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 NEW LATIN PRIMER ; 
 
 ^ CONTAINING, 
 
 FJRSf, 
 
 LESSONS 
 
 FOR 
 
 COJ\rSTRUIJ\rG a^tb parsij^g, 
 
 WHICH EXEMPLIFY ALL THE 
 
 KULES OF ADAM'S LATIN SYNTAX. 
 
 SECOND, 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE 
 
 MINOR LATIN CLASSICS, 
 
 WITH LITERAL TRANSLATIONS. 
 rHlJRD, 
 
 THE FIRST PART OF 
 
 LYNE'S LATIN PRIMER. 
 SELECTED AND ARRANGE B. 
 
 BY WILLIAM BIGLOW, A. M. 
 
 MASTER OF THE PUiiLIC LATIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL IM 
 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 THIUU EDii ION. 
 
 PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 PUBLISHED BY WEST AND RICHARDSON, NO, 75, COENHII.L 
 
 1813. 
 
 E^-G. HOUSE, PRINTER, COUUT STIiCET, 
 

 ^VDVERTISEMENT. 
 
 THE Compiler of this Work recommends^ 
 that no Student be allowed to construe more at 
 a lesson^ than he can parse. When this Vo- 
 lume shall have been carefully passed through, 
 in conformity to this method^ the Pupil may be 
 introduced with advantage to the higher clas- 
 sics/ such as Virgil and CicerO; without a 
 translation. 
 
THE 
 
 NEW LATIN PPJMEIl. 
 
 PART FlilST. 
 
 RULE III. 
 
 EGO ccsno. 
 Tu vocas. 
 I He fiugnat, 
 Nos clamamus. 
 Vos ainbulads, 
 D.li spirant. 
 
 Ego sedebam- 
 Tu Tide das. 
 Ille Jirbat. 
 Nos videbamus. 
 Vos mansbatii, 
 I Hi docebant. 
 
 Ego cucurri, 
 Tu edis i. 
 Ills /f^ir. 
 Nos lunmus, 
 Vos bihisiia. 
 lUi traxerunt. 
 
 Ego dormiveram, 
 
 Tu au iivfras. . 
 Ille invtncrat, 
 Nos fiurdv cramusv 
 Vos gat rive ratis. 
 llli venerant. 
 
 A2 
 
 I «w/z. 
 
 Thou callest. 
 He rfocs fight, 
 W ; flfo sh lUt, 
 Yc are lualking. 
 They ar^^ breathing. 
 
 I £/j^ szV. 
 
 Thou wa9; laughing. 
 
 He ^ye/i^. 
 
 We <^/rf S(?^. 
 
 Ye wf re- remaining. 
 
 They taught. 
 
 I /iflue' rww. 
 1 hou f/Zr/^r ea/. 
 He rdCG?, 
 We filayed. 
 Ye /ja-ye drunk. 
 They c^ic/ draw» 
 
 I >^ar/ s/c'/j/T, 
 Tiiou hadst heard. 
 He had foju'd. 
 We had pu ishcd. 
 
 Yc Aa^/ fnct'.d. 
 
 They /wc/ cowf . 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Canis latrabit. 
 Pueri Indent. 
 Homo dormiat, 
 r-Ctines T}iordt'(int, 
 G 'ill as can tare t. 
 Ansercs gloci'aver'mt, 
 Petruo affirm'ivis^et. 
 Nos aiuaveti.'nus, 
 Tu disce. 
 Ill-, lavato. 
 Vos cadite. 
 llii erranto. 
 
 The doQ^ will dark. 
 
 Boys uiil /day 
 
 The man may slee/i. 
 
 Dogs can due. 
 
 The cock might crow. 
 
 The geese may have cackled. 
 
 Pe';r should have affirmed, 
 
 W .shall have loved. 
 
 Learn ihou. 
 
 Let him wash. 
 
 Fall ye. 
 
 Let them mistake. 
 
 Ep^o laudor. 
 Tu vntebaris. 
 Hie lactrabitur, 
 Ivlos doceamur. 
 Vos duceremini. 
 Illi domantor. 
 
 1 am firaised. 
 Thou wast seen. 
 He ahall be torn. 
 Wc may be taught. 
 Ye could be led. 
 Let them be tamed. 
 
 RULE XVHL 
 
 Virtus conciliat amiciiiara. YiviwQ firocures friendship. 
 Yiimm pari: o>!ium. Wcq produces hatred. 
 Annibal exagitavit iloma- Annibal harrassed the Ro- 
 mans. 
 
 God created man. 
 
 Benefits /zrocMre friends. 
 
 no! 
 
 Deus creavit hominem. 
 Beneticia parant amicos 
 
 Bonus pucr discit. 
 yi-Ai putri luduat 
 Ctler equus vincit. 
 Tardi equi vincimtur. 
 Legamus bo?ios libros. 
 Ignavi/meW ( sedenlur 
 
 KULE IL 
 
 The good boy learns. 
 Bad boys play, 
 A swift horse conquei's. 
 Slow horses are overcome. 
 Let us read good books. 
 Idle boys will be beasen. 
 
 Veteres Romarn yicere om- The old Remans conquered 
 
 alt nations. 
 
 Learning- makes \ih pleasant. 
 
 Those m^en have been absolv- 
 ed. 
 
 The women had been lovcd^ 
 
 The vessel may have dee?L 
 flkd. 
 
 nes gentes 
 Doctrina effici: vitam sua- 
 
 vem, 
 Isti homines absoluii sunt. 
 Fen.'inse amatte J'uerant, 
 
 Vas impleium ^it. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 7 
 
 ^leu^/rater est bonus puer. My brother is a s^ood boy. 
 
 Tu €8 n»dlus finer. Thuu ar^ a b *d boy» 
 
 Varro existimatus est doctus Vmio ivas eatee7ned a learn- 
 
 vir, ed man. 
 
 Cicero habicus est diser- Ctcero wa«- accounted eio- 
 
 tus. qucnt. 
 
 Ariatides dicfus est Justus. A^i^ti(Jes was called jus'.. 
 Pompcius nominatia fuit r» _, . . 
 
 magnus ' ° 
 
 Ilia incedit regina. She tvalks h queen, 
 
 Loquacitas facit garrulum Loqudcity makes a prattler to 
 
 existbnari siultum. be accounted 2iioo\, 
 
 RULE LVit, 
 
 RexilleAonora^wr, qui a/war The king is honoured} who 
 
 subdiios SUDS. loves his fu^'jects. 
 
 Mulier amatur^ quae Aa^e? The woman is loved, whG i^a» 
 
 pulchram faciem. a fair /act". 
 
 Praemia, quce promi tuntui> The rewards, ivhi'h are pro- 
 
 dabuntur. mised, shall b(t given. 
 
 Ille ^6^^ bonus /iuer, quern He/.? a j;ood 6oy, whpm^/ory 
 
 gloria excitat. excites. 
 
 Inveni^wwmscaIpellumj<7«orf I have found your penknife, 
 
 amissunn fuerat. ivhich had been lost. 
 
 Quam regionem vidisti? Bri- Wi-.at country have you ^een? 
 
 tanniam. Britain. 
 
 RULE LVIII, LIX vnd LX. 
 
 Alexander ct Julius Caesar Alexander and Julius Caesar 
 yMcfrzzn^praestantissimif/M- %vtre very great command 
 
 ces. dm. 
 
 Egoe/frater/c^z/nM«Tercn- 1 and my brother read Tcr- 
 
 tium- ence. 
 
 Tu enuus/rc^drlcgiiis Cc?' You and your brother read 
 
 derium. Cordtry. 
 
 Vir c"/ foemina, ywos vidibtis, The man and the woman,. 
 
 sunt niortui- ivho7)i you Suw, are dead, 
 
 Meus/ia^'tr et marcrfuerunt My father and mother were 
 
 pa. fiious. 
 
 Caio et Cicero amaverunt Cato crnfi? Cicero loved theic 
 
 pai'i'^m, er omneb eos, country, c??rf ail //20;^^, who 
 
 qui amaverunt el deftnde- loved and defended it, 
 
 rwnf earn. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 RULE VI. 
 
 Consp&ciiis i?na!;finis/iulc/irie The sight of a fair /i/cture 
 delecLul ocuios delii^lits the eyes 
 
 Fi'iui iiie m.ig^aanim is Phi- The valiant son of Philip, co- 
 /rV?icupivit dominium to- veted the dominion of the 
 tius mundi. whoi* world. 
 
 Domus p.uerna et hortus My tuhct'shousea^zafmybro- 
 fratetMius iiunt propiiiqu i. tSier's garden are adjoiidiig, 
 
 Mulli malunt hcei c JactU' Many had rathi'rsu^cv the loss 
 ram vi'ae 'luim famae. of life than of ^ good name. 
 
 ObUv^io est cooies ebricta' ForgeLfutness /* uie compa- 
 tis. nion of drunkenness. 
 
 Pulchritudo y>wz«<eybrmo- Th-j beausy of a handsome 
 ace placet. woman is pleasing. 
 
 RULE XXX. 
 
 Curabo vitare intemperan- I \vill take care to avoid iu' 
 liftiin. temperanre. 
 
 MUt-'Ti ifaudet memorare fie- A soldier rejoices io recownt 
 ricula. his dangers. 
 
 Est dignus aiuUfi. He is worihy to be heard. 
 
 A\ynvQi\cniiii occadonem%cvi- rj ^ > . \ 
 
 » ' He took occasion to write, 
 
 be re 
 
 Fuii avidus commilteie/zzi^- He was desirous to begin the 
 
 nam. battle. 
 
 Est tem/ius abire. It is ^z/«e to d;;part. 
 
 RULES XLII, XLIII, and XLIV. 
 
 S\zi\idifiosi!a est luirAltaliam. Sicily lies beneath Italy. 
 Biboiics Dugantur a ciupona Urankards ramble fiorn one 
 
 Ivac ad aliam.. ale-house to another, 
 
 Aqt.se tegebant ilium oculo- The waters covered him u}i 
 
 rum tenus. to the eyes 
 
 .,,.,. , ^ He sheathed his sivord up 
 
 Abdidit ense?n capulo tenus. ^^ ^^^^ ^.j^ ^ 
 
 <^ato fuit sapiens et bonus Calo was a wise and good 
 vir secundum ?neaJn opini- 7nan according lo ?ny opi- 
 oiiem, nion. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 9 
 
 . , r J s ^ 11 Showen are /loured down in- 
 Imbres funduntur in -valles, ^^ ^^^ ^^^..^^^ 
 
 Nix cadic super colles. Snow falls upon the hills. 
 
 Pastores vencrunl sub mon- The shepherds ram. under 
 
 te. cum gregiius; egevutit '!" mountain, with M«r 
 
 « .epu».67rr terram. TZoci.; they drove them«- 
 
 ^ to the tolas wwrfer ground. 
 
 Phaeton, fira timore, cecida Phaeton, /or fear, frll from 
 
 de c«Iq in Padum^ in /^a- heaven into ^Ae Po, io //a- 
 
 lia, ly, 
 
 RULE XXXIX. 
 
 Vita^^e acta ej^cit sencctu- A life ivell spent makes old 
 
 tern jucundajn. age pleaaant. 
 
 _ , . , To hold one's» peace ?> often 
 
 Tacere est saepe rw/ww ^^^^ * 
 
 Fugerc cz^m patiiti nostra o/j- To fly u/i^w our country is 
 
 fiugnefur est tiir/ie. inx^aded is ^as<?. 
 
 Videre ^6-; jucundum ; sed io see i- pleasant ; but to 
 
 invenii^e vf-ricatevi est j'm- discov^rr truth is /^iore 
 
 cundius; (\\iydt \w\\\^ igi'ur /ilrasani ; let us seek it 
 
 diliJienrisslmc th( refore most diligently, 
 
 Nescire quid nccidit ante na- Not to know nvhat happen- 
 
 tus es est senxper e^se ed before thou wast born 
 
 puer. i% always to be a child. 
 
 RULE I. 
 
 Bucephalus, equus A'exn- Bucephalus, Me Aor^e of A- 
 Ax\^-L)oluit [>dii\nullum sesso- Icx^nder, would suffer no 
 rem, n?,^i dominun» suu-.n. videv-, but his master. 
 Mors, inimicus natiu se, est a- Death, the enemy of naiurci 
 
 micus bonorum. is the friend of f^ood men, 
 
 ArtaxciXKis.rtx Pcrsicus^mi' Avx^ixevxa^the Persian kingy 
 
 sit legatos in Graciajn. sertiambassadorsinio Greece, 
 
 Nobilis adolescens Pauisanias The noble youih Pausanias, 
 
 obi'-uncavif: Phiiippum, re- slciv Philip, king of Mace» 
 
 gem Macedoiiise. donia. 
 
 RULE IV. 
 
 Miror tuumfratrem non scri- I wonder that your brothsr 
 berc a^^ me ; no7i Jiossum doesnot write /o me; I caw- 
 credere tum valere. not believe that he is well. 
 
10 NKW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Veteres Pers^e crediderunt The ancient Peisians believ- 
 solem esse Deum, ed the sun to be God. 
 
 Cum Casar tuciivis^et Hci WufU Casar heard that the 
 ve^ios esse in irmis et eos Helvelii were in arms awrf 
 statuere f-icere iter per that they f/e^f^-wfc? to make 
 fi7'ovi?iciam suam niatura- their ^ivay \.\\ro\xgh hh PrO' 
 yit. vince he made hast?. 
 
 T ^. , ,. The ambassadors com/ilained 
 
 ". ^ ^ , ^. that they were slighted iitid 
 
 gi et cigre jerebant se /z^- , ? •. ;/ u . i 
 t . ,.^ / A i ^oo^ ?n// that thev wrrt' or- 
 
 ocn discedere fl^ «r3t?. . . , .r ' ./. •, 
 
 deredfo depart/rom Me «/t/, 
 
 RULE VII. 
 
 Tuus /rc^er est /;«er proba; Your brother is a 6ot/ of a 
 indolis. good disJiGsiiion 
 
 Cicero fuit vir 7?2i\'z's inge- Cicero ivas a man o/ a mild 
 
 nii. disposition. 
 
 XT., • , , Numerianus, a youth of an 
 
 xsumerianiis, adolesccns e- , j- • 
 
 . . , , . , extraordinary geinus. was 
 
 ^reffia indolei occisus est ^ , cc l ^ r * 
 
 f • ,/• I r> taken off (^v a /;/or among 
 
 ■* ^ ?/ie Persians 
 
 Tiberius, Romanu^ impera- Tiberius, the Roman empe- 
 
 tov,fuKt vie amfili ei robiiS' ror, 'was a man o/ a lar^e 
 
 ti corporis. and strong body. 
 
 . ^ , . I love a boy of excellent un- 
 
 Arao iiuerum praeclaro in- , , J. , . 
 
 : ^ ' c J- derstanding siUQ a good 7ne- 
 
 i^emo et mcmoria felice. ^ 
 
 ^ '^ mory, 
 
 Naiio nostra est felix, {/w^ Our nation is happy, which 
 habet reijiublicce formarn h?iS a form of government 
 summa dementia» of the greatest clemency. 
 
 RULE VIL 
 
 Miiites videntur tendere The soldiers seem to move M/s 
 hue; quid rei est? way; what is the matter ? 
 
 Ecquid 7iovi est in civitate What 7iews is there in the 
 de Nerone ? city about Nero ? 
 
 Qu.iHLum nummi quisque As mucii money as any one 
 servat 2/1 area sua, ^an/w?« ' has in his chest, so much 
 fidei habet. credit Aai' Ae. 
 
 Post p/o«:lium multum auri After the battle much gold 
 i?2ventuTn est in castris was found in rA<? raw/i of 
 Peraurum. the Persians. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. I | 
 
 RULE IX. 
 
 Nihil opus est lon^^a orati- There is no need of a long 
 
 one. speech. 
 
 xT-i ^ 7%-L There is no occasion /or rf/ff- 
 
 Nil est onus htibus, . , ^ 
 
 ^ putes. 
 
 „ , ^ , ^. Thou hast need of instruc- 
 
 Habes ofius documenti. • 
 
 Nunc est usus -z^i^, nunc ra- "Now there is need of strength^ 
 fiidarum manuum. now of nimble hands, 
 
 RUEE X. 
 
 Qui sunt cupidi honoris de- Those men who ere desirous 
 
 bent esse studiosi Uttra- of honour eught to be stu- 
 
 rum. dious q/ I ear rang. 
 
 Qui semper est memor jus- He, who is always mindful of 
 
 sorum firaceptoris non est his master^s commands^ is 
 
 tiividvs poenarum. noi fearful of punishment. 
 
 Dives improiidusvemm. su- A rich m^nimpr evident of his 
 
 arum ridigitur ad inopi- affairs is reduced lo want ; 
 
 am ; sed pauper providus but a puor man careful of 
 
 rerumsuarumo^^j?2e^opcs. his affairs acquires riches. 
 
 RULE XL 
 
 Nemo istorum quos divi(i<e No one of those whom riches 
 honorcsquc pcsuerunt \n ^x\d\^0WQ\^T^ have placed mt^* 
 altum fastigiuni est felix. on a ^/^A eminence rs happy. 
 
 Vive 7nc;wor morlisf^senec- Live wu*;?f//w/ of death andoXdi 
 tutis, qua \rc\\^e.\i\\. putant . age, w/^ic/j the simple think 
 maxima o?«rzw7«nnilorun). the greatest of «//evils. 
 
 Omnis Gallia fuit divisa in All France was divicl< d into 
 ]^?Lntsi\Qi>^ quarum unain three parts, one of which 
 Bf li;8e iwco/wf/w;;^, aliiim the Btlsjge ?>Att/;z7^c?, ano- 
 Aquitani^ tertiam Celta ; ther the Jijviturd, a third 
 hoium omnium Beiges the Cel'.a; of at J these the 
 sunt fortisaimi, Belga are the bravest. 
 
 RULE XII. 
 
 Nihil est tarn simile morti Nothing /5 so much /£^e death 
 
 quam sonuinsi. as sleep. 
 
 An est qmdquam similius Is any thing more like' mad- 
 
 insaniix quam /ra.^ r^es* than anger ? 
 
J5 NEW LATIW PRIMER. 
 
 Nihil e5rutiliusAo;7?f;7fquatn Nothing is more profitable 
 studium bonarum litcra- to a man than the study of 
 rum. useful Itarnin^, 
 
 Est quiddam simile menti in There is something like un- 
 bruto. dcrstanding in a brute, 
 
 Schola tacita valde est aux- A silent school is very help- 
 iliaris turn prsecepiori turn ful both to the master and 
 discipulis. scholars. 
 
 RULE XIII. 
 
 Qui Jit^ ut nemo vivat cotz- How Iiafifiens /V, that no one 
 tentus sorte sua ? lives contented with his lot? 
 
 Mntiis/iro/ugus Troja venit JKne&'iJlying'jivomTroy came 
 in kaliam. into Italy. 
 
 Non ^unx, ho7nine8i qui /aci- They aie not mew, who do 
 unt indign'3 homine. things unworthy of a man. 
 
 NoSj freti probit-ite amico- We, relying on the honesty 
 rum, negleximus nostram of our friends^ have negf- 
 incolumitatem. Iccted our oivn safety. 
 
 RULE XIV. 
 
 lUe, cujus saccuii sunt vacui He, ivhose b^gs are empty of 
 
 numnu. habet domum va- money Ava^ his house QUi^iy 
 
 cuam amicorum. o^ friends, 
 
 . . ,, . The ecu w, f/m^ is /":/// of flat- 
 
 Aula, Qua est fil'^na parasi- ^ . .*'. ^ . 
 
 "^ . ' ^ . . %. ^ ! ... terers, Z4' pernicious to the 
 tis, f«r exiuahs pnnctju. ^^^ince. 
 
 Sine mutuabenevolcntiaxiu Wi^nwui inutual benevolence 
 i/isa QSi /lima umoris et Wit iti>f'lfi< full {)[ {q.,\ and 
 anxietatis, et vicja omni ariXTSy, ayid void of all 
 solatio et volufttatc. coivfrt aid pla^ure. 
 
 Hii- f5?beati:b<:/ir2V<:7s tXofiu- This r.i..iif>s blest %v>th iv':alth 
 lenrus pccuuia; domus ejus .ind ^ ich m money ; /'Z> house 
 est /^ifwa wibii e^ saiura i^^ full A phit* anr/replen- 
 firetiosis rebus. ishcd i^/if/i /irecious things, 
 
 RULE XV. 
 
 ^<«c penna e; hoc scalfiellum This p<»n anof this j^wA:«//(? are 
 sunt fratris. rny bvother*s. 
 
NE\r LATIK PRIMER. 
 
 Est stulti dicerc non fiuta- 
 
 veram. 
 Est stulti pueri amare lu- 
 
 suni et negligere studia. 
 
 Libri, quos vides, fuerunt 
 consobrini mei \ sed 
 nunc sunt fratris. 
 
 It is the property o/' ^ foot to 
 
 say / had not thought it. 
 It is the part of a foolish boy 
 
 to love play and neglect his 
 
 studies^ 
 The books, ivhich you see, ivere 
 
 my cousin's ; but now r/f^y 
 
 are my brother*s. 
 
 RULE xvr. 
 
 Mors miser etur ne minis, 
 nee divitis nee pauperis. 
 
 Ne sis molestus ; satago 
 rerum mearicm. 
 
 Miseresco stultitia ejus^qni 
 consu?n/iserit dote m suam* 
 etn\xncmendicetosiidi\,im. 
 
 Death /lities no one, neither 
 
 rich nor poor. 
 Be not troublesome ; I am busy 
 
 in my oivn affairs. 
 I pily his folly^ who has consume 
 
 ed his portion and now bega 
 
 from door to door. 
 
 RULE XVIL 
 
 Ille est animi vilis et igno' 
 bilisj qui solum vivit sibi 
 et «on amicis ; non n&ti- 
 iumus nobis solum. 
 
 Murus urbis est tutamini, 
 
 Mercurius firesidet lucro 
 
 eif cloquentiae. 
 Imprcbi favent imprnbis. 
 
 Non esL habendusWhfiT^ qui 
 obedit cu/iiditatibus. 
 
 He is of a spirit base and ign§» 
 ble^ who o;2/y lives for him- 
 self and tzo^ for his friends» 
 ive are not born for ourselves 
 alone. 
 
 The wall of a city is for a de- 
 fence. 
 
 Mercury firesides over gain ani 
 eloquence. 
 
 Wicked men favour the wick- 
 ed. 
 
 He is not to be accounted a. free- 
 man, who obeys his lusts. 
 
 RULE XIX. 
 
 Est dulce meminisse actum 
 
 l:.boi-c p.» 
 Est safiientis oblivisci inju* 
 
 rias, 
 
 B 
 
 It is a fileasant thing to remem- 
 ber fiast trouble. 
 It is the part of a ivise man to 
 forget injuries. 
 
14 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Bonus vir facile oblivisci- A good man easily forgets vh- 
 tuv injuriarum ; se*l sfw- juries; but always rcmeill- 
 fierveminUcihiv benejicii, bers a benejit. 
 
 RULE XX. 
 
 Qui cflire/ virtu te caret om- He who loants virtue ivants all 
 
 nibuj. things. 
 
 Multi homines abundant Many men abound in grid and 
 
 auro et argento quorum silver whose houses are Jilkd 
 
 domus affluunt scclere. with wickedness. 
 
 RULE XXL 
 
 Utere^e7«^07'ebaDe.<7W0Gfest Use thy time well, which is the 
 
 firetiosissimum omnium. most precious of all things, 
 
 Boni fruuntur seterno aevo The good eiijoy eternal life in 
 
 in c<rIo. heaven^ 
 
 RULE XXIL 
 
 Studium est m-CtCx-voluptati» Study is to me a pleasure. 
 Est mihi nomen ^/cjrawc^ro. My name is Alexander. 
 Est mihi nomini Caesar. My name is Caesar. 
 
 RULE XXIIL 
 
 Gonr^^mno 7nei/isum iner- I condemn myself oi^ laziness. 
 
 ^tise. 
 
 Res adversse admonent ho- Adversity puts men in mind of 
 
 mines religionis. religion. 
 
 RULE XXIV. 
 
 Fortes viri faciunt minas Brave men value threats as 
 
 nihili. nothkig. 
 
 Sapientes astimant famam Wise men esteem a good name 
 
 pluris quam divitias vel viore than riches or life itself. 
 
 •oilain ipsam. 
 
 ^stimo te permagno. I esteem you very much. 
 
 RULE XXV. 
 
 Saepe conferimus parva We often compare sinall things 
 m»gnis. with great. 
 
WHW LA^IN PRIMER. 
 
 •15 
 
 Deus dedit nihil homini^ 
 quod /lossumus com pa- 
 rare rationi et safnentia, 
 
 Narras fabulam surdo. 
 
 Eripuit^owa Giiiunc gestit 
 erifiere vitam 7w/^z. 
 
 God has given nothing to man^ 
 
 which we can compare with 
 
 reason and wisdom. 
 You toll a story to a deaf man. 
 He has taken away my estate 
 
 and now desires to take my 
 
 life from me. 
 
 RULE XXVI. 
 
 Ro^a Deum veniam ob fiec- 
 cata tiia, 
 
 Prgeter obedientam Chrls- 
 tus docet nos fidem. 
 
 Celant culfias suae homi- 
 nes. 
 
 Ask of God pardon Jbr your 
 sins. 
 
 Besides ohedivence C%mr teach- 
 es us faith. 
 
 They conceal their faults irom 
 men. 
 
 RULE XXVII. 
 
 Latro s/ioliat viatorem fie- 
 
 cunia. 
 Ty rdinnus im/ilevit patriam 
 
 sanguine et ccede. 
 Mali conantur irretire alios 
 
 illecebris vitii. 
 
 A thief robs a traveller of his 
 money. 
 
 The tyrant has filed his ciwin- 
 try with blood kund slaughter. 
 
 The wicked efideavour to en- 
 snare others with the allure- 
 ments of vice. 
 
 RULE XXVIII. 
 
 Absolutus est criminisj cu- 
 
 jus accusatus est. 
 Poenae firefiarantur impiis 
 
 afiud inferos. 
 Hie puei docebatur Grse- 
 
 cam et Luti.iam. 
 Ju^tro firivatus est sua vita. 
 
 He was acquitted qf the crime 
 
 of which he was accused 
 Punishments are /ire/iared for 
 
 the wicked in hell. 
 This boy was taught Greek and 
 
 Latin. 
 The thief was de/irivcd of hh 
 
 I'fe, 
 
 RULE XXIX. 
 
 Constat mihi Deum guber^ It is manifest to me that God 
 nare niuiidum. governs the woiid. 
 
P6 
 
 NEW LA'HN primer. 
 
 Interest mea et omnium 
 prospicere nobistneti/isis. 
 Poenitet me fieccaii mei, 
 Decet safiientem coliibere 
 iinguam sucrm. 
 
 It concerns me and all men to 
 
 look, to ourselves. 
 
 I am sorry for my fault. 
 
 It becomes a wise ?uazi to re- 
 strain Ais tongue. 
 
 RULES 
 XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV ^ XXXVI. 
 
 Nemo Romanorum fuit 
 copi/iarandus Catoni ob 
 'virtutem. 
 
 !Nitendura est illis firo -vi- 
 riliy qui cufiiunt fieri doC' 
 tog. 
 
 Est rudis dicendi, at nofi 
 ignarus bellandi. 
 
 Natura dedit ranis crwra ap« 
 ta 7ia0a?ido. 
 
 Sapieniia comfiarat res no- 
 bis ad beate vivendum. 
 
 Canis latraiido prodidit 
 fur&s\ 
 
 No one %f the Romans was f 
 
 be comfiared with Cato for 
 
 virtue. 
 I'hey must study ivith all their 
 
 7mght, who desire to become 
 
 learned. 
 He is unskilled in pleading, buC 
 
 not ignorant of war. 
 Nature has given to the frogs 
 
 legs fit ybr swimming. 
 Wihdom. /irovides things for zee 
 for living happily. 
 The ^og by barking discovered 
 
 the thieves. 
 
 RULE XXXVII. 
 
 Maecenas ivit In sum TzV. 
 
 giliusgue ivit dormitum. 
 Hie venzV ad Csesarera ora- 
 
 r^^??» ut ignosceret sibi- 
 
 Maecenas wen? to diversion and 
 
 Virgil went ro Aec/. 
 He came to Csesar ?o intreat 
 
 that i^e would pardon him. 
 
 RULE XXXVIIL 
 
 Verus amkus es? difficile A true friend is hard to be 
 
 inventu. found. 
 
 l^W foedum dictu tangito Let nothing filthy to he s/ioken 
 
 Iii^e limina. touch these doors» 
 
 RULES XL and XLI. 
 
 Nusquam/opiuventum est. No /dace is found. 
 
 Partim-yirm^z/iceciderunt. Part of the men were slaia. 
 
JJEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 i7 
 
 En Priamus ! 
 
 J^oquitur ofitime omnium. 
 
 Behold Priam ! 
 
 He speaks the best of ajl. 
 
 RULE XLV. 
 
 Adeamus scholam. 
 Detrudunt naves scopulis. 
 
 Ineunt preslium. 
 
 Let us go to school. 
 
 They shove the vessels from the 
 
 rocks. 
 They engage in battle. 
 
 RULE XLVL 
 
 O tempera ! O mores ! 
 Heu ignorantiam meam ! 
 Heu miserande puer ! 
 Heu fcietas I Heu firisca 
 fides. 
 
 O the times ! O the manners I 
 Alas iny ignorance ! 
 Alas unfortunate youth I 
 Alas the fiiety ! Alas the ancient 
 faith ! 
 
 RULE XLVn. 
 
 Vrb Jidem Deorum homi- Oh the faith of Gods and men I 
 
 numgue, 
 
 Vae mihi ! amor 7io7i est Ah me ! love is not curable. 
 
 medicabile. 
 
 RULE XLVHL 
 
 Vita non est emenda omni Life is noi to be bought at ev* 
 
 ery price. 
 I bought the book, which I 
 
 g-ave you for ten pence. 
 They never considered how 
 
 much their pleasure cost 
 
 them. 
 
 prfctio. 
 Emi librum, quem dedi tibi 
 
 denis assibus. 
 Non unquani reputabant 
 
 quanti suum gaudiuin 
 
 constaUat. 
 
 JIULE XLIX. 
 
 Homines cafiiuntur volup- 
 tue ut pisces hamo. 
 
 Scipionis fenur vulnera- 
 tum est hasta. 
 
 Omnia vincuntur labore. 
 
 yi^Xytinfinecedunt reliquos 
 Gailos virtute. 
 
 Men are caught with pleasure 
 as fishcb ivith a hook, 
 
 Scipio's thigh whS tvounded 
 nvith a sfiear. 
 
 All tilings are overcome by la- 
 bour. 
 
 The Helvetii excel the other 
 Gauls in bravery. 
 
Sew lati» primer. 
 
 RULE L. 
 
 Mortuus est Bomae. 
 
 Servi nusquam magh habiti 
 sunt quam Mhenis. 
 
 Pyrrhus occisus est Del- 
 phis. 
 
 SeHectus nusquam magis 
 honorata es$ quam Lace- 
 demone. 
 
 He died at Ro7ne. 
 
 Se»^vants were no where better 
 
 treated tiian at Athens, 
 Pyrrhus was slain ,at Delphi. 
 
 Old age ivas no where more 
 honoured ihan at Lacedemon* 
 
 RULE LL 
 
 Alexaiider venit Tarsum. 
 Inde firofectus est Romam 
 
 ksf mox Cajiuam. 
 Duxit exercitum Megaram 
 
 ac protinus Corinthum, 
 
 Alexander came to Tarsus. 
 Thence he went to Rome and 
 
 soon ufter to Cafiua. 
 He led his army to Megara 
 
 and immediately to Corinth^ 
 
 RULE LIL 
 
 Pos tqu am /a era/j/ hoc re- 
 dierunt Ch^\cn\QAthenas. 
 
 Accepi literas Londino, 
 
 Fecit iter Cap» a. 
 
 After they had done that tliey 
 returned from Chalcis to 
 Athens. 
 
 I received a letter from Lon- 
 don. 
 
 He made a journey through 
 Capua. 
 
 RULE LIIL 
 
 Si ibis rus, invenies amicum 
 tuum domi, 
 
 Senex modo rediit rure. 
 
 Milites jacebant humi. 
 
 li you will go into the country, 
 you willjlnd your friend at 
 home. 
 
 The old man is just come from 
 the country. 
 
 The Soldiers /ay on the ground. 
 
 RULE LIV. 
 Redierunt Londino in Ita- They returned from London 
 
 liam» 
 Contraxlt navalea cojiias in 
 Thessalia. 
 
 into Italy. 
 He gathered together his na- 
 val forces in Thessaly. 
 
NtW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 \^ 
 
 RULE LV, 
 
 Posuit casfra sex millibus 
 
 passuum ab hoate. 
 Annibal ab/uie via tridui a 
 
 Tarento. 
 ^luri Babylonia fuerunt du* 
 
 centos pedes alti et 
 
 quinquagenos lati. 
 
 He pitched his camp, six miles 
 
 from the enemy, 
 Annibal was three day*s journey 
 
 from Tarentum. 
 The walls of Babylon were two 
 
 hundred feet bigh and fifty 
 
 bread. 
 
 RULE LVL 
 
 Eodem tempore ille ascen- 
 
 dit ego descendo. 
 Scripsi epietolam tibi mense 
 
 Junii. 
 Caligula vixit annos vigin- 
 
 ti novem ; imperavit tri- 
 
 cnnium, decern menses et 
 
 octo dies» 
 
 At the same time he ascends, / 
 
 descend, 
 I wrote a letter to you in the 
 
 month of June. 
 Caligula lived twenty nine 
 
 years; Aem^necf three years, 
 
 ten months and eight days. 
 
 RULE LXI. 
 
 Sol est multis partibus ma- 
 jor terra. 
 
 Quid est optabilius sapien- 
 tia ? 
 
 Natura dedit nihil homini 
 melius brevitate vitae. 
 
 The sun is many times bigger 
 
 than the earth. 
 What is more desirable than 
 
 wisdom ? 
 Nature has given nothing to 
 
 man better than the shortness 
 
 of life. 
 
 RULE LXIL 
 
 Militibus sic excitatisf in- 
 tulit bellum Romanis. 
 
 Populus Romanus, Ct&sare 
 et Pompeio trucidatis, 
 videbantur rediisse in 
 prislinum statum liber- 
 tatis. 
 
 His soldiers being thus encour^ 
 agedj he made ivar upon the 
 Romans. 
 
 The Roman people, Casar and 
 Pompey being slain, seemed 
 to have returned to their 
 former state of liberty r 
 
 FtNIS PARTIS fRIMiB, 
 
 END OF THE FIRST PART. 
 
2% 
 
 »EW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 PART SECOND. 
 
 A. Qf7/i)agis? 
 
 B. Repeto mecum. 
 
 A. Quid refietis ? 
 
 B. Pensum^-wo^praeoep- 
 X.or firescrifisit i\oh\^ hodie. 
 
 A. Tenesne memoria ? 
 
 B. Sic ofiinor. 
 
 A. Repetamus wwa, sic 
 ntergueuostrum fironuncia- 
 hit rectius coram Praeccp- 
 tore. 
 
 B. Incipe tu igiiur, qui 
 provocasti me* 
 
 A. Age^ esto attentus 
 ne sinas nie aberrare. 
 
 B, Sum promtiot ad au- 
 tliendum, quam tu ad pro- 
 nunciandum. 
 
 A. Cur won scribis ? 
 B Quia 720« /z/6e?. 
 
 A. Atqui /zr<ec6"/i?or jus- 
 sit ^e. 
 
 B. Scio, sed est mihi 
 cUquid legendum prius ; 
 prseierea, habeo nihil quod 
 scribam 7iunc. 
 
 A. O si velles scribere 
 iTiihi ! 
 
 B. Quidnam ? 
 
 A. Habeo preceptoris 
 dictata descrihenda. 
 
 B. Quae i^ictata? 
 
 What are you doing ? 
 
 I am repeating by myselL 
 
 What are you repeating^ 
 
 The task tohich the master 
 set us tO'day, 
 
 Do you retain it in memory ? 
 
 So / think. 
 
 Let us repeat together^ thus 
 t'acA of us ivill say better be- 
 fore the master. 
 
 Begin you then, who have 
 challenged me. 
 
 Come on, be attentive that 
 you do not suffer me to go wrong. 
 
 I am readier to hear, than 
 you to say. 
 
 II. 
 
 Why do you not write ? 
 Because it docs not please me. 
 But the master bade you. 
 
 I know it, but I have some- 
 thing io vesii\Jirst ; besides, I 
 have nothing that 1 can -write 
 no7v. 
 
 that you would write for 
 n^.e ! 
 
 What ? 
 
 1 b-ve the manter^s dictates 
 to lurlt^ out. 
 
 W hat dictates ? 
 
♦new latin primer. 
 
 21 
 
 A. In Ciceronis epistolas. 
 
 B. Libenter describam^/dz, 
 
 sed exfiectacT2iSim\xva diem. 
 
 A. Expectabo igitur^ sed 
 ne /alias quaeso. 
 
 B« Non fallam. 
 
 Upon Cicero's epistles. 
 
 I will willingly write out 
 for you^hxxistay till to-morrow. 
 
 I will stay then^ but do not 
 fail I pray. 
 
 I will not fail. 
 
 III. 
 
 A. Visne describere prae- 
 lectionem milii ? 
 
 B. Cur non scrifisisti ? 
 
 A. Quia fui occupatus 
 hesterno die, 
 
 B. Accipe ?neui7t librum 
 et describe. 
 
 A. Non igi)«ras me scrib- 
 ere lentiuSiCi tu descripseris 
 totam citius qua7n ego qua- 
 tuor aut quinque versiculos. 
 
 B. Quaere alium scripto- 
 rem tibiy non possum dare 
 operam tibi gunc. 
 
 A. Cur non ? 
 
 B. Est mihi aliud negoti» 
 nmfidcmque/ierneccssarium, 
 
 A. Nolo urgere, nee fios- 
 9Ufn quidem, sed saltern com- 
 mochi tuum codicem. 
 
 B. Accipe, utere ut libcty 
 modo ne abutere, 
 
 A. Est nihil quod verea- 
 yis /iic. 
 
 Will you write out the les- 
 son for ?ne ? 
 
 \N)tiyhave^ou not written it? 
 
 Because / was busy yester» 
 day. 
 
 Take my book and write it 
 out. 
 
 You are not ignorant that I 
 write slowly) and you will have 
 written OAit the whole sooner 
 than I four or fve verses. 
 
 Seek another wriiQvfor youy 
 I cannot give my labour to 
 you now. 
 
 Why not ? 
 
 There is to me other bust» 
 n<?#s,anU the same very neces' 
 sary. 
 
 I will not urge youy Aov can 
 /indeed, but at least lend your 
 book. 
 
 Take it, use it as youfilease^ 
 only do not abuse it. 
 
 There is nothing that yo\i 
 may fear here^ 
 
 IV. 
 
 A.Vidistine/tdrMTO meum? 
 B. Quern ^fdrumquaeris ? 
 
 A. Ciceronis efiistoias, 
 
 B. Ubi reliqutsti ? 
 
 A. Oblitus summ «cA^/tf. 
 
 B. Fuit tua negiigentia. 
 
 Have you seen my book 7 
 What book do you seek for 1 
 Cicero's efiistlas, 
 Wnere left you it ? 
 I forgot It in the school. 
 That was your negligence 
 
22 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIiMEll.* 
 
 A. Fateor, sed interim 
 inclicttf si scias quern acce- 
 /lisse, 
 
 B. Cur non adis praecep- 
 torem ? solet (ut scis) aut 
 
 ftrre ea, quct relicta sunt a 
 nobis m museolum, aw^dare 
 alicui qui reddat, 
 
 A. Mones bene^ quanci 
 ehliviosus sum qui non cogi- 
 taveram istud ! 
 
 A. Potesne dare mutuo 
 mihi aliquantulum pecuniae? 
 
 B. Qu'dntum jietis ? 
 
 A. Quinque asses si est 
 com mod um tibi. 
 
 B. Non habeo tot, 
 
 A. Quot igitur ? 
 
 B. I'anium quatuor, 
 
 A. Bene sane, da mihi is- 
 tos quaiuor. 
 
 B. Dabo dimidium si i;/*. 
 
 A. Cur 72on totum ? 
 
 B. Quia o/ius est mi/jiduo- 
 bus. 
 
 A. Da mihi duos igitur y 
 quaeso. 
 
 B. S§d non sufficient ti»bi. 
 
 A. Petam ab aliquo alio. 
 
 B. Accipe hos duos igitur* 
 Quando reddes ? 
 
 A. Die Saturni, ut spero, 
 cum pater venerit ad forums 
 
 B, Esto memor igitur. 
 A. Ne timeas. 
 
 A. Da mutuo miht duos 
 asses. 
 
 I confess it, but in the mean 
 time tell ?/ze, if ^ow A:?20w any 
 one to have taken it. 
 
 Why do you not go to the I 
 master ? he is ^ont (as you 
 know) either to carry those l 
 things tvhich are left by us into | 
 his study, or to give them to 
 somebody who ?««t/ return them. 
 
 You admonish we//, how 
 forgetful am 1 wAo had not 
 thought of that i 
 V. 
 
 Can you lend mc a little 
 money ? 
 
 How much do you ask for f 
 
 Five fience if zV be conven- 
 ient to you. 
 
 I huve not so many. 
 
 How many then ? 
 
 Only four. 
 
 Well indeed J give me those 
 /owr. ^ • 
 
 I will give youhalfifyou will. 
 
 Why «0/ the whole ? 
 
 Because I have need of two. 
 
 Give we two then^ I pray. 
 
 But they will not be sufficient 
 for you. 
 
 I will ask o/ somebody else, 
 
 Ti^ke these two then. When 
 will you refiay me ? 
 
 Upon Saturday, as I hope, 
 when my father shall come to 
 Me market. 
 
 Be mindful then. 
 
 Do not fear. 
 VI. 
 
 Lend me two thence. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 23 
 
 B. Nunc non est facile 
 mihi dare. 
 
 A. Quid obstat ? Scio /e 
 accepi»se fiecuniam hester- 
 no die. 
 
 B. Accepi quidem, sed 
 libri sunt emendiy ttalia ne- 
 cessaria 7m/i£, 
 
 A. Nolo remorari tuum 
 commodum. 
 
 B. Ubi emero quse «ww^ 
 opus mz^z, si ^'Mfrf supersit, 
 dabo mutuo, 
 
 A. Interea/^zVMrexpecta- 
 bo sfierans ; sed <7w/rf si n/- 
 ^// superstiterit //6i ? 
 
 B. Dicam ?z6i statim, ne 
 ex/iectes diutius Jrustra, 
 
 s A. Quando ernes ea j-Wif 
 decrevisti ? 
 
 B. Cras, w^ spero, au< ad 
 sumraum/zerenflfzc. 
 
 A. Quid es ita /<e/w5 .? 
 
 B. Quia /!a^<?r mew* mo- 
 rfo venit. 
 
 • A. Ain* tu, unde venit? 
 B. Londino. 
 
 A. Quando advenit ? 
 
 B. Modo ; ut dixi tibi 
 jam. 
 
 A. Jamne salutisti ? 
 
 B. Salutavi quum des- 
 cenderet ex equo, 
 
 A. Quid amfiilu» feciati 
 m ? ^ 
 
 Now it is not easy for me to 
 lend. 
 
 \N\\?i.iIiind€rs ? I knowi/oM 
 to have received money yester- 
 day. 
 
 I have received indeed^ but 
 books are^o be bought^Vind other 
 things necessary ybr me» 
 
 I will not hinder your a^- 
 
 When / shall have bought 
 what things ar^ needful to me, 
 if a«?/ thing remain, Itvill lend 
 it. 
 
 In the mean time then I will 
 wait in hofies ; but ivhat if 
 nothing remain to you ? 
 
 I will tell you immediately, 
 that you may not wait longer 
 in vain. 
 
 When ivill you buy those 
 things which you have design- 
 ed ? 
 
 To-morrow, as I hope, or 
 at farthest the day after to-mor- 
 row. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Why are you so glad ? 
 
 Because my father is just 
 come. 
 
 Say you so, whence came he ? 
 
 From London. 
 
 When came he ? 
 
 Just now ; as I have told 
 you already. 
 
 Have you already saluted 
 him ? 
 
 I saluted him as soon as he 
 alightedy^»'07?^ his horr.r. 
 
 What more did y^u for him ? 
 
24, 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 B. Detraxi cal carta et 
 %crea8, 
 
 A. Miror te non mansisae 
 dom\ firofiter ejua adventufn. 
 
 B. ^ ecille /ier7nisiss€i yUec 
 ego vellef?i, praesertirn nvnCf 
 cum /iralectio est audienda. 
 
 A. Consulis ^eTzetibi, gwz 
 habeas rationem temporis, 
 seA valetne pater ? 
 
 B. Reete, Dei benijicio» 
 
 A. Equidem filurimum 
 gaiidso tu^ causa et ejus, 
 quod VQ^itviiperegre sal v us. 
 
 B. Facis ut (iecet avucum^ 
 sed colloquemur eras filuri- 
 bus verbis, 
 
 A. Vide pneceptorem qui 
 jam ingreditur scholam. 
 
 B. Eamus auditum prae- 
 lectionem. 
 
 I pulted off his spurs ani 
 boots. 
 
 I wonder ?/ow f//f/ not stay at 
 home on account of Ms coming, 
 
 'S either would he per7nit,nov 
 did I Tvis/i it, especially noiVf 
 when the lesson is to be heard. 
 
 You consult well for your- 
 self, ivho have regard to your 
 time, but is your father luell^ 
 
 Well, 6 1/ God^s blessing. 
 
 Truly / am very glad for 
 your sake and his, that he hath 
 returned from abroad safe. 
 
 You do as becomes a friend^ 
 but we «ryrV/ ra/A: to-morrow in 
 more words. 
 
 See the master who novj is 
 entering the school. 
 
 Let us go to hear the les- 
 son. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 A. Quando expectas redi- 
 tum patris ? 
 
 B. Ad octavum diem /«nc. 
 
 A. Qui scis diem ? 
 
 B. Pater ipse scripsit ad 
 me. 
 
 A. Adventus ejus, ut 
 spero, ditabit te . 
 
 B. Ero ditior Croeso, si 
 venerit bene nummatus. 
 
 A. Reddes mihi mutu- 
 um tunc ? 
 
 B, Ne dubites, quin si 
 tibi opus erit aniplius, non 
 modo reddam xn\:\.\xv\xx\, sed 
 etiam nferam grs^iiatn. 
 
 A. Quomodo ? 
 
 B. l)abo muiuam pecu- 
 ttiam vicissim. 
 
 When do you expect the re- 
 turn of your father ? 
 
 At the eight hd'dy from hence. 
 How know you the day ? 
 My father himself wrote 19 
 me. 
 His coming, as I hope, mil 
 enrich you. 
 
 I shall be richer than Croe- 
 sus, //he ctme well monied* 
 
 Will you return tne the loan 
 then ? 
 
