate rooms for warm, hot, and cold baths. In the frigidarium, or