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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...with abl. Eclipse, defectio, onis, f. Entertain, hold, teneo, ire, ui, tentum. Expose one's self, se opponlre; oppdno, lre, posui, posltum. Famous, clarus, a, um. The famous, sometimes rendered by ille, a, ud. Foolish, demens, entis. lie, she, etc. = the same one, idem, e&dem, idem. Joyful, laetus, a, um. Of after superlatives = among, inter, prep. with ace. Predict, praedlco, ire, dixi, dictum. Rhetorician, rhetor, oris, m. Say, relate, fero, ferre, tuli, latum. Small, contracted, angustus, a, um. Sufficiently, satis, adv. Suitably = worthily enough, satis digne, adv. Surpass the folly = be more foolish, esse dementior, ius. Take place, happen, fio, fiiri, factus sum. G. 294. Unpopularity, invidia, ae, f. Well-known, sometimes rendered by ille, a, ud. G. 450, 4. Worthily, digne, adv. 481. Exercise. 1. Gorgias of Leontini, the well-known ancient rhetorician, was held in great honor. 2. At Rome there were some who exposed themselves to unpopularity for the safety of their country. 3. Cicero was in Athens just ten days. 4. Nothing can surpass the folly of those who, in a free state, so conduct themselves as to be feared. 5. That which is base is never useful. 6. Thales of Miletus, who is said to have been the wisest of the Seven, has never been suitably praised.-7.5 He is said to have predicted the eclipse of the sun which took place in the reign of Astyages. 8. Epicurus, in one house, and that too a small one, entertained many friends. 9. Of the many most joyful days which Scipio had seen during his life, that day was the most famous. 10. Let us compare the life of Demosthenes with that of Cicero. Lesson LXXXIX. PRONOUNS.--INTERROGATIVE. INDEFINITE. 482. Why? how is it that? may be rendered by quid? Why then? what indeed? by quid enim? What of the fact t...