 Do not doubt, but if you 
 have need oy more, / will not 
 only restore the loan, but also 
 will return the favour. 
 How ? 
 
 / will lend you money in my 
 turn. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 25 
 
 A. Nihil opus eiit, «? 
 spero. 
 
 B. At nescis quid /tossit 
 accidere. 
 
 A. Agotibi gratias ; sal- 
 uta patrem ubi redierit,wco 
 nomine, 
 
 B. Faciam ita^ vti!e. 
 A. Vale tu quoque. 
 
 IX. 
 
 There will be no need, aa I 
 hope. 
 
 But you know not what may 
 happen, 
 
 I thaak yoM ; salute your far- 
 ther, when he shall return, hi 
 my name. 
 
 1 will do sOf farewel. 
 
 Fare you well too. 
 
 A. Cur rides solus ? 
 
 B. Quid refer t tua ? 
 
 A. Quia fortasse rixJes 
 
 B. Unde orf^wrista sus- 
 picio ? 
 
 A. Quia es malus. 
 
 B. Omnes sumus mali 
 auidtm ^at e^ono-n sum pe- 
 jor (e. Nemo ridet igitur, 
 nisi irrideat aUquem ? 
 
 A. Non intelligo «/c, sed 
 qui ridet solus^ ut audivi 
 saepe, aut est stuJtus^ aut 
 cogitat aiiquid mali. 
 
 A. NesciocM/:/«senten- 
 \Xd^ista sit,*erfcujuscunque 
 «/V, non t^i fierfictuo vera ; 
 ta7nendicci\noadmonitione?n 
 in feonam partem, et mo- 
 neo te vicissim, ut caveas 
 esse suspiciosus, nam mors 
 est aptisi^ima tiniidis ct 
 susfiicioffis, ut est in nostra 
 morali carmine, 
 
 B. ^fiiYiV:], boni consulo 
 tuarn admonitionem. 
 
 Why do you laugh alone ; 
 
 What does that concern you ? 
 
 Because iierhafis you lau^^ 
 at me. 
 
 Whence arises that suspi- 
 cion ? 
 
 Because t/otz are wicked. 
 
 We are all wicked indeed» 
 but I am not worse than you. 
 Does no body laugh then^ un- 
 less he laugh at some body ? 
 
 1 do not mean «o, but he 
 that laughs alonc^ as / have 
 heard often, either is a fool^ oV 
 thinks some mischief. 
 
 I know not w/;05e saying rAa; 
 may be, but whosesoever it hCy 
 it is not always true ; yet I 
 take your admonition in good 
 part, and I admonish r/ow in 
 my turn, that you would be- 
 ware of bting suspicious, for 
 death is {ilie»i for timorQus and 
 suspicious persons^ esit ia hi our 
 moral verse. 
 
 I remefnber, / take in good 
 fiart your admonition. 
 
 A Quantum 
 ,i habes i 
 
 fiecunix How much mo«ej/ have you? 
 
 B. Assem cum semisse ; 
 qvanticfn habes iu ? 
 C 
 
 A penny with a halfpenny; 
 
 how much have you ? 
 
26 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 A, Non tantum. 
 
 B. Quantum igitur ? 
 
 A. Unicum assem. 
 
 B. Vis dare mutuo mihi? 
 
 A. Est TTjihi opus. 
 
 B. In quern usum ? 
 A.Ademendamc/t.ir/am. 
 B. Reddam tibi feodie. 
 
 A. Addendum fuit Deo 
 juvante. 
 
 B. Sic p.raceptor docet 
 ex verbo Dei^ sed non fios- 
 sum assuescere. 
 
 A. Fac assucscas. 
 
 B. Quomodo id Jiat ? 
 
 A. Si cogites s^pe nos 
 ^ic /lender e a Deo,w^ possi- 
 mus nihil sine ejus auxilio. 
 
 B. Das ;72/7« bonum C9«- 
 silium. 
 
 A. Quale veliin dari mi' 
 hi 
 
 B. Sed ut redeamus ad 
 jirofiositum^ dabis mutuo 
 mihi istum assem ? 
 
 A. Miror te petere mu» 
 tuo a me, qui habes plus 
 quam ego, 
 
 B. Est quidam scholas- 
 ticus transiens hac, qui os- 
 tentat libruvi venalem. 
 
 A. Quid turn ? 
 
 B, Cupio<r7?2(fr?, quiaz??- 
 Aicat villus quam noster bi- 
 bliofiola. 
 
 A. Accipe, sed quseso, 
 und€ reddes ta7n cilo ? 
 
 B. A coena ibo domum, 
 lit petam a ?}iafre, 
 
 A. Quid si noiit dare 
 tibi ? 
 
 B. Non cunctabitur cum 
 ostendero ilii lib rum. 
 
 Not so much. 
 
 How much the?i ? 
 
 OntJ /lenny. 
 
 Will vou lend it me ? 
 
 I have need of it. 
 
 For what use ? 
 
 To buy fiafier. 
 
 I will return it to you to day. 
 
 You should have added Qod 
 helping. 
 
 So the master teaches out of 
 the word of Gody but / cannot 
 use myself to it. 
 
 See you do use yourself to it. 
 
 How shall that be done ? 
 
 li you consider often that we 
 so depend upon God, that we 
 can do nothing without his helfi^ 
 
 You give me good counscL 
 
 Such as I would have given 
 
 But Ma^ we may return ^6» 
 our purpose^ will you lend me 
 that penny ? 
 
 I wonder ^-6a^ yow ask o hot' 
 row of me, %vho have T^jorff 
 than /. 
 
 There is a certain scholar 
 passing this way, ivho offers « 
 ^oo/<: to sell. 
 
 What then ? 
 
 I desire to buy it, because he 
 offers it cheaper than our book' 
 seller. 
 
 Take it, but I pray whence 
 will you return it so soon ? 
 
 From supper /wf// ^**© home, 
 ^/ifaf I may ask it of my mother. 
 
 What z/she should not give 
 you I 
 
 She will not delay, when I 
 shall show her the book. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 %1 
 
 XI. 
 
 A. Accepi /Z(?cwwzfl!m a pa- 
 tre hodie, ^i forte tibi est 
 opus. 
 
 B. Nihil opus est nuncy 
 sed tamen ago tibi gratias 
 maximas, quod pro tua libe- 
 ralitate uUro offers mihi bc- 
 nificium : nam quotusquis- 
 que facit id I 
 
 A. Credo fmucissimos^ ta- 
 men tu firovocasti me «<^- 
 fie beneficiis. 
 
 B. IWvifuerunt adeo fiar- 
 vuy ut «o?z sznf digna coni' 
 memoratione . 
 
 A. Nonest/jariyMmbene- 
 ficium, quod prcfectum et>t 
 ab ofitima voluntate. 
 
 B. Utinam extender emus 
 tarn bencjicia Dei dT^a nos, 
 quam solemus hominum. 
 
 A. nie faxit, ut exercea- 
 mus nos in ea cogitatione, 
 €t ssepius, et diligeniius. 
 
 B. Illud firofecto est ne- 
 cessarium, si uolumus expe- 
 riri ejus bcni^nicatem s^pi- 
 us erga nos. 
 
 I have received money from 
 my father to day, H fierchanse 
 you have need. 
 
 I have no need noiv^ but 
 yet I give you very great 
 thanks, that otxt of your libe- 
 rality of your own accord you 
 offer me a kindness : for how- 
 few do that ? 
 
 I believe T^ery y*:"!^» yet you 
 have incited mc often by kind- 
 nesses. 
 
 'iliose I'jere so sinali^ that 
 ;//f I/ a?*t? 720^ worth mentioning. 
 
 It is not a «ma// kindness, 
 nvhich proceeded fro?n a very 
 good will. 
 
 1 wish we would consider as 
 well the kindnesses of God tO' 
 wards us, as we use to do those 
 of men. 
 
 May he errant, that we may 
 exercise ourselves in that 
 thought, Ao^/i oftener, a7id 
 more diligently. 
 
 That truly is necessary, if 
 7y^ would experience Ais A'I77G?- 
 Tzess oflener towards us. 
 
 XII. 
 
 A. Quid sibi vult quod «6- 
 fueris hac ?ora hebdoinade ? 
 
 B. Oportuit me manere 
 domi. 
 
 A. Quamobrem ? 
 
 B. \}\.adessem matri, quas 
 aegrotabat. 
 
 B. Quid officium praesta- 
 bas illi ? 
 
 B. Legebam ei saepius. 
 A. Quid legeba» ? 
 
 What means zVthat you have 
 been absent this vjhole week ? 
 
 I was obliged to stay at 
 home. 
 
 What for ? 
 
 That / mtght be tvith my 
 mother, who was sick. 
 
 What office did you do ^r 
 her ? 
 
 I read to her often. 
 
 What did you read ? 
 
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 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 B. AUqi«aid ex sacris litew 
 fis. 
 
 A. Istud fuit sanctum et 
 laiidabile miniateriuvi ; uti- 
 nam omue's sic studerent 
 verdo Dei. Sed ywfrf ; age- 
 bas 7ii/2H aliud ? 
 
 B. Quofies erat opus 7ni- 
 nistraham ilii czi?/z aiicilla. 
 
 A. Sunt hcec vera ? 
 
 B. riabeo tesii?no?Mju?n. 
 
 A. Profctr iliud. 
 
 B. Ecce I 
 
 A. Quis scrifisii ? 
 
 B. Nostcr famulus, ?zo^;z- 
 mf" matris. 
 
 A. Agnosco maninn ejusy 
 quia attuUsti mihi s<spe ab 
 i ■ • ' ^ . 
 
 Vi, Li:ctne igitur redii'e 
 in men*!: si-dcm ? 
 
 •\. Q'ji'l ij liceit, cum sa- 
 tisfcceri^ r.uhi ? 
 
 B. Ago ^zoz grotias /zr^- 
 cefitor. 
 
 Something •ut tf the holy 
 scriptures. 
 
 That nvas a holy and lauda- 
 ble setvice ; I wish all people 
 did so study the word of God. 
 But nvhat ; did you do nothing 
 else ? 
 
 As oft-en as it was needful 
 / ministered to her ivith the 
 maid. 
 
 Are these things true ? 
 
 I have a. note. 
 
 Produce it. 
 
 See here I 
 
 Who wrote it ? 
 
 Our taan, in the name of my 
 mother. 
 
 I know his handy bec£^use 
 you have often brought ?ne from 
 him. 
 
 May I therefore retum into 
 my eeat ? 
 
 Why miiy you not, seeing 
 yQU have satisfied me ? 
 
 I give you thanks, master. 
 
 FABLE I. 
 
 De Gallo. 
 pALLUS, dum vertit 
 ste co^-urium^ offendit 
 gemmair;^ inquicns, Quid 
 repcrio rem tain nittdam ? 
 Si gc-mmar'us repeiiissft te, 
 ninil esset Isetius 
 
 fO, ut qui sciret 
 
 predum : quidem est 
 nulii USUI mihiynec sestimo 
 magni s imo equid^ni 
 
 Of the Cock. 
 A COCK, lohilf he turns up 
 a dunghill, finds 
 
 a jewel, K^^yini^, Why 
 GO I find « thing so ^r/^Ar .? 
 If a jtwdkr had found Met, 
 notliiijg would be more joyful 
 than he^ as w/;o would know 
 the price: indeed it is 
 of no ust to mcjwor do I esteem 
 it at a great rate y nay indeed 
 
[EW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 29 
 
 mallem granum hor- 
 dei omnibus genimis* 
 Morale. 
 Intellige per gemmam 
 artem & safiientiani ; per 
 Galium^ hominem stolfdu7n 
 & volufitarium ; nee atulti 
 amant liberale^ artes, cmn 
 nesciant usum earum ; 
 nee voluptarius, qidjifie 
 voluptas sola placcat ci. 
 
 I had rather have a. §"?'ai7j of bar- 
 ley than all jewels. 
 
 The Moral. 
 Understand by the jewel 
 art atid wisdom ; by tha 
 Cock, a man foolish and 
 voluficuous ; neither fools 
 love liberal arts, ivhen 
 they know not the use uf them; 
 nor a voluptuous man, because 
 pleasure alone pleases him. 
 
 FABLE II. 
 
 De Cane b" Umbra. 
 
 CANIS tranans fluvi- 
 um, -vehebat carnem rictu\ 
 sole sjilendente, umbra 
 carnis lucebat in. aquis ; 
 quann ille videns-^ Sc avide 
 CdLptAnSi/ierdidit quod erat 
 infaucibus: itaq; /lerculsus 
 jactura ^ rei ^ 
 spei, firiimun stupuit ; dc- 
 inde recipiews animum sic 
 elatravit : Miser ! Modus 
 deerat tu<^ cupiditati : 
 erat satis sufierque, 
 ni desi/iuisses. Jam, 
 per tuam stulHtiam^ est 
 minus nihilo ;2<5?. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Sit modus tuae 
 
 cupiditati, ne amittas 
 certa /zro incertis. 
 
 0/the Dog awe/ the Shadow. 
 
 A DOG swimming over a ri- 
 ver, carried flesh 2« A/« cAo/zs i 
 the sun shinin<f, the shadow 
 ofthejlesh shone in the waters; 
 ivhich he seeing^ and greedily 
 catching at, /osf what wa» 
 in his juivs : therefore struck 
 with the Ioss6o;Aof the thing anof 
 his hope,atJirst he was amazed; 
 afterwards taking courage thus 
 he barked out : Wretch 1 Mode- 
 ration was wanting to thy desire; 
 there was enough, a7id too muckf 
 unless t/iou hadst been /ncrf.Now, 
 through thy folly, there is 
 less than nothing /or thee, 
 MoR. 
 
 Let there be moderationiothy 
 desire J lest thou /ose 
 certain things/or uncertaia. 
 
 FABLE III. 
 Be Lupo ^ Grue. Of the Wolf and the Crave 
 
 DUM Lupus vorat WHILE a TVolf dcvonretx 
 ovem^ forte o^sa a sheep, by chance (^ Tories 
 
 c « — -• • -^- • 
 
30 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 haesere in giila ; ambit, 
 orat opem^ntmo ofiitulatur; 
 omne^ dictitant^eum tul'sse 
 prsemium sux voracitatis : 
 SandeiUy multis blanditiis 
 pluribusq;/iromf«m',inducit 
 Gruemy ut, longis^imo 
 collo inserto in gulam, 
 exinieret o« infixum. 
 Verum illusit ei petenti 
 prtemium^ inquicns, Inefita^ 
 abi, non babes sat, quod 
 vivis ? Debes tuam vifam 
 luihi ; «^ vellein, fioteram 
 prsemordere tuum coWuin. 
 MoR. 
 Quod fads ingrato, 
 perit. 
 
 stuck m h\^ \.\iVQ2iX; fie ^es about i 
 asks helji, nobody assiaU ; 
 all say, that he /lad goS 
 the reward of his greediness : 
 at length, with many flatteries 
 and more/iromisesy he draws ia 
 ^/^e Crane, that, A<??* T;ert/ /©«^* 
 neck beijig thrust inio //is throat, 
 she would pull out the bone fixed 
 in. -Sw^ he played upon her ask- 
 ing a reward, .saying, Fool, 
 go awAy, hast thou not enough, 
 Ma/ thou lives-? Thou oiuest thy 
 Ife to me ; if I would, / nvas 
 able to bite off thy neck. 
 MoR. 
 What thou doest for the un- 
 grateful) fierisheth. 
 
 FABLE IV. 
 
 De AquiLA ^ 
 
 CORNICULA. 
 
 AQUILA nacta cochle- 
 am, non quivit e rue re 
 piscem vi, aut arte. 
 Cornicula accedens dat 
 Consilium,swaf^£/subvolare, 
 ^ e subli?ni praecipitare 
 cothleam in saxa ; nam 
 sic fore, ut cochlea 
 frxngatur, Cornicula 
 
 manet humi, ut 
 
 prsEstoletur casum : 
 
 Aquila Jinscifiitat ; 
 
 testa frangitur ; piscis 
 subrifiltur a Cornicula ; 
 elusa Aquila dolet. 
 MoR. 
 
 Noli habevs (idem 
 07nmbus &: fac 
 
 Q/" the Eagle and the Jack- 
 daw. 
 
 AN Eagle having got a coc- 
 kle, was wo; able to get out 
 Me flih by force, or art. 
 The Jackdaw coming up gives 
 counsel, persuades her to fly up, 
 and from on high to throw down 
 the cocklenporxthe stones; for ihbt 
 so it would be, that the cockle 
 would be broken. The Jackdaw 
 stays on tlie ground, that 
 she may watch M(? fall: 
 the Eagle throws it down ; 
 the shell zs broken; the fish 
 zs snatched away by Me Jackdaw; 
 the deluded ^a^-Ze grieves. 
 MoR. 
 
 Be not willing to have faith 
 /w all men J and c/o 
 
KEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 SI 
 
 inspicias consilium, quod 
 accefier'ts ab aliis ; 
 
 nam multi consulii non 
 consuluut ^uis con» 
 sultoribus, sed sibi. 
 
 you look into the counsel, which 
 you have received from others ; 
 for many being- consulted do not 
 counsel for their con- 
 sultora, but for themselves. 
 
 FABLE V. 
 
 J)eCoRro5^VuLPEcuLA. O/* the Crow and the Fox. 
 
 CORVUS;?acfMsprae^am, 
 strcpitat in ramis : 
 
 Vulpecula videt eum ^e- 
 stientem., accurrit : Vul/ies, 
 inquit, imfiertit Covvum 
 /ilurimasaXuiQ^Sx/iemimero 
 audiveram, famam esse 
 mendacem^ydiVix ex fierior re 
 ifisa : nam, ut forte /^/'^e- 
 rere-o hac, sufifiiciens te ;/z 
 arbore, advolo, culpans 
 famam : mmfatna est, te 
 e%'s>Qnigriore7n pice,^video 
 /e candidiorem w/iye.SaBern 
 •mco judicio vincis cygnos, 
 Sc es formosior albd 
 hedeia. Quod si, ut ex- 
 cellas m plumis, ita 8c 
 voc^, eqvjidem dicere?yi te 
 reginam omnium avium. 
 Corvus illectus hac assen- 
 tiunculd, apparat ad 
 canendum. Verd caseus 
 excidic e rostro ; quo 
 correpto Vulpecula, 
 
 tollit cachinnum : turn 
 demum Corvus, pudore 
 ju?ic(o jacturae 
 
 rei, dolet. 
 
 MoR. 
 Nonulli su?ic lam avidi 
 laudis, ut anient asseyi- 
 
 A CROW having got a prey, 
 makes a 7ioise in the branches : 
 tl:e Fox sees liim re- 
 joicingy runs up : the Fox, 
 s.^ys be, tomjiliments the Crow 
 wzV/i i/^rt/ 7W7fcA health. Very often 
 had I heard, that fame was 
 a liar, now I find it in the fact 
 itself: for, as by cl^ance / //ass 
 ^?/ this way, seeing you m 
 the tree, I fly to you, blaming 
 fame : for the re/iort is, that you 
 are blacker than pitch, awe/ 1 see 
 you whher than snow. Truly in 
 my Judgment you surpass the 
 sivansy and are fairer than the 
 ivhite ivy. But if, cs you ex- 
 cel in feathers, you do so also 
 in voice, truly / should call you 
 the queen of all ^zrrf.?. 
 The Crow allured by this fat, 
 fery, prepares to 
 
 sing. J3uc the cheese 
 /c// from his beak; which 
 being snatched by the Fox, 
 he sets up. a laughter : then 
 at last the Crow^ shame 
 being joined to the loss 
 of the thing, grieveth. 
 
 MoR. 
 Some are so greedy 
 of praise, that they love a fat' 
 
^2 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 tatorem cum suo probro ^ 
 damno. Homunciones hujus 
 modi sunt fir£d<s Parasite. 
 Quod si vitasses jactan- 
 tianu fatile vitiiveris 
 pestiferum ^enus asseii- 
 tatorum Si tu vclis esse 
 Thic»so, Gnat ho nusquain 
 deerit libi. 
 
 terer with their own disgrace and 
 d'Atua^^e. Men of this 
 
 kind are a firey to the Parasite. 
 ^ut if z/oM had avoided boast- 
 ing. easzY?/ would you iuve avoid- 
 ed the fiestilent race of Jlatter- 
 ers. If ?/toM urt viliing ^o 6e 
 a Thraso, a Gnatho never 
 ivill be wanting to thee. 
 
 FABLE VI. 
 
 De Cane ^ Asino. 
 
 DUM Ca72fs biandiretur 
 hero & families, 
 
 herus Sc fainilia demulcent 
 Canem. Asellus^ videris 
 id, gemit altissime ; nam 
 c^efiit pii^eie sor- 
 
 tia : putat inique compa- 
 ratum, Canem esse gra- 
 turn cunctis, pascique 
 herili mensuy & 
 
 consequi tioc otio 
 
 ludoque : sese con- 
 tra portare clitellas, 
 c<^di flus^elio, esse 
 
 nunquam otiosum^ Sc tamen 
 odiosum cunctis. Si A^c 
 fiant blanditiis, statuit 
 sectari earn artem^ quse «zV 
 tam zi??7/5. Igi ur quo- 
 dam tempore tentaturus 
 rem, procurrit o'>viam 
 hero redeunti domum^ 
 subsilit, pulsat un. 
 gulis. Hero exclamante, 
 servi accurre;;© Isf 
 
 ineptus Asellus^ qui credidit 
 se urbanu?n^ vupulat. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 OmnQVionpossumusomnm 
 
 Of the Dog and the Ass. 
 
 WHILE the Dog fawned on 
 his master and the family^ 
 the master and the family stroke 
 the Dog. TVze ./^i^*, seeing 
 thatf groans most deeply ; for 
 he began to be wcary of his con- 
 dition : he thinks it unjustly qY' 
 dpred,f/ia? the Dog should be ac' 
 ceptable to all, and be fed 
 from his master's table, and 
 that he should get this by idleness 
 and play : that himself on the 
 contrary candied the dorsers, 
 was beaten with the whip, was 
 never idle^ and yet 
 
 odious to all. If these things 
 are dom^byfawnirigs^hQ resolves 
 to follow ihdit art ^ wt ich is so 
 prof table. Therefore on a cer- 
 tain lime about to try 
 the thing, he runs in the way 
 to his master returnini^ home^ 
 leaps on him, strikes him with 
 his hoofs. T^i^e mastercvyin^ out, 
 the servants ran to him, and 
 the silly ./^55, who thought 
 himself cowr%, is beaten. 
 MoR. 
 We all cannot do all things ; 
 
MEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 33 
 
 nee omnia decent omnes. 
 Quisque faciat, quisque 
 tentet /c?, quod/zo/e«r. 
 
 nor do all things become all menr 
 Let ei)ery one do, let everij one 
 try that^ which he is able* 
 
 FABLE VII. 
 
 De Leone ^ quibusdam 
 a His. 
 LEO /lefiigerat cum 
 Ove quibusdamque aliiSf 
 venationem fore 
 
 communem. Venantur ; 
 ccrvus cafiitur : singulis 
 inci/iientibusioWevesingulas 
 partes, ut convenerat, 
 Leo irrugiit, inquiens^ Una 
 Jiars est niea, quia sum 
 dignissimus ; altei-a item 
 est mea, quia praestantis- 
 simus viribus ; porro 
 vcjidico tcrtiam, quia su- 
 daveriin Jilus in capiendo 
 cervo ; dcnique^ nisi con- 
 ce^scnV/ofqiiurtamje^f actum 
 de Amicitia. Socil 
 
 audientes hocMscedunt va- 
 cui l^ taciti, non uosi 
 mutire contra Leonem. 
 
 MoR. 
 Fides se7n/ier hih rata ; 
 apudZ/ocseculum est rarior; 
 a/iud potcnies cxt, & 
 a^'mfier fuit,ram.s/7?2a. Quo- 
 cijct c&t satius vivere cum 
 pari. Nam, qui vivit 
 cum poiGhiiorcy icefie habct 
 necesse concedere de suo 
 jure» 
 
 Of the Lion and some other 
 Beasts, 
 THE Lion had agreed with 
 ^//e Sheep, and some others, 
 that the hunting should be 
 common. 77j<?z/ hunt ; 
 
 a stag 25 taken i c// 
 beginning to take ^/^ezV single 
 parts, as had been agreed, 
 ?/ie Zzo^i roared, sayingy One 
 /lar? is mine, because / am 
 the most worthy ; another also 
 is mine, because I am most ex- 
 cellent in strength ; moreover 
 / clai7n a third, because I have 
 sweated inore in taking 
 the stag J lastly y unless yow ivill 
 grant ihe fourth, there is an end 
 o/Triendship. His companions 
 hearing this, depart emp- 
 ty anf/ silent, not having dared 
 to mutter against the Lion, 
 
 MoR. 
 F.ith always has been rare^ 
 in this age /^ 25 rarer ; 
 among the powerful «V is, and c/- 
 ^/•«//.shasbeenj^nosr rar<f. Where~ 
 fore it is better to live witb 
 an equal. For, ^e ivho iiv<th 
 iiith ooc more powerful, often 
 hath a necessity to depart /rQ;» 
 his 7*%^;. 
 
|S4 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 FABLE VIII. 
 
 De Leone ^ Mure. 
 
 LEO defessus aestu 
 cursuque quiescebat sub 
 umbra, sufier viridi ^m- 
 mine ; grege Murium per- 
 currente ejus tergiim, ea:' 
 perrectiisy comprehendit 
 unu7n ex illis. Captivus 
 sufifilicat^ clamitat, se esse 
 indignum^ cui Leo 
 
 irascatur. ///<?, reputans 
 fore nihil laudis 
 
 ia nece tantiilae bestiac^ 
 dimittit cafitivum* Non diu 
 postea, Zco, dum currit 
 per saltum^ incidit in 
 plagas : rugit^ sed non 
 potest exire. Mus audit 
 Leonem miserabiliter rugi- 
 entem, agnescit vocem, 
 repit in cuniculos, quxrit 
 nodos, q2ios invenit, 
 corroditque i Leo evadit 
 e filagis. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Haec Fabula suadet cle- 
 wen^mmpoLentibus; etenim 
 Ut humance res sunt in- 
 stabiles, potentes ipsi 
 interdum egent 0/2^ humil- 
 limorum ; quare prudens 
 vir, etsi potest^ limet 
 nocere vel vz7i homini ; s<?^ 
 qui non timet nocere 
 alteri, desipit -valde' 
 Quid ita? Quia, e/sj ]'^m 
 fretus potent la, metuit 
 neminem, farsan^ posthac 
 erit^ ut indiguerit 
 
 vel gratia vilium homun- 
 cionuniy vel metuerit iram. 
 
 cythe Lion and the Mouse. 
 THE Lion tired wiUi heat 
 awrf running rested under 
 the shade,w/2072 the green grass; 
 a company o/* Mice run- 
 ning over /2/5 back, having a- 
 risenj he takes 
 
 one of Mew. The capiive 
 begSf cries, r/za/f /^e was 
 umuorthy, with whom Me Lion 
 should be angry. Ife, thinking 
 there would be nothing of praise 
 in the death of so liule a beast^ 
 dismisses Me captive, SSotlong 
 after, the Lion, whilst he runs 
 through the forest, falls into 
 the toils : he roars, but can- 
 not get out. The Mouse hears ^ 
 the Lion miserably roar- 
 ingi knows the voice , 
 creeps into the holes, seeks 
 the knots, which he finds, 
 and gnaivs ; the Lion escapes 
 out of Me toils. 
 
 MoR. 
 This Fable recommends cle- 
 mency to the powerful ; Jor 
 as human things are un- 
 stable, the powerful themf^^'lves 
 sometimes want the help of the 
 lowest ; wherefore a prudent 
 man^ although he is able, feai eth 
 to hurt even a mean maH ; but 
 he that does not fear to hurt 
 cwoMe?',plays the foo: very much, 
 "VVh) so? Because^a/Mo'novv/jflT:;- 
 ing relied on lus \iOWCX^hefeareth 
 nobody, perhaps, hereafter 
 it will be, that he may have wanted' 
 eilh. r the favour of mean men^ 
 ©r have feared their anger. 
 
N£W LATIN PRIMER 
 
 35 
 
 FABLE IX. 
 
 X)e T^ANis ^ earum Fege, 
 GENS Ranarum^ cum 
 esset libera, sufifilicabat 
 Jovein, Regem 
 ri dbi. Jupiter ridebat 
 vota ranarum, Ilise 
 ^ameTj instabant tVentm, 
 atque iterumy donee fierfiel- 
 lerent ijisutn. Ille dejecit 
 trabem; ea moles quassat 
 Jiuvium inj^end fragore. 
 Runse territa silent ; 
 'venerantur Re gem ; cc- 
 cedunt propius fiedetentim ; 
 tandem, T^^em abjccto, 
 insultaJit^ & desultant ; 
 iners i?ej»; est /mswz & 
 contemfitui, Rursum lacts- 
 sunt Jovem ; oranr Regem 
 dart sibi, yw^ sit 
 strenuus; quibus/w/?£rerdat 
 ciconiam. Is perstrenue 
 perambulans fmludemy 
 
 vorat quicquid Ranarum 
 7?^ obviam. Igitur 
 
 Rdnx/rustrd quesise f<je- 
 runt de saevitia hujus. 
 Jupiter non audita lam 
 queruntur & hodie : 
 ctenim vesfieri cicuiiia 
 eunte cubitum, egressx ex 
 antris murmurant 
 
 rauco ululatu ; sed 
 
 canunt surdo. Nam Ju- 
 f liter vult, ut quae de/ireca- 
 Cae sunt clenientem Regem^ 
 jam /erane inclementcm. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Solet evenire plebi, 
 ttf ranis, qua, 
 
 Of the Frogs and their J^ing, 
 IHE nation of Frogs, when 
 it was free, besought 
 
 Jupiter, for a King to be w^iv- 
 en /0 them ^v.^htv laughed at 
 the wishes of the F7^ogs. They 
 nevertheless pressed him again^ 
 and again^ uwtil they drove 
 him to it* He threw down 
 a log ;^ that mass shakes 
 the river with a great noise. 
 The Frogs affrighted ^rz silent ; 
 they reverence their King ; they 
 come nearer stefi by step, ^ 
 at length, fearh:\v\^ thrown a- 
 way, they leafi ufion^ and leap off 
 him; the slugpjish King is their 
 sport and contempt- Again 
 they provoke Jupiicr ; they pray 
 for a Kiag to be given to themi 
 vfho may be valiant i to whom 
 Jupiter gives the stork. He very 
 nimbly stalkii^g thro' the marsh. 
 devours whatever of the Frogs 
 comes in the way. Therefore 
 the Frogs in vain have com- 
 plained of the croelty of him, 
 Jopiter does not heat for, 
 they complain even this day : 
 for in the evening the stork 
 going to rest, having come out of 
 their caves they murmur 
 with a hoarse croaking ; but 
 they sing to one deaf For Ju- 
 piter wills, that they who peti- 
 tioned against a merciful King^ 
 now 6ear an unmerciful. 
 
 Mor. 
 
 It is wont to happen to the com« 
 
 mon pcople|a« to the Frogs, wA» 
 
36 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 si habentRef^em paulo v[\?iX\' 
 sxiciwrcmidamnant euiT- ig- 
 7iavi<£ & inertice, Sc ojitant, 
 aliqvwndo virum dari 
 sibi : contra-, si quan- 
 do nactx sunt strenuum 
 JRegem. dfimnant scevitiam 
 hujus, ijf laudant clemeri' 
 tiam prioris ; sive qiiod 
 semper poenitet nos prsesen- 
 tium. sive quod est verum 
 dictuMy nova esse potiora 
 veteribus» 
 
 if th€y have a King a little tcM.6.' 
 er, condemn Lin< of idle- 
 ness and sluggishness^ and ivish 
 atsometimeybr a ma7i\ohQ given 
 to them: on the contrary, if at 
 any time they have got an active 
 King, they eondemn the cruelty 
 of him, and praise the clem- 
 ency of the former ; either be- 
 cause it always repents us of the 
 present, or because it is a true 
 sayings that new things are bet- 
 ter than old. 
 
 FABLE X. 
 
 De COLUMBIS ^ MiLVO. 
 
 COLUMBiE olim ges- 
 sere bellum cum Mil- 
 voy quern ut expug- 
 narcnt, delegerunt sibi 
 Jccipitrem regem . lUe fac- 
 tus JReXj agii host em, non 
 Begem : rapil ac lauiat 
 non segnius,ac Miivub. P<e- 
 mtet Colunibas Inca/i- 
 ti% putantcs, fuisse 
 
 satius pati bellum Mil 
 vi qiikm tyrannidem 
 Accipitiis, 
 
 MoR. 
 Pigeat /^eminem suae 
 conditionii niuiium Ut 
 Horaliub az7, nihil eat bea- 
 tum ab omni /jar^e, 
 Equi^l'^'ni non op tar em ma- 
 tar-- vicayn soi't-in, Jnoddsit 
 tolerabtlis lAn\x\, cum {^ ^- 
 sivcvint nova77i sortf^m, 
 rursus o\it&vciuiii vetere?ju 
 
 Of the Pigeons awe? the Kite. 
 THE Pigeons formerly car- 
 ried on a ivar with the IKite^ 
 whom that they might sub- 
 due, they chose to themselves 
 the Haivk king. He being 
 made AVw^^ acts the enemy, not 
 ?Ae ^zw^ : he tears and butchers 
 no slower, than the Kite. It re- 
 pents the Pigeons of their under- 
 takings thinking that it had been 
 better to endure the war of 
 the Kit€y than the tyranny 
 of the Hawk, 
 
 MoR. 
 Let it repent no man of his 
 condition too much. jIs 
 Horace says, nothing is hap- 
 py from every part. 
 Truly / ivoidd not wish to 
 chaoj^e my lot, provided it be 
 tolerable. Many, when they have 
 Soi!il;t a new state, 
 
 again have wished fdr ^he old. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 35 
 
 Sumus/er^ omnes/?avario 
 
 ingeniOf ut pceniteaf 
 nosmet nostri. 
 
 We are almost all of so various 
 a tcmfier^ that it refientet/i 
 us of ourselves. 
 
 FABLE XL 
 
 De Lupo i!f SucuLA. 
 
 SUCULA fiarturiebat ; 
 Lupus tiollicttiir^ se 
 fore cuscodem foetus. 
 Sucnla respondit, Se no?i 
 egere obsequio Lupi ; 
 si ille velit haberi 
 pius, 6'/ cupiat facere id, 
 <jnod est gratum, abeat 
 longiua : etenim offi^cium 
 Lupi constare nonprasen- 
 tia, sed abi^entia. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Omnia non sunt creden- 
 dSi omnibus, Muiiipollicen'- 
 tar ii\i«im ope rain ^i\ona?nore 
 tui, sed sui ; non 
 
 quaerentes tuum commo- 
 dum, sed suum. 
 
 0/the Wolf and the Sow. 
 
 THE Sow brought forth ; 
 the Wolf promises, that he 
 would be the kteperof the young. 
 The Sovy ansTjered^Th'dt ahedid 
 not want the sevvice of the Wolf; 
 '\i he is willing to be counted af- 
 fec»ionate, if he desires to do 
 that, which is grateful, let hinrr 
 ^(j further off: for ^//a^ M<? q/^ 
 ^cc of the Wolf consisted UQiin 
 his presence, but absence, 
 MoR. 
 
 Ail tMngs are not to be 
 trusted fo a// 7/2en. Manyy^^OTn- 
 ij?(? their service, not o«^ af love 
 of you, ^M^ of themselves ; wo^ 
 seeking thy adrantage, fe.f 
 their own. 
 
 FABLE XIL 
 
 De Partu Moriium^ 
 
 OLIM erat rumor, 
 qubd Montes parturi^ 
 rent. Homines accurrunt, 
 circumsistuul, cxpectantes 
 quippiam monstri, non 
 sine pavore. Tandem 
 
 Montes parturiunc. Mus 
 exitf turn omnea ridebant» 
 D 
 
 Of the Brin«:fT»g; forth of the 
 Mount ai7is. 
 FORMERLY there was a 
 rumour, that the Mountains 
 would bring forth. The menrun 
 thither, stand round about, eX' 
 pecting sometliing' o/^a msnsterf 
 not without- lear. At length the 
 Mountains(^nn^/orM. A Mouse 
 comes outf then all laughed. 
 
38 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Jactatores,c«m profiten- 
 tur i^ ostentant fnagnay 
 vix faciunt parva. Qua- 
 firofiter isti Thrasonec sunt 
 jure Tnateria joci & 
 ^commatum. Msec Fabula 
 item -vetat inancs timores. 
 "Nixm filerumguetimor peri- 
 cuti est gravior periculo 
 ipso ; imo zV, quod metui- 
 musy est safie ricUculum. 
 
 MoR. 
 Braggers, iv/ien they pro- 
 fess and boast great thinj^y 
 scarce do little things. Where» 
 fore those Thrasos ar# by right 
 the matter o/ye^r and 
 scoffs. This Fable 
 
 also forbids vain fears. 
 For eommonly the fear of danger 
 is »Jor^ grievous than the danger 
 itself; nay ^/^a?, which 
 we year, is o/ifeTi ridiculous. 
 
 FABLE XIII. 
 
 i9e Leporibits SiT' Ranis. 
 SYLVA 7nugiente inso- 
 lito turbine^ trepidi 
 ie/zores occipiunt ra/2£a?^ fu- 
 gere. Cum palus obsisteret 
 fugientibus, stetere anxii, 
 comprehensi p e ri c u 1 i s 
 
 utrinque. Quod que esset 
 incitamentum viajoris 
 
 timoris, -vident Kanas 
 mergi in palude. Tunc 
 nnus ex Leporibus pruden- 
 tior ac diserdor ceteris 
 inquit, Quid inaniter time, 
 mus ? Est opus animo 
 quidem : est nobis agilitas 
 corporis, sed animus decst. 
 Jfoc peviculum turbinis 
 non est fugienduMf sed con- 
 temnendum. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 E»t o/iMs animo m 
 omni re. Virtus jacet 
 sine confdentid. Nam cow- 
 Jidentia est £/w;c & re^ma 
 virtutis. 
 
 Q/ the Hares and the Frogs. 
 THE wood roaring with an 
 unusual whirlivind, the trem- 
 bling Hares begin hastily to fly 
 away. When -a fen stopped them 
 flying, ^/zet/ «foorf anxious, 
 encompassed with dangers 
 on 6or// szcfe^. And what was 
 an incitement o/" greater 
 fear, f/zet/ perceive the Frogs 
 /0 &(? plunged in ^^e yen. Then 
 one of the Hares more pru- 
 dent and more eloquent ^^an Me 
 rest, says, fFi^c^ vainly ofo nve 
 fear ? There is need of courage 
 indeed : there is to us agility 
 of body y but courage is wanting. 
 This danger of the whirlwind 
 is not '0 be fed froTUf but con- 
 temned. 
 
 MoR. 
 There is need of courage in 
 every r^m^. Virtue lies dead 
 without confidence. For dar- 
 ingness is Me leader and ^ween 
 of virtue. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 FABLE XIV. 
 
 De VULPECULA ^ Cico- 
 NIA. 
 
 VULPECULA vocavit 
 Ciconiam ad coenam. 
 Effundit opsoTTtum, in 
 mcnsam, quod^ z\i\x\. esset... 
 liquidum, Ciconia tentante 
 rostro friistta, Vulfiecula 
 luigit. Elusa avis abit^ 
 pudetque, fiigetque 
 
 injuriae. Post plusculum 
 dieruni redit 8c invitat 
 Vulpeculam. Vitreum vas 
 erat situm filenum opsonii ; 
 quod vas, cum esset 
 arcti guttaiis, licuit 
 Vulpeculaex'/cff re,&eswrzre, 
 i\ox\ gustare . Ciconisi facile 
 exhausit rostro, 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Risus meretur risiim ; 
 jocus jocum ; dolus 
 dolum ; ^ ivixMs fraudein. 
 
 0/the Fox and the Stork. 
 
 THE Fox invited 
 
 the Slork to supper. 
 She pours out the victuals ujion 
 the table, ivhichy when it was 
 liquid, the Stork endeavouring 
 with her bill in vain, the Fox 
 licks up. The deluded bird goes 
 aTyaz/,and is ashamed, a^icf vexed 
 at the injury. After some 
 days she returns ana invites 
 the Fox. A glass vessel 
 ivas placed full of victuals ; 
 "^hich vessel, as it was 
 of a narrow neck, it was lawful 
 for the Fox to see, and hunger ^ 
 not to taste. The Slork easily 
 drew it out li'ith her beak, 
 MoR. 
 
 Laughter deserves laughter; 
 a Jest a jest ; a trick 
 a trick ; and deceit deceit. 
 
 FABLE XV. 
 
 Be Graculo. 
 
 GRACULUS orna- 
 
 vit so plumis 
 
 Pavonis ; deinde visus 
 pulchellus sibi contulit 
 se ad genus Pavonum, 
 suo gen ere fastidilo. 
 Illi tandem intelligent ea 
 fraudemww(/a3an^ stolidam 
 avem coloribus, Vf 
 
 affecerunt cum plagis. 
 MoR. 
 
 Hsec Fabula notat ec5,qui 
 gerunt se sublimius, qiiam 
 
 0/ihc Jackdaw. 
 
 THE Jackduw adorned^ 
 himself with the feathers of the 
 Peacock ; then seeming pretty 
 to himself, he betook himself ^o 
 the race of the Peacocks ^ 
 his own race being despised. 
 They at length understandiiig 
 the cheat, stripped the loolish 
 bird of his colours, and 
 belaboured him with blows. 
 MoR. 
 
 This Fable denotes those., who 
 carry themselves more loftily^ 
 
NEW LATIJJ PRIMER. 
 
 £st g^qinim ; gui v'wunt cum than is fit; ':vho live ivitfi 
 
 iis, gut sunt ^ ditiores, those, ivho are <^o;A more richj 
 
 i^magis nobilea: quares^^e* cwoj more noble : \vhercfore often 
 
 iiunt ino/ies, & «zwr they become poor, and «r?» 
 
 ludibrio. for a laughing stoCk% 
 
 FABLE XVI. 
 
 JDe Ran.\ ^ BovE. 
 • KANA cujiida sequandi 
 Jjovem distentabit se. 
 Filius hortabatur mat rem 
 desist ere caepto, in- 
 quiens^ Ranam esse nihil 
 ad Bovem. Ilia intumwit 
 secundum.. N at u s clamitat^ 
 Mater, licet crepes, nun^ 
 gtia7nv[ncQsBovem' Autem, 
 cum intumuisset tertiuiriy 
 crepuit. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Qaisqiie habet suam do- 
 tern, llic excellit forma, 
 ille viribus. Hie po'.let 
 ofiibusj ille amicis. Dt- 
 cct unuviqueinq-) esse con- 
 lentum suo. lUe valct 
 corjiore^ tu ingenio : 
 quocirca qidsque consuiat 
 seinety nee invidcat supc- 
 liori, quod est miserum ; 
 HOC optet ceriure, quod est 
 &hdtitix. 
 
 Of the Fkog and the Ox, 
 A FROG desirous of equalv 
 ling an Ox stretched herself, 
 I'he son advised the motiier 
 to desist from the iiiHterlakini.^, 
 saying,, thut a Froi; nvas nothing 
 to an Ox. She swelled 
 
 a second time. The son cries out^ 
 Mother, altho'* you burst, nev- 
 er will you exceed the Ox. But, 
 when she had swelled a third 
 time^ §he burst. 
 
 MoR. 
 Every one has his gift. 
 This man excels in beauty, 
 ;Aa; in strength. 772/.? is power- 
 ful in riches, thai in friends. It 
 becometh every one to be co??- 
 tcnt with his own. /Teis strong 
 in body,, thou /// genius: 
 ■wherefore let every one consult 
 himself nor envy a suj)crior, 
 ivhich is « miserable thing ; 
 nor ^yzsA to contend, which is 
 the part of folly. 
 
 FABLE XVII. 
 
 iJe AviBUS ^ Qu. drupe- 0/ the Birds and the Jour- 
 tUous. fooitd B. s'-i. 
 
 ERAT flugna Avibus THEHE uas a battle to the 
 
 C2^m Quadrupcdibus. Birds t.:vV/i the four-footed 
 
MEW LATIN PRIMaR. 
 
 41 
 
 m 
 
 Erae utrinque sfiee, 
 utrinque metus^ utriaque 
 fiericulum : autem Vesficr- 
 tilio relinquens socios, de- 
 ficit ad hostes. jives 
 vincunt, Aquild duce 
 €£ auspice ; verd dam- 
 nant tranafugam Vesper- 
 tilioncm, utl nunquam 
 redcatd^^ Avea^w^X nunquam 
 vole I luce. Hsec tat 
 causa Vesfiertilioni^ ut 
 non volet, nisi nociu. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Qui renuit en&e/iarticc/ia 
 adversitatis et periculi 
 cum • sociis, crit 
 
 expers ^irosfieritatis, 
 
 £c satutis. 
 
 Beasts. There was on both sides 
 hofie, on both sides /ear, on 
 both sides danger : but the 
 Bat leaving his coi7ipanions, re- 
 volts to the enemies. The Bird^ 
 overcome, the Eagle being cap- 
 tain and leader ; but they con- 
 demn the runaway Bat, 
 that he never 
 
 return to the BirdSiihsit he never 
 fly in the light. This is a 
 reason for the Bat, that hejly 
 not, unless in tke night. 
 MoR. 
 He that refuses to be partaker 
 of adversity and danger 
 ivith his companions, shall be 
 destitute of their prosperity^ 
 and safety. 
 
 lABLK XVIII. 
 
 De Sylva ^ RusTico. 
 
 QUO tempore erat 
 sermo etiam Arbo- 
 ribus, Rusticus venit 
 in Syhant 8c rogat, ut 
 liceat tollere capu- 
 lum arfsuam securim. Sy\v3L 
 annuit. Rusticus, 
 
 hecuri aptata, capit suc- 
 cidere Arbores. Turn, et 
 quidem serd pcEnituit 
 Sylvam suae facilitatis ; 
 doluit esse scipsam cauaam 
 sui exitii, 
 
 MoR. 
 Vide, de quo merearis 
 bene : fuere muUii qui 
 D JJ 
 
 0/the Wood cwa the Coirs- 
 
 TRYMAN. 
 
 AT what ttJne there was 
 a speech even to 
 
 Trees, a Countryman came 
 into the Wood & asks, that 
 it may be lawful to take a han- 
 dle to his ax. The Wood 
 consents. The Countryman,^ 
 the ax being fitted^ began to 
 CMl^Qwn the Trees. ThenjCnoT 
 indeed ifoo late it repented 
 //;e fFoo<:/ uf her eanness ^ 
 it grieved her to be herself the 
 cause of her own destruction, 
 MoR* 
 
 See, q/'whom thou may est de- 
 serve \7elh there hav^l>eenmmy^ 
 
42 
 
 KEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 nbus! bUTit bcnrjicio iccepto 
 in peraicicm autorls. 
 
 4 
 
 who have abused a benefit recelv-^ 
 ed to the destructiono/'^Ae author- 
 
 FABLE XIX. 
 
 J)e Lupo i^ VuLPE. 
 
 I^UPUS; cum esset 
 sath prsed^, degebat in 
 c?/o, Vulpecula accedit^ 
 sciscilatar cauaam otii. 
 Lufms sensit ^^r/ 
 
 insidias, simulat mor- 
 •buin es^e causam, 07'af 
 Vulpeculam zVe precatum 
 J3co5. Tlla dolens, dolum 
 non succedere,A(\hfiastoremj 
 Tiionet, latebras 
 
 Lupi fiatere^ 8c /zo- 
 Ai'ew securui"n^05S(?opprind 
 inofitinato- Pastor adori- 
 turl^\.\\)U\'{\^7nactat. Vul- 
 "pes/iouiur antro <?^ praeda ; 
 «ca breve Jliit gaudium 
 fiui sceleris ilM ; nam paulo 
 post /c^em pastor capit 
 
 ipsjm. 
 
 MoR. 
 Invidia e,st fee da res, e^ 
 int«rduni ficrniciosa quo- 
 que authori ipsi. 
 
 Q/*the Wolf cwc? the Fox. 
 
 THE Wolf, lohen there \va# 
 enough of prey, /zvf-c? in 
 idleness. The Fox comes to him', 
 demands the cause of the idle- 
 ness. The W'^oZ/'perceived there 
 Kvere treacheries, /irercnc?5 a dis- 
 ease to be the case, desires the 
 Fox Zo ^0 to pray the Gods, 
 She grieving^ that the trick 
 rf/(/ not succeed^ '.goes to the 
 she/iherd,'Ad\is(^s him,that the de^ 
 of the WolUay ofien^ and the ene- 
 my being s«curccow/£/ ^^destroy- 
 ed w^zawar^s. The shepherd77sf5 
 ufion the Wolf & slays him. The 
 Foxobtains the dencwcfthe preyj 
 but short was the joy 
 q/*/zer viUany ro her; for a Utile 
 after r/^e ^a^wp shepherd /aAres 
 her. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 £nvy is a ybw/ thing, and 
 somelimes pernicious ev- 
 en to the author himself. 
 
 FABLE XX. 
 
 De ViPERA iJf Lima. 
 
 VIPER A offend ens Li- 
 mam in Fabrica^ ccepit 
 rodere : /-«.'wc subrisit,/n- 
 guienS) Inept a, quid agis ? 
 Tu contriveris tuos 
 
 dentes antequam altcras 
 
 0/the Viper aiid the FileT: 
 A VlPEli Jinding a File 
 in a Smith's shop, began 
 to gnaw it : the File smiled, say" 
 ing, Fool, what dost thou do ? 
 Thou wilt have worn out thy 
 teeth, before thpu wearest ou»: 
 
NEW LATIN PRr>fER. 
 
 .45 
 
 
 , quae soleo praemordcre 
 uritiem aeris. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Vide etiam atq j etiam 
 quScum habeas rem j 
 ^i acuas denies 
 
 in fortiorem^ non nocu- 
 eris ?V/J, sed r/6/. 
 
 7ne, who am wont to gnaw off 
 the hardness of biuss. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 See a^a/w and c^/ra 
 with whom thou hast an afiair ; 
 if thou whettest My teeth 
 against a stronger man^ thou wilt 
 not have hurt him, but thyself. 
 
 FABLE XXL 
 
 De Cekvo. 
 
 CERVUS,cow5/j/«2?w5 se 
 in perspicuo fonte^ pro- 
 bat Jirocera & rainosa 
 cornua, sed damnat exili' 
 tatem tibiarum : forte 
 dum contemjilatur^ dure JU' 
 dicat^ Venator intervenit : 
 CevwMS fugit. CsiUGsinsec- 
 tantur fugientem j ^edcnm 
 intravissit den^am sylvam, 
 cornua erant implicita 
 ramia, Tum demum 
 laudabat tibiasy U damna- 
 bat cornu-Q, qu(z fecere> 
 ut ts^ti firxda Canibus, 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Petimus fugienda^ 
 
 fugimus petenda ; quae 
 officiunt placent ; qua con- 
 fer u n t displicent. C u p i m u s 
 ieatitudinem, priusquam 
 intelligamusy ubi sit ; quae- 
 rimus excellentiam opum, 
 tJ' celsitudinem honorum ; 
 opinamur beatitudineni si- 
 tam in his, in quibus est 
 tam multum l^boris, Is^ 
 doloris. 
 
 Of the Stag. 
 
 A STAG,//aT^m^ beheld him- 
 self in a clear fountain^ ap- 
 proves his lofty and branched 
 horns, but condemns the small- 
 ness of his legs. By chance^, 
 whilst he looks, whilst he judges, 
 the huntsman passes by : the 
 Siagfiesaway. The dogs /iwr- 
 sue him fiying ; but when 
 he had entered a thick ivood, 
 his horns luere entangled 
 in the boughs. Then at last 
 he praisfd his legs^^nd condemn- 
 ed his horns, which caused, 
 that he was a prey to the Dogs. 
 MoR. 
 
 We dc^u'Cthings to be shunned^ 
 we fly things to be desired ; what 
 hurt please ; what prof- 
 it displease. We desire 
 happiness, before that we un- 
 derstand ^ where it is; we- 
 seek the excellency of riches ; 
 a7id the loftiness of honours j 
 we think happiness placed 
 in these, in which there is 
 so much of labour, and 
 pain. 
 
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 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 FABLE XXII. 
 
 De Equo (^ Cervo. 
 
 EQUUS^-erc^arbellum 
 cum Cervo ; tandem 
 pulsus e paicuis 
 
 implorabat bumanam opem. 
 Redit cum homine, desceri' 
 dit in camjiumy victus 
 antea jam Jit victor ; 
 sed tamen hoste vicio, 
 Isf misso sub jugum, est 
 
 necesse. 
 
 ut victor ipse 
 
 serviat 
 
 homini. 
 
 Fert 
 
 equitem 
 
 dorso, 
 
 /r^. 
 
 niim ore. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 
 Multi 
 
 dimicant 
 
 contra 
 
 paujiertatem ; qu^ 
 
 ■victd 
 
 per i7idu8triam h.fortu7iam^ 
 
 libertas 
 
 victoris 
 
 saepe 
 
 inlerit ; quippe domini 8c 
 victores paupertatis incipi* 
 unt servire divitiis ; an- 
 guntur fagris avari- 
 tije ; cohibentur 
 
 frsenis fiarsimoma ; 
 
 ijec tenent modum qua- 
 rendiy nee audent uti 
 rebus partis ; justo sup- 
 plicio quidefn avariliae, 
 
 Of the Horse and the Stag.' 
 THE Horse carried on war 
 ivith the Stag ; at length 
 being driven out o/the pastures 
 he implored human help. 
 He retarns with a man, he dC' 
 scends into theJield^hQ conquer- 
 ed beforenoyibecome8Zonc\}XQVOV\ 
 but ycx the ene7nybemg conquer- 
 eQ^and sent under the yoke,zV is 
 necessary,Ma/the victor himself 
 serve' the man^ He bears 
 the horse?nan on his back, the 
 bridle in his mouth. 
 MoR. 
 Many^^A^ against poverty s 
 which being overcome by in- 
 dustry and fortune^ the 
 liberty of the victor often 
 perisheth ; for the lords and 
 conquerors of poverty begin 
 to serve riches ; they are tor- 
 mented with the whips of ava- 
 rice ; they are restrained 
 with the bridles of parsimony ; 
 nor do they hold a mean of get' 
 ting^ nor f/o they dare to use 
 Me things gotten; a just punish- 
 ment indeed of covetousness. 
 
 FABLE XXHL 
 
 De Carbonario b^ Fullone. 
 CARBONAIUUS invi- 
 tabat Fullonem, ut habita- 
 ret secum in eddem domo. 
 Fvllo inquit, Mi homo, 
 istn4 non est mihiy vel 
 
 O/the Collier and the Fuller 
 THE Collier invited 
 the Fuller, that he would 
 dwelhyzM Azmin ///e samehouse. 
 The Fuller saitb, il/t/ man, 
 that is not ^o mf, eithcf 
 
NEW LA.TIN PRICIER. 
 
 45 
 
 co-rdu 
 
 val 
 
 utile ; to my hearty or jirofitahle ; 
 
 nam vereor magnopere, ne 
 quae eluam, lu 
 
 reddas tam atra^ quam 
 curbo est. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Monemur Aoc 
 
 apologo ambulare cum 
 inculfiatis ; monemur 
 
 de-vitare consoriium scele- 
 ratorum hominum, velut 
 €ertam fiestem ; nam guis- 
 que evaclic tales ^ quales ii 
 sunt; Quibiiscuin vcrbatur. 
 
 for / fear greatly, lest 
 what things / wash clean^ thou 
 may est make as ^/ac/t, as 
 c coa/ is^. 
 
 MoR. 
 We are admonished by this 
 apoloj^y to walk with 
 the unblamed; we are admonish- 
 ed to avoid the company qf 
 wicked men, as a 
 
 certain filague ; for ex'er^r 
 072f Cometh out siich^ as //;ffj/ arc, 
 with whom he is conversant. 
 
 FABLE XXIV. 
 
 De AuciPE 1st Palumbo. 
 
 AUCEPS videt Palum- 
 bum firocul nidulantcm 
 maltissima ar^or»; adpro- 
 perat ; denique moliiur 
 insidias ; forte firemit 
 Anguem caldbus ; hie 
 mordet. IWtexaniinatusivH' 
 proviso malo, iwqui-j Mise- 
 rum me ! dum insidior 
 alteriy ipse disjiereo. 
 MoR. 
 
 Hsec Fabula significat, 
 €08 nonnunquam circum- 
 veniri suis artibiis^ qui 
 meditantur mala. 
 
 Q/the Fowler and the Ring- 
 
 DovE. 
 THE Fowler sees the Ring- 
 Dove afar off making a nest 
 in a very high tree ; he hastens 
 10 him ; finally he contrives 
 siiaree i by chance he presses 
 a si»ake with his heels ; he 
 bites him, lie terrified at the 
 sudden evil^ says, Wretched 
 me ! whilst I lay snares ybr 
 another J 1 myself /zm^/t. 
 
 'Mor. 
 This i^a^/e signifies, that 
 they sometimes are circumve7it' 
 ed with their own arts^ who 
 meditate qvil things. 
 
 FABLE XXV 
 
 De Agricola ist Canibus. 
 
 AGRICOLA, 
 
 hyemasset 
 
 cum 
 in 
 
 Of the Husbandman and the 
 Dogs. 
 THE Husbandman, when 
 he had wintered »« the 
 
46 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER; 
 
 ruve multos dies, cceiiit 
 tandemt laborare penuria 
 7iecessariarum rerumyinter' 
 fecit oves, deinde 8c 
 cafiellas^ postremo guoque 
 mactat boves, ut habeaty 
 quo sustentet corpusculum 
 fiene exhaustum inedia. 
 C^ne^videntesidco7tstihiunC 
 quaerere salutem luga ; 
 et€77i?n sese no7i victui^os 
 diutius, quando herus 7io7i 
 Jiefierfit- bobiis guid€77t, 
 quorum o/iera utebatur m 
 faciendo rustico opere. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Si -vis esse salvus 
 decede ab eo citd, quern 
 vides redactam ad eas 
 avguatias, ut consumat 
 instrumenta«ecf55flrm suis 
 c/ieribus, quo supfileatur 
 praescnli inedia. 
 
 country many days, began 
 at lenght to labour with the want 
 o/ Tiecessary things ; he killed 
 his sheep, afterioarda also 
 his goats, lastly also he slays 
 his oxe7iy that he 77iay have 
 wherewith /w Tnay sustain his bo- 
 dy al77iost exhausted with waTit. 
 The Dogs seeing that resolve 
 to seek safety by flight ; 
 for that they should not live 
 longer, when their master has 
 not sfiared his oxen indeed^ 
 whose labour he used in 
 doing his country work. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 If thou art willing to be safe, 
 withdraw /roTw him soon^ whom 
 thou seest reduced to those 
 straitS) that he consumes 
 the instrumentsnec^sfiary for his 
 ivorksj whereby he may be su/i' 
 filied for the present ivant. 
 
 FABLE XXVI. 
 
 Be Opilione Isi" Agrico- 
 
 LIS. 
 
 PUER pascebat oves 
 tditiore pralulo, atgi 
 clamuans rerywcjquaterque 
 per jocum, lupwii adesse, 
 exciebat Agricolas undi- 
 fue : iili illusi 
 
 S2epius,aw7n non subveniunt 
 imploranti auxiliu7n^ oves 
 Jiunt praeda lupo* 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Si quisiiiam consueverit 
 mentirij tidcb no7i habebitur 
 facile d, cum occefierit 
 narrare vcrum. 
 
 Of the Shepherd and the 
 
 Countrymen. 
 A BOY^ fed his sheep 
 
 u/ion a higher ground, and 
 C'syiu^both rAr/cf, and four times 
 in jest, that the wolf was there, 
 he raised the Countrymen on 
 all sides : they being deluded 
 too often, whilst ♦hey do not 
 come to him imploring help^ the 
 sheep beco7ne a prey to the wolf, 
 Mor. 
 If any one has been used 
 to licy faith will not be had 
 easily in him, when he shall hav& 
 begun to tell the truth. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMtlR. 
 
 47 
 
 FABLE XXVII. 
 
 De invido Cane ^Bove. 
 
 CANIS decumbebat 
 
 I#sesepi fileno fceni : 
 Bos venit, ut comedat ; 
 i//<rsurrigensse«eprohibet: 
 Bos inquit, Dli perdant 
 te cum isthdc tua invidiam 
 qui nee vesceris fceno^ 
 nee sinis me vescU 
 MoR. 
 
 Plerique sunt eo tngenio, 
 \it invideant ea 
 
 c/iV*, quse «wti? nulli usui 
 sibi. 
 
 Cythe envious Do© and the Ox. 
 THE Dog /aj/ rfown 
 in a rack full o^ hay: 
 /Ae Ox covcicihythat he may eat ; 
 he raising himself hinders him : 
 the Ox says, May the Gods de- 
 stroy thee with that thy envy, 
 who neither art fed wzVA hay, 
 nor s^fferest me ^o Ae yifc?. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Many «re of that temfieVy 
 that Mey envy those things 
 /0 others^ which are of no ««(? 
 to themselves. 
 
 FABLE XXVIIL 
 
 De Cornicula tsf Ove. 
 
 CORNlCULAs^re/jrVa^ 
 in dorso Oviculae: 
 Ovis inquit, Si obstrepere 
 sic Cani, ferres 
 
 infortunium. ^^Cornicula 
 rn5'ur^,ScioyMf6wsinsultem, 
 molesta, placidis, arnica 
 saevis. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Mali insultant innocenti 
 ^ miti ; sed nemo irritat 
 feroces ^ malignos. 
 
 Of the Jackdaw and the Sheep. 
 THE Jackdaw makes a noise 
 on the back of the Sheep : the 
 Sheefi 3ays,i/*thou made a noise 
 thus to aDog,?Aott nvouldest bear 
 the damage. But the Jackdaw 
 sa'ithy I know whom I may in» 
 suit, troublesome to the mild, 
 friendly to the cruel. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Evil men insult the innocent 
 anrf mild ; but no one irritat e9 
 the fierce anrf mischievous. 
 
 FABLE XXIX. 
 
 De Pavone b* Luscinia. 
 
 PAVO queritur apud 
 Junonem, conjiigem, et 
 sororem Jovisy Luscini- 
 
 Of the Peacock and the Night- 
 ingale. 
 THE Peacock com/ilains to 
 Juno, the wife, and sister 
 of Ju/iiter, that the Nightin- 
 
43 
 
 ITEW LATIN PRKIER. 
 
 am cantillare suaviter, se 
 irrideri ab omnibus ob 
 raucam rnvim. Cui 
 Juno inquit, Luscinia Icnge 
 sufierat in cantu, tu pju- 
 mis ; cjuisque habet suam 
 dotem a Diis. Decet 
 unumquemq; esse conten- 
 tum sud sorte. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Sumamus ea quae 
 Deus largitur,^/ ato ariimo, 
 Tieque qu2eramus majora. 
 
 gale sung sweetly, that he 
 was laughed at by all for 
 his hoarse «7Wfl///«5 . To whom 
 Juno says, The Aightingale #y 
 far excels in singing, ^/(C/z/ in fea- 
 ther; every one has /2/5 gift 
 from the Gods. /^ bicometh 
 every one /0 /!>e content with 
 his oivn lot. 
 
 MoR. 
 Let us take those thing^^vfhich. 
 God bestows, nvith a grattful 
 mind, nor let tis seek greater 
 things. 
 
 FABLE XXX. 
 
 De Leone ^ Rana. 
 
 LEO, cum audiret 
 Ranani loquacem 
 
 viagnif putans esse 
 
 aliquod jnagnum animal, 
 vertit se ntroy et stans 
 parum, -v'tdet Ranam 
 exeuntem e stagno ; quam 
 statim indignabundus con- 
 culcavi: pedibus, inguiensy 
 Non movebis, amplim^ 
 ullum animal clamorc, ut 
 perspiciat te, 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Fabula hignificat, quod 
 afiud verbosos mhii 
 repetitur propter linguam. 
 
 Oj the Lion aJid the Frog, 
 THE Lion when he heard 
 the Frog talking 
 
 at a great rate^ thinking it to be 
 some great animal, 
 
 turned himst if back^ and atand' 
 ing a little, he sees the Frog 
 going out of the fiool ; winch 
 firesently enraged he trod ufi- 
 on with his feet, sayings 
 Thou hhalt not move any more 
 any animal with thy noise, that 
 he may look at thee. 
 MoR. 
 The Fable signijies^ that 
 among noisy men nothing is 
 found except a tongue. 
 
 FABLE XXXL 
 
 De yMliMVQ aliisque Avi- <y the Vulture cn</oMerBirdfo 
 bus. 
 
 VULTURaofs/ww/a^jSc THE Vulture feigns, that 
 
 cefebrare aanuum he would ceiebrata his annual 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 49 
 
 natale7n ; invitat Avi- 
 culaa ad ccenam ; fere 
 omnes vehiunt ; accifiit 
 venientes magno plausu 
 favoribusque : Vultur 
 
 ianiat acceptas, 
 
 MOR. 
 
 t Omnes non sunt amici, 
 qui dicqnt blande, aut aimm 
 ulanti se facere benigne. 
 
 birth'day ; he invites the little 
 Birds to sufifier s almost 
 alt come ; ^ he receives 
 them commg ivith g^-eat ap- 
 plause and Jav ours : the Vul- 
 ture butchers them received. 
 MoR. 
 All are not friends, 
 who speak fairly^ or firetcndy 
 that they will do kindly. 
 
 FABLE XXXII. 
 
 De Sole ^ Aquilone. 
 
 SOL ^ Aquilo 
 
 certant, uter sit 
 
 fdrtior. Est conveiUiim 
 ab illis experiri vires m 
 vidtorem ; ut ferat 
 
 palmam, qui excusserit 
 manticam, Boreas aggre- 
 ditur viatorem horrisono, 
 nimbo ; at ilJe non desktit 
 duplicare amictum gradi- 
 endo. Sol exjieritur suas 
 vires, niniboque fiaulatlm 
 evicto, emittit 
 
 radios. Viator incipit 
 
 testuarey sudarc, anhelare : 
 tanclem nequiens proiyredi 
 residet sub fronddao 
 neniore. It a victoria 
 contigit Soli. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Id sdEfie oblirketiir Mau' 
 sUi'tudiue, quod non fiotest 
 eX'Orqueii vi* 
 
 E 
 
 Of the SifN ajid the North- 
 Wind. 
 
 THE Sun and the North- 
 Wind stHve, whether e^ 
 the stronger. It is agreed 
 by them to Kvy their stre?igthupon 
 a traveller ; that he bear 
 the palm, who shall have shak- 
 en off his cloak. Boreas sets uji- 
 on the traveller with a rattlvig 
 cloud ; but he di)es not dtsist 
 to doable his cloak in goijig 
 on. The Sun tries his strength^ 
 and the storm little by little 
 being overcome, sends forth his 
 beams. The traveller begins 
 to grozu hot, to swC|^t, to fia?it 
 at lenj;th 7iot being able to go.ofi 
 he sits dovjn under a shady 
 grove. ThJis the victory 
 
 fell to the Sun. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 That often is obtained by 
 gentleness, which cannot be 
 extoiHcd by force. 
 
50 
 
 "NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 FABLE XXXIII. 
 
 De Camelo. 
 CAM^hVS des/iiciens se 
 querebatur^ Tauros ire 
 insignes gemims cornibus ; 
 se inermem esse objectum 
 cceteria animalibus ; orat 
 Jovem donare cornua sibi ; 
 Jupiter ridet stulcitiam 
 Cameh, nec modd negat 
 votum Cameli, verum & 
 degurtat auriculas Bcstia. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Quisque sit contentus 
 sua fortund : etenim 
 multi secuti meliore77i, 
 iliGurrere fiejorem. 
 
 Of the Camel. 
 
 T H E C am e 1 despising himsellf 
 CQmfilained, that the Balls went 
 remarkuble ivith two horns ; 
 that he without arms was ex- 
 posed to the other animals ; he 
 prays Jupiter to give horns ix> 
 him : Jupiter laughs at the folly 
 q/ the Camel, nor only denic» 
 the nvish of the CiAmel, but also 
 crops the ears of the Beast, 
 MoR. 
 
 Let every one be conte7ited 
 with his own fortune : for 
 7nany having followed a better^ 
 have run into a worse. 
 
 FABLE XXXIV. 
 
 ^^ 
 
 De duobus Amicis ^ Ur- 
 so. 
 DUO Ainicl faciunt 
 iter; Ursus occurrit 
 in itinere ; unus scandens 
 arborem evitat periculum ; 
 alter^ cum non esset 
 spes fugaj procidens 
 simulat se mortaum. Ursus 
 accedit) & qifacit aures et 
 OS. Homine coniinentc 
 spiritum & motum^ Ur%us, 
 qui parcit mortuis.^ credens 
 eiun esse mortuum^ abib^.t. 
 Fostea Socio percontante 
 quidnam Bestia dixisset/V/r 
 accumbenti, in aurem, aity 
 xnonuisse hoc, ne un- 
 quam facerem iter 
 cum Amicis istius modi. 
 
 Of the two Friends and the 
 Bear, 
 TWO Friends make a 
 journey ; a Bear meets them 
 in the road; one climbing up 
 a tree shuns the danger ; 
 th3 ether, when there was not 
 hope of fight, fulling down 
 feigns h'nnscli dead. The Bear 
 comes, and smells to his ears and 
 ntouth. 7'he Man holding in 
 breach and motion, the Bear, 
 which spares the dead, believing 
 that he was dead, went away. 
 Afterwards the Companion ask- 
 ing \yh^ithe B€ast\\di<X said to him 
 lying down, in his ear> he says, 
 that he had advised this, that 
 I should nor evermcAre a journey 
 ivith Friends of this kind. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 51' 
 
 MoR. 
 Adversae res & fiericula. 
 designantT^cr«mAmicum. 
 
 MoR. 
 Adverse thi7igs and danglers 
 show the true Friend. 
 
 FABLK XXXV 
 De Pavone ^ Grue. 
 
 PAVO er Grus 
 ccenant una : Pavo 
 
 jaclat se, ostentat cauda?n ; 
 Grus fatetur Pavonem 
 esse iovm.Q^\ss\if\\s fiennis ; 
 tamcn se penetraro nubes 
 animoso volatu^ dum Pa- 
 vo vix su/iervolat tecta. 
 MoR. 
 
 Nemo contcmneret al- 
 terum j est cuique sua 
 dos ; est cuique sua 
 virtus : qui caret, tua 
 virtute, ybr*an habeat earn, 
 qua tu care as. 
 
 O/ the Peacock and the 
 Crane. 
 
 THE Peacock and the Crane 
 suji together : the Peacock 
 boasts himself f shows his tail ; 
 t'te Crane confesses the Peacock 
 to be of n\ost beautiful yi?a^//er*; 
 yet that he pieiced the clouds 
 with a bold^f^-A^jwhilst the Pea» 
 cockscdYCQfies oi;erthe houses. 
 MoR. 
 
 No man should despise anoth- 
 er ; there is to every one his own 
 portion ; there is to every one his 
 own virtue : he who wanteth thy 
 virtue, fierhaps may have thaS 
 which thou mayest want. 
 
 FABLE XXXVI. 
 
 Be Qucrcu ^ AruniUr^e. 
 QUERCUS e^ructa 
 valiciiore no to, prae- 
 cipitutur in flumen, t/, 
 dum fiuitat, forie hecrct 
 suis rainis in Arundine ; 
 miratur, Arundlncr.i stare 
 incolumem in tanto turbine. 
 H<zc respondet, se esse 
 tutam sua fexibilitate ; 
 se cedere Noto, 
 
 Borea ; omni fatui ; 
 nee esse mirum, qudd 
 Quercus exciderity quae 
 
 Of the Oak and the Reed. 
 
 IHE Oak deinif broken 
 by the stronger south windy 
 is thrown into the river, andy 
 whilst it f oats, by chance sticks 
 by its boughs upon a Reed ; 
 it wonders, that a Reed stood 
 safe in so great a v/hirlwind. 
 It answers, that, it was 
 safe by its flexibility ; 
 that it yielded to Notus, 
 to Boreas ; to every blast ; 
 nor was it a wonder, that 
 the Oak should fally which 
 
5:2 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 concufiivit non cedcre, scd 
 resistere. 
 
 MoR. 
 Ne resistas potentio- 
 ri, scd vincas hunc ceden- 
 do et ferendo. 
 
 desired not to yield, but 
 to 7'csist, 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Do not 7'esist one nriore po\v- 
 
 erful, but overcome /iiw by 
 yielding and bearing. 
 
 FABLE XXXVII. 
 
 De Leone ^ Venatore. 
 
 LEO Ittigat cum 
 Venatore ; prsefcrt &uani 
 fortitudinem fortitudini 
 Homix\is. jPo&^ longaywr- 
 ^^ia Venator ducit Lconem 
 ad mau'ioleura, in quo Leo 
 erat scul/uus deponens 
 ca/iut in gremium Viri. 
 Fera negat id esse ^«//5 
 indicii ; najn ait, Homines 
 sciilpsere quod vellent ; 
 gudd si Leones Ibrent arti- 
 Jicesj Virum jam esse 
 scvIfUum sub fiedibiis 
 Leoiji-j. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Quisque, quoad potest, 
 et dicit, ct fiicit id^ quod 
 fiiitat pi'odesse sues 
 causge ct parti. 
 
 C/the Lion and tbe Hunter. 
 THE Lion contends with 
 the Hunter ; he prefers hii 
 strength to the strerigth 
 of Man. ylfter long dis. 
 flutes the Hunter leads the Lion 
 ^0 a tomb, o« which « Lien 
 was carved laying down 
 his head on i^/ze /a/i of a Man. 
 The B east (\QViiQ.sthatiohQenough 
 proof ; for he says, that Men 
 carved ivhat they would ; 
 but if Lions were ar//- 
 Jicers^ that the Man ;iow would 
 be carved under the feet 
 of the Lion, 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Every one,as much «she is able, 
 both says C72c/ does that,, which 
 he thiiiks to be profitable /o /2/^ 
 cause and party. 
 
 FABLE XXXVIIL 
 
 Be Puero ^ Fure. 
 VUV.^sedebat flens afiud 
 puteum ; L'ur rogat cau- 
 
 sam 
 
 flendi ; 
 
 Pim 
 
 ' dicit 
 
 fune 
 
 rupto, 
 
 
 urnam 
 
 aufi 
 
 incidisse 
 
 id 
 
 aquas. 
 
 Homo exuit 
 
 se, 
 
 insilit 
 
 0/the Boy and the Thi&f. 
 
 A BOY sat wee]>ing at 
 a well ; a Thief asks the cause 
 of his weeping ; the Boy says, 
 ^/ze rope beLng broken, i'^«? «72 «nz 
 of gold had fallen \\\\.iithe loaters. 
 The vci^viundresses himselfj/t^a/^* 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 53 
 
 in fiutemn^ quaerit. Vase 
 non inventOy conscendit, 
 atq ; ibi nee invenit Pue- 
 rum, nee suam tunicam ; 
 quififie Puer, tunica sub- 
 Hikyfugerat, 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Interdum falluntur^ 
 qui solent fallere. 
 
 iniothe wf //,sceks for it. The ves' 
 selnoi being found^hQ comes up, 
 and there neither does he find 
 the Boy, nor his own coat ; 
 for the Boy, the coat being tak^ 
 away, hadjied. 
 
 MoR. 
 Sometimes they are deceived^ 
 who are wont to deceive. 
 
 FABLE XXXIX, 
 
 De SaTYRO ^ VlATORE, 
 
 0/the Satyr and the Trav- 
 eller. 
 
 S ATYRUS,^Mj olim erat 
 habitus JDeus nemo- 
 rum, miseratua Viatorem 
 obruturn nive, atq ; enec- 
 tum algorcy ducit in 
 suum antrum ; fovet 
 igne» At, dum spirat 
 
 in manus, fiercontatur 
 causam ; qui respondens 
 inquity ut calejicmt. Po- 
 stea, cum accumberent, 
 Viator suftlat in pultem, 
 quod interrogatus cur £a- 
 ceret, inquit ut frigescat. 
 Turn, continuo Satyrus 
 ejiciens Viatorem inquitj 
 Nolo, ut iUe sit in 
 meo antro, cut sit /am 
 diversum os. 
 
 Mor. 
 
 EvitaAiVm^Mcmhominem, 
 Qui est Proteus ia aermone, 
 E 2 
 
 A SATYR, wAo formerly 
 «yots accounted a God of the 
 woods, having fii tied a Traveller 
 covered with snow, a/zrf almost 
 dead ivith cold, leads him ?>?» 
 his cave ; cherishes him loitfc- 
 ajire. But, ivhilst he breathes 
 irito his hands, /ze inquire» 
 the cause ; wAo an^werin^* 
 saySf\\iAi they may be warm, Ai- 
 terwards, ivhen they lay down, 
 the Traveller blows imo his por- 
 ridge, 'x//ifc/i being' asked why h& 
 did,Ae «a?/A',thati^ mrty grovj cool. 
 Then immediately ihe Satyr 
 casting out the Traveller say 8^ 
 I am not willing, that he /^e in 
 ?n?/ cave, who has 5© 
 different a mouth. 
 Mor. 
 
 Avoid a double-toTigued mau^ 
 wAo is a Proteus in discour^f* 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 FABLE XL. 
 
 Be Tauro ^ Mure. O/ the Bull and the Mouse. 
 
 MUS momorderat 
 
 pedem Tauriy fa- 
 
 giens in suum antrum, 
 'Taurus vtbrat cornua, 
 quarit hostem, videt nus- 
 quam. Mua irridet eum ; 
 inquit. Quia es robiifitus^ 
 ac vastus f idcirco r.,on con- 
 tem/ise7'is quemvis ; nunc 
 eximius Mus Isesit te, Sc 
 . qiddem gratis. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Nemo fiendat hostem 
 Jiocci. 
 
 THE Mouse had bit 
 the foot of the Bully fly- 
 ing i?ito his hole» 
 The Bull brandishes his horns, 
 seeks his enemy, sees him no 
 where. The ilf:>Msdaughs zxhim; 
 says YiQiBecause thou art robust^ 
 and 6f^, therefore you shouldnot 
 have despised any one ; now 
 a little Mouse has hurt ///ee, and 
 indeed with impunity. 
 MoR. 
 
 Let DO man rate his enemy 
 at a lock of ivooL 
 
 FABLE XLL 
 
 Be Cicada ^' Formica. 
 
 CUM Cicada cantet 
 jier cestatem, Formica 
 exercets2/a?« mcssemj tra- 
 hens grapia in antrum, 
 ♦vw^ Teponit in hyemem. 
 Brumd sseviente, famelica 
 Cicada venit ad Formica?7i) 
 Umendicatsic\\xm.For77nca 
 Yemni.dictitans^^QSGlabora- 
 ■visse dum ilia cantabat. 
 MoR. 
 
 Qui est segisis^rtjuvenia, 
 rgebit in scnecia ; et qui 
 ji on finni t^moK m c n die a bit . 
 
 Of the Grashoppe*" and the 
 Pismire. 
 
 WHENr/!(? Gi:asho/ifier sm^s 
 in the summer, the Aiit 
 exercises her harvest, draiO' 
 ing the grains into a hole, 
 wAfc/ishe lays u])against winter. 
 I'he winter raging, the famished 
 Grashoppcr conies to the Ant^ 
 and bei^s victuals. The Ant 
 refuses, saying, that she had la- 
 boured^ whilst she sung. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 He who is slothful in yo«th, 
 shall Kvant in age ; and who 
 doth not s/iar e^hy and by shall beg 
 
> 
 
 NEW LATIN PRFMER* 
 
 55 
 
 FABLE XLII. 
 
 /)erpARBO t^' VULPECUL^. 
 
 PARDUS, cui est 
 fiictum tergum ceteris 
 feris, etiam leonibus de- 
 spectis tb eOjintumescebat. 
 Vulfiecula acccdit ad hunc, 
 suadet non supei hire, 
 dicens qtiidem, illi esse 
 sfieciosam pelleiH, vero sibi 
 esse speciosam mentem. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Est discrimen 5c ordo 
 bonorum : bona 
 
 corporis firasstant bonis 
 fortuna ; SG(\ dona animi 
 sunt prjeferenda his. 
 
 0/ihe Leopard and the Fox. 
 
 THE Leopard, ivho has 
 a painted back, the other 
 beastt, even the lions, being de» 
 s/iised by him^ was puffed up. 
 The Fox comes to him, 
 persuades him not to be proud, 
 saying indeed, that he had 
 a Jine skin, but he 
 had a fine mind, 
 
 MoR. 
 
 There is a difference and orf^^er 
 of good things : the goods 
 of the body excel the goods of 
 fortune; hwUhe goods oixh^ mind 
 ore to be preferred to these. 
 
 FABLE XLIII. 
 
 De ASINO ^ VlATORIBUS. 
 
 DUO quidaniy cum 
 forte invenirent ^si- 
 num in Sylva^ coeperunt 
 contendere inter se, 
 uter eorM7« abduceret 
 eum d om u m , 2^ r« s u u m ; nam 
 videbatut" /zanVer objectus 
 utriq ; a fortund. In- 
 terim, zV/zs altercantibus 
 invicem^ Asinus abduxit 
 se, ac neuter potitus est 
 
 CO. 
 
 MoR. 
 Quid am excidufit a fir a* 
 aentidus commodi's, quibus 
 nesciunt uti ob 
 
 inacifiam. 
 
 Of the Ass and the Travel- 
 lers. 
 
 TWO certain men, when 
 by cha?ice they found 
 an jIss in a woody bes^an 
 to contend between themselves^ 
 which of them should Icdd 
 him home, as his own ; for 
 he seemed equally offered 
 to eitherhy fortune* In the mean 
 time, they wrangling 
 
 by turns y the Ass withdreiv 
 himself, and neither obtained 
 him. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Some fall from pre» 
 sent - advantages, which 
 
 they know not how to use thro' 
 ignorance. 
 
m 
 
 . FABLE XLIV. 
 
 3e C0RV6 ^ Lupis. 
 
 COR V U S comitatur 
 Lupos fier =iidua 
 
 juga roontium ; fiostu- 
 lat pjrtem iir&d<ii si- 
 bi, qida seculus esset, ^ 
 non dcstiiuisset eos uilo 
 temiiore. Deinde est ro- 
 puisus a Lupis, quia 
 noij minus voraret exta 
 Lufiorum^ si occiderentur^ 
 quam ex^a csetetorum 
 animalium. 
 
 MX)R. 
 
 Non 5'Mzrf ayamiis es^r 
 seiTipei' insfiiciendum ; sed 
 ^TMo animo simusy cum 
 
 cythe Crow andi\\Q Wolves, 
 THE Crow accomjmme^ 
 the Wolves thrrd* the high 
 tojis of the mountnins ; he de- 
 mands a part ofthefirey for Jiim- 
 sciti^fcawse he had loiiowed, and 
 had not forsaken thctn at any 
 ^/me. Then he is re- 
 pulsed by the Wolves, because 
 nc less vjould he devour the en- 
 trail aqfthe Wolves l^t hey should be 
 slain^ ihan ^Ae entrails of other 
 
 MOR, 
 
 Not wAa? we may do is 
 always to be looked into ; but 
 of what mind %ve be, when 
 we do zV. 
 
 FABLE XLV. 
 
 De pinguibus Caponibus 
 £5* macilento. 
 QUlDAMwrnutricave- 
 
 rat complures Capones 
 in codem ornithoboscio; qui 
 omnes sunt effecti pingues 
 firater unum, quern frates 
 irridebantf ut macilentum. 
 Dominusacce^mrwsnobiles 
 hospites lauto e^ sumptuoso 
 convivioj imperat CoquOf 
 ut interimat^ & coquat ex 
 ^zs, quos invenerit 
 
 pinguiores. Pingues audi- 
 cntes Aoc afflictabant «f^e, 
 dicentesjO si nou/uiisemus 
 xnacilenti ! 
 
 Of ihe fat Cat on sand t'ue lean 
 one. 
 A CERTAIN man had 
 brought up very many Capons 
 in the same coo/i ; who 
 a// were made fat 
 
 except one, w/fzV/z his brethren 
 laughed at^ as /^a??. The 
 master «602^^ to receive noWe 
 guests in a ntat cnrf sumptuous 
 banquet^ commands the Cooky 
 that Ae should kill and cooA- out of 
 thescy which he should Hnd 
 the fatter. The fat hear- 
 ing this afflicted themselves^ 
 saying, if we had been 
 lean ! 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 57 
 
 MOR. 
 
 Haeo Fahula est conficta 
 in solmnen pauperum, 
 quorum vita est tutior, qudm 
 vita divitum. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 This Fable was invented 
 for the comfort of the poor, 
 ivhose life ?s safer, ^/za» 
 the life of the rich. 
 
 FABLE XLVL 
 
 De Abino, Simia, ^ Tal- 
 pa. 
 
 ASINO conquer ente^ 
 quodcarfre/cornibus; verd 
 Simia, ^«o'c/^cauda deesset 
 sibi ; /a//2a inquit, 7c- 
 cete, cum videas me esse 
 captum oculis. 
 MoR. 
 
 Haec Fabula periinet ac/ 
 cos, $'MJ non sunt contenti 
 sua sor^(? J* qui, 
 
 si cOnsiderare7it infortunia 
 aliorwui toUerarent sua 
 sequiore ani?}io. 
 
 Of the Ass, the Ape, and the 
 Mole. 
 THE Ass complainings 
 that he wanted horns ; but 
 the Ape, that a tail was wanting 
 to him ; the Mole ^-did^ Hold your 
 Jieace^ when you see me ^o be 
 deprived of eyes. 
 
 MoR. 
 
 This Fable pertains to 
 them, w/»o are not content 
 with their own condition ; who, 
 lithey considered ihe misforlunes 
 of others^ would bear their own 
 with a more patient mind» 
 
 FABLE XLVIL 
 De Piscibus desilieiitibus e 0/the Fishes /ea/z/w^ out oi the 
 
 Sartagine in Frunas. 
 PISCES af/z^wcfivico^' z^e- 
 bantur in Sartagine fcr- 
 venti o/eo : unus quorum 
 inquit, Fratres^ fugiamus 
 ^mc, ne pereamus. 
 Turn omnes pariter exilieji' 
 tes e Sartagine deciderunt 
 ;?iardentes/*rw7?as. Igitur 
 affecti majore dolor e dam- 
 nabant consilium^ quod 
 ceperanty dicentcs, Quan- 
 to atrociori morte nunc 
 fieri?nus I 
 
 Frying'Fan into the Coals. 
 
 FISHES yet alive were cook- 
 ed in a Frying-Pan with scald- 
 ing oil : one of which 
 says, Brethren, let us fly 
 henccy that we may not perish. 
 Then all in like manntr leap' 
 ing oul of Me Frying'Fan fell 
 «/20?i the burning Coals, There- 
 fore affected with greater pam 
 they condemned Mf counsel, 
 which they had taken, saying, By 
 how much a more cruel death 
 now do ive perish I 
 
5t 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 MOR» 
 
 Haec Fabula adraonetwo*, 
 ut vitemtis praesf ntia /leri- 
 cula ita, nc incidamus in 
 graviora. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 This Fable admonishes us, 
 that we avoid the present dan- 
 gers so, that nve do not fall into 
 7nore grievous. 
 
 FABLE XLVIII. 
 
 De Aquila Is' Pica. 
 
 'PIC Ainterrogabat Aqui- 
 1am, ut acciperet 
 
 se inter suos familiares et 
 domesticos ; quando me- 
 reretur zrf, cum imlchritu- 
 dine corporis, turn volu- 
 bilitate linguce ad fieragen- 
 da mandata. Cui 
 
 Aquila respondit, facer em 
 hoc, ni vererer, ne 
 efferres cuncta 
 
 tua loquacitatCy quse 
 Jiant intra vieam tegulam. 
 MoR. 
 
 Haec Fabula monet, /m- 
 guaces &: garrulos homines 
 nou habendos domi. 
 
 Of the Eagle and the Magpie. 
 
 THE Magpie asked the Ea- 
 gle, ^^a? she would receive 
 her among her familiars and 
 domestics ; seeing that she de- 
 served thaty both by beau- 
 ty of body, and volu- 
 bility of tongue to dis- 
 patch commands. To whom 
 the Eagle answered, I should do 
 this, unless I feared, lest thou 
 shouldst bear abroad all things 
 by thy talkativeness^ whicii 
 may be done within my roof. 
 MoR. 
 
 This Fable advises, that talk- 
 ative and prating men 
 are not to be had at home. 
 
 FABLE XLIX. 
 
 De quodam Divite et Ser 
 vo 
 ERAT quidam 
 habens servuni 
 ingeniif quem 
 nwcujiare Regem 
 ru?n : il»c s^cfie irritatu^ his 
 verbis statuit referre p(ir 
 hero ; etenim seme I con- 
 versus in her.m inqnit, 
 XJtinara essem Rex 
 
 Dives 
 
 tardi 
 solebat 
 Stulto- 
 
 Of a certain Rich Man and his 
 Servant. 
 THERE was a certain Rich 
 Man having a Servant of a slow 
 wity whom he used 
 
 to call the King of Fools : 
 he often irritated ai these 
 words resolved to return the like 
 to his master ; for once turn-» 
 ing upon his master he says, 
 I wish I was the King 
 
HEW lATfN PRiMaR. 
 
 5^ 
 
 StuUorum ; ctcnim nullum 
 imperium in toto orbe 
 terrarum esset latius 
 meo : & tu c|'joque sub- 
 esses meo imfierio, 
 
 MOR, 
 
 Fabula indicate Stultum 
 «<f/ie loqui opfiortune. 
 
 of Fools ; 
 empire in the 
 
 fbr 920 
 whole globe 
 of imis would be widcf 
 than mUie ; and thou t'lso wouldsS 
 be under v.\y emfiire, 
 Moil. 
 The Fable «A€/w»,that a Fool 
 often speaks fiertinently. 
 
 FABLE L. 
 
 \De Testudine ^ Ranis. 
 
 TESTUDO consfiicata 
 Ranas, qua pasceban- 
 tur in eodem sfagnoy adeo 
 leves, agilesque, ut facile 
 firosilirent quolibet, ^ 
 suiturcnt longissime accusa- 
 bat naturaniy quod firocrc 
 asset se tardum animal) et 
 imfieditum maximo one- 
 re» ut neque posset 
 movere se facile^ & assiduc 
 premeretur magna mole. 
 At, ubi vidit Ranas fi- 
 eri escam anguiilarum, 
 & obnoocias vel levissimo 
 ictiii. aliquantulum recrea- 
 ta dtcebaty Quanto es( 
 melius ferre onus, quo 
 sum munita arfomnes i^tus^ 
 quam subire tot discrimina 
 mortis ? 
 
 MoR. 
 
 Haec Fabula indicat, 
 ne fen» m us agre 
 
 dona natura, quae safie 
 sunt majori commodowoftzs, 
 quam noi valeamus inteUi- 
 
 Of the Tortoise and the Frog:s. 
 
 THE Tortoise having seen 
 the Frogs, which were 
 fed in the same pool, %% 
 lighty and nimble, that easj'jr 
 they leafied any where, and 
 jumped very far^ accu- 
 sed nature^ that *A<? had 
 made her a s/ow animal, and. 
 hindered with the greatest bur- 
 den^ that neither was she aole 
 ^0 wot;^ herself easily , and daily 
 was pressed with a great weight. 
 But, when she saM' the Frogs be- 
 cofme the food of the eels, 
 and obnoxious even to the lightest 
 blow, a Uttle comfort- 
 ed she said^ By how mu«h is it 
 better to bear a burden,6j/ which 
 I am foriified against all blowtf 
 than ro undergo so many danger 9 
 of death ? 
 
 MoR. 
 
 This /^aft/e shows, Maf 
 we should not bear discontedly 
 the gifts q/* naturCy which o^ten 
 are a greater advantage f» w#, 
 th^n we may be able to under ' 
 standi 
 
60 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 FABLE LI. 
 De Urso ^ Apibus. 0/tbe Bear and the Bees. 
 
 URSUS ictus ab Jfic A BEAR bd7}g stung by a 
 
 est percitus tanta Bee was stirred ivith so great 
 
 ira, ut discerperet tota anger, that lie lore all 
 
 alvcaria unguibus^ in the hivee ivith his fianvs^ in 
 
 quibus Apes viellijicaverant. which the Bees //arf ?na</e honey. 
 
 Tuiic «zmi^ers^ Apes, c«m Then c// the Beesj when 
 
 viderent suas donios they saw their houses 
 
 dirui^ cibaria overturned^ their maintenance 
 
 auferri, filios nec&riy taken away, their young killed^ 
 
 subiio imfietu iavadentcs with a sndden onset attacking 
 
 Ursum, pene 2iecatere the J3ear, almost killed him 
 
 aculcis ; qui vix with their stings ; who scarce 
 
 elapsus ex manibus having sU/it out of the hands 
 
 eorum, dicebat secum, of them, said with tiimself, 
 
 Quantd erat melius tolerare By how much was it better to bear 
 
 aculeunt unius Jpis, quam the sting of one Bee^ than 
 
 to raise ufi so many enemies 
 against me' by my anger ? 
 
 MOR. 
 
 This Fab^e shows it to be 
 longe melius sustinere in- far better to sustain the in- 
 juriam unius, qudmy dum jury of one, than^ while 
 voiumus punire unum^ we are willing to punish one^ 
 comparareTww/^osinimicos. to get many enemies. 
 
 concitare tot hostes in 
 me mea iracundia ? 
 MoR. 
 Haec Fabula indicat esse 
 
 FABLE Lli. 
 
 De Vaticinatore, 
 VATICIAATOR se- 
 
 dens in foro sermocinaba" 
 tur; cmquidamacy^y.mc'i'dX', 
 ejus torea esse effractas, 
 ^ omnia direfitat 
 
 quae /uissent in domo. 
 Vatioinator, gemens &: 
 profierans cursu> recijiiebat 
 sc domum : quem 
 
 quidam intuens cur- 
 
 Of the Fortune-Teller. 
 J FOR TUME - TELLER 
 sitting in the market discours" 
 ed ; to whom one declrvres, 
 that his doors were broke open, 
 and all thinj^s taken away, 
 which had been in the house, 
 T h e Fortu ne-Tel le Y.sighingxnd 
 hasting iia liis pace, betook 
 himse.lf home: wimm 
 
 a certain 'irjin perceiving run- 
 
IJ^EW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 61 
 
 reneem, inquit, O tu, qui 
 promittis, te diviniturum 
 aiiena negotia, certe ipse 
 non divindsti tua. 
 
 MOR. 
 
 HsEC Fabula spectat ad 
 COS, qui^ non recte ad- 
 ministrantes suas res, 
 conantur providere ^ 
 consulere alienis^ quae 
 non fiertlnent ad eos. 
 
 ningf said, O thou, who 
 promisest, that thou wilt divine 
 othera* affairs, surely thyself 
 hast not divined thine own. 
 MoR. 
 This Fable looks to 
 them, who, not rightly ad- 
 ijiinistering their own affairs, 
 endeavour to foresee and 
 consult for other men's, which 
 do not belong" to them* 
 
 DILUCULUM, 
 
 A. HODIE volebam te 
 conventum, sed negabaris 
 esse domi. 
 
 B. Non mentiti sunt om- 
 ninOf Non eram quidem 
 tibi, sed cram ^«771 mihi 
 maxime. 
 
 A. Quid anigmatis est 
 
 B. N6stiz7/«c/vetus/iro- 
 vcrbiumy Non dormio c?nn/- 
 A«5. NecyocwsNasicse/w^/V 
 te cui volenti tnvisere fami- 
 Iiarem^'wnzwm,cuma72ci7/a, 
 j ussu Acrzjuegasset e^se do- 
 nit: Aasfcasensiter discej- 
 sit. CxterumMhiEnniussi' 
 cisbim ingressus domum 
 JVasicx, rogaret imerum 
 nun> €8set inius ; JVasica 
 clamavit de conclavi, inqui- 
 ei\SiAro7i sum domi. Quuin^ 
 
 F 
 
 TO-DAY I was desirous to 
 have met with you, but you 
 were denied to be at home. 
 
 They did not lie altogether^ 
 I was not indeed for you, biit I 
 was then for myself very much. 
 
 What riddle is that ? 
 
 You have known that old 
 firoverby 1 do not sleep y^r all 
 
 men. Nor does the jest of Nasica 
 esca/te you to whom desiK)Us?o 
 visit his friend Enm'uSyWhen the 
 maidyhy the order of her inaiter, 
 denied that he was at home : 
 Mi&ica perceived it and deputi' 
 ed. jButwhcn En7iz:isin '.h turn 
 enueri??g the liousr of .hadca, 
 asked the boy whether he was 
 wichin ; A^'u^ica shCutcd ./Jro.vi 
 the /larlour, saying, I am nut at 
 
62 
 
 NEW LATIN FBlkBR. 
 
 que Ennius agnita voce 
 dixissetf Impu(lens,7zo7z c^- 
 nosco te loguentem ? Imo, 
 inquit Nasica, tu impuden- 
 tior, qui non habes^t^tm 
 mihi, cum ego crediderim 
 tu3e ancillae. 
 
 A. Eras fortassis occu- 
 patus. 
 
 B. Imo ysuavit er oXitsu^. 
 
 A. Rursum torques se- 
 nigmate. 
 
 B. Dicam ?^i/wr expla- 
 nate. J^ec dicam Jicum 
 uliud quam ficum. 
 
 A. Die. 
 
 B. Altum dormiebam. 
 
 A. Quidais? jit qui ocidi" 
 va hora praeterierat Jam, 
 cum sol surgat hoc mense 
 ante quartaro. 
 
 B. Libertiim est soli per 
 me quidcm surgcrei'c/ me- 
 dia nocte, 7nodo liceat inihi 
 dormire usque ad saiieta- 
 tem. 
 
 A. Verum tUrum istuc 
 accidit casu^ an est consue- 
 tudo ? 
 
 B. Consuetude firorsus. 
 
 A. Atqui consuetudo rei 
 non bonse est pessima. 
 
 B. \m.onullus^o\Tin\.i^est 
 Sliavior quam post solem 
 cxo^um. 
 
 A. Qua hora tandem so- 
 les Telinquere lecium ? 
 
 B. \\\\.'Qv quartam et no- 
 issarru 
 
 A. Spatium satis am* 
 
 home. And when Ennius 
 knoiving his voice saidy You im- 
 pudent fellow, do not I know 
 you sfieaking ? Nay, says Nasi- 
 €a,i/ouare more impudent, wA» 
 do not give credit to me, ivherc' 
 as I trusted your maid. 
 You were fierha/is busy. 
 
 Nay, sweetly idle. 
 
 Again you trouble me with a 
 riddle. 
 
 I will tell you then plainly. 
 Abr will I call a Jig any thing 
 else than a fig. 
 
 Tell me. 
 
 I was fast asleep. 
 
 What say you ? But the 
 eighth hour had passed then^ 
 whereas the sun riseth this 
 month before the fourth. 
 
 It is free for the sun for me 
 mdeed to rise even at midnight, 
 so that it be allowed me to sleep 
 to satisfaction. 
 
 But ivhether did that happen 
 by chance i or is it a custom ? 
 
 Custom entirely. 
 
 But tke custom of a thing not 
 good is very bad. 
 
 Nay no sleep is pleasanter 
 than after the sun is risen. 
 
 At what hour at last do you 
 use to leave your bed ? 
 
 Betwixt the fourth and the 
 ninth. 
 
 Time long enough. Queens 
 
IfEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 €3 
 
 filum. Reginae vix tot ho- 
 ris comuntur ; sed unde 
 venisti in istam consuetu- 
 dinem ? 
 
 B. Quia«o/emtt«proferre 
 convivia, lusus, ei jocos in 
 tnultam noctem, Pensamus 
 id disfiendii matutino som- 
 no. 
 
 A. Vix unquam vidi 
 hominem perditius firodl' 
 gum te. 
 
 B. Videtur mihi parsi- 
 monia/wc^g-z^quam firofusio. 
 Interim nee absuvio cande- 
 las, nee detero veates. 
 
 A.Praepostera/rw^a///a5 
 quidem servare vitrum ut 
 perdas gemmas, llle fihi' 
 losophus aliter sapiiit, qui 
 no^SiixisguidGSSGt/iretiosis- 
 simum, respondit, Tempus. 
 Porro, cum constet dilucu- 
 lum esse ofitimam partem 
 totius diei, tu gaudes per- 
 dere quod est pretioaisd- 
 mu7n in pretiosissima re. 
 
 B. An hocperit^worfda- 
 tur corfiusculo ? 
 
 A. Imoj detrahitur cor- 
 pHSCuio,yz/orf turn auavissi- 
 me afficitur^ maximeq; ve- 
 getatur, cum reficitur tem- 
 peativo moderatoq; somno 
 et corroboratur matutina 
 vigilia. 
 
 B. Sed estc?w/cedormire. 
 A. Quid /io?e«? esse c/w/- 
 
 ce sentienti nihil ? 
 
 B» Hoc ipsum est duke 
 sentire nihil molestiae. 
 
 hardly are so many hours a 
 dressing ; but how came you in- 
 to that custom ? 
 
 Because ive usre to prolong 
 feasts, games, and jfests till late 
 at night. We make up that 
 loss by morning sleep. 
 
 I scarce ever saw a man 
 more perniciously /irof/i^g-aZ than 
 you. 
 
 It seems to me frugality ra- 
 ther than prodigality. In the 
 mean lime / neither consume 
 candles, nor wear out clothes. 
 
 Preposteroui frugality in- 
 deed to save glass t/ia^ you may 
 lose jewels. T4tat fihilosopher 
 was otherwise minded, nvho be- 
 ing asked ivhat was the most pre- 
 cious things answered, Time. 
 Moreover, since it is agreed that 
 the morning is the best part of 
 the ivhole day, you love to lose 
 ivhat is the most precious in the 
 most precious thing. 
 
 Is that lost, which is given to 
 the body ? 
 
 Nay, it is taken from the 
 body, which then is most sweet' 
 ly affected, and most of all re- 
 cruited, when it is refreshed 
 with seasonable and moderate 
 sleep, and is strengthened with 
 morning watching. 
 
 But it is pleasant to sleep. 
 
 What can be pleasant to one 
 that perceives nothing ? 
 
 This -very thing is pleasant to 
 perceive nothing of trouble. 
 
64 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 A. Atqui sum feliciores 
 isto nomine yqu'i dormiunt in 
 sepulchris ; nam nonnun- 
 quam msomwza sunt molesta 
 dormienti. 
 
 B. Aiunt corpus sagina- 
 ri maxims eo aomno. 
 
 • A.Istae«/!*agina^/m«w, 
 jion hominum. Aiiimulia 
 qu<x parantur epuHs recte 
 saginantur, Quorsum atti- 
 net hoiwiniaccersfreobesi- 
 tatem, nisi ut iii^edat onus- 
 tus gravlori sai cina ? J)ic 
 iTiihi, si haberes famulum, 
 utrum malks obesuni, a7i 
 vegetum €t habilem ad 
 omnia muiii^ ? 
 
 B Atqiii non sum famu- 
 lus. 
 
 A. Sat. est mihiy quod 
 malles minisLrum afitum of- 
 ficiis .^wam bene sagiufitum. 
 
 B. Plane PMlltrn. 
 
 A. At F.lato dixit (2m- 
 ■mu772hominis('&«<?hominein, 
 corpus esse nihil aiiud (jua/n 
 domiciliutn, auc instru- 
 itentum. Tu ccrtc Jlite- 
 beris, opinor, ariimam esse 
 principalcm portion em ho- 
 minis^ corpus ministrum 
 ^imi. 
 
 B. Eslo, si vis. 
 
 A. Cum tibi nolles mi- 
 nlstrum tardum abdomine, 
 sed malles agilem el ala- 
 crem^ cur pares ignavum 
 et obesum ministrum ani- 
 mo ? 
 
 B. Vincor vcris. 
 
 But they^ are more happy ic, 
 that respect^ who sleep in their 
 grave's ; for sometimes dreams 
 are troublesome to a man 
 asleep. 
 
 They say that the body is fat- 
 tened 7nost of all with that 
 sleep. 
 
 1 hat is the fattening of dor ' 
 mice, not of men. Animals 
 that are prepared ^/br/d-ft&rs arc 
 rightly fattened. What signi- 
 fies it for a man to procure fat- 
 ness, but that he may go loaded 
 nxiith a heavier pack ? Tell mCj 
 if you had a servant^ whether 
 you had rather have him fat, or 
 lively and fit for all services ? 
 
 But I am not a servant. 
 
 It is enough forme^ that you 
 had rather have a servant fit 
 for service than vj^W fattened. 
 
 Iiideed i had rather. 
 
 But Pl:ito said that the soul 
 of a man is the man, that the 
 body is nothing tlse ^//a?2 a house, 
 or an instrument. You how- 
 ever ivill confess ^ \ suppose» 
 that the soul is the principal part 
 of 7na?if the boily the servant of 
 the mind. 
 
 Let it be so, if you will. 
 
 Since you tu^uld not have a 
 servant heavy with a great 
 belly, but had rathei have one 
 nimbi, and brlsky why do you 
 prjvide a lazy and fat servant 
 for the mind ? 
 
 I am overcome %vith truth. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 65 
 
 A. Jam acci/iesduiddis' 
 pendium, Ut animus longe 
 fircistat corpori, ita fateris 
 ofiea animi longe praecelle- 
 re bona corporis. 
 
 B. Dicis probabilc. 
 
 A. Sed inter bona ani- 
 mi, aafiientia ttntt firimum. 
 
 B, Fateor. 
 
 A. Nulla /2rtr^ diei est 
 utilior ad fiarandam banc, 
 quam diluculum, cum sol 
 exoriens nevus adfert vigo- 
 rem et alacritatemomn/dw*, 
 discutitqucwtf6w/a5 consue- 
 tas exhalari e ventriculo, 
 ^a Solent obnubilare do- 
 miciliurn 7nentis. 
 
 B. Non repugnov 
 
 A. Nunc sufifiuta mihi 
 quantum eruditionis fiossis 
 parare tibi illis quatuor 
 horis, quaa perdis intem- 
 fiestivo somno. 
 
 B. Mwlixxm tirofecto. 
 
 A. Expertus sum filus 
 cffici in studiis, una hora 
 matutina,q\iixm tribus post- 
 meridianis, idgue nullo de- 
 trimento corporis. 
 
 B. Audivi. 
 
 A. Deinde refmta illud; 
 3i conferas in tummam jac- 
 turam singulorum dieruniy 
 quantus cumulus sit futu- 
 ras. 
 
 B. Ingens, ^rq/i?cro. 
 
 F 2 
 
 Now hear another loss. As 
 the mind far excels the body, so 
 you confess that the rzc//e« of the 
 mind/ar excel the good things 
 of the body. 
 
 You say what is likely. 
 
 But among the good things of 
 the mind, wisdom has the first 
 place. 
 
 I confess. 
 
 No fiart of the day /* more 
 useful for the getting of this, 
 than the morning, when the 
 sun rising fresh brings vigour 
 and briskness to all things^ and 
 dissipates the fumes that use to 
 be exhaled out of the stomacji, 
 whieh are wont to cloud the 
 habitation of the mind, 
 
 I do not dispute it. 
 
 Now reckon up for me //ow 
 much learning ijou might get to 
 yourself in those four hours, 
 which you lose iri unseasonable 
 sleep. 
 
 Much indeed. 
 
 I have experienced that 
 more is done iii one^s studies^ in 
 one hour in the mornings than 
 in three in the afternooh, and 
 that with no damage to the 
 body. 
 
 I have heard so. 
 
 Then consider that ; if you 
 cast up into a sum the loss of 
 every day^ how great a mass it 
 will be. 
 
 A huge one, truly* 
 
i5 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMBR. 
 
 A. Q,m firofimdit gem- 
 mas et aurum temere, ha- 
 betur firodigusf et accifiit 
 tutorem ; qui perdit hac 
 bon.' ta?ito prcniosiora, no7z- 
 ne est mullo turfiius prodi- 
 gus I 
 
 B. Sic apjiaret^ si fier- 
 pendamus rem recta ratione. 
 
 A. J«im exfiende illud 
 quod Plato scripsit^ nihil 
 esse puichrivis, 7uhil ama- 
 bilius sapientia^ quae w* 
 poss-^i Cd"r?zz corporcis ocw- 
 Ksj exciloret incredibilem^ 
 anjoreni sid, 
 
 B Atqui ilia non potest 
 cerni. 
 
 A. Fateor, corporeis oo- 
 ulis, verum cernitur oculis 
 animi, qui est potior pars 
 hominis-, et w^i est inc^'edi- 
 bilis amor, zTif oportet co^- 
 sz? sum ma voluptas^ quo- 
 ties animus cougieditur 
 cum tali arnica. 
 
 B. Narras verisimile. 
 
 A. I to 7Z2i72c et commuta 
 somnum, imaginem mortis, 
 pro h'dc volupiute. sividetur. 
 
 B. Verum interim noc- 
 turni lusus pereunt. 
 
 A. Perdit plumbum be- 
 ne, qui vertit in aurum. 
 Natura tribuit noctem som- 
 no. Exoriens sol revocat 
 cum om.ne genua animanti- 
 um, tarn praedpue homi- 
 nem^ ad munia -vita. Qui 
 dormiunt^ in quit PatUus^ 
 dormiunt nocte.; et 
 
 He that squanders away jew- 
 els and gold ras/ily, is reckoned 
 a prodigal^ and receives a guar- 
 dian ; he that throws away 
 these good things so much more 
 precious, is not he much more 
 scandalously prouigal ? 
 
 So it appears^ if we examine 
 the matter by right reason. 
 
 I^ow consider that ivhich 
 Pluto nvrote, that nothing is 
 more beiutiful, nothing more 
 lovely Man wisdom^ winch if'it 
 could ^e ste» with bodily eyes^ 
 would raise incredible love of 
 itself. 
 
 But that connot be seen, 
 
 I confess, with bodily eyes? 
 6w^ it is seen with the eyes of 
 the mind, which is the better 
 part ofman^ and where there is 
 incredible love, i'Acre must 6e the 
 greatest /z/easz^re, as oft as ?Ae 
 7WZ72C? confers with such a mis- 
 tress. 
 
 You say what is likely. 
 
 Go now and change sleep, 
 the image of death, /or this plea» 
 sure^ it it seem good. 
 
 But in the mean time nightly 
 sports are lost. 
 
 He loses lead well who 
 turns it into gold. Nature has 
 given the ni^Ut for sleep. The 
 rising sun calls upon both every 
 /:mrf .(>f living creatures, and 
 especially 7«en, to the ofji^es 
 of life. They who sleep j suys 
 i'crw/, sleep zn the night; and 
 Mez/ wAo nre drunkj are c/rMW^ 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ey 
 
 qui sunt ebrily sunt ebrii 
 nocte. Proinde quid est. 
 turpius quam cum omnia 
 animantia expergiscantur 
 cum sole, quxdam etiam 
 salutent cum nondum ap- 
 parentemj«erf ddventantem 
 can^M ; cum FJep.hantus 
 adoret orientem solsm, Ao- 
 minem stertere diu post 
 exortum solis ? Quoties il- 
 le aureus splendor iUustrat 
 tuum cubiculumy nonne vi- 
 detur exfirobrare dorinien- 
 ti ; Stultey quid gaudes per- 
 dere ofitimam p^trteai vit<e 
 tua ? Nan luceo in hoc ut 
 dormiatis abditij sed ut zn- 
 vigiletis honestissiniis re- 
 bus. JVema accendit lu- 
 cernam^ ut dorjniat^ sed ut 
 agitt aliquid o peris : et ni- 
 hil aliud quam stertis ad 
 hanc lucernam^ pulcherrira- 
 am omnium ? 
 
 B. Declamas belle, 
 
 A. Non belle^ sed x^ere. 
 A^^e, non dubito quin aw- 
 i/fi;emfrequenterz7/wc/ He- 
 siodcum, fiarsimonia est se- 
 ro in fundo. 
 
 B. Frequentis6ime,wam 
 vinum est optimum in mc 
 dio dolio. 
 
 A. Aiqui firima p?iTS vi- 
 ta, nimirum, adolescentiuy 
 esi optima» 
 
 A. Profecto sic est. 
 
 B. At diiuculum est /^oc 
 diei, qugd adolescentia vi- 
 ta. An non faciunt igitur 
 stviUe, qm perdunt adoles' 
 
 in the night. Therefore what 
 is more scandalous than when 
 all animals awake with the sun, 
 some also salute him wo^ z/e^ ap- 
 pearing, but coming, wf//; sm^- 
 j/i^-; when rAe ^/e/iAa72? adoreth 
 the rising sun, Ma^ ma» shouM 
 snore a long time after the rising 
 of the sun l As often as that 
 golden splendour enlightens yo\xv 
 bed-chambcr, does it not seem 
 to ufibraid you sleeping j T^Z/ow 
 foolf why do»r fAoM /oi;e to lose 
 the best part of thy life ? \ do 
 not shine for this-^ that you may 
 sleep, in privaie, but that t/ow may 
 mind the most honourable 
 things. Nobody lights a candle 
 that Ae may «/ee/i, but Ma^ he 
 may do some work ; and dost 
 thou nothing else but snore by 
 this candle J the finest of all ? 
 
 You declaim prettily, 
 ^oi prettily hm truly. WeH, 
 / doubt not but t/ow have heard 
 frequently that of Hesiod, spar- 
 ing is roo late in the bottom. 
 
 Very frequently, for wine ?« 
 the best in the middle of the 
 cask. 
 
 But the first part in life^ to 
 wit, youthy IS ^Ae ^e«f. 
 
 Truly so it is. 
 
 But /Ae morning \% that to the 
 day, ivhich youth is /o /f/e. Do 
 not tl.ey do therefore foolishly, 
 •who lose their youth in trifles, 
 
6d 
 
 ITEW LATIN t^nXMER. 
 
 centiam niigis, matutinas 
 horas somno ? 
 
 A. Sic apfiaret. 
 
 B. An est w//a possessio, 
 yw* sit confer enda cum x»/- 
 ^a hominis ? 
 
 A. Ne universa gaza 
 -quidem Persarum, 
 
 B. An non odisses homi" 
 nem veheraenter, qui pos- 
 set ac vellet decurtare vi- 
 tam tibi malis artibus ad 
 aliquot annos ? 
 
 A. Ipse mallem eriperc 
 vitam illi. 
 
 B. Verumar^z/rorpejo- 
 res er nocentiores, qui vo- 
 ientes reddunt vitam ^rt- 
 viore?n sibi. 
 
 A. Fateor, «j qui /c/e« 
 repcriuntur. 
 
 B. Repcriuntur ! Imoy 
 omnes similes imfaciunt id. 
 
 B. Bona verba. 
 
 B. Optima. Refiuta sic 
 cuniiMo animo: nonne Pliiii- 
 us videtur dixisse rectissi»- 
 7ne, vitam esse vigiliam, et 
 heminem vivere hoc fiiuri' 
 bus horis,^'^© majorem/zar- 
 tem temporis impendent 
 studiis ? Somnus enim est 
 guadam inors, Unde et fin- 
 giiur venire ab inieris, et 
 dicitur germanus mortis ab 
 JjQmero, Itaque quos som- 
 nus occupat, nee censentur 
 inter -vivos, nee inter mor» 
 tuosy scdtamen potius inter 
 mortuos, 
 
 A. Ita vtdctur omnino. 
 
 their morning hours in sleep ? 
 
 So zV appears. 
 
 Is there cwy possession, that 
 is ^0 6<? compared with Me /j/J? 
 of man ? 
 
 Not a// the treasure indeed 
 of the Persians. 
 
 Would you not hate the man 
 very much, nvho could cncf 
 would shorten your life ybr t/ow 
 by evil arts for some years ? 
 
 I /^afi? rather take A/* /zye 
 from h;m. 
 
 But / think them worse and 
 more mischievous, w/»o volun- 
 tarily make life shorter to them* 
 selves. 
 
 I confess, (/" any such are 
 found. 
 
 Found ! JSTay^ all /?^tf you cTo 
 that. 
 
 Good words. 
 
 Very good. Think thus 
 'wiih^youv mind : does not Pliny 
 seem to have said very right ly^ 
 that life is a watch, anrf that 
 man lives so many the more 
 hours, by how much the greater 
 part of his time he spends in 
 his studies ? i*^or s/ee^ is a sort 
 of death. From whence a/so it 
 is pre*^ended to come from hell, 
 and IS called the brother german 
 of death by Homer. Where- 
 fore ih@se ivhom sleep s?izeth 
 are neither thought among the 
 living, nor among the deady but 
 yet rather among the dead. 
 
 So it sesms indeed. 
 
»EW LATtN PKIMER. 
 
 69 
 
 B. Nunc «M^rfwaVo ratio- 
 xiem mihi, quantam/zon/o- 
 nem vitae resecene sibi ^wf 
 singulis diGbusfierdunc tres 
 OM^ quatuor Aoras somno. 
 
 A. Video immensam 
 summam. 
 
 B. Nonne haberes alcu- 
 mistam pro deo, qui posset 
 adjicere decern annos sum- 
 ma vitx^ et revocare pro- 
 vectiorem aetatem ad vigo- 
 rem adolescentiae ? 
 
 A. Quid ne haberem ? 
 
 B, Sed fiotes praestare 
 hoc tam divinum benefici- 
 um tibi. 
 
 A. Qui sic ? 
 
 B. Quia mane est addfes- 
 centia diei; juventus fervet 
 usque ad meridiem. Mox 
 virilis setas, cui succedit 
 vesfiera pro senecta ; occa- 
 aus excipii vesficravi, velut 
 'mors diei. Parsimonia au- 
 ie?ne&\.magmim\ec\.i^d\ysed 
 nusquam ?najus quam /lic. 
 An non igitur adjunxits/^j 
 ingens lucrum^ qui desiit 
 perdcre magnam partem 
 -vita-f eamq; optimum ? 
 
 A. Praedicas vera. 
 
 B. ^Yoiud.Q ear um querC' 
 moniaviA^iwvadmodumixn- 
 pudens, </w? accusant natu- 
 ram, quod finierit -y/Vam ho- 
 minis tam angii&tis spatiis, 
 cum ipsi sjionte amputent 
 sibi tanium ex eo quod da- 
 turn est. Vita est ionga 5a- 
 tia euique, si dispersetur 
 
 Now cast up the account /<^ 
 me, how great a part ol life 
 they cut off from themselves, 
 ivho every day lose three or 
 fouf hours in sleep. 
 
 I see an immense sum. 
 
 Would you not reckon the 
 alchymist fer a god, that could 
 add ten years to the sum of 
 your life^ and call back advanced 
 age to the vigour of youth ? 
 
 Why should I not reckon 
 him so ? 
 
 But you may do this so divine 
 a benefit to yourself. 
 
 How so ? 
 
 Because the morning is the 
 youth of the day ; youth keeps 
 warm till noon. By and by 
 the manly age, after nvhith 
 comes the evening for old age ; 
 sun-set succeeds the evening, as 
 4he death of the day. And 
 frugality i^ a great revenue, but 
 no where greater than here. 
 Has he not therefore procured 
 to himaelf ?< great gain, wi*fe has 
 ceasedxo lose a great part of his 
 life, and that the best ? 
 
 You say true. 
 
 Wherefore their complaint 
 seems very impudent, ivho ac- 
 cuse nature for having bound- 
 ed the life of man ivithin so nar^ 
 row a compass, ivhcn they of 
 their oivn accord cut ofT from 
 t he ms e Ives so VL\\JiZ\\ of that vihizh. 
 was giveti them. Life, is long 
 enough for every one, if it be 
 
t« 
 
 »EW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 fiarce. Nee eat mediocris 
 firofectusy si quis gerat qux- 
 que suo tempore. Apran- 
 dio vix stimus semihomines^ 
 cum corpus onustum czA/s 
 aggravat mentem. Nee ts^ 
 tutum evocare spiritus ab 
 i>fficina ^iov(\'dch\,fierage7ites 
 officium concoctionis ad sy- 
 periora, multo minus a cx~ 
 na. At homo est totus ho- 
 mo matutinis /rom,dum cor- 
 fius est /labile ad omne mln- 
 isterium,c?wm alacer animus 
 viget, dum omnia organa 
 mentis sunt tranquilla et 
 Serena, dum particula divi- 
 net aurae spirat^ ut ait ilie, 
 ac sapit suam originem, et 
 rapitur ad honesta. 
 
 A. Tu concionaris qui- 
 dem eleganter. 
 
 B. Fabcraerarius civile 
 lucellum surgit ante lucem^ 
 et amor ^di^itiWA-ainon fiot est 
 cxpergefacere720e,uLcwrf/a- 
 7nw«saltemio/emt.vocantc:m 
 ad in^stimabile lucrum. 
 Medici fere non dant phar- 
 macum nisi «iikiculo ; illi 
 noi ant aureas horas, utsub' 
 %feniratcor\jorinosnon novi- 
 museas ut locupletemus et 
 sanemus animum ? Quod si 
 h-3£.chabent\t^\Qpondus'A)^\xCi 
 te, audi quid ilia coelestis 
 sapientia apud Solomonem 
 loquatur» Qui vigilaverint 
 ad me, inqidt, mane inve- 
 nient me, Inmy^ticisV^dX- 
 mis, quanta commendatio 
 
 disposed of sparingly. Nor is 
 it a mean projiciencyy if a man 
 does every tfung in its time, 
 After dinner we are scarce half 
 meny when the body loaded with 
 meal oppresses the mind. Nor 
 is it safe to call of the spirits 
 from the nvork-house of the stomv 
 ach, performing the office of 
 concoction to the upper parts, 
 much less after supper. But a 
 man is wholly man in the morn- 
 ing hours whilst the body i% fit 
 for all service, whilst the cheer- 
 ful ?nind is vigorous, whilst all 
 the organs of the mind are 
 quiet and serene, whilst the 
 particle of divine nir breathes^ 
 as a certain one says, and has 
 a tincture of its original, and is 
 carried out /o honourable things. 
 You preach indeed finely. 
 
 A Brazier for poor gain 
 rises before light, and the love of 
 ■wisdom cannot awake us, that 
 w<? way hear at least the sun 
 calling us up to inestimable gain. 
 Doctors commonly give not 
 physic but in the morning ; 
 they know the gelden hours, to 
 relieve the body, do not we 
 know them to enrich and cure 
 the mind? But ?/ these things 
 have little weight with you, 
 hear what that heavenly wisdom 
 with Solomon says. They 
 that watch for me, says shcy in 
 the morning «Ao://^;2c^ me. In 
 the mystical Psalms, how great is 
 the commendation of the morn- 
 ing time ? In the morning the 
 
NEW LATIN P«IM*R. 
 
 %^ 
 
 matutini temfioris ? Mane 
 ftrofiheta extol lit misericor- 
 diam dorainij ?««we ejus vox 
 auditur^ mane ejus defireca- 
 tio praevenit dominum, Et 
 afiud ZwcamEvangelistam, 
 Jiofiulus expetcns sanitatem 
 et doctrinam a domino con- 
 fluit^diWyivamane, Quid 
 susfiiras ? 
 
 A. Vixteneolachrimas, 
 cum subit quantam jaclu- 
 ram vicx fecerim. 
 
 B. £st sufiervacaneum 
 discruciari ob <ra, quae non 
 possunt revocarij sed tamen 
 /lossunt s^rcuifiosterioribus 
 CUTIS. Incumbe hue igitur 
 fiotius qu3im Jaciasjacturam 
 futuri temporis quoque in» 
 ani deploratione firaterito- 
 rum, 
 
 A. Monea bency sed diu' 
 tina con sue tu do jam facit 
 me sui juris. 
 
 B. Phy ! CldiXMs /lellitur 
 clavo, coiuuetudo pellitur 
 coneuetudine, 
 
 A. At durum est relin- 
 cjuere ea quibus diu assu' 
 everts. 
 
 B. Initio quidemy sed di- 
 versa con^MiiXMOmQ jirimum 
 lenii earn mclestiam, mox 
 vertit in summam volufita- 
 temf ut no?i oporteat te poe- 
 nitcre brevis molestics 
 
 A. Vereor ut non suc- 
 cciiet. 
 
 B. Si essea sepluagina- 
 ^rius, non retraherem te a 
 
 profihet extols the mercy of the 
 Lord, in the morning his voice- 
 is heard, in ^the morning hig 
 firayerjavevents the Lord. And 
 in LiiMie the Evangelist, the 
 fieefile desiring health and m- 
 struction from the Lord,^oc^ in 
 to him in the morning. Why 
 do yQu sigh ? 
 
 I scarce refrain from tears» 
 ivhen it occurs to me how great 
 a waste of life I have made. 
 
 It is needless to be torment- 
 ed ybr those things^ which cannot 
 be recalled, but yet may be 
 cured by future cares. Apply 
 yourself to this therefore rather 
 than make a waste of the time' 
 to come too by a vain lament- 
 ing of things jia»t. 
 
 You advise welly but long 
 custom has now brought me wn- 
 der its dominions. 
 
 Puh i A nail is driven out by 
 a nail, custom is overcome by 
 custom. 
 
 But it is hard to leave those 
 things to which you have been 
 long used. 
 
 At the beginning indeed^ but 
 a dij^erentc\x%\.ovR first mitigates 
 that trouble, by and by turns it 
 into the greatest pleasure^ that 
 yoTx ought not to be concerned 
 for a short trouble. 
 
 I am afraid it will not suc- 
 ceed. *' 
 
 If you were seventy years 
 old, / t^uld not take you off" 
 
r2 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 colitis. Nunc vix egressus 
 es decimum septimum «n- 
 nufUf opinor. Quid autem 
 est quod ista aetas non fios- 
 si^ vincere, si adsit modo 
 prom plus animus ? 
 
 A. Quidem aggrediar, 
 conaborque, ut sim Philo- 
 logus ex phylypno. 
 
 B. ^ifeceris id, scio s^- 
 tiSj/iost. paucos dies, et gra^ 
 tidaberis serio tibi, et ages 
 inihi grates^ qui monue- 
 rim. 
 
 yrom what you were used to. 
 Now you are scarce past the sev- 
 enteenth year, I believe, jind 
 what is it which that age cari' 
 not conquer, i/ there be but a 
 ready mind? 
 
 Troly / will attemfit it, and 
 endeavour, that 1 may become a 
 Philologer from a lover of sleep. 
 
 If you do thaty 1 know well 
 enough, after a few days, both 
 7/ow will rejoice in earnest ?o 
 yourself and 571^^ me thanks, 
 who advised you to it. 
 
 COLLOQUIUM SENILE. 
 
 EusEBius, PAivrpYaus, Poltgamus, Glycion. 
 
 Eu. QUAS novas aves 
 video hie ? .Vm animus 
 fallit me, aw^ oculi firosfii- 
 ciunt parumj video tres re- 
 rerescongerrones meos con- 
 siclentes, Pampyrum, Poly- 
 gaiinum e? Giycionem. 
 
 Ptt Quid tibi vis cum 
 vitrcis oculisi fascinator ? 
 Congredere proprius> Muse- 
 bi. 
 
 Po. Salve Eusebiy mul- 
 tum exoptate. 
 
 Gly. Si I bene tibi» optime 
 "vir. 
 
 £«. Una salute, salvete 
 omnes. Q^nis deus dut casus 
 
 WHAT new birds do I see 
 here i Unless my mind deceives 
 mCj or ray eyes discern but lit- 
 tle, / see three o/rf companions 
 of mine sitting together.Pcm/^z/- 
 rus, Polygamus, and Glycion. 
 
 What do you mean wzVA your 
 glass eyes^ you wizard ? Come 
 neaier, Eusdiius, 
 
 God save you, Eusebius, 
 much longed for. 
 
 Mny ii be wf// with yoUiVery 
 good sir. 
 
 In 01 1 e salutation, God save 
 you all. What ^-orf, or c^anc^r 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 73 
 
 feViciovDeo conjunxit noa ? 
 Nam nemo nostrum vidit 
 alium^am quadraginta an- 
 n/«,opinor. Mercurius non 
 potuisset contrahere nos in 
 unum melius suo cadticeo. 
 
 A, Quid a^itis hie ? 
 
 Pa. Sedemus. 
 
 Eu. Video, sed qua de 
 causa ? 
 
 Po. Operimur currum^ 
 qui devehat nos Antiverjii" 
 am, 
 
 Eu, Ad mercatum ? 
 
 Po, Scilicet ; sed spec- 
 tatores magis quam nego^ 
 ciatores. 
 
 Eu. Et nobis eat iter eo- 
 dem. Verum quid obstaty 
 quo minus eatis ? 
 
 Po. Nondum convenit 
 cum aurigis. 
 
 £u. Difficile genus ho- 
 minum ; sed visne ut im- 
 ponamus illis ? 
 
 Po, Liberet si liceret. 
 
 Eu. Simulemus«o«veIle 
 abire simul /ledibus, 
 
 Po. Credant citius can- 
 cros volaturos, quam nos 
 tam grandes confecturos 
 ho9 iiev fiedibus. 
 
 Gl. VuUis rectum ac ve- 
 rum consilium ? 
 
 Po. Maxime. 
 
 GL nil fiotanty quo diu- 
 tius /admit id, hoc plus 
 fiericuii erit, ne ubi dejici- 
 G 
 
 more lucky than a God, has 
 joined ua ? For no one of us has 
 seen another now these forty 
 years^ I think. Mercury could 
 not have brought us together 
 better ivtth his rod. 
 
 What are you doing here ? 
 
 We are sitting. 
 
 I see, but for what cause ? 
 
 We are waiting for a coach 
 that should carry us ^o Antwerfi, 
 
 To the mart ? 
 
 Yes ; but spectators more 
 than trader 8. 
 
 And / am travelling to the 
 same place. But what hinders 
 that you do not go ? 
 
 We are not yet agreed with 
 the coachmen. 
 
 A hard kind of men ; but 
 are you willing that we should 
 impose upon them ? 
 
 It would please me if it coulQ 
 be. 
 
 Let us pretend that ive will 
 go together on foot. 
 
 They would believe sooner 
 that crabs would fly^ than that 
 ive bo elderly should dispatch 
 this journey on foot. 
 
 Would you have right and 
 true advice ? 
 
 Yes. 
 
 They are drinking, the long- 
 er they do that, so much the 
 more danger will tliere be, lest 
 
74 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 ant nos in lutum. , 
 
 P. Oportet veniasac?mo- 
 dum diluculoy si velis auri- 
 gam sodrium. 
 
 GL Quo Jirev enia?nusm?i- 
 turius jintnverfiiam^ stipii- 
 lemiis currum nobis^'wa^z.or 
 solis. Censeo \.dXi\i\\Mxvi p,e- 
 cww/^contercnendum. Hoc 
 &a.mnun\ /lensadiiur mullis 
 commoditatibus. Sedebi- 
 mus cominodius^ ac transi- 
 gemus hoc iter suavissime 
 mutuis fabulis. 
 
 Fo, GXyciousuadetvccie. 
 
 GL Transcgi. Consceti" 
 damns. Vah 1 nunc libel 
 T'ii;(?re,posteaquam contigit 
 iTiihi -videre sodales olim ca- 
 rissimos, ex tanto interval- 
 lo. 
 
 Eu, Ac vide or mihi re- 
 fiuhescere. 
 
 Po. QuOt 0727205 SUppU- 
 
 tatis, ex quo convixiinus 
 I^utetioi ? 
 
 Eu, ArbitroT non pauci- 
 ores qiiadraginta diiobus. 
 
 Po. Turn videbamurom' 
 ties 3eqiiales. 
 
 Eu. Ita eramus ferme, 
 ant si erat quid discriminisj 
 erat pcrfiusillurn. 
 
 Pa, At nunc quanta in- 
 ccqnalitas ? Nam Glycion 
 habet "z7«'/ senii, et Poly- 
 ganms yz/ea^ videri hujtis 
 
 some where they throw Us iftto 
 the dirt. 
 
 You must come very early^ 
 if you will have a coachman so- 
 ber. 
 
 That 7y<r may come the soon- 
 er to Antiverp^ let us hire a 
 coach for us yb«r alone. / 
 thi7ik that so little money is to be 
 despised. This loss wzV/ de mnde 
 uji by many conveniences. We 
 shall sit 7«or(? conveniently <i and 
 «Aa// /2a*s this journey most 
 sweetly m mutual stories. 
 
 Glycion advises right. 
 
 I have bargained. Let us 
 go in. Oh 1 7101V I have si 
 mind to live, after eV has happen- 
 ed x.o me ^0 see companions /or- 
 merly very dear, after so long 
 an interval. 
 
 And I seem to myself to grow 
 young again. 
 
 How many years do you 
 count it, since we lived togeth- 
 er a; Paris ? 
 
 1 think no fewer than forty 
 two. 
 
 Then we seemed all of an 
 age. 
 
 So we were almost, or if 
 Mere was any thin go/ (///fereTice, 
 it was very little. 
 
 But 770W how great is the in- 
 equality ? For Glycion has noth- 
 ing of old age, and Polygamus 
 might seem his grandfather. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 75 
 
 Ku, Profecto sic res ha- 
 bet. Quid rei in causa ? 
 
 Pa, Quid ! Jut hie ces- 
 savit ac restitit in cursu, 
 aut ille antevertit. 
 
 JS.U. Oh ! anni non ces- 
 sant, quantumvis homines 
 cessent, 
 
 Po. Die bona fide, Glijci- 
 ow, quot annos numeias ? 
 
 G/. Plures^'wamducatos. 
 
 Po. Quot tandem ? 
 
 Gl. Scxaginta sex. 
 
 Po. Sod quibus artibus 
 icmoratus es senectutem ? 
 Nam neque canities, neque 
 rugosa cutis ad est. OcuU 
 vigent,sfms dentiumwifrm- 
 yM<? nitet, color est vividusy 
 corpus succulentutn. 
 
 Gl. Dicam meas artes, 
 ?nGdo tu narres 7iobis vicis- 
 sim tuas 3iVteSiquibus accel- 
 crasii senectutem. 
 
 Po, l^Gcipio me facturum. 
 Die igituTj quo contulisti te 
 rclicta Lutetia ? 
 
 Gl. Recto in fiatriam. 
 Commoratus illic fere an. 
 7ium, coepi disfiicere de eli- 
 gendo goner e vilge. Quam 
 rem «'^■o credo habere non 
 /et;e momentum ad felicita- 
 tem. Circumspiciebiim 
 ywz'c/ succederct cuiquam, 
 quid secus. 
 
 Po. yiivorfuissetibiian' 
 turn mentis^ cum wM fuerit 
 nugacius te Lutetij^. 
 
 Truly so the thing zs. What 
 thing* is the occasion ? 
 
 What ! Either he Aas /oz/er- 
 ed and stojified in the race, er 
 the other Aa« outrun him. 
 
 Oh I t/ears do not loiter, 
 how much soever men may loiter. 
 
 Tell me in good hnh^Glycion 
 how many years do you reckon ? 
 
 More thafi ducats. 
 
 How many at last ? 
 
 Sixty six. 
 
 But by M'hat a7'ts have you 
 kept off old age ? For neither 
 hoariness, rior a wrinkled skin is 
 yet come upon you. The eyes 
 are brisk, the row of teeth o;z 
 each side is neat, Me colour is 
 //i;e/i/, the body full of blood, 
 
 1 will tell wzz/ arts, ?/ you tell 
 us again yowr arts, by 'ivhich you 
 hastened on old age. 
 
 I undei take that I ivill do it. 
 Tell us r//e;2, w hit her c^/rf you 
 betake yourself after you hft 
 Paris ? 
 
 Directly into my country. 
 Having staid there almost a 
 year., I began to consider about 
 choosing a ivay of life. Which 
 thing I believe to have no small 
 moment towards hafipincss. I 
 considered ivhat succeeded with 
 any one^ what did otherwise. 
 
 I wonder you had so much 
 sense^ whereas nothing was more 
 trijling than you at Paris. 
 
76 
 
 NEW LATJN PRIMilft, 
 
 G/. Turn atas ferebat ; 
 et tamen, O bone, non gessi 
 omnem rem hie meo marte. 
 
 Po. Mirabar. 
 
 G/. Priusquam aggrede- 
 ^erquidquaiTijat/M quendam 
 e civiSusy granclem natu, 
 prudeniissimum Ion go usu 
 reruQi, et probatissimum 
 testimonio lotius cvvitatis^ 
 ac ?^Jeo^W/ao,felici3simum 
 ■etiam. 
 
 ■£u. Sapiebas» 
 
 Gl. Usus hujus consilio, 
 ducci uxorem. 
 
 J°o. Pulchre dotatam ? 
 
 Gl. Mediocri date : ea 
 rfs cessit inihi plrine ex an- 
 ijni senteniia, 
 
 Fo. (^\xoiannosn:xi\\seras 
 turn ? 
 
 Gl, Ycrmevighiti d\xos. 
 
 JPo, O felicem te ! 
 
 GL Non debeorc/wm hoc 
 forturKSy ne quid erres. 
 
 Po. Qui SIC ? 
 
 G7. Dicam. Mil dili- 
 gunt finiLsquam dcligaiit, 
 €gQ delegi judicio^ prius- 
 quam diligemn^ et Camera 
 duxi /w/2c riiugis adfiosteri- 
 tateniy quam ad volup,tatem, 
 Vixi cz^m ea buavissimenon 
 plures octo annis. 
 
 Po. Rcliquit orbum ? 
 
 Gl. Imo^duo ^i\n-)totid€m 
 que lilise suli^rsunt* 
 
 Then my age allowed i£ ; 
 and yet, good Sir^ I did not 
 manage the whole affair her^e 
 by my own conduct. 
 
 I wondered. 
 
 Before I attempted any thing, 
 / went to one of the iitizena» 
 elderly, very wise by long ex- 
 fierience in affairs, and very well 
 approved of by the testimony of 
 the whole city^ and in my judg» 
 ment, very happy too. 
 
 You were wise. 
 
 Using his advice, / married 
 a wife. 
 
 With a good fortune ? 
 
 With a moderate fortune : 
 that thing fell out to me t;uly 
 according to my hearths desire. 
 
 How many years old ivei^e 
 you then ? 
 
 Almost twenty two. 
 
 happy you ! 
 
 1 do not owe all this to for. 
 tune) do not mistake. 
 
 How so ? 
 
 1 will tell you. Others love 
 before they choose, / chose 
 judiciously^ before / loved^ and 
 yet I married her more for issue ^ 
 than for pleasure. I lived with 
 her most pleasantly no more 
 than eight years. 
 
 Did she leave you childless ? 
 Nay, two sons, and as ?nan'^ 
 daughters survive her. 
 
KfiW LATIN PRIMEH. 
 
 n 
 
 Po, Vivisne Jirivatus, 
 anfungeris magistratu ? 
 
 G/, Est mihi /mblicu7n 
 munus. Majora poterant 
 co7itingere, verum delei^i 
 hoc inihi^ quod haberet tan- 
 turn dignitatis ^\ii vindicaret 
 me a contemfitu^ cseterum 
 minime obnoxium molestis 
 negoiiis, Jta nee est quod 
 quisquam objiciat me -vive- 
 remibi. Et Q%iundeAtm 
 operam amich quoque no7i' 
 nunguam : contentus Aoc, 
 ambii nihil magis : verum 
 gfissi magisti'atum sic, ut 
 dignitas accreverit illi ex 
 me. Ego duco hoc fiulch- 
 rius quam *umere viutuo 
 dignitatem ex sfilendore 
 muneris. 
 
 £.u. Nihil verius. 
 
 Gc. Sic consenui inter 
 meos cives charus omnibus. 
 
 Eu. Istuc es^difficillim- 
 um, cum dictum sit non 
 abs re, eum., qui habet nem- 
 inem inimicumy nee habere 
 quenquam amicum ; et in- 
 vidiam esse semper com'i- 
 tem felicitatis. 
 
 GU Invidia soiet comi- 
 tari insigJiem felicitate m. 
 Mediocritas est tuta* Et 
 hoc fuit mihi perpetuum 
 atudium, ne compararem 
 quid mei commodi ex in- 
 £ommodis aliorum. In- 
 grcssi memet nullis nego- 
 tiis, sed praecipue continui 
 me ab his^ quae non fiote- 
 rant suscipi sine offcnsa 
 G 2 
 
 Do you \i\t a firivate fierson^ 
 or do yau bear any office ? 
 
 I have a fiuhlic office. Great' 
 er fiUues migUl i^a-ve fallen to 
 me, but I chose this /or mijself^ 
 because it had so much of hon- 
 our^ that it would secure me 
 from contemfit^ but not at all li- 
 able to troublesome business. 
 So there is no reason that any 
 one should object that 1 live for 
 myself. And it is hence I can 
 be serviceable to viy friends 
 too, sometimes : content with 
 this, I sought no more : but I 
 bore my office so, that dignity 
 accrued to hfro/n me, I reck- 
 on this handsomer than to bov' 
 roiv dignity /rom the sfilcndour 
 of an office. 
 
 Nothing more true. 
 
 Thus I grew old among my 
 citizens dear to all. 
 
 Tiiat is very hard, seeing it 
 has been said not without rea- 
 son, that he who has no body 
 his enefny, has not any one his 
 friend ; and that envy is always 
 the comfianion of happiness. 
 
 Envy uses to attend upon ex- 
 traordinary happiness. A mean 
 is safe. And this was iny con- 
 stant care^ not to procure to 
 myself any advantage bi^ the 
 disadvantage of others. / 
 thrust n\yz?\iinto no business, 
 but especially kept myself/ro?» 
 that, which could not be under- 
 taken without the offence of 
 7na?iy, Wherefore if -a friend 
 
78 
 
 NEW LATIN I^RIMER. 
 
 vmltorum. Itaque st ami- 
 cus erit juvandus, benefa- 
 cio illi A/c, Mifmrtm nullum 
 inimkum mihi hac de causa. 
 Kt si quid siinultatifi or- 
 tum fuerit alicunde^ aut 
 lenio fiurgatione^ aut cjf- 
 tinguo offisiis, aut patior 
 intcrmori dissiraulationc. 
 Abstineo semper, a conten- 
 tione ; quae si inciderit, 
 malo faccre jacturam rei 
 quam amicitice. In caeie- 
 ris ago quendam Mition- 
 em "i arrideo omnibus ; 
 saluto et resaluto benigni- 
 ter. Re/nigno nuUius ani- 
 mo. Damno institutum aut 
 factum nullius ; fircefero 
 me neminl : quod velim 
 taceri, credo nemini : non 
 scrutor aliorum arcana, et 
 d forte nosco quid, nun. 
 quam effutio, Aut taceo 
 de his qui non sunt prae- 
 sentes, aut loquor amice 
 ac ci-oiliter. Magna pars 
 simultatum inter homines 
 nascitur ex intemperantia 
 linguae. Nee excito nee 
 alo a//(??2a5 simultates. Sed 
 libicunque ofifiortunitas da- 
 tur, aut extlnguo^ aut initio 
 go. His rationibus hacte- 
 nus vitavi invidiam, et alui 
 benevolent.iam meorum ci- 
 vium. 
 
 Pa^ Non sensisti caliba- 
 turn gravem ? 
 
 Gl Nihil unjuam accidit 
 
 mihi quidem acerbius in vi- 
 
 ""ta, 2uorte uxoris j ac optas- 
 
 is to be assisted, / befriend him 
 so, that I fir cure no enemy to 
 my&cU u/ion that account. And 
 ij any difference arises ora a?iy 
 hand, I either soften it by clear ^ 
 ing myself, or quash it by kind- 
 ness, or suffer it to die away by 
 taking no notice. / abstain al- 
 ways/row contention ; which if 
 it happen / had rather suffer 
 the loss of money than friend- 
 shifi. In other things /acf a 
 Mitio ; / smile ujion all men ; 
 / salute and resalute kindly. 
 I ofijiose no man's inclinations, 
 I condemn the usage or action 
 of no man : I firefer myself 6e- 
 fore nobody : what I would have 
 concealed, / trust to nobody : 
 / examine not into other men's 
 secrets, and if by chance I know 
 any thing, / never blab it. I 
 either hold my tongue of those 
 Avho are not present, or speak 
 friendly and civilly. A great 
 part of the quarrels among men 
 arises from the intemperance 
 of the tongue. I neither excite 
 7ior promote other men^s quar- 
 rels. But wheresoever an op- 
 portunity is given, / either put 
 an end to them, or lessen them. 
 By these means hitherto I have 
 avoided envy, ^nd preserved the 
 good will of my citizens.^ 
 
 Did you not find a single lifes 
 Iroubelsome ? 
 
 Nothing ever happened to 
 me indeed more bitter in my 
 life, than the death of my wife ; 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 79 
 
 sem vehementer illam con- 
 scenescere una mecum^ et 
 frui communibus liberis ; 
 sed quando visum est aliter 
 Deo Judicavz sic exfiedire 
 ma^/*'utrique ; neque pu- 
 tavi causam cur discrucia- 
 rem me inani luctu, fira- 
 sertim cum is nihil pro- 
 desset defuncta. 
 
 Po. Nunquamne incess- 
 it libido refitendi matrimo- 
 Tiiif praeserdm cum istud 
 ceasisset feliciter ? 
 
 Gl. Incessit libido ; sed 
 duxeram uxorem causa li- 
 berorum ; non duxi rursus 
 causa liberorum. 
 
 Po. At est miicrum cu- 
 bare solum totas noctes. 
 
 GL Nihil <?«? difficile Tyo- 
 lenti. Tum cogita quantas 
 commoditates caelibatus ha- 
 beat. Quidam decernunt 
 ex omni re, si quid incom' 
 modi in est : quails ille 
 Crates videtur^/wistffjCujus 
 titulo fertur epigramma, 
 
 ' colligensTCi2\?i-vit<e. I stud 
 
 I firov erbium placet his, op- 
 timum non nasci. Metro- 
 
 I dorus arridet mihi magis, 
 decerjiens undiquaque, si 
 
 , quid boni inest. Nam sic 
 -vita fit dulcior. Et ego in- 
 
 •< duxi animmn sic, ut ode- 
 rim vel expctam nihil ve- 
 hementer. Ita fit, tt^? si 
 ywfrf boni contingat^ non 
 efferar awr insolescam ; si* 
 quid decedatf non admo- 
 dum crucier. 
 
 aTzrf I could have wished j^rear- 
 ly that she might have grown 
 old together with me^ and enjoys 
 ed our common children ; but 
 since it seemed otherwise to 
 God, I judged it so /o 6e better 
 for both ; neither did 1 think 
 /Acre was a«z/ cause why I should 
 torment my aeU with -yain mourn- 
 ing, esfiecially since ;Aar woald 
 do no good to the deceased. 
 
 Had you never a desire to 
 marry again^ especially since 
 Wfell out happily ? 
 
 I had desire ; but I had mar- 
 ried a wife for the sake of chiU 
 dren ; I did not marry again 
 for the sake of children. 
 
 But it is miserable to lie 
 alone whole nights. 
 
 Nothing is difficult to one 
 that is willing. Then consider 
 how great advantages a single 
 life has. Some take out of eve- 
 ry thing, (/"any inconveniency is 
 in it : such as that Crates seems 
 to have been, under whose name 
 goes an epigram, collecting the 
 evils of life. That firoverb 
 pleases them,zV is beat not to be 
 born. Metrodorus pleases me 
 more, gathering from all sides, 
 2y any good be in a thing. For 
 so /r/e becomes more pleasant . 
 And /have brought my mind 
 to that, that I hate or desire 
 Tzor/tzw^" very much. -S"© it comes 
 to passj that if any good hap- 
 pens to me, I am not elated or 
 insolent ; {/"any thing is lost, I 
 am not much troubled. 
 
so 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Po. Nae tu. es fihiloso- 
 fihus sapientor Thalete ip- 
 so, fit quidem f^otes istud. 
 
 GL Si quid aegritudinis 
 obortum est aniino, ut vila 
 mortalium ferf. muUa hu- 
 jusmodi, ejicio ex animo 
 firotinus, sive sit ira eo; 
 offensa, sive quid aliud 
 Jactum indigne. 
 
 Po. At «w«? quaedam iiv- 
 jurta, quae moveant stom- 
 achum lyc/ placidissimo : 
 er tales sunt frequenter off- 
 ensa famulorum. 
 
 GL Patior nihil reside- 
 re in animo : si qucam me- 
 deri, medeor : sin mimis^ 
 cogito SIC, quid firoderit 
 me ringi^ re habitura nihi- 
 ]o melius? Quid multis ? 
 Patior ut ratio impctret 
 /20c a me mo^r, quod ^e/n- 
 /zws paulo /205^ impe'raret 
 fl 7Me. Certe est nullus dO' 
 lor animi tantus, quera/za- 
 ^?or ire cubitum mecum. 
 
 Eu. Nihil mirura «i tu 
 noji senescis, qui «s tali 
 Gni?no, 
 
 GL Atque adeo ne rcti- 
 ceam quid apud amicos, 
 cavi cum primis ne ro/w- 
 mitterem qmdjlagiiiij quod 
 posaet esae tirobro vel wzViz 
 vel meis liberis ; rzam ni- 
 hil est irrequielius animo 
 coiiscio i.%bi Riali. Quod si 
 ^-Mzf/ culpa dt aduiissum, 
 non eo cubiiMm^/iriusquam 
 
 Truly you are a fihilosofihef 
 wiser than Thales himself, if 
 indeed you can do that. 
 
 If any thing of trouble arises 
 in my mind, as the life of mor- 
 tals produces many things of 
 this kind, / cast it out of my 
 mind immediately, whether it be 
 angeryrom any offeree, or any 
 thing else done unworthily. 
 
 But th^re are some injuries^ 
 which would raise resentment 
 even in the meekesi man : and 
 such are frequently the offences 
 of servants. 
 
 I suffer nothing to settle in 
 my mind : if / can cure it, / do 
 cure it : but Unot, I think thus, 
 what will it signify for me to be 
 vexed, the thing being like to 
 be nothing the better ? What 
 needs many words ? / suffer 
 reason to obtain that o^mQ/ire- 
 sently, which time a little after 
 would obtain of me. However 
 there is no trouble of mind so 
 great, which I suff'er to go to- 
 be d nvith me. 
 
 No wonderz/you do not grow 
 old, who are of such a mind. 
 
 And accordingly that I may 
 not conceal any thing with ray 
 friends, / took care especially 
 not to commit any crime, which 
 might be a scandal either to me 
 or my children ; for nothing is 
 more restless than a mind con- 
 scious to itself oi G\\\. But if 
 any fault be committed, / do 
 not go to bed, before I reconcile 
 
NEW LATIW PmMEX. 
 
 SI 
 
 recGTiciMrowieDeo. Con- 
 venirehGne. cum Deoe*^fons 
 t»cr<etranq\niitatis: namho- 
 mines non possunt nocere his 
 Tnagnofiere^ qui vivunt sic. 
 
 JEu, Num. quando metus 
 mortis crucial te ? 
 
 Gl, Nihilo- magis quam 
 dies nativitatis macerat. 
 Scio moriendum Ista«©/za- 
 (udi fortasse adimat mihi 
 aliquot dies vita^ certc fios* 
 sei adjicere nihil. Itaque 
 committo hanc totain curam 
 ■Deo. Ipse cui-o niliil aliud 
 quam ut vivam bene suavi- 
 terque. 
 
 Po, At ego sencscerem 
 i<sdioy si degerem tot a/zno* 
 in eadem urbe, etiamsi con- 
 tingat -v/ver^Romae. 
 
 G/. Mutatio /oc/ quidem 
 habet nonnihil volujitatis ; 
 vero ut peregrinationcs 
 longinquae addunt piuden- 
 tiam fortasse, it a habent 
 y?/wn»mmpericulorum. Vi- 
 deor mihi obire totam orbem 
 tutius 271 geographica tabu- 
 la, Tzeywe videre paulo/z/ws 
 in historiisj quam si volita- 
 rem viginti totos annos, ad 
 exemfilum Ulyssis, fier om- 
 nes ^(?7'ra5mariaque. Ha- 
 beo praediolum, quod abest 
 non plus quam duobus milli- 
 bus passuuin ab urbe. Ibi 
 Jio rusticus ex urban o non- 
 nunquam.- AiqMQ re creatus 
 ibi, redeo novus hosfies in 
 urbem ; nee saluto ac salu^ 
 
 myself to God. To agree well 
 with God ts the fountain of 
 true tranquillity : for men can- 
 not hurt them muchy who /ii/^ so. 
 
 ^/ ani/ /me does the fear of 
 death torment you P 
 
 No more than the day of my 
 birth troubles me. I know / 
 must die. That trouble perhaps 
 would take away from me some 
 days o/* ;77z/ /(/<?, however it 
 could add nothing. Wherefoce 
 / commit this wAo/e care to God. 
 1 mmrf nothing else but ?/;a? I 
 may live well and pleasantly. 
 
 But / should grow old with 
 weariness^ if / should live so 
 many years in the same city, 
 although it should happen to 
 me /0 live at Rome. 
 
 The change of place indeed 
 has something of /ileasure ; but 
 as travelling into foreign 
 countries gives prudence fier- 
 haps, so has it very much dan- 
 ger. I seem to myself ^o pass 
 over the whole world more 
 safely in a map, and not to see 
 a little mora in histories, than 
 if / roved about twenty whole 
 years, after the example of Ulys- 
 ses, through all lands and seas. 
 I have a iitlle estate, which is 
 distant no more ^/^aw two thou^ 
 sand p-dCGsfrom the city. There 
 / become a countryman of a 
 citizen sometimes. And being 
 refreshed there, / return a new 
 guest into the city : nor do I 
 salute and am saluted otherwise 
 
9t% 
 
 NEW LATIN rUIMER. 
 
 tor aliter quam si renavi- 
 gassem ejc; insulis nufier 
 in vends. 
 
 Eu. Non adjuvasva/e/M- 
 dinem pharmacis ? 
 
 Gl. Mihi nihil rei cu7n 
 medicis. JVecincidi venixin 
 unguatn, nee devoravi cata- 
 potia, nee hauai fiotiones. 
 Si quid iasslt'.idinis abori- 
 tur, pi ope Ho malum mf)de- 
 ratione victus, aut rustica- 
 tione. 
 
 Eu. NihilnetibicMm stu- 
 dies ? 
 
 GL Est ; nam in his est 
 prsecipua oblectatio vitse, 
 Verum oblecto, non macero 
 7n€ his. Siquidem studeo 
 Ty^/ ad voluptatem, ■ve/.ad 
 ulilitatem vita^ non autem 
 ad ostentationem. A cibo 
 aut fiascor literaiis fabulis^ 
 aut adhibeo lectorem. JVec 
 iinquam incumbo libris ul- 
 tra horam. Turn surgo et 
 arrefita testudine, vel can- 
 tillo obambulans paulisfier 
 in cubiculo, vel repeto me- 
 cum qUod legerim, et «i eon- 
 gerro est in promptu, re/c- 
 ro; mox redeo ad librum. 
 
 £m. Die bona fide, sentis 
 nu\\siincom7nodas\GneciuiiS) 
 gux feruntur esse plurima ? 
 
 G/, Somnus est aliquan- 
 to deterior^nQc est memoria 
 fierinde tenax, nisi infixero 
 aliquid. Libravi meam fi- 
 deni) exfiosui vobis meas 
 
 than if I had sailed hd^tk/rom 
 the islands lately found out. 
 
 Do not yoa support i/owr 
 health by physic ? 
 
 1 have nothing to do ivith 
 the doctors. / have neither 
 ofiened a vein at any time^ nor 
 swalloived pills, «or drank fio- 
 tions. If Gwy languor arises, I 
 remove ^//e* evil by a modera- 
 tion of diet, or living in the 
 country. 
 
 Have you nothing to do ivith 
 studies ? 
 
 I have ; for in these is the 
 chief diversion of my life. -Sw^ 
 I divert, not torment myself 
 with them. For I study ez^^er 
 for pleasure, or for the conven- 
 ience of life J and notybr osten- 
 tation. After meat /am either 
 cheered with learned stories, or 
 / €?nfiloy a reader. .A^or do I 
 ever mind my books above an 
 hour. Then / rise, and taking 
 ufi my -fiddle, / ezVy^er play 
 whilst I walk a little in my 
 chamber, or I run over nxjith 
 myself what / have read, and if 
 a companion ^e at hand, I re- 
 late it to him ; by and by I re^ 
 turn to my book. 
 
 Tell me in good truth, do 
 you perceive no inconveniences of 
 old age, ivhich are reported to 
 be very many ? 
 
 My sleep zs something ivorse, 
 nor 2« my memory so tenacious, 
 unless I fix in it any things 
 I have discharged my credit, 
 I have related to you my magic-! 
 
NEW EATIN PRIMER. 
 
 83 
 
 jmagicas artesy quibis alo 
 roeam juventutem. Nunc 
 refer at Poly^amus pari^c^e, 
 unde collegerit tantum senii, 
 
 Po. Equidem celabo ni- 
 hil tamjidos sodfales. 
 
 Eu, Nairabis etiam taci- 
 turnis. 
 
 Po. Cum agerem Lutc- 
 tiae» ilisi nosiis quam non 
 abhorruerim ah Efiicuro, 
 
 Eu. Sane neminimus^ sed 
 arbitrabamur te relicturum 
 istos moresy una cwm ado- 
 lescentia, Lutetia. 
 
 Po, Ex multis quas crfa- 
 maram illic, abduxi unam 
 mecum demumi eamque 
 gravidam. 
 
 ^w. In fiaternas aedes ? 
 
 Po. Recta i «^rf menti- 
 tus earn esse conjugem cu- 
 jusdam amfa meij ^w^" ven- 
 turus esset mox, 
 
 Eu. Credidit pater id ? 
 
 Po. Imo, o^(?aV rem in- 
 tra quairiduum. Mox fu- 
 ere sava jurgia. Aec ta- 
 men temfierabam interim 
 ab convivitSy ah alea, cxter- 
 isque malis artibus. Quid 
 multis ? Cum pater non 
 facer et finem objurgatidiy 
 nei^ans ae velle o/ere tales 
 gallinas domi, ac subinde 
 minitans abdication em, ver' 
 ti aolumy ct demigravi alio 
 cw7n mea gallina. Ea 5*^«- 
 «i? mihi aliquot pullos. 
 
 al art8y whereby / keefi ufi my 
 youth. Now let Polygamus relate 
 wit!! the like /aithfulnessy how 
 he contracted so m«ch old age. 
 
 Truly / will conceal nothing 
 from so faithful con^panions. 
 
 You will icll it truly to the 
 silent. 
 
 When / lived at Paris, you 
 yourselves know how far I was 
 from disliking Efiicurus, 
 
 Indeed tve do remember ^ but 
 ive thouglk t.»at you luould leave 
 those manners^ together imith 
 your youth, at Paris, 
 
 Of mariy which / had loved 
 there, / carried one with me 
 home, and her with child. 
 
 Into your father* 9 house ? 
 
 Directly ; but pretending 
 that she was the wife of a cer- 
 tain friend of mine, wko would 
 come by and by. 
 
 Did your father believe it ? 
 
 Nay, he smelt out the matter 
 within four days. Presently 
 there was cruel scolding. J^or 
 yet did I abstain in the mean 
 time from feasts^ from dice, 
 and other bad arts. What 
 needs many words ? When my 
 father would not make an end 
 of scoldings denying that he 
 woul'! keefi such hens at home, 
 and now and then threatening 
 to discard me, / ran away, 
 and remo-ved to another place 
 with my /i€n. She brought me 
 9ome chickens. 
 
ti 
 
 NBW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 GL Unde res sufifietebat? 
 
 Fo, Ma»e dabat nonni- 
 hi\ furtimy zcpr^tterea plus 
 satis aeris alicni conjiatum 
 e*i, 
 
 Eu. Repcriebantur tam 
 fatui ut cietlerent tibi? 
 
 Fo Sunt qui credant 
 nullis iibentiuh. 
 
 £.u. Quid tandem ? 
 
 Fo Tan/Jem, cwm pater 
 serfo pfivaret abdicationem^ 
 aiT*^ ' interce^serunt. ti cow- 
 posverunt hoc bellum nis 
 lt;:ibus, wr .ivxevcTi. uxo- 
 rein noatrateTHj ei repudia- 
 rem Galium. 
 
 JEm. Krat «:iror ? 
 
 Fo, Verb^ ^,m7'f tem- 
 poris m^ercesseran?, sed con- 
 gressus prasentis temporis 
 accesserat. 
 
 Eu. Q\ii /z'cwiV /^Vwr di- 
 vertere «6 zV/a .? 
 
 Fo, Post rescitum est es- 
 se mese Gacia maritum, 
 Gallam, unde subduxerat 
 se pridem» 
 
 Eu. Habes er^-ouxorem 
 nunc ? 
 
 Fq- Non nisi hanc octa- 
 vam. 
 
 Eu. Octavam 1 Aow dic' 
 tua es Polyg:nnu3 nne au- 
 gurio I ortasse oimvi^s de- 
 cesserunt sterilcs, 
 
 Fo. 1...0, nulla non reli- 
 quit aliquot catuios domd 
 mex. 
 
 Where had you money? 
 
 My mothc: gave me some- 
 thing by stealth, and besides^ 
 more than enough of debt wa* 
 contracted^ 
 
 Were there any found so 
 foolish as to trust you ? 
 
 There are those who trust 
 none more -willingly. 
 
 What at last? 
 
 At last) ivhen my father in 
 earnest was preparing to disin» 
 herit mc, friends interceded^ and 
 made up this difference upon 
 these terms, ?^^ 1 should 
 marry a woman o/'owr own coun- 
 try^ and divorce my French wo- 
 man. 
 
 Was she your wife ? 
 
 Words of the future time 
 had passed betwixt us, but a ren- 
 counter of the present time had 
 been added to them. 
 
 How could you then part/rom 
 her.? 
 
 Afterwards it was known that 
 my French woman had a htis' 
 band, a Frenchman, yro7w whom 
 she had withdrawn herself long 
 before. 
 
 Have you therefore a wife 
 now ? 
 
 But this eighth. 
 
 An eighth 1 You tvere no€ 
 colled Polys^amus without Au- 
 gury. Ferhaps they all died 
 barren. 
 
 Nay, every one left some 
 young ones in m^ house. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 85 
 
 Eu. Eg© maUm tot gal- 
 linasy quae fionercnt o\&mi- 
 hi domi. <Non tadet poly- 
 gamiae ? 
 
 Fo, Adeo taedet, t/^ si 
 hac octava morereturhodicj 
 ducerem nonam /lerendie, 
 Imo, hoc male habet me, 
 quod won //cea/ habere dui- 
 7ias ant ternasf cum www* 
 gallus/205«2^ea/tot^a//z?2a5. 
 
 JSw. Equidcm //«wrf mi" 
 ror, si parum /itnguistiy 
 quodque collegeris tantum 
 senii: nam nihil accelerat 
 senectutem aeque quam im- 
 modica atque intemfie stives 
 compotationes, imfiotentes 
 amores mulierum^ et immo' 
 derata salacitas. Sed quis 
 alit famiiiam ? 
 
 Po. Mediocris r<?* acces- 
 sit ex obitu parenlum, et 
 laboror graviter manibus. 
 
 Eu, Descivisti igitur a 
 Uteris. 
 
 Po, Plane ab eguis, quod 
 aiunt, ad aatTios : ex hep- 
 tatechno /actus faber mo- 
 notechnus. 
 
 Eu. Miser I 
 
 Po. Nunquam vixi c<£- 
 lebs ultra decern dies, sem» 
 ficrque nova nupta exjiulit 
 veierem luctum. Habelis 
 auw.mam viiae meae bona fi- 
 de, jit que utinam Pam- 
 fiyrus narret tjobis quoq; 
 fybulcrm suae vitae) gui por- 
 
 I had rathor have as many 
 hensy that might lay eggs for 
 me at home, ^re you not nvea^ 
 ry of marrying so often ? 
 
 I am so weary, that if this 
 eighth should die to-day, I 
 would marry a ninth the next 
 day after to-morrono. Nay, this 
 vexes me, that it is not lawful 
 to have tivo or three^ when one 
 cock has so many hens. 
 
 Truly / do not ivonder, if you 
 are not fat^ and that you have 
 contracted so much of old age : 
 for nothing hastens on old age 
 so much as excessive and unsec' 
 sonable drinking, extravagant 
 love of ivomeny and immed' 
 erate wantonness. But who 
 mantains your family ? 
 
 A small es/c?e came to mc 
 by the death of my parents, and 
 I V. ork hard with my hands. 
 
 You have deserted therefore 
 from letters. 
 
 Indeed from horses, as they 
 say, to asses: of a man of sev- 
 en arts I am become a work- 
 man oj one art. 
 
 Poor man 1 
 
 I never Ifved a single fnan a- 
 bovc ten days, fi/zc^ always a 
 new man-ied wife exjielled my 
 eld sorrow. You have ^/je *w;7i 
 of my life m good earnest. 
 ^nd 1 wish Pamfiyrua would 
 tell us too the story of his life, 
 Tjfio betirs c^-e wefl cnoui^h. 
 
86 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 tat xtateJTiheWe satis . Nam , 
 7ii fallor, "^est grandior me 
 duobus aut tribus annls. 
 
 Pa, Dicam equidem si 
 -vobis vocat audire^a/e som- 
 niuin. 
 
 Mu. Imo, erit voluptas 
 audire». 
 
 ' Fa. Ubi rediTsse?n do- 
 mum, statim senex fiater 
 coepit urgere me, ut am- 
 jilecterer aliquod genus vi- 
 tse, unde nonnihil quastua 
 accederet rei familiari : at 
 fiost\QW\f;5>Xi\co7isultationemf 
 negotialio jilacuit. 
 
 Po. MirorAoc genus i;z- 
 t<K an isisse potissitnuin. 
 
 Pa, Eram natura sitiens 
 cognci^cendi novas res^ va- 
 rias regiones^ urbes, lin- 
 guas ac 7)iorcs hominum. 
 JVegotzatto videbatur maxi' 
 me apposita ad id : ex qui- 
 bus na&citur prudentia. 
 
 Po. Sed lyiisera^ videli- 
 CtUquce sit tmtnda plerum- 
 que niagms nialis. 
 
 Pa. Sic est, Itaque/^a- 
 ter nutneravit salts am- 
 filam scrteni, t^; aaspicaier 
 negQciadoncm. Sinmique 
 uxor cum magna «jotc am- 
 bitbatur., sed ea forma^ 
 quae fwccrat comniendare 
 €t indoiatam. 
 
 P.IU Suceessit ? 
 
 Pa, Imo, priusquam re- 
 direm domiim^ et sors et 
 usura periit. 
 
 For, U7iles8 I am mistaken, he 
 isy elder ^Mtz / by two or three 
 years. 
 
 I will tell you indeed if yoti 
 are at leisure to bear such a 
 dream. 
 
 Nay, it ivill be a pleasure to 
 hear it. 
 
 When I had returned home, 
 immedmtely my aged father be- 
 gan to urge me to embrace some 
 loay of life, ivhereby something 
 of increase might accrue to our 
 estate : and after long consulta- 
 tion) merchandize /i/^aserf nie, 
 
 I wonder that this kind of 
 life pleased you esjieciallu. 
 
 1 was by nature greedy of 
 knovAng new thingb^ divei'S 
 countries-^ chits^ languages ard 
 manners of nien. Merchandize 
 seemed the 7no6i^ apposite to that 
 purpose : from which tnings 
 artseth prudence. 
 
 But m'lserable., truly, that 
 which is to be bought for the 
 most part iv'uh great evils. 
 
 So it is. Wherefore 7ny fa- 
 ther gave me a good large stoc k, 
 that 1 might begin Tpy merchan' 
 dize. And at the same lime a 
 iv^fe with a great fortune ivas^ 
 courted, 'but of that beauty ^ 
 which might recommend one 
 even without a fortune. 
 
 Did it succeed ? 
 
 Nay, before I returned home^ 
 botn principal and interest was 
 gone. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 87 
 
 Eu, Naufragio J /or^asse. 
 
 Pa. Plane 7faw/ra!iWo,nam 
 im}iegimu8 in scopulum 
 fiericulosiorem quavis Mi» 
 lea, 
 
 Eu. In quo mari occiir- 
 ritzs^f scopulus ; aw; quod 
 notnen habet ? 
 
 Pa. Non possum dicere 
 mare j sed scopulus est in' 
 famis exitiis multorum. 
 Latine dicitur Alea ; quo- 
 niodo vos Giaeci nomine tis^ 
 nescio. 
 
 Eu^ O te stultum ! 
 
 Pa. Imo, ^latcr stuldor, 
 qui crederet taniam sum- 
 mam adolescenti, 
 
 GL Quid factum est de- 
 indc ? 
 
 Pa, ^WiW est factum^ s^a 
 cce/ii cogitare de siispendio. 
 
 GL Erit pater adeo «m- 
 placabilis ? 
 
 Pa, Interim excidiab uxm 
 ore^ miser. J^am parcntcs 
 puellx, simul atquc cogno^ 
 verunt hsec auspicia^ re- 
 nunciarunt affimtatem ; et 
 amabam perditissime, 
 
 GL Miserescit me tui. 
 Sed interim quid consllii 
 tentatum est ? 
 
 Pa. Id quod solet in des- 
 peratis rebus. Pater abdi- 
 cabat, res perierat, uxor 
 perierat. Quid pliirls ? 
 Deliberabam serio mecum, 
 an suspeftdorem me^ an 
 conjicerem memet aliquo in 
 monasteiium. ^ 
 
 By shipwreck, perhaps. 
 Plainly by shipwreck, for 
 we struck upon a rock more 
 dangerous than any Malea, 
 
 In what sea occurs that rock ; 
 or what name has it I 
 
 I cannot teil the sea ; but 
 the rock is infamous for the 
 ruin of many. In Latin it is 
 called Alea ; how you Greeks 
 name it^ I know not. 
 
 you fool ! 
 
 Nay, my father was more 
 foolish, who trusted so great a 
 sum to young man. 
 
 What was done then ? 
 
 Nothing was done^ but / 
 begun to think of hanging. 
 
 Was your father so implaca» 
 ble? 
 
 In the mean time / ivas 
 baulked of my wife^ poor*man. 
 For the parents of the girl^ as 
 soon as they kricw t'aese omensy 
 renounced affinity with me ; 
 and I loved most desperately. 
 
 1 pity yoii. But in the mean 
 time wh&t course was tried ? 
 
 That which is usual in despe- 
 rate pases. My father dis* 
 carded me, m.y substance was 
 g;one, 7ny wife was gone. 
 What needs inore words ? I de- 
 liberated seriously with myself, 
 whether I should hang myself 
 ov put u\ysG\i somewhere iuto d 
 monastery. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 £u. Cr«dele consilium. 
 Scio utrum eligerisj mitius 
 genus mortis. 
 
 Fa. Imo, quod visum 
 est mihi turn crudeiiusy 
 adeo totus displicebam mi' 
 Ai, 
 
 Gl, Atqui complures de- 
 jiciunt se eo, ut vivant «w- 
 avius. 
 
 Pa. Corrasot;/a^«co sub- 
 duxi me furtira proaXl a 
 patria. 
 
 GL Quo tandem ? 
 
 Pa. In Hiberinam. //- 
 t/c; factus sum canonicus 
 ex horum gene re, ^fz^z sunt 
 linei ex Lime, Unci intime. 
 
 GL Hyljernasti igilur 
 apud Hibemos ? 
 
 Pa, Non. ^e-cf versatus 
 a^iud hos duo8 menses, na~ 
 vlgavi in Scotiam. 
 
 Gl. Quid offendit te a/2M<;^ 
 illos ? 
 
 iPa, Nihil nisi quod z7- 
 /wrf instil utum videbatur 
 mihi mitius quam /zro wer- 
 277s ejus ^wi er«At dignus non 
 2mo juspentiio. 
 
 £u. Quid fecisti in Sco- 
 tia ? 
 
 Pel!. Illic ex lineo factus 
 sum fielliceus apud Garth u- 
 sios. 
 
 Eiu Homines /i/anemor- 
 tuos mundo. 
 
 Pa. Ita x^zsz^w ^«^ mihi 
 cum audirem illos canen- 
 les. 
 
 A cruel resolution. I kn«w 
 which you chose, the milder 
 kind of death. 
 
 Nay, w/ifl^ seemed to me 
 then r/te more crueiy so entirely 
 did I displease myself. 
 
 But a ^;Ta? many put ?//^m- 
 selves in there, Ma^ they may 
 live more pleasantly. 
 
 Having scraped together 
 money for my journey^ I with- 
 drew /^z^/se//" privately f a great 
 distance from my eountry. 
 
 Whilher at last? 
 
 Into Ireland. There I was 
 made a camn of their kind, 
 ivho are line?i without, wool' 
 len within. 
 
 Did you winter then among 
 the Irish ? 
 
 No. But having been ivith 
 them tivo months, / sailed mitt 
 Scotland. 
 
 What offended you among 
 them ? 
 
 Nothing but that that consti- 
 tution seemed to me more gentle 
 than to suit the deserts of him 
 ivho was worthy not of a single 
 hanging, 
 
 Yvhixidid you do in Scotland ? 
 
 There of a linen man I be- 
 came a leathern one among 
 the Carthusians. 
 
 Men plainly dead to the world. 
 
 So it appeared to me when I 
 heard them singing. 
 
WSW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 89 
 
 Gl, Quid, mortui ca?iunt 
 eticiin ? Quot menses egls' 
 ti apud illos Scotos ? 
 
 Pa. PropemoduTTi sex. 
 
 GL O conslantiam ! 
 
 £u. Quid offendit illic ? 
 
 Pa, Quia vita visa est 
 Tnihi segnis et delicata j 
 deinde re pen multos illic 
 cerebri non admodum sani, 
 06 solitudinem^ ut arbitror, 
 Mihi erat t^arum cerebri, 
 verebar ne totum fieriret, 
 
 Po. Quo devolasti delu- 
 de ? 
 
 Pa. In Galliam. Refie- 
 r'l illic quosdam totos /z«//- 
 cro^, ex insiituto o?zw Ben- 
 edict!, $'wz testantur colore 
 ve&tis, «^ lugere m hoc 
 mundo ; e? inter hoa qui 
 /i7'o summa -veste ferrent 
 ciliciuni simile reti, 
 
 GL O gravem macera- 
 tionein corporis ! 
 
 Pa. Hie egi undecim 
 menses. 
 
 JEic, Quid obstitit^ quo 
 minus maneresi/Z/c perpe- 
 tuo? 
 
 Pa . Quiai7//c repcri///w5 
 ceremoniarum qiiam verse 
 pietatis. 'Pid^leredi, audio 
 ram esse guosda?n multo 
 aanctiores his quos }3er- 
 nardus revocasseC ad sever" 
 iorem disciplinam, /m//a 
 vesle mutatam candidam: 
 , afiud hos vixi decem men- 
 sew. 
 
 Eu. Quid offendebat hie? 
 H 2 
 
 What, do the dead sing to© ? 
 Ifoiv many months did you 
 s/iend with thDse Scots ? 
 
 Almost six> 
 
 O constancy ! 
 
 What oj^ended you there ? 
 
 Because ihe life seemed to 
 me lazy and nice ; then I found 
 ma?iy there o/a ^razw not very 
 sound, because of the solitude^ 
 as I imagine. I had but little 
 brain, I was afraid lest it should 
 all bq lost. 
 
 Whither did you fee then ? 
 
 Into France. I found there 
 some all /;z 6/ac/t, of the order 
 of St. Benedict, who testify by 
 the colour of their coat, that they 
 mourn in this world ; a7id a- 
 mong them some \s\\ofor their 
 upper ^-armewr wore hair cloth 
 like a net. 
 
 O grievous viortificatien of 
 the body ! 
 
 Here / sjient eleven months. 
 
 What hindered you 
 staying there always ? 
 
 from 
 
 Because there I found more 
 of ceremonies than true fiiety^ 
 Besides, I had heard that there 
 were some mucli more holy than 
 these whom Bernard had 
 brought to more severe discip- 
 line, the black garment being 
 changed into a white : with 
 these I lived ten months. 
 
 What of ended you here t 
 
90 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Pa. Nihil admodum ; 
 nam re fieri hos so dale a 
 commodos satis. Sed 
 Gr^cwm proverbiuni move- 
 bat me. Itaque decretum 
 erat aut non esse monach- 
 tiWf aut esse monachum 
 insi^niler. Acceperam es' 
 se quosdam Brigidensesy 
 homines /ilane coelestes. 
 Contuii me ad hos. 
 
 Eu. Quot menses egisti 
 illic ? 
 
 Pa» Biduum,nfcid6aw6? 
 totum. 
 
 Gl. Displicuit hoc ge- 
 nus vitse usque adeo ? 
 
 Pa. Non recipiunt nisi 
 qui obstringat se mox pro- 
 fessioni. At ego nondum 
 adeo insankbam ut firxbe- 
 rem me facile capistro, 
 quod nunquam liceret eX' 
 cutere. Et quoties audie- 
 bam 'virgines canentes, ux' 
 or erepta crucicbat ani- 
 mum. 
 
 GL Quid deinde ? 
 Pa, Animus ardcbat a- 
 more sanciimonice. Tan- 
 dem obambulans ineidi m 
 quosdam prsfe rentes cru- 
 cem. Hoc signwn arrisit 
 W/iZ protinus, st-f^^ variolas 
 remorabatur electionem. 
 Alii gestabant album, alii 
 rabromy alii viridem, alii 
 versicoloremi-^ViLsim/iiicem, 
 sAii du/ilicem. Kgo,nf re- 
 linqucrem quid zntentatum, 
 ^Qss'i ferine omuGsf ormas. 
 Verum €o?njicri ipsa r&j 
 
 Nothing TydTi/ 7rtMc/i ; for .J" 
 found these comfianions good 
 enough. 'Qxxi the Greek ^voxQvh 
 ?noved me. Wherefore I was 
 resolved either not to be a monk^ 
 or ^0 6<? a monk remarkably. I 
 had heard ^Aere were some 
 Brigidensians, men frw/y celes- 
 tial. / betook myself to them» 
 
 How many months did you 
 spend Mere ? 
 
 Two days, ^zor that indeed 
 entire. 
 
 Did this kind of life displease 
 yo\i so much ? 
 
 They admit no one that does 
 not bind himsQli ifntnediately to 
 the profession. But I was not 
 yet so mad as to fiut myself tfasi- 
 ly into a noose, "which I should 
 never be able to shake off. And 
 as often as I heard the virgins 
 singing, the wife I had lost tor» 
 mented my mind. 
 
 What then ? 
 
 My mind loas inflamed with 
 the love of holiness^ At last, 
 as I was walking, I lighted ufion 
 some carrying a cross. This 
 badge pleased me immediately, 
 but the variety hindered my 
 choice. Some bore a white 07ie, 
 some a redsoxne a greetiy some 
 a fiarticolouredy some e single, 
 some a double one, I, Ma^ / 
 ?K/^/2r no^ /ea-jye any thing untri- 
 ec?,wore almost all ^/(e 5orr«. But 
 / foundby the thing itself, Mar 
 it is quite another thing to car- 
 
NEW LATIN PRUMER. 
 
 91 
 
 esse longe aliud circum- 
 ferre crucem in pallio seu 
 tunica, guam in corde. 
 Tandem fessus inquirendo^ 
 sic cogitabam mecum, ut 
 assequar omnem sanctimo- 
 niam seviel, petam sanctam 
 terram, ac redibo domum 
 onustus sancCimonia. 
 
 Po. Num profectus es 
 eo ? 
 
 Pa, Maxime. 
 
 Po. Unde «tt/i/ic^edar vi- 
 aticum ? 
 
 Pa, Demiror i&tud ve- 
 nire tibi in menteni nunc 
 denique ut rogaresy ac non 
 fiercunctaturn fuisse multo 
 ante. Sed ndsti pToverbi- 
 um, quavis terra alit artifi- 
 ccm. 
 
 Gl, Quam artem cir- 
 cumferebas ? 
 
 Pa, Chiromanticam. 
 
 Gl. Ubi didiceras earn ? 
 
 Pa. Quid refert ? 
 
 GL Quo praeceptore ? 
 
 Pa, Eo qui docet nihil 
 nony ventre. Pradicebam 
 ^t^\.Qv\\Aytirasentia et /w- 
 tura, 
 
 Gl. Et sciebas ? 
 
 Pa, Nihil wz/tzw* ; sed 
 divinabam audaciter, idque 
 videlicet) prelio acce/ito 
 prius. 
 
 Po. Poterat tarn ridicu- 
 la ars alerc te ? 
 
 Pa. Poterat, ft quidem 
 cum duobus famulis ; tan- 
 iwmyatuorum ct/atuarum 
 est ubique. Attamcn curn 
 
 ry a cross upon a gown or a tu- 
 nick, t/ian in the heart, ,/it latt 
 being weary ivith inquiring^ 
 thus I thought with myself, that 
 I may get all holinesa at once'y 
 I will go to the holy land, and 
 will return home loaded with 
 holiness. 
 
 Did you go thither ? 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Whence had you money for 
 your journey l 
 
 I wonder that this is com© 
 into your mind now at last to 
 asky and that you did not ask 
 that long before. But you have 
 known the proverb, any coun- 
 try maintains an artist. 
 
 What art did you carry about? 
 
 The Chiromantick. 
 
 Where had you learnt h f 
 
 What signifies that ? 
 
 Under what master ? 
 
 film who teaches every thinly 
 the belly. / foretold thing* 
 ^iisty present and/o come. 
 
 And did you know them ? 
 
 Nothing /e**; but I guessed 
 boldly, and that safely, that is, 
 my reward being received first. 
 
 Could so ridiculous an an 
 maintain you ? 
 
 It could, awi/ indeed wi/A two 
 servants ; so xxidiUy foolish men 
 2LnA foolish women are there ev- 
 ert/ where. Yet ivhen I went 
 
$2 
 
 SEW LATIN PRI^B*. 
 
 adiretn Hierosoh/mamy ad- 
 dideram w^comitctum cu- 
 jusdam raagnatis, /iradivi' 
 eiSf qui natus aiinos sefitua- 
 ginta^ negabat sc moritu- 
 rum isquo animo, ni adiis- 
 set Hierosolymam piius. 
 
 JLu. El reliquerat iixo- 
 rein domi ? 
 
 Pa. Atque sex liberos 
 etiam. 
 
 Eu. O sen cm imtne pi- 
 um I Atque rediisii illinc 
 sanctus ? 
 
 Ta, Vis fat ear verum ? 
 Aliquanto dttcrior quam 
 iveram. 
 
 Eu. Sic, ut audio, amor 
 religion is excussus est 
 
 Va. ImOy Tnagisincandu- 
 itm lt<xquereversusin lid' 
 liani) addixi mc militia, 
 
 Eu. Itane venebaris reli- 
 gionem in bello ? Quo, 
 g'Mfrfpotesl esse scelei atiiis? 
 
 Pa. EraL sancta militia. 
 
 Eu. Fovtassi.uw Turcas? 
 
 Pa. Imo> quoddam sanc- 
 tius, ut prsedicdbant turn, 
 
 Eu* Quidnam ? 
 
 Pa. luViMSsecundushQW" 
 igerabat adversus Gallos. 
 Porroy cxperientia multa- 
 rum re:um etiam commen- 
 dabat militiam mihi. 
 
 Eu. Mult arum, ssd ma- 
 larum. 
 
 to Jerusalems I joined myself to 
 the coir puny of a certain great 
 mun, very richf who being sev' 
 e7ity years old, ftei'.iti» that he 
 shou ift (iic; wiih a contented nxmdy 
 unless he went to Jerusalem first. 
 
 Ard ?iad he left a wife at 
 home ? 
 
 And six children too. 
 
 O an old man imfiiously pi- 
 ous I And did you return /row 
 thence holy ? 
 
 Will you have me confess, the 
 truth ? Something worse than 
 I went. 
 
 Thus, as I hear, the love of 
 religion was excelled. 
 
 Nay, it was more enfiamed. 
 Wherefore returning into Ita- 
 ly, I applied myself to war. 
 
 Did you thus hunt for reli-gion 
 in war? i'han which, what' 
 can be more wicked ? 
 
 It was a holy warfare. 
 
 Perhaps against the Turks f 
 
 Nay, something more holy, 
 as they said then. 
 
 What ? 
 
 Julius the second waged war 
 against the French. Moreover^ 
 the experience of many things 
 likewise recommended war to 
 me. 
 
 Of many, but bad things. 
 
KEW LATIN PmWJER, 
 
 9^ 
 
 Pa. Itarom/?(?npost. Et 
 tamen vixi durius hie quam 
 in monasteriis. 
 
 £u. Quid turn postea ? 
 
 Pa, Jam animus ecefiit 
 vacillare>w/rMm redirem ad 
 negociationem intermissam^ 
 2iX\ fiersequerer religionem, 
 Jhgientem. Interim venit 
 rn mentem fiosse conjungi. 
 
 Eu, Qiiid ? ut esses *f- 
 mul et negotiator et mono' 
 chus ? 
 
 Pa. Quidni ? Mhil reli- 
 giosius orc/zm6w«Mendican- 
 tium ; et tamen nihil simil- 
 ius negotiationi ; voJitant 
 pei^ omnes terras et maria ; 
 vident multa^ audiunt mul- 
 tay penetrant in omnes do- 
 mus picbeiorum, nobilium 
 atque reguml 
 
 Eu. At non caufionantur. 
 
 Pa. Saepe/f/zd MS nobis. 
 
 Eu. Quod genus ex his 
 delegisti ? 
 
 Pa. Expertus sum om- 
 nes formas. 
 
 Eu. l^uUa placuit ? 
 
 Pa. Imo, omnes fierfila- 
 cuerunt^ silicuissetwf^orfa- 
 ri statim. FerM?nperpen- 
 debim sudendum mihi diu 
 in c/ioro,priusqu^m negotia- 
 tio credcretWYmihi, Ji»m- 
 que cce/ii cogitare de venan- 
 da abbatia. Sed primum 
 
 So I found afterwards, ^^nd 
 yet / lived more hardly here 
 than in the monasteries. 
 
 What then afterwards ? 
 
 ^010 my mind began to 
 waver, whether I should return 
 to merchandize, wA/ci^ / Kad 
 given overy or pursue religion, 
 fiying from me. In the mean 
 time it •ame into my mind 
 that they might be joined to- 
 gether. 
 
 What ? that you might be 
 at once both a merchant and « 
 monk ? 
 
 Why not ? JVothing is more 
 religious than the orders of the 
 Mendicants ; and yet nothing is 
 more like merchandize ; they 
 rove througk^dMlandsond seas 
 they see maiiy things^ they hear 
 many things, they thrust into all 
 houses of commoners, no6lem$n 
 and kings. 
 
 But they do not traffic. 
 
 Oftentimes more successfully 
 than \ye. 
 
 What sort of these did you 
 choose ? 
 
 I tried all sorts. 
 
 Did none please you ? 
 
 Nuy, they all fileased me very 
 ivsll^ if I iriight have traded 
 immediately. But i consider- 
 ed that I ?nust sweat a long 
 time in the company y before the 
 business of traffic would be 
 ti us(ed to me. And now J 
 began to think of hunting after 
 
94t 
 
 NEYT I.ATMJ ^RIM£a.. 
 
 /lie Diana non favet omrii- 
 bus, et venatio est saepe 
 longa, Ilaque octo annis 
 consumptis in hunc mo- 
 duni) cum mors fiatris es- 
 set nuntiatuy reversus dO' 
 mum, ex. consilio macris, 
 duxi uxorem, et r^rfz/ ad 
 veterem negoHationem, 
 
 Gl. Die 7w/^z, cum su- 
 meres subinde novam vps- 
 tern, ac velut transformarc' 
 ris in aliud animaly qui /zo- 
 ^wzs?£ servart decorum ? 
 
 Pa. Qui minus quam Aj 
 qui in eadem fabula agunt 
 varias pevsonas I 
 
 £u. Die nobis bona ^de, 
 qui exficrtus es nullum 
 non gehus v'nx,guid probas 
 maxime omnium ? 
 
 J^a. Omnia non congru- 
 ent omnibus : nullum arri- 
 det mihi magis quam hoc 
 quod secutus sum. 
 
 Eu. Tarn en negotiatio 
 habet muUa incommoda. 
 
 Ta* Nicest, Sedquando 
 nullum genus vitse caret 
 omnibus incommodis, onio 
 hanc partem qu^m nactus 
 sum. Ferum nuv.c super' 
 est Eusebius, qiii non gra- 
 vabilur explicare aliquam 
 saenam suse vita. 
 
 Eu. Imo, tot am fabulam, 
 « videtur, nam non habet 
 multos actus. 
 
 Gl, iirit magnojiere gra- 
 tum. 
 
 an Abbot's place. But in the 
 first place here Diana does not 
 favour all men, and the hunting 
 is ovqw long. Therefore eight 
 years being spent after this man- 
 ner, whe7i tne death of my fa* 
 ther Avas told we, returning 
 //ome, by the advice of my moth^ 
 cr, I married a noife^ and re» 
 turned to my old traffic. 
 
 Tell 7?;<?, when you took now 
 and then a nenv coat, awrf as it 
 were c//q!;z^(?£/ into another crea- 
 ture^ how could you keep up a 
 decorum ? 
 
 Why /^ss than M^y who m 
 the same play act various parts ? 
 
 Tell ws in good ear7iest, yoii 
 who >^ai;<? tried every kind of 
 life, ivhich do you approve 
 77205^ of all ? 
 
 Ail things t/o 7iot agree with 
 all men : none pleases me more 
 than this wAic/i I have follow» 
 ed. 
 
 Yet merchandize has 7nany in- 
 conveniences. 
 
 So ?V is. But seeing no ^mrf 
 of life 25 without all inconven- 
 iences, I mind ^/«5 province 
 wAzcA I have got. But now 
 remains Eusebius, wAo will not 
 think much to relate some 
 seene of Ms life. 
 
 Nay, ?^e ^y^o/d- play, if it 
 seems good, /or it has not ma* 
 ny acts. 
 
 It will be very grateful. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 95 
 
 £u, Ubi rediissem in pa- 
 triae:-, deliberavi a pud me 
 annum >mq^nair. genus vi- 
 tae vellem amfilecti ; simui- 
 qt!-.- ex/iloravi Ticipsurn «rf 
 <7W0G? i;eiius e6«ew pr ipvii- 
 su^ aut idoneu-j. Interim 
 piaebciida est oblata^ quam 
 vocant. satis ofiimi proven- 
 tub. Accepi. 
 
 GU \io\^ genus s\\7^vul' 
 go male audit. 
 
 Jilu. Videtuv mi/d exoD- 
 tandiim satis., ut humanx 
 res sunt, Ar. putMiis esse 
 T[]\G(\\ocvoTCifelici(atem^ tot 
 commoda dari subito vclut 
 e ccflo^ dignitatcn;, h.nestas 
 sedes beneque iiistruct..s, 
 ^atis amfilos annuos reditusy 
 hono'ifiruT sodalitium^ dc- 
 inde temfilum^ ubi, *iJ libcat* 
 vaces rdij^ioiii ? 
 
 Pfl. Illic luxus offende- 
 bat md", et infamia concubi- 
 naium, tu7n quod plerique 
 ejus geijciib odt^runt lue- 
 ras. 
 
 /*/«. Kgo now s/iecfo quid 
 fl/w agum, ««^fl' cii>id est 
 agendum mihi / et adjungo 
 me nielioribus^'iA non }iossum 
 redfieiv a//os iTkelinie-.,. 
 
 Po, Vixisd fier/ietuo in 
 isi',' genere ? 
 
 J; u I c »• pe t u o , ?iisi q u o d 
 eg (' watviov a7inos priiuum 
 Paiavii 
 
 JPo. Quaniobrem ? 
 
 When / was returned into 
 my own count jy. I deliberated 
 with msscW a year v '. kind o'^ 
 life / should embrace ; c iio at 
 the suvju time I examined my- 
 8elf,/or w/ia^ kind/ ^ya* mr.li- 
 nabi:; or fit. /n Me mean time 
 a prebend was offered me. as 
 they call it, of a good rich in- 
 come. I accefiied it. 
 
 This sori ol life commonly 
 goes under an ill name. 
 
 It seems to me desirable 
 enough^ as human affairs are. 
 Dn yoM think it to be a smail 
 happinesHt that so many good, 
 thi^igs should be given a man 
 on a sudden^ as it wort Jrom 
 heaven,, honour, a /landsomc 
 bous-\ and well furnis-'ied, a 
 good large yearly mcow(?,honour- 
 able comfiany. Hiid then a churchy 
 whe-e, if you have a mind, 
 you may enter upon divine wor« 
 snip ? 
 
 'i'hcre luxury offended me^ 
 and the injamy of concubines, 
 und also that most men of that 
 way hate leaiuing. 
 
 I do not regard what other^ 
 do, but what is to be dor;*» by 
 me; ixnd I join myself to the 
 better sort, if / cannot make oth- 
 ers hetter. 
 
 ll\Vf you lived always in 
 thai ivay ? 
 
 Aix^ays, but that / spent 
 four years at first a$ Fatavium* 
 
 What for f 
 
96 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Eu. Partitus sum hos 
 annos ita^ ut darem sesqui- 
 anniim studio medicmse, 
 reUguum lemfius xheologids, 
 
 Po. Cur idP 
 
 £u. Quo melius modera. 
 ret et ardmum et corpus, et 
 nonnunquam consul er em 
 amicis. J^am et concionor 
 nonnwiguam pro inea sapi- 
 entia. Sic hactenus vi:ri 
 tranquUle satiSi contcmus 
 unico sacerdolittj nee ambi- 
 ens quidqu&m p-rxterea^ re- 
 CQsaturub etiam si offeratur, 
 
 Ta. U tin am liceret dis- 
 cer© quod caeteri nostri so- 
 dales agant, quibuscum 
 •tiximus famiiiariier. 
 
 Eu. Possum commemo- 
 rare qiiaedam de nonnullis ; 
 i^r! video nos non abesae 
 procul a civitate i qusre, 
 si vidtiur, conveniemus in 
 i&f^m diversorium, Ibi/^dT 
 atium oonteremus de ccete- 
 rig aiTdllm.- 
 
 I divided those years »o, thit 
 I gave a year and a half to the 
 study of physic, the^ rest of my 
 time to divinity. 
 
 Why that ? 
 
 That I might the better man- 
 age both inind and body, and 
 sometimes assist my friends. 
 Eor 1 preach too sometimes ac- 
 cording to my wisdom. Thus 
 so it^vlhave //x;f£/ quietly enough^ 
 content nvith one living, and not 
 seeking for any thing betides, 
 and would refuse it toO) if is 
 should be offered, 
 
 I wish we could learn nvhat 
 the rest of our companions are 
 doingy with whom %ve lived fa- 
 miliwiy. 
 
 I can relate some things of 
 so7ne of them ; but / see we are 
 not far from the city ; where- 
 fore?, if it seems good, nve ivill 
 refiair to the same inn. There 
 at our leisure we will confer 
 aliout other things at large» 
 
 4^ ^ 'lHHr ' 
 
 EUTROPII 
 
 BREVIARIUM HIST0RM3 HOMANiE. 
 
 IJBER T. 
 ROMANUM Impe- THE Roman Empire, 
 
 rium, quo ncque ab ex- than which the hisiary of 
 prdio uilum fere minus mankind can farnisU us 
 neqtie incicurientis to- with scarcely any less in 
 t» orbe ampllus hu- its original, or greater in 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMERi 
 
 97 
 
 mana potest memoria re- 
 cordari, a Romulo exordi- 
 um habet,qui Vestalis Vir- 
 ginis, & (quantum pu- 
 tatus est) Martis, cum Re- 
 mo fratre, uno partu edi- 
 tus est. Is, cum inter pas- 
 tores latTocinaretur, octo- 
 decim annos natus, urbem 
 exiguam in Palatino mon- 
 te constituit, xi. Kal. Maii, 
 Olympiadis sextae anno 
 tertio, post Trojae excidi- 
 um, trccentesimo, nona- 
 gesimo quarto. 
 
 2. Condita civitate,quam 
 ex nomine suo Romam 
 vocatit, haec fere egit. 
 Mnltitudinem finitimo- 
 rum in civitatem recepit. 
 Centum ex senioribus ele- 
 git, quorum consilio om- 
 nia ageret ; quos setiatorcs 
 nomiuavit propter senec- 
 tulem. Tunc, cum uxores 
 ipse & populus non habe- 
 rent,invitavitad spcctacu- 
 lum ludorum vicinat* urbi 
 nationes, atque earum vir- 
 gines rapuit. Commoiis 
 bellis propter raplarum 
 ihjuriam, Casninenses vi- 
 cit, Antemnates, Crustu- 
 minos, Sabinos, Fidenates, 
 Vcjentes, (haec omnia op- 
 pida urbem cingunt). Et 
 ciim orta subito terapesta- 
 le non comparuisset anna 
 rep:ni trigesimo septinio ; 
 ai Deos transisse creditus, 
 consccfatus csl. Deinde 
 Ho»» per qulnos dies 
 I 
 
 its increase threughout the 
 whole world, has its beginning 
 from Romulus, who being the 
 son of a Vestal Nun and (as 
 was supposed) of Mars, was 
 born at the same birth with his 
 brother Remus. He, while 
 he robbed among the shep- 
 herds, being but 18 years old, 
 built a little city upon the Pal- 
 atine mount, upon the eleventh 
 of the calends of May, in the 
 third year of the sixth Olym- 
 piad, in the 394th year from 
 the destruction of Troy. 
 
 2, Having built the city, 
 which he called by his own 
 name Rome, he performed 
 tbese things. He took great 
 numbers of his neighbours in- 
 to his city. He chose a hun- 
 dred of the elders of the peofile ; 
 by whose advice he managed 
 all his affairs ; whom he called 
 senators» because of their age. 
 Then, as he and his people had 
 no wives, he invited the na* 
 tions, neighbours to his city, 
 to the sight of games, and 
 seized their young wome«. 
 Wars commencing for the in- 
 justice of seizing the ivomen, 
 he conquered the Caeninen- 
 sians, the Antemnauans, Crus- 
 tuminians, Sabines, Fidena- 
 tians, Vejentians, (all these 
 town» surrounded the city.) 
 And as in a slorm that rose 
 on a sudden, he disappeared in 
 the ST'ih year of his reign ; bO" 
 ing st^pposed to have gone to 
 the Gods, be was accordingly 
 
9Z 
 
 NBW LATIN PRJMEB. 
 
 senatores impel averunt, 
 & his regnantibus annus 
 unus completus est. 
 
 3, Postea Numa Pom* 
 pilius rex creatus est, qui 
 bellum nullum quidem 
 gessit, sed non minus ci- 
 vitati quam Romulus pro- 
 fuit. Nam 8c leges Ro- 
 miinis, moresque consti- 
 tuit, qui consuetudine 
 prseliorum jam latrones 
 at semibarbari putaban» 
 tur. Annum descripsit 
 in X. menses, prius sine 
 aliqua computationc cob- 
 fusum : & infinita Romae 
 sacra ac terapla constituit. 
 Morbo decessit quadrage- 
 simo tertio imperii anno. 
 
 4. Huic successit Tul- 
 lus Hostilius. Hie bella 
 repara^'it, Albanos vicit, 
 qui ab urbe Roma xii. mil- 
 lario sunt : Veientes & 
 Fidenates, quorum alii 
 sexto miliario absunt ab 
 urbe Romana, alii octavo 
 decimo, bello superavit. 
 Urbem ampiificavit, ad- 
 jecto Caelio monte. Cum 
 triginta duobus annis reg- 
 nasset, fulmine ictus cum 
 domo sua arnt, 
 
 5. Post hunc Ancus 
 Martius, Numas ex filia 
 nepos, suscepit irnperi- 
 um. Contra Latinos di- 
 micavit ; Aventinum raon- 
 tem civitati adjecit, ct 
 
 deified. After that, the aena" 
 tors reigned at Rome for five 
 days eachydind whilst they reign- 
 ed one year was completed. 
 
 3. Afterwards Numa Pom- 
 pilius was made king, who 
 carried on indeed no war, but 
 was no less serviceable to the 
 city than Romulus. For he 
 established laws and wholesome 
 usages amongst the Romans, 
 who from a custom of fighting, 
 were now thought robbers and 
 hall barbarians. He divided 
 the year into ten months, nvhich 
 had been confused before with- 
 out anypro/ier reckoning : and 
 he instituted an infinite num- 
 ber of holy rites, and built ma' 
 ny temples at Rome. He di- 
 ed of a disease in the forty- 
 third year of his reign. 
 
 4. Tullus Hostilius succeed- 
 him; He renewed the wars, 
 conquered the Albans, who are 
 at the twelfth mile from the 
 city Rome : he subdued the 
 Veientes and the Fidenates, 
 one of which are distant 
 six miles from the city of 
 Rome, and the other eighteen. 
 He enlarged the city by adding 
 mount Cselius. After he had 
 reigned 32 years, he was thun- 
 der-struck, and was burnt »ip> 
 together with his house. 
 
 5. After him was Ancus 
 Martius, the grandson of Nu- 
 ma by a daughter, took upon 
 him the government. He 
 fought against the Latins ; ad- 
 ded mount Ayentine and Jdiu- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 99 
 
 Janiculum. Ostiam civi- 
 tatem supra mare, sexto 
 decimo milliario ab urbe 
 Romae condiclit. Vigesi- 
 mo quarto anno imperii 
 morbo periit. 
 
 6. Deinde regnum Pris- 
 cus Tarquinius accepit. 
 Hie numerum senatorum 
 duplicavit ; Circum Ro- 
 mse eedificavit ; ludos Ro- 
 manos instituit, qui ad 
 nostram memoriam per- 
 manent. Vicit idem e- 
 tiam Sabinos ; et non pa- 
 rum agrorum, sublaium 
 iisdem, urbis Romee ter- 
 ritorio adjunxit ; primus- 
 que triumphuns urbem in- 
 travitk Mures fecit et clo- 
 acas ; Capitolium inchoa- 
 vit. Trigesimo octavo im- 
 perii anno per Anci filios 
 occisns est, regis ejus cui 
 ipse successerat. 
 
 7. Post hunc Scrvius 
 Tullius suscepit imperi- 
 um, genitus ex nobili foe- 
 mina, captiva tamen 8c an- 
 cilia. Hie quoque Sabi- 
 nos subegit, montes tres, 
 Quirinalem, Viminalem, 
 Ksquilinum urbi adjunxit, 
 fossas circum murum 
 duxit. Primus omnium 
 Censum ordinavit, qui ad- 
 huc per orbem terrarum 
 incognitus erat. Sub eo 
 Roma, omnibus in censum 
 delatis, habuit capitum 
 Ixxxiv. millia civium Ro- 
 manorum, cum hisj qui in 
 
 culum to the city. He built 
 the city of Ostia upon the 
 sea, at the sixteenth mile from 
 the city of Rome. He died a 
 natural death in the 24th year 
 of his reign. 
 
 6. Then Priscus Tarquinius 
 got the kingdom. He doubled 
 the number of the senators j 
 built a Circus at Rome ; insti- 
 tuted the Roman games, vhlch 
 continue to our limes. The 
 same firince likewise conquer- 
 ed the Sabines ; and added to 
 the territory of the city of 
 Rome not a little land, which 
 he had taken from the same ; 
 and first entered the city in 
 triumph. He made the walls 
 and Cloacee ; he began the 
 capitol. He was slain by the 
 sons of Ancus, that king,whom 
 he had succeeded, in the 38th 
 year of his reign, 
 
 7. After him Servius Tulli- 
 us took upon him the govern- 
 ment, born of a noble woman, 
 but yet a captive and a maid 
 servant. He too subdued the 
 Sabines, added three moun- 
 tains,t)je Quiiinal, Viminal and 
 Esquiline, to the city, and 
 drew ditches round the wall. 
 He likewise first instituted the 
 Census, which had been ao yet 
 unknown in the world. Under 
 him all people being brought 
 under this census, Rome had 
 eighty four thousand heads of 
 Roman citizens, with those 
 that were in the country. He 
 
100 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 agris erant. Occisus est 
 45 imperii anno, scelere 
 generi sui Tarquinii su- 
 perbi, filii ejus regis rui 
 ipse successerat, & filise 
 suse quam Tarquinius ha- 
 Jbebat uxorem. 
 
 8, Lucitis Tarquinius 
 superbus, Septimus atque 
 iiltimus; regum, Volscos, 
 (quse gens ad Campaniam 
 euntibus jion lon^e ab ur- 
 be est) vicit, Gabios civi- 
 tatem, & Suessam Pome- 
 siam feubegit ; cum Thus- 
 •cis pacem fecit Sc templum 
 Jovi ia Capitolio eedifica- 
 vit. Pestea! Ardeam op- 
 pugnanB, in octavodecimo 
 miliiario ab uibe positam 
 civitutem, imperium per- 
 didit. Nam cum filiua 
 ejus, ipse Tarquinius jun- 
 ior, ncbiiissimi Collatini 
 uxorem stuprasset, eaquc 
 de ir.'uria marito et patri 
 et amicis questa fuisset, 
 in omnium conspectu se 
 occidit; propter quam 
 causavn Brutus parens & 
 ipse Collatinus populum 
 concitavit, 8c Tarquino a- 
 demit imperium. Mox 
 exercitus quoque eum, 
 qui civitatem Ardeam 
 cum ipso rege oppugna- 
 bat, reliquit ; veniensque 
 ad urbem rex portis clau- 
 sis exclusus est. Cum- 
 que inperasset annos vi- 
 ginti quinque, cum uxore 
 k Ubeiis suis fugit. Ita 
 
 was slain in the 45th year of 
 his reign, by the villany of his 
 sounin-law, Tarquin the proud, 
 the son of that king whom he 
 had succeeded, and of his own 
 daughter, whom Tarquin had 
 to wife. 
 
 8. Lucius Tarquinius the 
 proud, the seventh and last of 
 the kings, conquered the Vol- 
 scians (which nation is not iar 
 from the city as you go to 
 Campania) he reduced the city 
 Oabii and Sucssa Pometia ; 
 made a peace with the Thus- 
 cans and built a lemple t© Ju- 
 piter in the Capitol. After- 
 wards as he was attacking Ar- 
 dea, a city situated at the dis- 
 tance of 18 miles from the ci- 
 ty Rome, ho lost his kingdom. 
 For when his son Tarquin the 
 younger had ravished the wife 
 of a very nobie /^erso??, Collati- 
 nus, and she had complained 
 of the injury to her husband 
 and father and friends, she kill- 
 ed herself in the sight of them 
 all , for which reason Brutus 
 her father and Col la tin us rais- 
 ed the people, and took the 
 kingdom from Tarquin. Pres- 
 ently his army too, who were 
 attacking the city Ardea with 
 the king, deserted him ; and 
 the king ufio7i coming to the 
 city Rome was excluded, the 
 gates being shut againut him. 
 And after he had reigned 25 
 years, he was banished with 
 his wife antl children. Thus 
 kingly government obilined at 
 
 I 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMEl 
 
 iOl 
 
 Romse regnatum est per 
 septem reges annis ducen- 
 tis quadraginta tribub, cum 
 adhuc Roma, ubi pluri- 
 mum, vix usque ad qui^- 
 tum decimum railliei'rium 
 possideret. 
 
 .9. Hiac consules coepe- 
 re pro uno rege duo liac 
 causa creari ; ut si unus 
 malus esse voluisset, alter 
 eum, habens potestatem 
 similem, coerce ret. Et 
 placuit, ne imperium Ion» 
 gius quam annum habc- 
 rent, ne perdiuturnitatem 
 potestatis insolentiores 
 redderentur, sed civiles 
 semper essent, qui se post 
 annum scirent futures es^ 
 sc privates; Fuerunt igi- 
 tur anno primo, expulsis 
 regibus, consules Lucius 
 Junius Brutus, qui maxi- 
 me egerat, ut Tarqui»ius 
 pelleretur, £c Tarquinius 
 Collatinus, maritus Lucre- 
 tiae. Sed Tarquinio Col- 
 latino statim sublata digni- 
 tas est ; placuerat enim ne 
 quisquam in urbe mane- 
 ret, qui Tarquinius voca- 
 retur ; qui accepto omni 
 patrimonio suo, ex urbe 
 migravit, & loco ipsius 
 factus est Valerius Publi- 
 cola consul. Commovit 
 tamen bellum urbi Romae 
 rex i'.irquiiiius, qui fuerat 
 expuisu^, 'it cojiectis mul- 
 tis gentibus, ut in regnum 
 12 
 
 Rome for th'e time of seven 
 kings, a':'.c[ two hundred and 
 foriy Vhree years, whilst Komc 
 ^.s yet, where it had most^ hard- 
 ly possessed a territory extend- 
 ing as far as the 15th mile* 
 
 9. Upon this two Consuls 
 began to be made instead of 
 one king, for this reason ; that 
 if one had a mind to be wicked, 
 the other having the like au- 
 thority, might restrain him. 
 And it was thought fit they 
 should hold their power no 
 longer than for a year, lest they 
 «hould be rendered insolent by 
 the long continuance of their 
 authority, but should be always 
 moderate, who knew that they 
 should be private persons after 
 a year. Wherefore in the first 
 year afcer the Tarquins were 
 banished, L. Juniub Brutus, 
 who had particularly exerted 
 himself, that Tarquin might be 
 banished, and Tarquinius Col- 
 lutinus, the husband of Lucre- 
 tia, were made Consuls. But 
 this dignity was taken imme- 
 diately from Tarquinius Colla- 
 tinus ; for it was thought fit 
 that no one should coiiiinae in 
 the ciiy, that was called Tar- 
 quin ; who receiving his vvnole 
 estate removed out of the ciiy, 
 and Valeriu- Publicela was 
 made Consul j > :..':. room. Yet 
 King Tarquin, wwo had been 
 banished, raised a war againsfr 
 the city Rome, and bavin g got 
 
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 NEW LATIN PRIMEH. 
 
 posset restitui, ilimicavit. 
 
 10. In prima piif^rui 
 Brutus et Aruns Tarquinii 
 filiiis inviccm se occide- 
 runt. Romani tamen ex 
 ea pugna victores recess»- 
 runt. Biutum Romanse 
 rnaironas defensorcm pu- 
 dicitise suae, quasi com- 
 nmnem patrem, per an- 
 rum luxerunt. Valerius 
 Publicola Spuriurn Lucre- 
 tium Tricipitinum colle- 
 gam sibi fecit Lucreiiae 
 patrem ; quo morbo mor- 
 tuojiterum Horalium Pul- 
 villum coliegam sibi 
 sumpsit. Ita primus an- 
 nus quinque consules ha- 
 buit ; cum Tarquinius 
 Collatiniis urbe cessisset 
 propter nomen, Brutus 
 prselio periisset, Spurius 
 Lucretius nioibo mortu* 
 us esset. 
 
 U. Secundo quoque 
 anno iterum Tarquinius, 
 lit reciperetur in rci^num, 
 belium Romanis intulit, 
 auxilium ei ferente Por- 
 sena Thusciae rege, ct 
 Romam penc cepit. Vc- 
 I'um turn quoque vicius 
 est, Tertio anno po«t re- 
 ges exacios Taiquinius 
 cum suscipi non posset in 
 ret^num, neque ei Porse- 
 na, qui par em cum Ro- 
 iDanis fecerat, auxilium 
 prjBsturet, Tusculum se 
 contulit, quae civitas non 
 
 together many nations, fough.t 
 to be restored to his kingdom. 
 10. In the first battle Bru- 
 tus, and Aruns the son of Tar- 
 quin, killed one another. Yet 
 the Romans came off from 
 that battle victorious. The 
 Roman matrons moui-ned for 
 Brutus the defender of their 
 honour, as a common father, 
 for a year. Valerius Publico- 
 la made Spurius Lucretius 
 Tricipitinus, the father of Lu- 
 cretia liis colleague ; who dy- 
 ing a natural dcaih, he again 
 took for his colleague Horatius 
 Pulvillus. Thus the first year 
 had five Consuls ; since Tar- 
 quinius Collatinus quitted the 
 city, because of his name, Bru- 
 tus fell in battle, and Spurius 
 Lucretius died of a distemper. 
 
 IK In the second year too, 
 Tarquinius again made war 
 upon the Romans, in order to 
 be received into his kingdom, 
 Porsena the King of Thuscia 
 carrying him assistance, and 
 was near taking Rome. But 
 then too he was vanquished. 
 The third year afier the ro/ai 
 family were ^v'wewfrom Romey 
 v/hen Tarquin could not be re- 
 ceived into his kingdom, nor 
 did Porsena, who had made a 
 peace with the Romans, amj 
 longer give him assistance, he 
 withdrew himself to Tuscu- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 |0S 
 
 longe ab urbe est, atque 
 ibi per quatuordecim aii- 
 nos privatus cum iixore 
 presenuit. Quarto anno 
 post reges exactos, cum 
 Sabini Komanis bellum 
 intulissent, victi sunt, et 
 de his est triuraphatum. 
 Quinto anno Lucius Vale- 
 rius ille Bruti collega, et 
 quartum consul, fataliler 
 mortuus est,adeo pauper, 
 ut collatis a pepulo nura- 
 mis, sumptum habuerit 
 sepulturae, quern matro- 
 nae, sicut Brutum, annum 
 luxerunt. 
 
 12. Nono anno post re- 
 ges exactos, cum gener 
 Tarquinii, ad injuriam 
 soceii vindicandum in- 
 gentem collegisset exer- 
 citum, nova Rom?e digni- 
 tas, est creata, quse Dicta- 
 tura appellatur, major 
 quam Consulatus. Eo- 
 dcm anno etiam magister 
 cquitum factus est, qui 
 Dictatori obsequeretur. 
 Neque quidquam similius 
 potest dici, quam Dicta- 
 tura antiqua huic imperii 
 polestatij quam nunc tran- 
 quilitas vestra habet, 
 «aaxime cum Augustus 
 quoqi Octavianus, de quo 
 postea dicemus et, ante 
 eum, C.iius Csesar, sub 
 Dictaturge nomine atque 
 honore regnayerint, Die» 
 
 lum, which town is not far 
 from the city Rome^ and there 
 lived a private person for four- 
 teen years with his wife to be 
 very old. In the fourth year 
 after the royal family were 
 banished, the Sabines, making 
 war upon the Romans, were 
 conquered and the Romans tri- 
 umphed over them. In the 
 fifth year after L, Valerius, 
 that colleague of Brutus, and 
 a fourth time Consul, died a 
 natural death, so poor, that he 
 had the charges of his funeral 
 borne with money contributed 
 by the people, whom the ma- 
 trons mourned for a year, as 
 they had done for Brutu:». 
 
 12, In the ninth year after 
 the banishing of the royal fam- 
 ily, the son-in-law of Tarquiii 
 having raised a huge army to 
 revenge the injury done his fa- 
 ther-in-law, a new office was 
 erected at Rome, which is call- 
 ed the Dictatorship, greater 
 than the Consulate. In the 
 same year likewise a Mas- 
 ter of Horse was made, to obey 
 the Diciator. Nor can any 
 thing be named more like to 
 the Imperial authority, v.'hich 
 now your Majesty has, than 
 the old Dictatorship, especial- 
 ly bince Augustus Octavianus 
 too, of whom we shall speak 
 hereafter, and before him Cai- 
 us Csesar, reigned under the 
 name and honour of the Dic- 
 tatorship. The first Dictator 
 at Rome was Lartius, the first 
 
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 NEW LATIN PRIME! 
 
 tator autem Romse pri- 
 mus fuk Lartius, Mat^is- 
 ter equitum primus, Spu- 
 rius Cassius. 
 
 13. Sexto decimo ar.no 
 post reges exactos, sedili- 
 onem populus Ronjse fe- 
 cit, tanquam a senatu atq; 
 consulibus preraeretur. 
 Turn et ipse sibi tribunos 
 plebis, quasi proprios ju- 
 dices et defensores crea- 
 vit per quos contra sena- 
 tuni et consules tutus es- 
 se posset. 
 
 14. Sequente anno Vol- 
 sei contra Rdmanos bel- 
 lum reparaverunt : et vic- 
 ti acie, etiam Coriolos ci- 
 vitatem quam habebant 
 optimam, perdiderunt. 
 
 15. Octavo decimo an- 
 no postquam reges ejecti 
 crant, expulsus ex urbe 
 Quintus Marcius, dux Ro- 
 manorum, qui Coriolos 
 eeperat Volscorum civita- 
 tem, ad ipsos Volscos 
 contendit iratus, et auxil- 
 ia contra Remanos acce- 
 pit. Ronrianos ssepe vi- 
 eit. Usque ad quintum 
 milliarium urbis accessit, 
 oppugnaturus etiam patri- 
 am suam, legatis, qui pa- 
 cem petebant, repudiatis, 
 nisi ad eum mater Vetu- 
 ria, et uxor Volumnia ex 
 urbe venissent, quarum 
 fletu et deprecatione su- 
 per&tus removit exerci- 
 
 Master of the Horse Spurius 
 Cassius. 
 
 13. In the sixteenth year af- 
 ter the banishment of the roy- 
 al family, the people made a 
 mutiny at Rome, as if they 
 were oppressed by the Senate 
 and Consuls. Then too they 
 made for themselves Tribunes 
 of the Commons, as tlicir own 
 proper judges and defenders^ 
 by whom they might be secur- 
 ed against the Seniiie and 
 Consuls. 
 
 14. In the following year, 
 the Volsci rcinewed the war 
 against the Romans : and be- 
 ing defeated in tae field, lost 
 likewise Corioli, the best city 
 which they had. 
 
 15. In the 18ih year after 
 the royal family were turned 
 out Q, Marcius, a general of 
 the Romans, who had taken 
 Corioli, a city of the Volsci, 
 being banished the city, went 
 over to the Volsci in a rage, 
 and received assistance against 
 the Romans. He often con- 
 quered the Romans. He came 
 wii.hin five miles'of the city, 
 designing loo to attack the 
 place of his nativity, rejecting 
 the deputies that begged peace 
 
 from him^ unless his mother 
 Veturia, and his wife Volum- 
 nia had come to him from the 
 city, by whose weeping and 
 importunity being prevailed 
 upon, he drew off his army i 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 OS 
 
 turn : atque hie secundus 
 post Tarquinium fuit, qui 
 dux contra patriam suam 
 esset. 
 
 16. Csesone Fabio el 
 Tito Virginio consulibus 
 trecenti nobiles homines, 
 qui ex Fabia familia evant, 
 contra Vejentes beilum 
 soli susceperunt promit- 
 tentes Senatui et populo 
 per se omne certamen 
 impleiidum. Itaque pro- 
 fecti onones nobiles, et qui 
 singuli magnorum exer- 
 citum duces esse debe- 
 rent, in prselio concide- 
 runt. Unus omnino su- 
 perfuit ex tanta familia, 
 qui propter setatem puer- 
 ilem duci non potuerat ad 
 pugnam. Post hsec cen- 
 sus in urbe habitus est, et 
 inventa sunt civiom capi- 
 tum cxix. mijlia. 
 
 17. Sequenti anno, cum 
 in Algido nionie, ab urbe 
 duodecimo ferme millia- 
 10, Romanus obsiderelur 
 exercituf?, Lucius Quin- 
 tius Cincinnatus Dictator 
 est factus, qui agrum qua- 
 tuor jugerum possiUens, 
 manibus suis colebat. Is, 
 cum in opeie et arans es- 
 set inventus, sudore de- 
 terso, Togam Praetextam 
 accepit, et, caesis hosil- 
 bus, liberavit exercitum. 
 
 18. Anno ccc. et aitero 
 ab urbe condita, imperi- 
 um coiisulare cessavit, et 
 
 and this was the second from 
 Tarquin, who was general of 
 an army against his own coun- 
 try. 
 
 16. When Caeso Fabius and 
 Titus Virginius were Consuls, 
 300 noblemen, who were of 
 the Fabian family undertook 
 alone the war against the Ve- 
 jentes, promising the Senate 
 and people to manage that 
 whole dispute by themselves. 
 Wherefore going accordingly^ 
 all of them noblemen, and who 
 each of them ought to have 
 been leaders of great armies, 
 they fell in battle. But one 
 was left of so great a family, 
 who by reason of his childish 
 age could not be carried to the 
 battle. After this the Census 
 was again taken in the city, 
 and there were found to be a 
 hundred and nineteen thous- 
 and freemen. 
 
 17. In the following year, 
 the Roman army being besieg- 
 ed in mount Algidum,at about 
 the twelfth mile from the city, 
 L. Quintius Cincinnatus was 
 made Dictator, who possessing 
 a piece of land of four jugera, 
 tilled it with his own hands. 
 He being found at work and 
 ploughing, wiping off the 
 sweat, took the Toga Praetex- 
 ta, and cutting off the enemy, 
 delivered the army. 
 
 18. In the year 301 from 
 the building of the city, the 
 consular government ceased. 
 
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 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 pro duobus consulibus de- 
 cern facti sunt, qui sum- 
 mam potestatem haberent, 
 Decemviri nominati. Sed 
 cum primo anno bene egis- 
 scnt, secundo unus ex iis, 
 Appius Claudius, Virginii 
 cujusdam qui honestis 
 jam stipcndiis contra La- 
 tinos in monte Algido mi- 
 litabat, filiam virginem 
 corrumpere voluit, quam 
 pater occidit, ne stuprum 
 a Decemviro sustineret, 
 et regressus ad milites, 
 niovit tumultum. Subla- 
 ta est Decemviris potes- 
 tas, ipsique damnati sunt. 
 
 19. Anno treccntesimo 
 decimo quinto ab urbe 
 condita, Fidenates contra 
 Komanos rebellaverunt. 
 Auxilium prsestabant his 
 Vejentcs, et rex Vejenti- 
 umTolumnius: quae am - 
 bge civitates tarn vicinee 
 urbi sunt^ ut Fideitfe vii. 
 Vcjentes xviii. milliario 
 absint. Conjunxerunt se 
 his et Volsci ; sed M. 
 -£milio diciatore, Lucio 
 Quinto Cincinnato magis- 
 tro equitum victi, etiam 
 Tcgem perdiderunt. Fi- 
 dense capise et excisse. 
 Pgst XX. inae annos, Ve- 
 jeritani rebellaverunt. 
 
 "dictator contra ipsos mis- 
 sus est Fuiius Camillus, 
 !|Mii phnviim €os vicit a- 
 
 and instead of two consuls, 
 ten officers were made, who 
 had the supreme power, being 
 therefore named the Decemvir- 
 ri. But after they had behav- 
 ed well tiie first year, in the 
 second, one of them, Appius 
 Claudius, who had a design to 
 debauch a young woman, 
 dauglUer of one Virginius, 
 who served in an honourable 
 post against the Latms, upon 
 mount Algidum, whom her fa- 
 ther slew, that she might not 
 suffer a ravishment from the 
 Decemvir, and returning to 
 the soldiers, raised a mutiny, 
 Ufion ivhich their authority was 
 taken away from the Decemvi- 
 ri, and they condemned. 
 
 19. In the 315th year from 
 the building the city, the Fide- 
 natians rebelled against the 
 Romans. The Vcjentes gave 
 them assistance, and the king 
 of the Vejcntes Tolumnius : 
 both which slates are so near 
 the city Rome, that Fidense is 
 but distant seven, and the Vc- 
 jentes eighteen miles. The 
 Volsci likewise joined them- 
 selves to them ; but bemg con- 
 quered by M. Emilius the Dic- 
 tator, and L. Quinius Cmcin- 
 natus. Master of the Horse, 
 they likewise lost their king. 
 Ftdcnge was taken and destroy- 
 ed. I'wenly years after the 
 Vejentani rebelled. Furius 
 Camillus was sent Dictator 
 against them, who first con- 
 quered lUem in battle, an(l by 
 
NEW LATIN FRIMBR. 
 
 107 
 
 cie ; mox ctiam civitatem 
 diu obsidens cepit, anti- 
 quissiraam, Italiseque di- 
 tissimam. Post earn ce- 
 pit et Faliscos, uon minus 
 nobilem civitatem. Sed 
 commota est ei invidia, 
 quasi prgedam male divi- 
 sisset, damnatusque ob 
 earn causam, et expulsus 
 civitdte est. 
 
 20. Statim Galli Seno- 
 nes ad urbem venerunt, et 
 victos Komanosxi. millia- 
 rio ab urbe Roma, apud 
 fiumen Alliam sequuti, e- 
 tiam urbem occupaverunt; 
 neque defendi quidquam 
 nisi Capitolium potuit : 
 quod cum diu obsedisscnt, 
 et jam Komani fame la- 
 borarent, a CamiUo, qjii 
 in vicinacivirate exwiabat, 
 GaJlis supervcntum est, 
 gravissimcque victi sunt ; 
 postea tunien, accepto e- 
 tiam auro ne Capitolium 
 obsidercnt, recesserunt ; 
 sed sequutus eos Camillus 
 ita cecidit, ut et aurum, 
 quod his datum fuerat, et 
 omnia quae ceperant miii- 
 taria signa, revocaret. Ita 
 tertium triumphant; ur- 
 bem injjjtessus eb*, J t n- 
 peliatws secundus Rumu- 
 lus, quasi et ipse pairiae 
 c(»nditor* 
 
 and by besieging their city, 
 took it, the most ancient and 
 the richest in Italy. After it 
 he took Falisci, a no less noble 
 city. But a popular odium was 
 raised ai^amst him, as if he had 
 divic^ed the plunder unfairly, 
 and he was condemned for that 
 reason and banished the city. 
 
 20. Immediately the Galli 
 Senones came to the city, and 
 pursuing the Romans after 
 they had defeated them 11 
 miles from the city Rome, at 
 the river AUia, they likewise 
 took the city ; nor could any 
 thing be defended but the Cap- 
 itol : which after they had be- 
 seiged a long time, and the 
 Romans were now pinched by 
 famine, Camillus, who was in 
 banishment in a neighbouring 
 city, came upon the Gauls, and 
 they were overthrown with 
 great loss ; however after- 
 wards, receiving a goad sum of 
 gold, not to beseige the Capi- 
 tol, they went away ; but Ca- 
 millus following them, so rout- 
 ed them, that he both recover- 
 ed the gold, which had beea 
 given them, and all the milita- 
 ry standards they had raken. 
 So he entered the city a third 
 time in triumph, and was call- 
 ed a second Romulus as if he 
 likewise iva» the buildet of the 
 city. 
 
108 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 LIBER II. 
 
 ANNO ccclxv. ab urbe 
 condita, post captam au- 
 tem primo, dignitates 
 mutatse sunt; et pro duo- 
 bus Consulibus, facti Tri- 
 buni fnilitares, Consulari 
 potestate. Hinc jam coe- 
 pit Romana res cresccrc. 
 Nam Camillus eo anno 
 Volscorum civitatem, quae 
 per Ixx. annos bellum 
 gesserat, vicit, et ^Equft- 
 rum urbem et Sulrinorum, 
 atque omnes, deletis eo- 
 rum exercitibus, occnpa- 
 vit, et tres simul trium- 
 phos egit. 
 
 2. Titus etiam Quin- 
 tius Cincinnatus Praencsti- 
 nos, qui usque ad urbis 
 Romae portas bello vene- 
 rant, persequutus ad flu- 
 men Alliam vicit, et civi- 
 tates, quae sub ipsis age- 
 bant, Roraanis adjunxit ; 
 ips«m Piaeneste aggres- 
 sus, in deditionem acce- 
 pit; quae omnia ab eo gcs- 
 ta sunt viginti diebus, tri- 
 umphusque ipsi dccretas, 
 
 3. Verum dignitas Tri- 
 bunorum Militariuitt «on 
 diu perseveravit ; nam 
 post aliquantum uullos 
 placuit fieri ; et quadren- 
 nium ita in urbe fluxit, ut 
 potestates ibi majorcs non 
 essent. Resumpsenint 
 Utneii Ttibuni MiUtares 
 
 IN the year 365 from the 
 building of the city, but the 
 first after its being taken, the 
 government was altered ; and 
 instead of two Consuls, milita- 
 ry Tribunes, with Consular 
 power, were made. From 
 this lime the Roman state be- 
 gan to grow. For Camillus 
 that year subdued the nation 
 of the Volsci, which had car- 
 ried ©n a war against the Ro- 
 vians for 70 years, as also the 
 city of the JEqui and the Sutri- 
 ni, and made himself master 
 of thehti all, cutting off their 
 armies, and had three triumphs 
 together. 
 
 2. T. Quintius Cincinnatus 
 likewise pursuing the Praene»- 
 tini, who had come in a hostile 
 manner up to the gates of 
 Rome, conquered them at the 
 river AUia, and added the ci- 
 ties which were under them) 
 to the Romans ; and attacking 
 Praeneste itself, took it by sur- 
 render ; all which things were 
 done by him in twenty days, 
 and a triumph was voted him. 
 
 3, But the oflfice of military 
 Tribunes did not continue 
 long ; for after some time, it 
 was thought fit no more should 
 be made ; and four years past 
 in the city so, that there were 
 none of the greater magis- 
 trates, Consuls of Military Tri' 
 bunesf in it. Yet the Military 
 
l^EW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 199 
 
 GonsaT!iri potestate ite- 
 rum dignitatem, et trien- 
 nio perseveravcrunt. 
 
 Rursus Consules facti. 
 
 4. Lucio Genucio et 
 Quiiito Servilio Consuli- 
 bus, mortuus est Camil- 
 lus : honor ei secundus 
 post Romuium dclatus 
 est. 
 
 5. Titus QiiintiHs Dic- 
 tator advcrsus Gallos, qui 
 in Italiam venerant, mis- 
 sus est. Hi ab urbe tjuar- 
 to milliario trans Anien- 
 em fluvium consederant. 
 Nobiil^simus dc Senatoi i- 
 bus Titus Manlius provo- 
 cantem Galium ad singu- 
 lare certamen congres5u« 
 occidit ; et sublato torque 
 aureo, colloq; suo impos- 
 ito, in perpetuam Torqua- 
 ti sibi et posteris co.^no- 
 mcn accepit. Galli fuga- 
 ti sunt, moK per Caium 
 Sulpicium Dictat^rem c- 
 tiam victi. Non multo 
 post a Caio Marcio Thus- 
 ci victi iunt, vii. millia 
 captivorum ex his in tri- 
 umphum ducli. 
 
 6. Ccniius iterum habi- 
 tus est. Et cum Laiini, 
 qui R Romanis subacti c- 
 r;\nt, milifcs prsestara nol- 
 lent, ex Romanis tantiim 
 tirones lectisunt, faciae- 
 que legiones decern, qui 
 modus sexa^inia vol cm- 
 pliusarmaiorum milliaef- 
 
 K 
 
 Tribunes with Consular power 
 at last resumed the govern- 
 ment, and continued for three 
 years. Then again Consuls 
 were made. 
 
 4. L. Genucius and Quin- 
 tus Servilius being Consuls, 
 Camillus died : the second 
 honour after Romulus was 
 paid to him. 
 
 5. T. Quintius was sent Dic- 
 tator against the Gauls, who 
 had cx)me into Italy. These 
 had encamped four miles from 
 the city, beyond the river Ani- 
 en. The noblest of the Sena- 
 tors, T. Manlius, engaged and 
 slew a Gaul, that challenged 
 any q^ .i^he Rowans to a du- 
 
 els and taking from him a gOT**'^** 
 chain, and putting it upon his 
 own neck, h' for ever after got 
 the sirnarae of Toiquatus for 
 himself and his posterity. 
 The Gauls were routed, and 
 presently after conquered by 
 the Dictator, C» Sulpicius. 
 Not lung after the Thus cans 
 were conquered by Caius Mar- 
 cius, seven thousand prisoner» 
 of them were lead in triumph. 
 
 6. The Census, or survey of 
 thd fiecfile^ was again taken. 
 And the Latins, who had been 
 «ubdued by Uie Romans, rcfu- 
 sin^^ to fiiriiish their <7z^ora o/aol- 
 diers, n cr lits were levied fi oni 
 amongst the Romans oijly, aad 
 ten legions complcteri, which 
 nuHiber nwds sixty thou»ar>^ 
 
110 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ficiebat : parvis aclhuc Ro- 
 manis rebus, tanta tamen 
 in re miiitari virtus erat. 
 Quae cum profectaeessent 
 adversos Gallos duce Lu- 
 cio Furio Camillc, quidam 
 ex Galiis tinum e Roman- 
 is, qui esset oplimus, pro- 
 vocavit. Turn se Marcus 
 Valerius, Tribunis Mili- 
 tum, obtulit ; & cum pro- 
 cessit armatus, corvus ei 
 supra dextrum brachium 
 sedit : mtox, commissa ad- 
 versus Galium pugna, 
 idem corvus alis 8c ungui- 
 bus Galli oculos veiberat, 
 ne rectum posset aspicc- 
 rc ; ita ut a Tribuno Va- 
 leric interfectus, non so- 
 lulfn victoriam ei, sed eti- 
 am nomcn dederit. Nam 
 posteo idem Corvinus ett 
 dictus ac propter hoc me- 
 ritum, aunorum trium 8c 
 viginti Consul est factus. 
 
 7. Latini, qui noluerant 
 i-nilitis dare, hoc quoque a 
 Romania exigere coepe 
 runt, ut unua Consul ex 
 eorum, alter ex Komuno- 
 rum, populo crearetur, 
 
 ^uod cum esset negatum, 
 bellum coritra eos suscep- 
 tum est, 8c ingenti pugna 
 superati sunt : ac de his 
 perdomilis triumphatum 
 est. Statuae Consulibus 
 ob meritum victorise in 
 Rostris positis sunt. 
 
 8. Jam Romani poten- 
 tes €^se cceperant, bellum 
 
 men or more : the Roman stale 
 being as yet but small, such was 
 their ability notwithstanding in 
 military affairs : who marching 
 against ihc Gauls under L. Fu- 
 rius Camillustheir general, one 
 of the Gauls challenged anyone 
 of the Romans, ^hat was the 
 best at his we af 1011 s. Upon that 
 M. Valerius, a Tribune of the 
 soldiers, offered himself, and 
 marching out armed, a crotv sat 
 upon his right arm : presently 
 after, when the fight against 
 the Gaul begun, the same crow 
 struck the eyes of the Gaul with 
 his wings and claws, that he 
 could not look right before ; so 
 that being slain by the Tribune, 
 he gave him not only the victo- 
 ry, but a name too. For after- 
 wards the same man was called 
 Corvinus, and for this service 
 was made consul at three and 
 twenty years of age. 
 
 7, The Latins, who had refus- 
 ed to furnish their quota of 
 men, begun to demand this to» 
 gf the Romans, that one consul 
 should be made from amongst 
 their people, and the other out 
 of the Romans : which being 
 denied them, a war was under- 
 taken against them, and they 
 overthrown in a great battle : 
 and the generals triumphed for 
 the conquest of them. Statues 
 were errectcd in the Rostra for 
 the Consuls, for tiieir good ser- 
 vice in this victory. 
 
 8. The Romans had now be- 
 gun to grow powerful, for a war 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Ill 
 
 enim in centessimo & tri- 
 tessimofere miliarioabur- 
 be apud Samnites gereba- 
 tur, quimcdii sunt inter 
 Picenum, campaniam et 
 Apuiiani. Lucius Papirius 
 Cursor cum honorc dicta- 
 toris ad id belluni profec- 
 tiis cstj qui, cam Romam 
 rediissct, Q. Fabio Max- 
 imo magistro equitum, 
 quern apud exercitum re- 
 liquit, praecepit, ne se ab- 
 senic pugnaret. Ule, occa- 
 sione rcpcrta, tclicissimc 
 dimicavit, et Samnites de- 
 le vit, ob quam rem a Dic- 
 tatore capitis damnatu», 
 quod se vetantc pugnasset. 
 ingenti favore militum ct 
 populi liberatus est ; tanta 
 Papirio scditione commo- 
 ta, ut pene ipse inlcrficc- 
 retur. 
 
 9. Postea Samnites, Ro- 
 manes, Tito Vctario ct 
 Spurio Postlnimio Consu- 
 lihus, ingenti dedecore 
 vicerunt, et sub juguni mi- 
 scvuat. Paxtamcn ascMuiu 
 et populo soluta est, quse 
 cum ipsis propter neces- 
 sitatem facta fuerat. Pos- 
 tea Samnites victi sunt a 
 L. Papirio Consule : sep- 
 tem millia eorum sub ju- 
 gum missa. Papirius de 
 Samnitibus triumphavit. 
 Eo tempore Appius Clau- 
 dius Censor aquamCIaudi- 
 am induxit, et viam Ap- 
 piam itravit. Samnites, 
 
 was carried on with the Sam- 
 nites, at almost a hundred and 
 thirty miles from the city, who 
 are in the middle betwixt Pice- 
 nc, Campania and Apulia. L. 
 Papi;ius Cursor went to that 
 war, with the honour of Dic- 
 tator, who, when he return- 
 ed to Rome, charged Q. Fabi- 
 us Maximus, Master of the 
 Horse, whom he left with the 
 army, that he should not fight 
 whilut \M:iva8 absent. He fiadin.c»; 
 hi» advantage, engaged the ene^' 
 my Ycry successfully, and c»t 
 off th# Sainnites, for which 
 tiling being condemned to die 
 by the Dictator, because bo 
 fought thd* he forbad him^ he 
 was delivered by the great fa- 
 vour of the soldiers and the peo- 
 ple : so great a mutiny being 
 raised against Papirius, that he 
 was well nigh sl.dn. 
 
 i'. Afterwards I he Samnites 
 dcfoated the Romans with vast 
 disgrace, and obliged them to 
 pass under the yoke ivhen T. 
 Veturius, and Spurius Posthu- 
 mius Totre consuls. The peace 
 however was broken by the 
 senate and people, which had 
 been made with them in mere 
 necessity. Afterwards the 
 Samnites were conquered by 
 the consul L. Papirius, and sev- 
 en thousand of them made to 
 pass under the yoke. Papiri- 
 us triumphed over the Sam- 
 nites. And that time Appius 
 Claudius the Censor brough^. 
 the Claudian watei'zn^o the city 
 
12 
 
 NEW LATl'N PRIMER. 
 
 reparato hello, Quiwtum 
 Fabium maximum vice- 
 runt, tribus minibus occi- 
 sis ; postea cum pater ejus 
 Fabikis Maximus legatus 
 4atus fuisset, et Samnites 
 \icit, et plurima corum 
 oppida cepit. Deinde 
 Publius Cornelius Rufinus, 
 Manius Curius Dentatus 
 ^iibo cotosules, contra 
 Sarnnites missi ingetiiibus 
 prseliis eos confecere. 
 Turn bellum cum Sar.Tni- 
 t'ibus per annos novefn ct 
 quadraginta actum substu- 
 ierunt, neque ullus hoslis 
 fuit intra Italiam, qui iio- 
 ananam virtutem magis 
 fciligavit. 
 
 10. Intcrjectis aliqr.ot 
 annisjitcfum sc G:illGrup,i 
 copise centra Romanos 
 Thuscis Siii'iHuiibusq; 
 jiinxcruot ; scd cum Ri- 
 mam tentiercnt a Co. Cor- 
 iicUo Dolabtiia Cousule 
 (Icletee sunt. 
 
 il. Endem tempore 
 'i'areniinis, qui jana in ul- 
 tima Italia sunt, bellum 
 indictum est ; quia legatis 
 Wofnanorum injuriam fc- 
 cisssnt. Hi Pynhum E- 
 piri regem contra Roma- 
 nos in auxilium poposcc- 
 runt, qui ex gene re Achil- 
 lis oiiginem trahebat ; is 
 mox ad Italiam venit, tum- 
 quc primum Romiui cum 
 transmarino hoste dimica- 
 
 and paved the Appian way. 
 The Samnites renewed the war, 
 routed Q. Fabius Maximus, 
 killing three thousand of his 
 men. Afterwards, when his 
 father Fabius Maximus was 
 given him as his lieutenant, he 
 both defeated the Samnites, 
 and took abundance of their 
 towns. After that both the 
 consuls Publius Cornelius Ru- 
 finus, and Manius Curius Den- 
 tafus, were sent against the 
 SaiTinite;?, and slaughtered 
 them in great battles. When 
 they made an end of the war 
 with the Samnites ivhich had 
 been carried on for lune and 
 forty years ;• nor was there an 
 enemy wiihiii Italy that more 
 fatigued the Roman valour, 
 
 10. Some years after, again 
 oh army of Gauls joined tliem- 
 sclvcs with the Tiiuscans and 
 Samnites against the Romans ;, 
 but as they \»erc marching for 
 Rome, they were cut oif by 
 Cn. Cornelius Dolabella the 
 CoiJsuI. 
 
 1 1. At the same time war 
 was proclaimed against the Ta- 
 rentines who are now in the 
 farthest part of Italy, because 
 they had offered an abuse to 
 the ambassadors of the Ro- 
 mans. These sent for Pyrrhus 
 king of Epire, to their assist- 
 ance against the Romans, v.-ho 
 derived his extraction from the 
 family of Aciiiiles. He came 
 presently into Italy, and then 
 for the first time did the Ro- 
 
l<i'Ei^y LATIN PIIIMER. 
 
 K13 
 
 Tcrunt Missus est con- 
 tra eum Consul P. Vale- 
 rius L^vinus ; qui cum 
 explaratores Pyrrhi cepis- 
 set, jussit COS per castra 
 duci, ostcndique omnem 
 excrcitum, tumque dimit- 
 li, ut renunliarent Pyrrlio 
 qu?ecunque a Roinanis 
 agerentur. Commissa 
 
 mox pugna, cum jam Pyr- 
 rhus fugeret, elcphanto- 
 rum auxilio vicit : quos 
 incognitus Romani expa- 
 verunt: sed nox pr^elio 
 finem dedit. L?ev'inus ta- 
 men per noctem fu^it. 
 Pyrrhus Romanos millc 
 octingentos cepit, cosque 
 summo honore tractavit, 
 occisos sepelivit. Quo3 
 cum adverso vulnerc & 
 truci vultujctiam mortuos, 
 jacere vidissct, lulisse ad 
 caelum manus dicitur, cum 
 hac voce : se totius orbis 
 domiimm esse potuisse si 
 tales sibi milites contigis- 
 sent. 
 
 12. Postca Pyrrhus, 
 junciis sibi Samniubus, 
 Lucanis, BruLiisque, Ro- 
 mam porrexit, omnia fer- 
 ro igneque vastavit, Cam- 
 paniam depopulatus est, 
 atque ad Prseneste venit ; 
 miliario ab urbc octavode- 
 cimo. Mox terrore exer- 
 citus, q()i eum cum Con- 
 sule sequebatur, in Cam- 
 paniam se recipit. Lcga- 
 K2 
 
 mans engage Avith a foreign 
 enemy. The Consul P. Vale- 
 rius Lgevinus was sent against 
 l)im : who, when he had taken 
 Pyrrhus's scouts, ordered them 
 to be led through the camp, and 
 the whole army to be shewn 
 them, and tlien to be dismissed, 
 tl\at they might tell Pyrrhus 
 what was doing by the Romans, 
 Soon after a battle being fought» 
 when now Pyrrhus was ready 
 to run for it, he prevailed by 
 the asbistance of his elephants, 
 which the Romans dreaded, as 
 being unknown io them. But 
 night put an end to the battle. 
 Lsevinus however fled in the 
 night. Pyrrhus took eighteen 
 hundred Romans, and treated 
 them with the greatest honour^ 
 a^ic/ buried their slain. Whom 
 when he saw lie with wounds 
 before, ard stern looks even 
 ivhen dead, he is said to have 
 held up his* hands to heaven, 
 with this saying, that he could 
 be master of the whole world, 
 if such soldiers had fallen to 
 liis share. 
 
 12. Afterwards Pyrrhus with 
 the Samnites, Lucanians, and 
 Brutians, marched towards 
 Rome, laid all waste with lire 
 and sword, ravaged Campania, 
 and cume to Prseneste at eigh- 
 teen miles distance from the 
 city. By vind by he retired to 
 Campania, for fear of the army 
 whic.i followed him with the 
 Cousul, Ambassadors being 
 sent to Pyrrhus about redeem- 
 
114 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 tl ad Pyrrhum de rcdimen- 
 clis captivis mibsi, ab eo 
 honorince suscepti sunt, 
 captivos sine prelio Ro- 
 mam misit. Unum ex le- 
 gatis Romano rum Fabri- 
 oium sic admiratus est, lit 
 cum eum p:\uperein esse 
 cognovisset, quarta parta 
 regni promissa, solicitare 
 vohierit, ui ad sc iransiret: 
 oontemptusque a Fabricio 
 est. Quave cum Pyrrhus 
 ingenti iiomanorum adnii- 
 ratione teneretur, legalum 
 mlsit, qui pacem pequis 
 conditionibus peteret^pree- 
 cipuum riium Cineam no- 
 mine ; ita ut Pyrrhus par* 
 tern Italiee, quam jam ar- 
 rnis occupaverat,obLineret. 
 13. Pax displicuit ; re- 
 mandatumque Pyrrho a 
 senatu est, eum cum Ro- 
 nianis nisi ex Italia reces- 
 sisset, pacem habere non 
 posse. Tum Roman! jus- 
 serunt captivos cmnes, 
 quos Pyrrhus reddiderat, 
 i«fames haberi, qui se ar- 
 mis defenderc potuissent ; 
 jiec ante eos ad veterem- 
 statum reverti, quam sibi 
 notorum hoslium occiso- 
 rum spoliaretulissent. Ita 
 legatus Pyrrhi reversus 
 est ; a quo cum qugereret 
 Pyrrhus, quale m Romam 
 comperisset, Cineas dixit, 
 regum se patriam vidisse ; 
 scilicet tales illic esse cm- 
 nes qualis unus Pyrrhus 
 
 ing their prisoners, Ihcy were 
 honournbiy entertained by him: 
 and he sent away all the pris- 
 oners without any ransom to 
 Rome. He so admired one of 
 the Roman ambassadors, Fa- 
 bricius, that when he under- 
 stood he was poor, he endeav- 
 oured to engage him to come 
 over to him, by promising him 
 a fourth part of his kingdom, 
 and was rejected by Fubricius, 
 Wherefore Pyrrhus being ta- 
 ken with great admiration of 
 the Romans, sent an ambassa- 
 dor to desire peace upon equal 
 terms, who nvas the principal 
 person about him^ Cineas by 
 name ; so thdt Pyrrhus should 
 have that part of Italy which he 
 had already seized by his arms. 
 13. This peace displeased 
 them, and word was sent back 
 again to Pyrrhus by the Senate, 
 that he could have no peace 
 with the Romans, unless he 
 retired out of Italy. Then the 
 Romans ordered all the pris- 
 oners whom Pyrrhus had re- 
 stored, to be accounted infa- 
 mous, who might iiave defend- 
 ed themselves by arms; and 
 that they should not return to 
 their former condition, before 
 they had brought ow.' oj the field 
 the spoils of noted enemies 
 shiin by themselves. So the 
 ambassador of Pyrrhus return- 
 ed ; of whom, when Pyrrhus 
 inquired, what sort of a place 
 he found Rome to be, Cineas 
 told himj that he had seen th« 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 115 
 
 apiid Epifum Sc reliquam 
 Greeci'amputaretur. Missi 
 sunt contra Pyrrhum du- 
 ces P. Sulpicius 8c Decius 
 Mus consules. Certamine 
 commisso, Pyrrhus vulne- 
 ratus est, elephantes in- 
 tertecti, xx. millia csesa 
 hostium ; & ex Romanis 
 t'cintum quinque millia, 
 Pyrrhus Tarentum fuga- 
 tus. 
 
 14. Interjecto annojcon- 
 tra Pyrrhum Fabrieius est 
 missus ; qui prius inter 
 legates solicitaii non po- 
 tueral, quarta parte regni 
 promissa. Turn, cum vi- 
 cina castra ipse et rex ha- 
 berent, mcdicus Pyrrhi ad 
 eum nocte venit, promit- 
 tens vencno Pyrrhpm ot- 
 .cisurum, si sibi aliquid 
 polliceretur ; quern Fabri- 
 cius vinctum reduci jus- 
 sit ad dominum, Pyrrho- 
 que (lici,qu8e contra caput 
 ejus medicus spospondis- 
 set. Turn rex admirans 
 cum dixisse fertur ; Ille 
 estFabricius, qui difficilius 
 ab honesiatc quam sol a 
 cursu suo averti potest. 
 Turn rex in Siciliani pro- 
 fectws est. Fabricius,\ic- 
 lis Samnitibus Sc Lucanis, 
 triumphavit. Consules 
 deinde Manlius Curius 
 Dentatus, 8c Cornelius 
 Lentuliis adversum Pyrr- 
 hum missi sunt, k Curius 
 
 country of kings ; for they 
 •svere all there such, as Pyrrhus 
 alone was thought to be in^E- 
 pire, and the rest of Greece. 
 The Consuls P. Sulpicius and 
 Decius Mus were sent gene- 
 rals against Pyrrhus. A battle 
 being fought, Pyrrhus was 
 wounded, his elephants killed^ 
 rnd twenty thousand of the en- 
 emies slain ; and only five 
 thousand of the Romans. Pyr- 
 rhus was driven to Tarentum. 
 14. A year after, Fabricius 
 was sent against Pyrrhus, who 
 bei?ig before amongst the am- 
 bassadors, could not be tempt- 
 ed by a promise of the fourth 
 part of Pyrrhus's kingdom. 
 Then whilst he and the king 
 had their camps near together, 
 Pyrrhub'*s Physician came to 
 him in the night promising to 
 take off Pyrrhus by poison, if he 
 would promise him any thing 
 for his fmins : whom Fabricius 
 ordered to be carried back 
 bound to his master, and Pyr- 
 rhus to be told what the physi- 
 cian had offered against his life. 
 Then the king admiring him, 
 is reported to have said Fabri- 
 cius is the man that may with 
 more difficulty be removed 
 from the ivays of honour, than 
 the sun from his course. Then 
 the king went inlo Sicily. Fa- 
 bricius having conquered the 
 Samnitcs and Lucanians, tri- 
 umphed. Then the Consuls 
 Manlius Curius Dentatus aHd 
 Cornelius Lentulus were sent 
 
116 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 contra eum pugnav'it: ex- 
 ercitum ejus cecidit ; ip- 
 sum Tarentum fugavit, 
 castia cepit. Eadie cfesa 
 sunt hostium xxiii. miUia. 
 Curius Dentatiis in consu- 
 latutriuniphavit. Primus 
 Romam elephantos qvi«- 
 tuorduxit. Pyrrhusetiam 
 a Tarcnto mox recessit, 
 et apud Argos Greecise ci- 
 Titatem occisus est. 
 
 15. Caio Fabricio Lus- 
 cino, C. Claudio Cinna 
 consulibus,anrio urbis con- 
 ditse cccclxi. legali Alex- 
 andrini a Ptolemseo misvi, 
 Romam venere, et a Ro- 
 manis amicitian^, quam 
 petierant, obiinuerunt. 
 
 16. Quinto Gulone, C. 
 Fabio Pictore consulibus, 
 Picentes bellum commo- 
 vcre ; et ab insequentibus 
 consulibus Pub). Sempro- 
 nio, Appio Claudio victi 
 sunt : et de his triampha- 
 tum est. Conditse a Ro- 
 manis civitate s , Arm iniu ni 
 in Gallia, et Beneventum 
 in Samnio. 
 
 17. Marco Attiilo Reg- 
 u'.O) L«cio Jusiio Libone 
 consulibus, Salenlinis in: 
 Apulia bellum indictum 
 est; captique sunt cum ci- 
 vitate simul Brundusini, 
 et de his triumphatum est. 
 
 J 8, Anno cccclxxvii» 
 
 against Pyrrhus, and Curius 
 fought him, cut off a great /larr 
 of his army, forced him to Ta- 
 rentum, and took his camp. 
 That day twenty-three thou- 
 sand of the enemy were slain. 
 Curius Dentatus triumphed ia 
 his consulship. He first 
 brought foui elephants to 
 Rome. Pyrrhus likewise soon 
 after retired from Tarentum, 
 and was slain at Argos, a city 
 of Greece. 
 
 15. W/ieJi Caius Fabricius 
 Luscinus, and C. Claudius Cin- 
 na 'were consuls, in the year 
 461 from the building of the 
 city, ambassadors from Alex- 
 andria sent by Ptolemy, came 
 to Rome, and obtained of the 
 Romans the alliance they de- 
 sirerd. 
 
 16. W/ien Q, Gulo and C. 
 Fabius Pictor were consuls, the 
 Picentes raised a war, and were 
 conquered by the following 
 consuls, P. Sempronius and 
 Appius Claudius ; and they 
 triumphed over them. Tivo 
 cities were t/ie7i built by the 
 Romans, Arminium in Gaui^ 
 and Beneventum in Samnium. 
 
 17. JVhen M. Attillus Reg- 
 liUis afid L, Junius Libo were 
 consuls, war was proclaimed 
 agaiui,t the Saleiitincs in Apu- 
 lia : and t\ie Brundusians %vere 
 taken, together with their city, 
 and there was a triumph upon 
 their account. 
 
 18. la the year 4T7, when 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 M7 
 
 cum jam clarum urbis Ro- 
 med nomen esset, arma 
 temen extra Italiam tnota 
 non fuerant. Ut igitur 
 cognosccretur, quse copire 
 Romanorum essent, cen- 
 •uf est habitus ; tum iu- 
 venta bunt civium capita 
 ccxcii. niillia cccxxxiii. 
 quaiiquam a condita urbe 
 nunquam bella cessassent. 
 Et contra Afros bellum 
 suaceptum est primum, 
 Appio Claudio ct Quinto 
 Fulvio consulibus. In Si- 
 Cilia contra eos pugnatum 
 ebt,et Appius Claudius de 
 Afris et rege Sicilian Hie- 
 rone triutiiphavit. 
 
 19. Insequente anno, 
 Valerio Marco et Octaci- 
 lio consulibus, in Sicilia a 
 Romiiiiis res niagnae ges- 
 tce sunt. Taurominitani, 
 Catanenscs, ct pifeierea 
 quinqu^igima civitates in 
 iidemacccplaisunf. Ter- 
 tio anno in Sicilia contra 
 Hieronem bellum para- 
 tum est. Is cum omnia 
 nobilitate Syracusanorum 
 paccm a Konianis impc- 
 travit, dcditque argenli ta- 
 lenta ducenia. Afri in Si- 
 cilia vicli sunt, et de his 
 secundo Romse triumpha- 
 tum est. 
 
 20. Quinto anno belli 
 Punici, quod contra Afros 
 gel ebutur, primum Roma- 
 
 now the name of the city Rome 
 was famous, yet their arms 
 had not been carried out of It- 
 aly. That therefore it might 
 be known what the forces of 
 the Romans were, a census or 
 survey was taken ; then the 
 beads of the ciuzens were 
 found to be two hundred and 
 ninety-two thousand three hun- 
 dred and thirty-three, though 
 wars hiid never ceased from 
 the building of the city. And 
 the first war was undertaken 
 against the Africans, iv/ien Ap- 
 pius Claudius and Q. Fulvius 
 luere consuls. They fought 
 against them in Sicily, and Ap- 
 pius Claudius triumphed for 
 Ms conquesi of the Africans, 
 and of Hiero king of Sicily. 
 
 19. In the following year, 
 when Valerius Marcus and Oc- 
 lacitius ivere consuls, great 
 things were performed by the 
 Romans in Sicily, The Tau- 
 rominitani, Catanenses, and 50 
 cities besides were taken in up- 
 on promise of good quarter. In 
 the 3d year war was levied 
 against Hiero in Sicily. He 
 with all the nobiliiy of the Syr- 
 acusans obluined a peace from 
 the Romans, and gave them 
 two hundred talents of silver. 
 The Africans in Sicily were 
 conquered, and there was a tri- 
 umph a second time at Rome 
 upon their account. 
 
 20. In the 5th year of the 
 Punick war, which was carried 
 on against the Africans, the 
 
118 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ni, C. Duili» et Cn. Cor- 
 nelio Asino consulibus, in 
 inari dimicaverunt, para- 
 tis navibus rostratis, quas 
 Liburnas vocant. Consul 
 Cornelius fiaude deceptus 
 est. Duilius, commisso 
 prselio, Carthaginensium 
 ducem vicit, xxxi. naves 
 cepit xiv. mersit viii. mil- 
 lia hostium cepit iii* mil- 
 lia occidit : neque ulia vic- 
 toria Romanis gratior fuit, 
 quod invicti terra, jam e- 
 tiam mari pluriraum pos- 
 sent. C. Aquilio Floro, 
 L. Scipione consulibus, 
 Scipio Corsicam et Sardi- 
 nian! vastuvit, muita millia 
 inde captivorum abduxit, 
 triumphum egit. 
 
 21. Lucio Manlio Vol- 
 sone M. Atiilio consulibus, 
 bellum in AtVicam trans- 
 latuni est contra Hamil- 
 carem Carthagineusium 
 ducem : in mari pugnei- 
 tum, victusque est. Nam 
 perditis Ixiv. navibus retro 
 se recepit ; Komani xxiii, 
 amiscrunt ; sed cum in 
 AtVicam transissent, pri- 
 mum Clypeam Africos ci- 
 vitatem in deditionem ac- 
 ceperunt. Consules us- 
 que ad Carthaginem pro- 
 cesserunt, multisque vas- 
 tatis oppidis Manlius vic- 
 tor Romam rediit,et xxvii. 
 millia captivorum reduxit. 
 Attilius Hegulus in Africa 
 
 Romans first fought by sea, 
 ivhen C. Duilius, and Cn. Cor- 
 nelius Asinus ivere consuls, 
 providing/or the Jiurjiose ships 
 with rostra, which they called 
 Liburnian. The consul Cor- 
 nelius was trepanned by treach- 
 ery. Duilius giving the enemy 
 battle, defeated the general of 
 the Carthaginians, took 31 - 
 ships, sunk fourteen, took eight 
 thousand of the enemies, and 
 killed 3000 ; nor was any vic- 
 tory more acceptable to the 
 Romans, because being invinci- 
 ble by land, they were now very- 
 powerful too by sea, C. Aqui- 
 lius Fiorus, and L. Scipio btiing 
 consuls, Scipio wasted Corsi- 
 ca and Sardinia, carried off ma- 
 ny thousand prisoners from 
 thence, mid had a triumph. 
 
 21. L. Manlius Volso, and 
 M. Attilius being consuls, the 
 war was carrietl into Africa, 
 against Hamilcar the general 
 of the Carthaginians ; a battle 
 was fought at sea, and he was 
 conquered. For losing 64 
 ships he steered off: the Ro- 
 mans lost 23 ; but Sifter they 
 had passed over into Africa, 
 they first of all took Clyptia, a 
 city of Afi-ica, upon surrender. 
 The consuls advanced up tu 
 Carthage, and having laid waste 
 many towns, Maalius returned 
 victorious to Rome ; and 
 brought otr twenty seven thou- 
 sand prisoners. Attilius Reg- 
 ulus remained in Africa. He 
 drew up his army against the 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 119 
 
 reiiiansit. Is contra Afros 
 acieminstruxit, contra tres 
 Cartha,^inensium duces 
 climicans,victor fuit: xviii. 
 millia hostium cecidit, 
 qukique millia cum viii. 
 ©lephaiitibus cepit, Ixxiv. 
 civitatcs in fidem accepit. 
 Turn victi Carthaginenscs 
 pjieem a Roma^nis petie- 
 runt : quam cum Rci^ulus 
 noUet nisi durissimis con- 
 ditionibus dare, A.fri aux- 
 t ilium a Lacedgemoniis pe- 
 tierunt : et duce Xan'ip- 
 po, qui a Lacedaem >niis 
 misuus fuerat, Rom. no- 
 rum dux Regulus victus 
 est uiiima pernici.r : nam 
 duo miilid hominuni tan- 
 tum ex omni Romano ex- 
 ercjtu re miin scrum : xv, 
 millia cum impcratoie 
 Reg'ulo capta simu xxx. 
 nsiHia occisa, Kej.ulu.s ip- 
 se in caieuds conjeclus. 
 
 22. M. jEniilio Puulo, 
 Serv. Fulvio ^obiliore 
 consulibus, ambo consules 
 Romani Airicam profecti 
 sunt, cum treccntirum 
 naviumclast^eCiypeam pe- 
 tunt, et contra Car.hHt^i- 
 ncnsesvenerunt. Pvimum 
 Afros navali certamine su* 
 perant. ^niiiius consu! 
 centum et quatuor naves 
 hostium dcuiersit triginta 
 cum pugnatoribus cepit, 
 qumdecim millia hostium 
 aut occidit, auL cepit, mi- 
 litem suum ingenti prae- 
 
 Africans, and engaging with 3 
 generals of the Carthaginians, 
 was conqueror. He slew ei»^h- 
 teen thousand of the eneraicB, 
 took five tliousand with 8 v-1©- 
 phants, and received 74 cities 
 upon promise of quarter. Then 
 the conquered Carth<genians 
 be':^ged peace of tl»e Rajnans ; 
 which when Regains wuuld 
 not grant them but uprti v'ery 
 hird terms, the /Vl'dc^vas beg- 
 ged assistance of the f ^ \cede- 
 moni.as ; and by the general 
 Xan:ii)pus, who «v^as sent them 
 by tiie Lacedemonians, the 
 c,en; ral of 'he Romans, Regu- 
 lus was deieated with prodi- 
 gious slaut^hter: for there were 
 only two thousand men left of 
 all the Roman army : fifteen 
 thousona with the commiindcr 
 Regulus were taken, thirty 
 thousand slain, Regulus him- 
 self clapt in chains, 
 
 22. When M. iEmilius Pau- 
 lus and S. Fulvius Nobilior 
 ivere consuls, both the Roman 
 consuls went to Africa, they 
 make for Clypca with a fleet 
 o( 300 ships, and proceeded 
 against the Carthaginians. 
 They first defeat the Africans 
 in a sea-fi,. hr. The consul K- 
 milius sunk 104 ship3 of th^ 
 enemies, tooK. 30 with the sol- 
 diers on board, either slew or 
 took 15 thousand of the ene- 
 mies, a7id enriched his soldiers 
 with abundance of plunder. 
 And Africa would have been 
 
]2« 
 
 NEW LATfN pnblER. 
 
 da ditavit ; et subacta Af- 
 rica turn fuisset, nisi tanta 
 fames fuisset ut diutius 
 expectare exercitus nou 
 posset. Consules cum 
 victrici classe redeuntes, 
 circa Siciliam naufragium 
 paasi sunt : et tanta tem- 
 pestas fuit, ut ex quadri- 
 gentis sexaginta quatuor 
 ntivibus octoginta servari 
 vix potuerint : neque ullo 
 tempore tanta mariiimi 
 tempestas audita est. Ro- 
 inani tamen statim trecen- 
 tas naves repaveiunt neq; 
 in aliquo animus his in- 
 fra ctuF fuit. 
 
 23. Cnseus Ser\'ilius 
 Ceepio et C. Sempronius 
 Bisesus consulea cum du- 
 centis sexaginta navibus 
 ad African] profecti sunt, 
 aliquot civitates ceperunt : 
 praedam ingentem redu- 
 centes, naufragium passi 
 Sunt. Itaque cum contift- 
 use calamilates Romanis 
 displicerent, decrevit se- 
 natus, ut a maridmis pr^- 
 lih discederetur,et tantum 
 sexaginta naves ad p'assi" 
 dium Itinlise. saUfe essent. 
 
 24. Lucio Caecilio Me- 
 tello, C. Furio Pacello con- 
 sulibus, Metellus in Sici- 
 lia Afrorum ducem cum 
 cxxx. elephantis, & mag- 
 nis copiis venieutem su- 
 peravit. xx. nulli» hosti- 
 um cecidit, sex & viginti 
 cifiphantos cei^it, reliquos 
 
 then subdued, if there had npt 
 been so great a famine, that 
 the army could not stay any 
 longer. The consuls return- 
 ing with the victorious fleet, 
 suffered shipwreck about Sici- 
 ly. And so great was the tem- 
 pest, that of 464 ships, scarce 
 fourscore could be saved : nor 
 was ever so great a tempest at 
 sea heard of at any time. Yet 
 the Romans immediately built 
 300 new ships, nor was their 
 courage broken in any respect. 
 
 23, The consuls Cnaeus Ser- 
 vilius Ca^pio and C. Semproni^ 
 us BlsesuB, went to Africa with 
 260 ships, and took some ci- 
 ties ; and bringing back abun- 
 dance of plunder, suffered 
 shipwreck. Wherefore be- 
 cause these continued losses 
 did not please the Romans, the 
 Senate decreed to decline fight- 
 ing at sea, and th.^t thrre should 
 only sixty slips bo kept for the 
 security of Italy. 
 
 24. fVhen L. C«cilius Me- 
 tellu'i, and Q. Fuiius Paccllus 
 were consuls, Metcilus deflat- 
 ed in Sici'y a ceneral of the 
 Afticaiis, coming against him 
 with 130 elephants and avast 
 army ; he killed 20,000 of the 
 enemies, took 26 olephints, 
 and picked up the rest that 
 
HBW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 121 
 
 crrantes per Numidas, 
 quos in auxilium habebat, 
 collcgit, & Romam de- 
 duxit ingenii pompa, cum 
 cxxx. elephuntorum nu- 
 mero omnia itinera com- 
 plerct. Post haec mala 
 Carthaginenses Regulum 
 ducem, quern ceperanf, 
 petierunt, ut Romam pro- 
 ficisceretur, & pacem a 
 Romanis cbtineret, ac per- 
 mutationem captivorum 
 face ret. 
 
 25. Ille Romam cum 
 venisset, inductus in sen- 
 atuni, nihil quasi Roman- 
 us egit ; dixitque se ex 
 ilia die, qua in potestatem 
 Afrorum venisset, Roma- 
 num esse desivisseT Ita- 
 que £c uxorem a com- 
 plexu removit, & Roman- 
 is suasii, ne pax cum Pce- 
 nis lieret ; illos enim, 
 fractos tot casibus, spem 
 nullam babere ; se tanti 
 Bon esse, ut tot millia cap- 
 tivorum propter unum se 
 & senem, & paiicos qui ex 
 Romanis capli fuerant, 
 redderentur : itaque obti- 
 nuit. Nam Afros pacem 
 petentes nuilus admisit. 
 Ipse Cunhagincm rediit ; 
 offers. ndbusquc Romanis, 
 ut cum Romae lenerent, 
 negavit se in ca urbe man- 
 surum, in qua, postquam 
 Afris servierat, dignita- 
 tem honesti civis habere 
 Hon posset. Rcj^reasus 
 L 
 
 strayed away by tneans of the 
 Numidians, whom he had to 
 assist him, and brought them 
 to Rome in great pomp, filling 
 all the roads with this number 
 of 130 elephants. After these 
 misfortunes, the Carthaginians 
 desired the general Regulus, 
 whom they had taken, to go to 
 Rome, and procure a peaceybr 
 them from the Romans and 
 make an exchange of prison- 
 ers. 
 
 25. After h?i was come t* 
 Rome, being brought into the 
 Senate, he acted nothing as a 
 Roman ; and said,that from the 
 day in which he came into the 
 hands of the Africans, he had 
 ceased to be a Roman. 
 Wherefore he both hindered 
 his wife from embracing him ; 
 and advised the Romans that a 
 peace should not be made with 
 the Cartiia<^inians, because they 
 being brought low by so many 
 misfortunes had no hopes ; 
 that he was not worth so much, 
 that so many thousand prison- 
 ers showld be restored for him 
 alone, an old man and a few of 
 the Romans, that were taken : 
 and accordingly he carried it. 
 For no one would hearken to 
 the Africans upon their desir- 
 ing peace. He returned to 
 Carthage ; and the Romans of- 
 fering to keep him at Rome, 
 he denied that he would con- 
 tinue in that city, in which, af- 
 ter he had been in a state of 
 
23 
 
 .\EW LATIN" r RIMER. 
 
 tills suppiiciis cstinctU3 
 
 est. 
 
 26. P. Clau.dio Pulchro, 
 C. Junio Consiilibus, Clau- 
 dius contra ayspicia pug- 
 navit, & a Carihaginiensi- 
 bus victus est : nam ex 
 ducentis &c viginli navi- 
 bus, cum triginta fugit : 
 xc. cum pugnatoribus 
 captae sunt, demersae cae- 
 terse, viginti millia capta. 
 Alius quoque consul clas- 
 seni naufragio amisit, ex- 
 eixitum tamen salvum ha- 
 buit, quia vicina littora 
 crant. 
 
 27. Caio Luctatio Ca- 
 tulo, Aulo Posthumio Al- 
 bino consiilibus, anno bel- 
 li Punici vigesimo tertio, 
 Catulo bcllum contra Af- 
 aos commissum est. Pio- 
 fectus est cum ccc. navi- 
 bus in Siciliam. ' Afri 
 contra ipsum ccc. parave- 
 riint. Luctalius Caiulus 
 naveni iegcr ascendit, 
 vulneratus enim in pugna 
 supcriore fucrat. Contra 
 Lilyboeum, civitatem Si- 
 cilise pugnalum est ingen- 
 ti virtule Romanorum ; 
 nam septuaginta tresCai- 
 ihaginensiiim naves cap- 
 tse sunt, cxxv. demcrsse) 
 triginia duo niillia liosli- 
 uui caF'tO) xili-occisa. In- 
 
 captivity amongst the Afri- 
 cans, he could not have the 
 dignity of an honourable citi- 
 zen. Wijcrefore returning to 
 Africa, he Avas put to death 
 \vith all manner of tortures. 
 
 2 6. JVken P. Claudius Pul- 
 cher, and C. Junius 7vere con- 
 suls, Claudius fought contrary 
 to the auspices, and was de- 
 feated by the Carthaginians : 
 for he fled with 30 ow/z/ of 220 
 ships : 90 were taken with the 
 soldiers on board, the rest 
 >vere sunk, and twenty thous- 
 and men made prisoners. The 
 other consul too lost his fleet 
 by shipwreck, yet saved his 
 army, because the shore was 
 near. 
 
 • 
 
 27. C. Lucatius Catulus and 
 A. Posthumius Albinus being 
 consuls in the year of the Car- 
 thaginian war 23, the war a- 
 gainst the Africans was com- 
 mitted to Catulus. He went 
 with 300 ships into Sicily. 
 The Africans fitted out 300 
 against him. Luctatius Catu- 
 lus went aboard his s'hip sick, 
 for he had been wounded in 
 the former fight. A battle 
 was fought with the utmost 
 bravery on the Roman side, 
 over against Lilyboeum, a city 
 of Siciiy ; for 72 ships of the 
 Carthaginians were taken, 125 
 suiik, thirty-two thousand of 
 the encmie-s made piisoners, 
 and thirteen thousand slain. 
 An infmiie quaalily of gold and 
 
SEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 12: 
 
 finiium auri argentiqae 
 pondus in potestatem Ro- 
 nianorum redictum. Ex 
 classe Romana duodeciai 
 naves demersfe. Pugna- 
 lum est vi. idus Manias. 
 Statim Carthaginenses pa- 
 cem petierunt, tributaque 
 lis pax. Caplivi Roman- 
 orum, qui lenebantur a 
 Carthaginensibus, rcddili 
 sunt. Etiaiu Carthagi- 
 ncnses petierunt, lU redi- 
 mi cos capiivos Jiccret, 
 quos ex Afri-s Romani te- 
 nebant. Senatus jussit si- 
 ne pielio dari eos, qui in 
 publica custodia essent ; 
 qui autem a privatis tcne- 
 reutur, ut, pretio dominls 
 rcddilo, Carlliu.9;inem vid- 
 ircnt ; atque id prelium 
 ex fisco magis quam a 
 Carthaginensibus solvcrc- 
 tur. 
 
 28. Quintus Luctatius, 
 Aulus jVlanlius ccrisules 
 creati, bellurn Faliscis in- 
 tulerunt ; qu?e civitas Ita- 
 lise opulcnta quondam fu- 
 it ; quod ambo consules 
 intra sex dies postquani 
 venerant, transegeruntj 
 quindecim millibus hosti- 
 iim csesis, cxteris pace 
 Qoncessa, agro tamen ex 
 medietate sublato. 
 
 silver came into the possession 
 of the Romans. Twelve ships 
 of the Roman fleet were sunk. 
 This battle was fought upon 
 the sixth of the ides of March, 
 Immediately the Carthaginians 
 sued for peace, and a peace 
 was granted to them. TJie 
 prisoners of the Romans, who 
 were in the possession of the 
 Carthaginians, were reslorcd. 
 The Carthaginians likewise 
 desired, ihey might be permit- 
 ted to redeem their prisoner^, 
 which the Romans had of the 
 Africans. The Senate order- 
 ed those to be restored witlj- 
 out ransom, that were in the 
 custody of the public; but for 
 those who were in the posses- 
 sion of private persons, that 
 t!icir ransom money being paid 
 their masters, they should re- 
 turn to Carthage ; and tliat 
 that money siiould be paid out 
 o^' the public treasury, rather 
 than by the Carthaginians, 
 
 28. Quintus Luctaiius and 
 Aulus Manilas bcinij chosen 
 consuls, made war upon the 
 Fulisci ; which was formerly fi 
 wealthy state of Italy ; which 
 the consuls together finished 
 in six days after they came 
 there, fifteen thousand of the 
 enemy being slain, a peace- 
 granted to the rest, and y&t 
 their land to the half part be- 
 ing taken from ihem. 
 
 / 
 
NEW LATIN FRXMSR. 
 
 LIBER III. 
 
 U FINITO igitur Pu- 
 TJico bello, quod per vigin- 
 ti duos annos contractum 
 est, Roma;u jam clarissi- 
 ma gloria noti, le.^atos ad 
 Ptoleuiaeum, jJLgypti re- 
 gem, miscrunt, auxilia 
 promittentes ; quia rex 
 Syrise Antiochus ei bcl- 
 ium intulerat. !l(e grati- 
 as Romanis egit, auxiiia 
 Hon accepit ; jam enim 
 fuerat pui^na transacta. 
 Eedeni tempore potentis- 
 simus vex Sicilise Hicro 
 P.omam venit, ad ludos 
 spectundos, & ducenta 
 Hiillia modioriim triuci 
 populo dono dedit. 
 
 2. Lucio Cornelio Len- 
 tuloj Fulviu Flacco coiibu- 
 lib-us, quibus Hiero Ro- 
 mam venerat, etiam con- 
 tra Ligures intra Icaliam 
 bellum gestum est, 8c de 
 his triumphatum. Car- 
 thaginenses turn bella re- 
 parare tentabant, Sardini- 
 e»ses, qui ex conditione 
 pacis Romanis parere de- 
 bebant, ad rebellandum 
 impellantes ; venit tamen 
 Jegatio Carlhaginensium 
 Romam, Sc pacem impe- 
 travit. 
 
 3. Tito Manlio Torqua- 
 to, Caio Attilio Balbo con- 
 sulibus, de Sardis trium- 
 phatum est : & pace om- 
 nibus locis facta, Romani 
 
 1. WHEREFORE the Pu- 
 
 nick war being ended, which 
 was carried on for 22 years, 
 the Romans being now famous, 
 for their most celebrated glo- 
 ry, sent embassadors to Ptole- 
 my, King of iEgypt, promising 
 /lim assistance ; because Anti- 
 ochus King of Syria had made 
 war upon him. He gave thanks 
 to the Romans, but did not ac- 
 cept their assistance ; for now 
 tlie war was ended. At the 
 same time Fliero, the most 
 powerful King of Sicily, came 
 to Rome to see the /mblic 
 games, and presented 200 
 thousand Modii of wheat to 
 the people. 
 
 2. L. Cornelius Lentulus 
 and Fulvius Flaccus being con- 
 suls, m whose year Hiero had 
 come to Rome, a war was car- 
 ried on likewise against the 
 Ligurians, within Italy, and 
 there was a triumph upon that 
 account. The Carthaginians 
 then attempted to renew the 
 war, exciting the Sardinians, 
 who by an article of the peace 
 were obliged to be subject to 
 the Romans, to rebel ; yet an 
 embassy of the Carthaginians 
 came to Rome, and obtained 
 peace. 
 
 3. T. Manilas Torquatus 
 and C. Attilius Balbus bemg 
 consuls, there was a triumph 
 over the Sardinians : and a 
 peace being made in all j^laces, 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 125 
 
 nulium bellum habuerunt, 
 quod his, post Romam 
 conditam, semel tantum, 
 Numa Pompilio re,8;nante, 
 contii<erat. 
 
 4. Lncius Posthumius 
 Albinus, Cneeus Fulvius 
 Centumalus consules bel- 
 lum conti'a Ulyrios gesse- 
 runt: & multis civitatHDus 
 capy^Ls eliam reges in dedi- 
 tionem acceperunt. Turn 
 primum de lllyriis trium- 
 phatum est. 
 
 5. LucioiEmilio consu- 
 le, ingentes Gallorum co- 
 pise Alpes transierunt : 
 sed pro Romanis tota Ita- 
 lia consensit : traditum- 
 que est Fabio historico, 
 qui ci bello interfuit, 
 Dccc. millia hominum pa- 
 rata ad id bellum fuisse : 
 sed res per consules tan- 
 tum prospere gesta est : 
 xl. millia hostium inter- 
 secta sunt, & triumphus 
 ^milio decreiusi 
 
 6. Aliquot dcinde annis 
 post, contra Gallos intra 
 Italiampugnatum est : fi- 
 nitumquc est bellum Mar- 
 co CIaudioMarcelIo,Cnseo 
 Cornelio Scipione consuli- 
 bus. Tunc Mavcellus cum 
 parva manu equitnm dimi- 
 cavit, & regem Gallorum, 
 Viridomarum nomine, 
 manu sua occidit. Postea 
 cum collega suo ingentes 
 copias Gallorum peremit ; 
 Meditlanum expugnavit, 
 
 L2 
 
 the Romans had no war, which 
 had happened to them but 
 once, since the building of 
 Rome, ivhen Numa Ponipiiius 
 was reigning. 
 
 4. The consuls L. Posthu- 
 mius Albinus, Cn'<Eus Fulvius 
 Centumalus carried on a war 
 against the Illyrians : and tak- 
 ing many cities, received like- 
 wise their princes upon sub- 
 mission. Then for the first 
 time there was a triumph over 
 iho Illyrians. 
 
 5. When L. jEmilius wa&. 
 consul, a vast army of the 
 Gauls passed the Alps : but 
 all Italy was unanimous for the 
 Romans : and it is recorded 
 by Fabius the historian, who 
 was act-ially present in that 
 ivar, that eight hundred thou- 
 sand men were levied for tiiat 
 war : but the business was» 
 successfully managed by ihn 
 consuls only : forty thousand 
 of the enemy were slain, and u 
 triumph voted for ^Emilius. 
 
 6. Then some years aficr, 
 the Romans agahi engaged 
 against the Gauls within Italy : 
 and the war was ended by iJie 
 consuls M, Claudius Marcellus 
 and Cnaeus Scipio. Then Mar- 
 cellus fought the enemy with a 
 small body of horse, and slew 
 the king of the Gauls, Virido- 
 marus by name, with his own 
 hand. Afterwards with hi-i 
 colleague he cut off a vast ar- 
 my of the Gauls, took Medio- 
 lanum ; ajisi brought abundance 
 
126 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 grandem prgedam Romam 
 pertulit. Ac triumphans 
 Marcellus spolia Galli sd- 
 pili imposita humeris suis 
 vexit. 
 
 7. M. Minucio, P. Cor- 
 nelio consulibus, Istris 
 beilum illatum est, quia 
 latrocinati naves Romuno- 
 rum luerant, qiise frumen- 
 ta exhibebaiu ; perdomi- 
 tiq; sunt oinnes. Eodem 
 anno helium Punicum se- 
 cundum Romanis illatum 
 est per Annibalem Car- 
 thaginensium ducem, qui 
 Saguntum Hispaniss civi- 
 tatem, Romanis amicam 
 oppugnare aggressus est, 
 agens vicesimum astatis 
 annum ; copiis congrega- 
 tis cl. minibus pedilum, §c 
 XX. minibus equitum. 
 Huic Romani per legatos 
 denunciaveruni, ut bello 
 abstineret. Is legatos ad- 
 mittere noluit. Romani 
 etiam Carthaginem mise- 
 runt, ut mandaretur An- 
 nibali, ne beilum contra 
 socios populi Romani ge- 
 reret ; sed dura responsa 
 a Carthaginensibus reddi- 
 ta. Sagunlini inlerea fa- 
 me victi, eaptique ab An- 
 nibaie, uliieiis poenis of- 
 iiciuntur. 
 
 8. Turn Publius Corne- 
 lius Scipio cum excrcitu 
 
 of plunder to Rome. And 
 Marcellus in his triumph car- 
 ried upon his shoulders the 
 spoils of the Gaul hung upon 
 a statue. 
 
 7. M. Minucius and P. Cor- 
 nelius being consuls, a war 
 was made upon the Istrians, 
 because they had robbed some 
 ships of the Romans, which 
 were bringing corn /o the ^ity; 
 and they were all conquered. 
 In the same year the second 
 war of the Carthaginians was 
 made upon the Romans, by 
 Annilial, general of the Car- 
 thaginians, who ventured to 
 attack Saguntum, a city of 
 Spain, and an ally of the Ro- 
 mans, nvhen he was entering 
 the 20ih year of his age ; hav- 
 ing got together an army of an 
 hundred and fifty thousand foot, 
 and twenty thousand horse. 
 The Romans charged him, by 
 deputies sent for that fiurfioset 
 to forbear the war. He would 
 not admit the deputies to a 
 hearing. The Romans like- 
 wise sent to Carthage, desiring 
 that orders might be sent to 
 Annibal, not to carry on a war 
 against the allies of the Roman 
 people ; but a su^ly reply was 
 made by the Carthaginians. 
 In the mean time the Sagunti- 
 ni, being forced by famine, and 
 taken by Annibal, were sub- 
 jected to the most extreme 
 punishments. 
 
 8. Then P. Cornelius Scipio 
 went with an army into Spain, 
 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 127 
 
 in Hispaniam profectus 
 est, Tiberius Sempronius 
 in Siciliam; belium Car- 
 thaginensibus indicium 
 est. Annibal relicto in 
 Hispania fratre AsdrubaJe 
 Pyrenaeum transiit ; AI- 
 pes adhuc in ea parte in- 
 vias, sibi patefecit. Tra- 
 ditur ad Italiam Ixxx. mil- 
 lia peditum, & xx. millia 
 equitum,septem & trigin- 
 ta elephantes adduxisse. 
 Interea multi Li^ures & 
 Galli Annibali se junxe- 
 runt. Sempronius Grac- 
 chus, cognito ad Italiam 
 Annibalis adventu, e Sici- 
 lia exercitum Ariminum 
 trajccit. 
 
 9. Publius Cornelius 
 Scipio Annibali primus 
 ©ccurrit; commiso preelio, 
 fugalis suis ipse vulnera- 
 tus in castra rediit. Sem- 
 pronius Gracchus & ipse 
 conflixit apud Trebiam 
 amnem ; is quoque vinci- 
 tur, Annibali multi se in 
 Italia dediderunt. Indead 
 Tusciam veniens Annibal, 
 Fiaminioconsuli occurrit : 
 ipsum Flaminium interc- 
 mit : Romanorum viginti 
 quinque millia caesa sunt : 
 cseteri diff'up-erunt. Mis- 
 sus adversus Annibalem 
 postea a Homanis Quintus 
 Fabius Maximus. Is eum, 
 differendo pugnani, abiin- 
 petu fregit : mox inventa 
 occ^ione vicit. 
 
 Tiberius Sempronius into Sici- 
 ly ; and war was proclaimed a- 
 gainst the Carthaginians. Anni- 
 bal having left his brother As- 
 drubal in Spain, passed the Py- 
 renaean, and laid open for him- 
 self the Alps, as yet unpassed 
 in that part. He is said to have 
 brought into Italy fourscore 
 thousand foot, and twenty thou- 
 sand horse, and seven and thir- 
 ty elephants. In the mean time 
 many of the Ligurians and 
 Gauls joined themselves to 
 i^nnibal. Sempronius Grac- 
 chus hearing of Annibal's com- 
 ing into Italy, drew his army 
 out of Sicily to Ariminum. 
 
 9. Publius Cornelius Scipio 
 first meets Annibal ; and join- 
 ing battle, his men being rout- 
 ed he returned wounded into 
 the camp. Sempronius Grac- 
 chus likewise engaj^ed him at 
 the river Trebias ; he likewise 
 is defeated. Many in Italy sur- 
 rendered themselves to Anni- 
 bal. ^ From thence Annibal 
 coming into Tuscia, meets with 
 the consul Flaminius : slew 
 Flaminius himself; twen- 
 ty-five thousand Romd^ws be si da 
 were killed: the rest fled. 
 Afterwards, Q. Fabius Maxi- 
 mus was sent against Annibal 
 by the Romans. He by declin- 
 ing battle checked his ardour : 
 and soon after, having gained 
 an advantage againat him^ rout- 
 ed him. 
 
128 
 
 SE.\V LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 10. Quingentesimo 8c 
 qwadragcsimo anno a con- 
 ditaurbe, Lucius iEinilius, 
 P. Tereiitius Yarro contra 
 Annibalem mittuntur, Fa- 
 bioque succedunt ; qui 
 Fabius ambos consules 
 rnonuit, ut Annibalem cal- 
 lidum & impatientem du- 
 ccm non aliter viucerent, 
 quam prselium diflerendo. 
 Verum cum impatienta 
 Varronis consulis, contra- 
 dicente consule altero, 
 apud vicum, qui Cannae 
 appellatur, in Apulia pug- 
 natum esset ; ambo consu- 
 les ab Annibale vincuntur. 
 In ea pugna tria niillia 
 AfVorum pereunt ; magna 
 parsde exercitu AnniDalis 
 saucialur ; nullo tamen 
 Punico bello Romani gra- 
 vius accepii sunt : periit 
 cnim in eo ^milius Puu- 
 lus consul ; consulares h 
 Pisetorii xx. senatores 
 capti aut occisi xxx. nobi- 
 liores viri ccc. miliium xl. 
 millia ; equitum tria mil- 
 lia et quingenti ; in qui- 
 bus malis, nemo tamen Ro- 
 manorum pacis mentio- 
 nem habere dignatus est. 
 Servi, quod nunquam an- 
 te manumissi & miliies 
 facti sunt. 
 
 11. Post earn pugnam 
 multae Italiae civitates, 
 quse Romanis paruerant, 
 se ad Annibalem tianstu- 
 ierunt. Annibal Romanis 
 
 10. In the 540th year from 
 the building of the cityL. i£mi- 
 lius and P. Terentius Varro are 
 sent against Annibal, and sue- 
 ceed Fabius : which Fabius 
 warned both the consuls, that 
 they could not othervvays con- 
 quer that subtile and impatient 
 general than by avoiding battle. 
 But a battle being fought thro* 
 the impatience of the consul 
 Varro, though the other con- 
 sul opposed it, at a country 
 town, which is called Cannse, in 
 Apulia J both the consuls are 
 overthrown by Annibal. In 
 that battle three thousand of 
 the Africans are lost ; a great 
 pan of Annibal's army is wound- 
 ed ; however the Romans were 
 not more roughly handled in 
 any battle with the Carthagini- 
 ans : for the consul jEmilius 
 Paul us fell in it ; and twenty 
 gentlemen that had been con- 
 suls and prgetors; thirty sena- 
 tors were taken or slain, besides 
 three hundred noblemen, and 
 forty thousand soldiers, three 
 thousand five hundred horse ; 
 in the midst of which losses 
 none of the Romans would 
 lAake any mention of peace. 
 The slaves, which /md never 
 been done before, were enfran- 
 cl^sed and made soldiers. 
 
 n. After that battle many 
 cities of Italy, which had been 
 subject to the Romans, went 
 over to Annibal. Annibal of- 
 fered the Romans libcriy tore- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 129 
 
 •btulit, lit captivos redi- 
 merent : responsumq; est 
 a Senatu,eos cives non esse 
 necessaries, qui cum ar- 
 mati essentj capi potuis- 
 sent. Ille omnes postea 
 variis suppliciis interfecit, 
 & tres modios aureorum 
 annulorum Carthaginem 
 iwisit : quos e manibus 
 Equitiini Roinanorum, 
 Senatorum & railitum de- 
 traxcr'at. Interea in His- 
 pania, nbi frater Annibalis 
 Asdriibal remanscrat cum 
 magno exercitu, ut cam 
 totam AtVis subigcret a 
 duobus Scipionibus Roma- 
 nis ducibus vincilur, per- 
 ! ditque in pugna xxxv. 
 i millia hominum : ex his 
 j capiuniur x. millia occi- 
 ' duntur xxv : mittuntur ei 
 I aCarthagensibus ad repa- 
 i randas vires xii. millia pe- 
 I dilum, iv. millia equiium, 
 I XX. eiephanti. 
 
 12. Anno quarto post- 
 quam in ilaliam Annibal ve- 
 nit, Marcus Claudius Mar- 
 cellus consul, apud Nolani, 
 civitatem Camp-anise, con- 
 tra Annibc lem bene pug- 
 Buvit. Annibal muUas ci- 
 vil ate s Romano rum per 
 Apuliam, Calabrium & 
 Brutios otcupavit, quo 
 tempore eti im rex Mace- 
 donise Philippus ad eum 
 legaios mibit, promittcns 
 auxilia contra Romanes, 
 sub hap conditioner ut de- 
 
 deem the prisoners : and an- 
 swer wai made by the Senate, 
 that those citizens were not 
 necessary, who though they 
 were armed, Qould be taken 
 prisoners. He afterwards put 
 them all to death with various 
 tortures, and sent three modii 
 of gold rings to Carthage, 
 which he had taken from the 
 hands of the Roman knights, 
 senators and soldiers. In the 
 mean time, in Spain, where the 
 brother of Annibal, Asdrubal, 
 had stayed with a great army, 
 to reduce all that firovince un- 
 der the Africans, he is conquer- 
 ed by the two Roman generals, 
 the Scipios, and loses in that 
 battle thirty-five thousand men: 
 of tiicse ten thousand are taken, 
 twenty-five liiousand are slain : 
 twelve thousand foot, four 
 tliousand horse, and twenty 
 eleplianla are sent him by the 
 Carthaginians to recruit his 
 army. 
 
 12. In the fourth year after 
 Annibal came into Italy, M. 
 Claudius Marcellus the consul, 
 fought successtully against An- 
 nibal at Nola, a city of Campa« 
 nia. Annibal seized upon ma- 
 ny cities of the Romans in Apu- 
 lia, Calabria, and the country of 
 the Brutii ; at which time 
 likewise Philip, King of Ma^ 
 cedonia, sent messengers to 
 him, promising him assistance 
 against the Romans upon this 
 condition, that after the Ro- 
 mans (ihould be conquered, he 
 
ISO 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 letis RomaniSjipse quoque 
 contra Orsecos ab Anniba- 
 le auxilia acciperet. Cap- 
 lis igitur Icgatis Philippi, 
 & re cognita, Romani in 
 Macedoniam Marcum Va- 
 lerium Laevinum ire jus- 
 serunt, in Sardiniam Ti- 
 lum Manlium proconsu- 
 1cm : nam etiam ea solici- 
 tata ab Annibale Romanos 
 deseruecat. ' 
 
 13. Ita uno tempore 
 quatuor locis pugnabatur ; 
 in Italia contra Annibalem; 
 in Hispania contra fratrem 
 ejus Asdrubalem ; in Ma- 
 cedonia,contra Philippum; 
 inSardinia,contra SardosSc 
 alterum Asdrubalem Car- 
 thaginensem. Is a Tito 
 Manlio proconsule, qui ad 
 Sardiniam missus fucrat, 
 vivus est capius : occisa 
 cum eo xii. millia, capti 
 inille quingcnti, 8c a Ro- 
 manis Sardinia subacta. 
 Manlius victor captivos 8c 
 Asdri]balem Romam ^e- 
 poitavit. Interea etiam 
 Philippus a Lsevino in 
 Macedonia vincitur, et in 
 Hispania a Scipionibus 
 Asctrubal, ct Mago tertius 
 fraler Annibalis, 
 
 14. D^^cimo anno post- 
 quam Annibal in Italiam 
 venerat, P. Sulpicio, Cnaeo 
 Fulvio consulibus, Anni- 
 bal i.sque ad quartum mil- 
 liarium urbis accessit, e- 
 guites ejus usque ad por- 
 
 should likewise receive assist* 
 asce irom Annibal against the 
 Greeks. Wherefore these 
 messengers of Philip being ta- 
 ken and the matter discovered» 
 the Romans ordered M. Vale- 
 rius Lasvinus to go into Mace- 
 donia, Titus Manlius the pre- 
 consul into Sardinia : for that 
 island too being wheedled by 
 Annibal, had forsaken the Ro- 
 mans. 
 
 13. Thus, at onetime, the 
 war was carried on in four sev 
 eral places ; in Italy against 
 Annibal ; in Spain against his 
 brorher Asdrubal ; m Macedo- 
 nia against Philip ; and in Sar- 
 dinia against the Sardinians, 
 and the other Asdrubal, a Car- 
 thaginian. He was taken alive 
 by T. Manlius the proconsirl, 
 who had been sent to Sardinia : 
 there were slain with him 
 twelve thousand men, a thou- 
 sand five hundred taken, and 
 Sardinia subdued by the Ro- 
 mans. The conqueror Manli- 
 us brought off the prisoners 
 and Asdrubal to Rome. In the 
 mean time too Philip is beaten 
 by Lsevinus in Macedonia, and 
 Asdrubal, and Mago the third 
 brother of Annibal, by the Sci- 
 pios in Spain. 
 
 14. In the tenth year after 
 Annibal came into Italy, when 
 Publius Sulpicius, and Cnseus 
 Fulvius ivere consuls, Annibal 
 came within four miles of the 
 city, and his horse up to the 
 very gates ; but presently for 
 
NE\y LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 15t 
 
 tas : mox consulum metu, 
 cum exercitu venientium, 
 Annibal ad Campaniam se 
 recepit. In Hispania a 
 fratre Asdrubale ambo 
 Scipiones, qui per multos 
 annos victores fucrant, in- 
 terficiuntur : excrcilus 
 tamen integer remansit *, 
 casu enim niagis quam 
 virtute erant deccpti : quo 
 tempore etiam a consule 
 Marcello Siciiid magna 
 pars capta est, quam le- 
 nere Afri coeperant : et ex 
 nobilKsimaurbe Syracu^-a- 
 na prseda ingens preelata 
 est. I.sevinus in Macedo- 
 nia cum Philippo 8c mullis 
 Grfficis populis, & rcge 
 Asiae Attalo, amiciliam fe- 
 cit : & ad Siciliam profec- 
 tus, Annonem quendam 
 Afrorum ducem apud 
 Agrigenium civitatcm 
 cum ipso oppido cepit, 
 cumque Romam cum cap- 
 tivis nobilibus mibit : xl. 
 civitates in deditionem ac- 
 cepit, xxvi. expugnavit. 
 Ita omni Sicilia recepta, 
 Macedonia fracta»cum in- 
 genti gloria Romam re- 
 gre%sus est. Annibal in 
 Italia Cnseum. Fulvium 
 consulem subito aggressus 
 cum octo millibus homi- 
 num interfecit. 
 
 15. lnt.ert;a ad Hispain- 
 as, ubi occisi» duobus Sci- 
 pioiiibus nu!U\s Rom-\nus 
 dux erat, Pub., Cornelius 
 
 fear of the consuls, iv/io were 
 coming with an army, Annibal 
 withdrew himself into Campa- 
 nia. In Spain both the Scipios, 
 who had been victorious for 
 several year's, are slain by ^n- 
 nidai's brother Asdrubal : yet 
 the army remained entire ; for 
 they had been trepanned more 
 by chance than any good con- 
 duct of the enemy : at which 
 time too, a great part of Sicily 
 was reduced by the consul 
 Marccllus, which the Africans 
 had begun to take possession 
 of : and abundance of spoil was 
 carried before him in his tri- 
 ump/iy taken from the most no- 
 ble city of Syracuse. Lsevinus 
 in Macedonia made an alliance 
 with Philip, and many of the 
 states of Greece, and Attalus 
 the king of Asia; and going 
 into Sicily, took Anno, a cer- 
 tain general of the Carthagini- 
 ans, at the city of Agrigentum, 
 with llie town itself, and sent 
 him to Rome with other noble 
 prisoners : he took in 40 cities 
 upon surrender, and 26 by 
 force. Thus having recovered 
 all Sicily, and humbled Mace- 
 donia, lie revurned with great 
 pjlory to Rome. Annibal in 
 Italy sjiddenly falling upon the 
 consul Cnaeus Fulvius, killed 
 him with 8000 men. 
 
 15. In the mean time is sent 
 to Sp^in, where after the two 
 Sci})ios were slain there was no 
 Roman general, Publius Cor- 
 
IS2 
 
 VBW LATIN PUXMER. 
 
 1 
 
 Scipio mittitur, filius Pub- 
 lii Scipionis, qui ibidem 
 bel^um gesserati annos na- 
 tus quatuor et viginti, vir 
 Romanorum omnium & 
 sua setate & po:jter3ori 
 tempore fere primus. Is 
 Carthaginem Hispanise 
 capit, in qua omne aurum 
 & argentum,& belli appa- 
 ratum Afti habebant : no- 
 bilissimos quoq; obsides 
 quos ab Hibpi^nis accepe- 
 rat : Magonem eliam fra- 
 trem Annibalis ibidem ca- 
 pit, quern Romam cum 
 aliis mittit. Romee in- 
 gens Isetitia post hunc nun- 
 tium fuit. Scipio Hispa- 
 niorum obsides parentibus 
 reddidit. Quare omnes 
 fere Hispani ad eum uno 
 snimo transierunt. Post- 
 que Asdrubalem Anniba- 
 lis fratrem victum fugut, & 
 prsedam maximam capit. 
 
 16. Interea in Italia con- 
 sul Q. Fabius Maxim us 
 Tarentum recepit, in qua 
 ingentes copise Annibalis 
 erant : et ibi etiam dwcem 
 Annibalis Carthalonem 
 occidit : xxv. millia cap- 
 tivorum vendidit : prae- 
 dam militibus dispertirit : 
 pecuniam hominum ven- 
 ditorum ad fiscum rctulit. 
 Turn multee civiiates Ro- 
 manorum, quae ad Anoi- 
 balem transierant prius 
 rursus se Fabio Maximo 
 reddiderunt. Inscquenti 
 
 nelius Scipio, the son of that 
 Publius Scipio, who had carri- 
 ed on the war there, at four and 
 twenty years old, almost the 
 greatest man of all the Romans, 
 both in his own age, and the 
 following time. He takes Car- 
 thage in Spain, in which the 
 Africans had all their gold and 
 silver, and ammunition : and 
 noble hostages too, which he 
 had received from the Span- 
 iards : he takes in the same 
 place likewise Mago the broth- 
 er of Annibal, whom he sends 
 to Rome with others. There 
 was great joy at Rome after 
 this news. Scipio restored the 
 hostages of the Spaniards to 
 their parents. Upon which 
 thing almost all the Spaniard» 
 went over to him with one con- 
 sent. And afterwards he puts 
 to flight Asdrubal the brother 
 of Annibal, and gets abundance 
 of plunder. 
 
 16. In the mean time in Ita- 
 ly, the consul Q. Fabius Maxi- 
 nius recovered Tarentum, in 
 which wt re a great number of 
 Annibai's troops : and there 
 he likewise slew a general of 
 Annibars one Carthalo : he 
 sold 25 thousand prisoners, and 
 divided the plunder amongst 
 his soldiers, but brought the 
 money arhing from the men 
 thai weic soid mlo the treasu- 
 ry. Then many cities of the 
 Konians, whicii had gone over 
 to Annibal before, rurrendered 
 themselves again to Fabius 
 
 I 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 133 
 
 anno Scipio in Hispania 
 egregias 'res egit, k. per 
 sci Sc per fratrem siiuni 
 I.ucium Scipionem : Ixx. 
 civitates recepit. In Ita- 
 lia tamen male pugnatum 
 est: nam Claudius Mar- 
 cellus consul ab Anniba- 
 le occisus est. 
 
 17. Tertio anno post- 
 quam Scipio ad Hispani- 
 am profecluB fuerat, 
 rursus res inclytas gerit. 
 RegemHispaniarum mag- 
 no praelio victum in ami- 
 citiam accepit, & primus 
 omnium a victo obsides 
 non ponoscit. 
 
 18. Desperans Annibal 
 Hispanias contra Scipio- 
 nem diutius posse retine- 
 ri, fratrem suum Asdru- 
 balem ad Italiam cum om- 
 nibus copiis evocavit. Is 
 veniens eodem itinere 
 quo etiam Annibal vene- 
 rat, a consuiibus Appio 
 Claudio Nerone, & Marco 
 Livio Salinatorc, apud Se- 
 nam Piceni civitatcm, in 
 insidias comparatas incidit; 
 strenue tamen pugnans 
 occisus est: ingentes ejus 
 copise caplse aut *interlcc- 
 tse sunt : magnum pon- 
 dus auri atque argenti 
 Komain relatum. Post 
 hjec Annibal diffidere jam 
 de belli £oepit eventu ; 
 
 M 
 
 Maximus. In the following 
 year Scipio performed extraor- 
 dinary things in Spain, both by 
 himself and his brother Lucius 
 Scipio : he look in 70 cities. 
 Yet the Ro?nans fought with iil 
 success in Italy : for the con- 
 sul Claudius Marcelius Mas 
 slain by Annibal. 
 
 17. Ill the third year after 
 Scipio had gone to Spain, he 
 performs again glo"ioub things. 
 He admitted a King of Spain, 
 after he had conquered him in 
 a great battle, to an alliance, 
 and was the first of all li^ho de- 
 manded no hostages of a con- 
 quered enemy. 
 
 18. Annibal despairing that 
 Spain cou)d be kept any longer 
 against Scipio, sent for his bro- 
 ther Asdrubal to Italy, with all 
 his forces. He coming the 
 same way that Annibal too had 
 come, fell into an ambuscade 
 laid ybr him by the consuls Ap- 
 pius Claudius Nero, and Mar- 
 cus liivius Salinator, at 6cna a 
 city of Picene ; yet he was 
 slain fighting stoutly : his great 
 forces were cither taken or 
 slain : a vast quantity of gold 
 and silver was carried to Rome. 
 After this Annibal began now 
 to despair of the event of the 
 war, and great courage was 
 added to the Romans ; wRere- 
 fore they likewise sent for Pu- 
 blius Cornelius Scipio out of 
 
134 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 & Romanis ingens animus 
 jiccessit ; itaque &: ipsi 
 cvocaveriint Ec Hispania 
 Publium Cornelium Sci- 
 pionem. Is Komam cum 
 ingenli gloxia venit. 
 
 19. Quinlo Csecilio Lu- 
 cio Valerio consulibus, 
 omnes t:ivitates, quce in 
 Brutiis ab Annibale tene- 
 bantur, Romanis se tracU- 
 derunt. 
 
 20. Anno xiv. post- 
 quam in Italiam Anniba! 
 venerat, Scipio, qui multa 
 bene in Hispania egerat, 
 consul est faclus, & in Af- 
 rican! missus ; cui viro 
 divinum quicldam inesse 
 exislimabatur, adeo ut pu- 
 taretur cum Numinibus 
 iiabere sermoneni. Is in 
 Africa contra Annonem 
 ducem Afrorum pugnat, 
 exereitura ejus intcificit. 
 Secundo preelio castra ce- 
 pit, cum quatuor millibus 
 & quinp^eiiti mililibus un- 
 decim millibus occisis. 
 Syphacem Numidise re- 
 gem, qui sc Afiis con- 
 junxerat, capit, £c castra 
 ejus invadit. Syphax 
 cum nobilissimis Numidis 
 & mfinitis spoliis a Scipi- 
 one Romum mittitur: qua 
 re audita, onmis fere Ita- 
 lia Annibdcm deseiit. 
 ipse Carthagincnsibus in 
 Afi'icam redirc jubctur, 
 i|ti*»m Scipio vaslabat. 
 
 Spain. He came to Rome 
 •vvitri great glory. 
 
 19. Quintus Csecilius, ayid 
 Lucius Valerius being consuls, 
 all the cities, which were pos- 
 sessed by Annibal amongst the 
 Brutii, submitted themselves to 
 the Romans. 
 
 20. In the 14th year after 
 Annibal had come into Italy, 
 Scipio who had done many 
 things successfully in Spain, 
 was made consul, and sent into 
 Africa ; in which man it was 
 supposed there was something 
 divine, so that he w?.s thought 
 to have converse with the Gods. 
 He engages in Afiica against 
 Anno general of the Africans 
 and cuts off his army in a great 
 measure. In a second battle" 
 he took his camp, with four 
 thousand and live hundred of 
 his soldiers, eleven thousand 
 being slain. He takes Syphax 
 king of Numidia, who had join- 
 ed himself with the Africans, 
 and seizes his camp, Syphax 
 with the most noble Numidi- 
 ans, and an infinite deal of spoil 
 is sent by Scipio to Rome : 
 which thing being heard of, al- 
 most a)l Italy forsakes Anni- 
 bal. He is ordered by the Car- 
 thaginians to return to Africa, 
 v/hich Scinio had laid waste. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 13; 
 
 21. Ita anno decimo 
 septimo ab Annibale Ita- 
 lia libcrata est, quam flens 
 dichur reliquisse. Lega- 
 li Carlhaginensiuni pacem 
 a Scipione peticruiu ; ab 
 CO ad Senatum Romam 
 liiissi sunt. Quadragiuta 
 quinquc dies his imluciee 
 datae sunt, quousquc Ko- 
 mam ire & rcg^edi pos- 
 sent : xxx. n)iiiia pondo 
 argenti ab his acccpta 
 sunt. Scnatus ex ajbitrio 
 Scipionis pi\cem jussit 
 cumCartbaginenslbus fie- 
 ri. Scipio his condiiioni- 
 bus cedit, ne amplius 
 quam triginta naves habe- 
 rent, quingenta millia pon- 
 do argcnli darent, capiivos 
 el perfugds reddcrent. 
 
 22. Interim Annibale 
 vcnicnte ad Afiicani, pax 
 turbata est, niulta hosiiliu 
 ab Aftis facta sunt. Lc- 
 gati tamen eoiuni ex ui be 
 venientes, a Komanis cap- 
 li sunt & jubcnte Scipione 
 dimissi. Annibal quoque 
 frcquentibus pi asiiis victus 
 a Scipione, petiit etiam 
 ipse pacem. Cum ven- 
 lum esset ad colloquium, 
 iisdem conditionibus data 
 est quibus piius : addita 
 quingentis millibus pondo 
 argenti, c. niillia libraruni 
 propter novam pei fidiam. 
 Carthaginensibus condi- 
 tiones displicuerunt, jus- 
 scruntque Annibale m pug- 
 
 21. Thus Italy was delivered 
 from Annibal in the 17tli year 
 of the wa?'t which he is said to 
 have left weeping. Embassa- 
 dors of the Carthaginians desir- 
 ed peace of Scipio ; they were 
 sent by him to Rome to the 
 Senate. Truce ivas granted 
 them for 45 days till they 
 should go to Rome and come 
 back : thirty thousap.d pounds 
 of silvci" wer3 received from 
 them. The Senate ordered a 
 |)c'ice to be made with the 
 Carthagiiiians, according to the 
 pleasure of Scipio. Scipio 
 granted it \:])on these terms, 
 that ihcy should iiave no more 
 than 30 sliips, should give five 
 hundred tl^^sand pounds of 
 silver, and ^tore the prison- 
 era and deserters. 
 
 2 2. In the mean time, upon 
 AnnibjTs coming to Africa, the 
 peace was interrupted, and ma- 
 uy hosiiiities committed by the 
 Africans. Yet their ambassa- 
 dors, as they ivere coming from 
 the ciiy Rome,) were taken by 
 the Rom.iuis, and by Scipio*s 
 order dismissed. Annibal too 
 being conquered in several bat- 
 tles by Scipio, begged peace 
 himself too. When they came 
 to a conference upon it^ it was 
 granted upon the same terms 
 as before : only a hundred 
 thousand librae were added to 
 the f!\'e hundred thousand 
 pound weight of silver for their 
 late treachery. These articles 
 displeased the Carthaginians, 
 
136 
 
 NEW LATIN PaiMER. 
 
 r»are. Tnfertur a Scipione, 
 & Massinis^a alio rcge 
 NumicIaruTii) qui aniiciti- 
 am cum Scipione fecerat, 
 Carthagini belium. An- 
 iiibai tres exploratores ad 
 ^cipiunis castra nusit ; 
 quos cantos Scipio" cir- 
 cumduci per castra juasit 
 ostendique eis totum €xer- 
 citum ; mox eiiarn pran- 
 dium dari dimitiique, ut 
 reriunciarent Aiinibaii qupe 
 apiK'i Homanos vidisscnl. 
 
 23. Intcrea prgeliUTn ab 
 utroque diicc insiructiim 
 estj quale vix ulla merno- 
 ria fuit ; qiuim peritissi- 
 nii viri copias si^gfcid hel- 
 ium edacerenul^Scipio 
 victor rceedh, peiie ipso 
 Annibale capto ; qui pri- 
 muni cum multis equiii- 
 bus, deinde cum xx. post- 
 re mo cum quatiior evasit. 
 Inventa iti castiis Anniba- 
 lis argenti pondo xx. mil- 
 }ia, aui i ocliugenta,cfetera 
 supcllectili copioja. Post 
 id cerlamen pax cum Car- 
 thaginensibus facta est. 
 Scipio Romam rediit, & 
 ingenti gloria tiiumpl-.avit, 
 atque African us ex eo ap- 
 peilari coeptus est. Fi- 
 nem accepit secundum 
 Puriicum bellura, post an- 
 num nonum decimum 
 quam coeperat. 
 
 and they ordered Annibal to 
 fight. The war is carried by 
 Scipio and Massinissa, another 
 king oF the Numidians, tvho 
 had made an alliance with Sci- 
 pio, up to Carthage itatl^'. An- 
 nibal sent three spies to Sci- 
 pio*s camp ; whom being seiz- 
 ed Scipio ordered to be led 
 round the camp and the whole 
 army to be slicwn them ; and 
 then a dinner to be given them 
 and dismissed, th'at they might 
 Icil Annibal what they had.scon 
 amongst tlie Romans. 
 
 23. In the mean time a bat- 
 tle was prepared for by both 
 generals, such as scarce ever 
 was in any age ; when these 
 most skilful men drew out their 
 troops to the fight. Scipio 
 comes off conqueror ; Annibal 
 himself being well nigh taken ; 
 who got off at first with many 
 horse, then with twenty, and at 
 last with but four. Twenty 
 thousand pounds of silver were 
 found in Annibal's camp, and 
 eight hundred of gold, with 
 other baggage in great plenty. 
 After that battle a peace was 
 made with the Carthaginians. 
 Scipio returned to Rome, and 
 triumphed in great glory, and 
 began to be called from thence 
 Africanus. The second Car- 
 thaginian war had an end 19 
 years after it began. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 137 
 
 .VEPOS^s LIVES 
 
 OF 
 
 EXCELLENT COMMANDERS. 
 
 MILTIADES, Cirnonis 
 Filius^ Atheniensis, 
 Cap. 1. 
 MILTIADES,Cimonis 
 filius Atheniensis, quum 
 £c aniiquitate generis, et 
 gloria majoruni, et sua 
 modestia, unus omnium 
 maxime floreret ; caque 
 esset setate, ut non jani 
 solum de eo bene sperare, 
 sed ctiam confiJere cives 
 poasent sui, talem futu- 
 rum quale m cognitum j\i- 
 dicarunt ; accidit ut Athe- 
 nienses Chersonesum co- 
 lonos velient miitere. Cu- 
 jus generis quum magnus 
 numenis esset, Sc m»ihi 
 ejus demigrationis pctc- 
 rent socictc.tem ; ex iiis 
 delecti Delphos delibera- 
 lum missi sunt, qui consu- 
 lerent ApoUinem, quo po- 
 lissimuin duce uterenlur. 
 Nam tum Th races eas re- 
 giones tenebant cum qui- 
 bus armis crat dimican- 
 dum. His consuleniibus 
 nominatim Pythia pisece- 
 ph, ut Miltiadem sibi irn- 
 peratorem sumcrcnt ; id 
 si fecissent, incepta pros- 
 pera futura. Hoc oraculi 
 responso, MiUiades, cum 
 M 2 
 
 MILTIADES, the Son of Ci- 
 mon, the Athenian» 
 Chap. I. 
 WHEN Miltiades, the son 
 ofCimon the Athenian, made 
 of all others the greatest figure, 
 both for the antiquity of his 
 family, and the glory of his an- 
 cestors, and his own modesty ; 
 and >vns of that age, that his 
 countiyn>en might now not on- 
 ly hope well of him, but even 
 assure themselves he would be 
 such a one as they judged him 
 upon trial ; it happened that 
 the Athenians had a mind to 
 send a colony to the Cherso- 
 nese. Of which kind officofile^ 
 as there was a great number, 
 and muny d'-sired a share in 
 this expedition ; some chosen 
 fiom amongst them, were sent 
 to consult the oracle, what 
 leader they should above oth- 
 ers make use of. For the 
 Thracians, at that lime, had 
 possession of those parts, with 
 whom they were to fight/or it 
 with arms. The Pythoness 
 did expressly order those that 
 consulted her, to take Miltia- 
 des to them as their command- 
 er ; if they did that, their un- 
 dertakings would be successful. 
 Uf^on this answer of the orsr,- 
 
138 
 
 NEAV LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 delecta manujClasse Chep- 
 sonesum profectus, cum 
 accessissct Lcmnum, Sc 
 incolas ejus insulse sub 
 potestatem recligere vellet 
 Atlieniensium, idque ut 
 Lemni sua spontc facerent, 
 postulasset ; illiiiTidentes 
 responderunt, Turn id se 
 facturos, quum iile, domo 
 navibus proficiscens, ven- 
 to Aquilone venisset Lem- 
 num : hie enim veutus a 
 septentrionibus oriens, ad- 
 versum tenet Athenis pro- 
 ficiacentibus. Miltiades, 
 morandi tempns non ha- 
 . bens, cursum direxlt quo 
 tendebat, pervenilque 
 
 Chersonesum. 
 
 Cap. II. Ibi brevi tem- 
 pore, Burbarorum copiis 
 iisjectis, tola rec-ione, 
 quam petierat, potilus, lo- 
 ca casteliis idonea commu- 
 Bi»it ; multitudinem, 
 
 quam secum duxerat, ia 
 ugris collocavit ; crcbris- 
 que excursionibus iocu- 
 pletavit. Neque minus in 
 ea re prudentia quam fc- 
 jioitatc, adjutus est : nam 
 quum vinute miiitum de- 
 vicisset hosiium exercitus, 
 summa jeqwitate res con- 
 stituit, aique ipse ibidem 
 manere decrevit. Erat 
 enim inter eos dignitate re- 
 gia, quamvis carebat nom- 
 ine : neq; id majus impe- 
 rio quam jusiitia consecu- 
 
 clc, Miltiades, with a choice bo- 
 
 dtj o/r«(?7z, going for the Cherso- 
 nese with a fleet, after he was 
 come up to Lemnus, and desi- 
 rous to reduce the inhabitants 
 of tiiat island under the power 
 of the Athenians, had demand- 
 ed, that the Lemnians would 
 do that of their own accord ; 
 they bantering him replied, 
 That they would then do it, 
 when he, coming by ship from 
 home, should arrive at Lem- 
 nus with the wind called Aqui- 
 lo : for this wind arising from 
 the Rorth is full against those 
 that come from Athens. Mil- 
 tiades, having no time to stay, 
 steered on his course to the 
 place he was bound for, and 
 came to the Chersonese. 
 
 Chap. II. There, in a short 
 time, the forces of ibe barba- 
 ritns being routed, having 
 made himself master of all the 
 country he went for, he fortified 
 places proper for castles ; set- 
 tled the people which he had 
 carried along with him, in the 
 lands ; and enriched them by 
 fiequent excursions. Norwas 
 he less assisted in that matter 
 by good conduct, than good 
 fortune : for after he had, by 
 the bravery ol his soldiers; 
 routed the enemy's armies, he 
 settled affairs with the greatest 
 equity, and resolved to continue 
 in the same place himself. 
 For he was amongst them m- 
 vcsted with regal authority, 
 ihoufrh he wanted the name : 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 139 
 
 tus. Nequ6 eo secius 
 Athcniensibus, a quibus 
 eratprofectus, officia prae- 
 stabat. Quibus rebus fie- 
 bat, ut non minus corum 
 voluntate perpetuo impe- 
 rium obtineret, qui mise- 
 rant, quani iilo^um cum 
 quibus erat profectus. 
 Chersoneso cali modo con- 
 stituta, Lemnum rSverti- 
 tur, & ex pacio, postulat, 
 ut sibi urbem tradant ; iHi 
 enim dixerant, quum ven- 
 to Borea domo profeetns, 
 eo pervenisset, sese dedi- 
 turos ; se autem doraum 
 Chersonesi habere. Cares, 
 qui turn Lemuum incole- 
 bant, etsi prseter opinio- 
 nem res ceciderat, tamen 
 nondicto, sed secunda for- 
 tuna adversariorum capti, 
 resistere ausi non sunt, at- 
 que ex insula demigrarunt. 
 Pari felicitate cgeieras in- 
 sulas, quse Cyclades nom- 
 inantur, sub Atheniensuni 
 redegit poiestatem. 
 
 Cap. III. Eisdem tem- 
 poribus Persarum rex Da- 
 rius, ex Asia in Europam 
 excrcitu trajecto, Scythis 
 bcllum inferre riecrevit. 
 PoDtem fecit in Isiro flu- 
 mine, qua copias traduce- 
 
 nor did he compass that, more 
 by his command in this exfiedi' 
 tion^ than his justice. Nor did 
 he the less perform all offices 
 of due subjection to the Athe- 
 nians from whom he had gone. 
 By which means it came to 
 pass, that he held the govern- 
 ment without intermission, no 
 less by the consent of those 
 who had sent him, than of those 
 with whom he had gone. Hav- 
 ing thws settled the Chersonese, 
 he returns to Lemnus, and de- 
 mands according to their prom- 
 ise, that they should surrender 
 up the city to him : for they 
 had said that when coming 
 from home with a north wind, 
 he arrived there, they would 
 surrender ; but that he now 
 had his home at the Cherso- 
 nese. The CarJans, who at 
 that time inhabited Lemnus, 
 although the business had hap- 
 pened contrary to thtir expec- 
 tation, yet being not moved by 
 their promise, but the good 
 fortune of their adversaries, 
 durst not resist, and removed 
 out of the island. With the 
 like good fort\ine he reduced 
 the other islands, which are 
 called Cyclades, under the 
 power of the Athenians. 
 
 Chap. III. About the same 
 lime Darius, king of the Per- 
 sians, drawing an army over 
 owt of Asia into Europe, re* 
 solved to make war upon the 
 Scythians. He made a bridge 
 upon the river Ister, by which 
 
140 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ret. Ejus pontis, dum ip- 
 se abesset, custodes leli- 
 quit principes qiios secum 
 ex Ionia & y^olide duxe- 
 rat : quibus singulis ipsa- 
 rum uibium perpetua de- 
 derat imperia. Sic enim 
 putavit facillime se Grgeca 
 lingua loquentes, qui Asi- 
 am incolerentj sub sua re- 
 lenturum potestale, si a- 
 micis suis oppida luenda 
 tradidisset : quibus, se op- 
 presso, nulla spes saluiis 
 relinqueretur, Inhocfuit 
 turn numero Miltiades, cui 
 ilia custodia crederetup. 
 Hie, quum crebriafferrcnt 
 nuncia male rem gerere 
 Darium, premique ab Scy- 
 this ; Milliades hortatus 
 est pontis custodes, ne a 
 forUina datam occasionem 
 liberandse Grsecise dimit- 
 terent : nam si cum iis co- 
 piis,quas secum iransport- 
 averat interiisset Darius, 
 non solum Europam fore 
 tulam, sed eliv^m eos, qui 
 Asiam incolerent, Grgeci 
 genere, liberos a Persa- 
 rum futuros dominatione 
 U periculo. Id ct facile ef 
 fici posse ; ponte enim res- 
 cissoj regem vel hostium 
 fcrro vel inopia paucis die- 
 bus inierilurum. Ad lioc 
 consilium quum plerique 
 accederent, Histiseus Mi- 
 lesius, ne res conliceretur, 
 obstiiit, dicens, non idem 
 pssis, qui summas impe- 
 
 to draw his troops over. He 
 left the princes which he had 
 brought along wiih him from 
 Ionia and iEolis, keepers of 
 that bridge, whilst he was 
 away : to each of which he had 
 given the perpetual sovereign- 
 ty of their several cities. For 
 thus he thought he should 
 most easily keep under his 
 subjectioi^ such as spoke the 
 Greek tongue, that inhabited 
 Asia, if i.ie delivered up those 
 cities to be maintained by his 
 friends, to whom no hope of se- 
 curity would be left if he was 
 conquered. Milliades was 
 then in this number, to whom 
 that guard of the bridge was 
 entrusted. Here, when fre- 
 quent messengers brought 
 ivordf that Darius managed his 
 business but badly, and was 
 hard pressed by the Scythians ; 
 Miltiades advised the keepers 
 of the bridge, that they would 
 not lose an opportunity of de- 
 livering Greece, given them by 
 fortune : for, if Darius should 
 perish with the army which he 
 liad carried over with him, not 
 only Europe would be safe, but 
 likewise those who, being 
 Greeks by original, inhabited 
 Asia, would be free from the 
 dominion of the Persians, and 
 oil danger. And that that 
 might easily be effected ; for 
 the bridge bein^- cut down the 
 king would in a few days per- 
 ish, either by the enemy^'s 
 swordj or want. When maijt 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 141 
 
 rii tenerentj expedire & 
 muhitiidini, quod Darii 
 regno ipsorum niteretur 
 dominatio : quo extincto 
 ipsos potestate cxpuisus 
 civibussuis poenas daturos. 
 Itaque adeo se abhorrere 
 a csetcrorum consilio, ut 
 nihil piuet ipsis utilius, 
 quam confirmari rcgnum 
 Persarum. Hujus quum 
 sententiam ]>iurimi essent 
 secuti, Miliiadcs non du- 
 bitans,tam muliis consciis, 
 ad regis aures consilia sua 
 perventura, Chersorjesum 
 reliquit, ac rursus Atheaas 
 deraigravit. Cujus ratio 
 ctsi non valuit, tamcn 
 Tnagnopere est laudanda, 
 quum amicior omnium li- 
 bertati, quam suae fuerit 
 dominationi. 
 
 Cap. IV. Darius autem, 
 quum ex Kuropa in Asi- 
 um rediisset, hortantibus 
 amicis, ut Graeciam in su- 
 am redigeret potestatem, 
 classem quingentarum na- 
 vium oomparavit, eique, 
 Datim preefecit 8c Arta- 
 phernem : lusque ducen- 
 la peditum millia, Sc de- 
 cern equitum dedit, cau- 
 sam interserens> se hos- 
 
 of them acceded to this advice? 
 Histijeus the Milesian opposed 
 it so, that the thing was not 
 done, saying, that the same 
 thing was not expedient for 
 them who had the sovereignty 
 of their cities, and the people ; 
 that their authority depended 
 upon the kingdom of Darius ; 
 which being destroyed, that 
 they being- deposed from their 
 office, would be punished by 
 their subjects. Wherefore he 
 was so far from agreeing to 
 the counsel of the rest, that he 
 thought nothing was more ad- 
 vantageous to them than the 
 establishment o/ the kingdom 
 of the Persians. As most of 
 them followed his advice, Mil- 
 tiades not doubting, so many 
 being privy » the iiiatter, that 
 his counsels would come to the 
 king's ears, quitted the Cher- 
 sonese, and again removed to 
 Athens. Whose advice, tho* 
 it did not prevail, is greatly to 
 be commended, »since he was 
 more a friend to the liberty of 
 all, than his own authority. 
 
 Chap. IV. But Darius, after 
 he had returned out of Europe 
 into Asia, his friends advising 
 him to it, that he might reduce 
 Greece under his authority, 
 fitted out a fleet of five hundred 
 ships, and set Datis and Arta- 
 phernes, over it, and gave them 
 two hundred thousand foot and 
 ten thousand horse ; alleging 
 this reason, that he was an en- 
 emy to the Athenians, because 
 
142 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 tern esse Athcniensibus, 
 quod eorum auxilio lones 
 Sardes expugnasseni, sua- 
 que praesidia interfccis- 
 sent. PrsefecU regii, clas- 
 se ad Euboeam appulsd, 
 celeriter Eretiam cepe- 
 runt, omnesque ejus gen- 
 lis cives abreptos, in Asi- 
 am ad regem miserunt. 
 Inde ad Aiiicam accesse- 
 runt,ac suas copias in cam- 
 pum Marathona deduxe- 
 runt. Is abest ab oppido 
 ciiciier millia passuuni; 
 decern. Hoc tumullu A- 
 thenienses tarn propinquo, 
 tanique magno permoii, 
 auxilium nusquam nisi a 
 Lacedsemoniis pelivcrunt; 
 Philippidemq ; cursorem 
 ejus generis, qui bemero- 
 dromi vocantur, Lacedge- 
 monem miserunt, ut nun- 
 ciaret quam celeri opus 
 esset auxilio. Donai au-. 
 tern creati decern Prgeio- 
 res, qui exerciuii pi sees- 
 sent } in eis MiltiaJes. 
 Inter quos magna fuit con- 
 teniio, utrum moenibus se 
 defenderent, an obviam 
 irent hostibus, acieq; de- 
 cernerent. Unus Miltia- 
 des maxime nitebatur, ut 
 prime quoque tempore 
 castra fierent ; id si fac- 
 tum esset, et ciribus ani- 
 mum accessurura, cum 
 vidcrent de eorum virtute 
 non desperari ; et hostes 
 eadem re fore tardiores, si 
 
 by their assistance, the lonians 
 liad taken Scirdis, and cut off 
 Ijis garrison. These admirals 
 of the king, having brought up 
 their fleet to Euboea, quickly 
 took Eretria, and sent all the 
 natives of that nation, being 
 taken from thence, into Asia 
 to the king. After that they 
 came to Auica, and drew out 
 their troops into the plain of 
 Marathon* That is distant a- 
 bout ten miles from the town 
 oi Athens. The Athenians be- 
 ing very much startled at this 
 alarm so near them, and so 
 prodigious, sought for assist- 
 ance no where, but from the 
 Lacedemonians ; and dispatch- 
 ed away Philippides, a courier 
 of that kind, who are called day 
 couriers, to Lacedsemon, to 
 tell them what speedy assist- 
 ance they had occasion for. 
 But at home ten officers were 
 chosen to command the army ;. 
 amongst them ivas Miliiades. 
 Amongst them there was a 
 migiuy disr.ute whether they 
 should defewd themselves by 
 their walls, or march to meet 
 the enemy, and engage them 
 in the field. Miltiades alone 
 very much insisted upon it, 
 that a camp should be formed 
 as soon as possible ; if that was 
 done, that both courage would 
 grow upon their countrymen, 
 when they saw their cornniand- 
 ers did not despair of their bra- 
 very ; and the enemy would be 
 rendered by the same means 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Hi 
 
 animadvertercnt auderi 
 adversus se tarn exiguis 
 copiis dimicare. 
 
 Cap. V. Hoc in tempo- 
 re nulla civitas Athenien- 
 sibus auxilio fuit preeter 
 Platseensium : ea mille 
 misit militum. Itaqiie 
 horum adventu, decern 
 millia armatorum comple- 
 ta sunt ; quae manus mi- 
 rabili flagrabat pugnandi 
 cupiditate : quo factum 
 est, ut plus quam collegse 
 Miltlades valuerit. Ejus 
 enhn auctoritute impulsi 
 Athenienses copias ex ur- 
 be eduxerunt, locoque ido- 
 neo castra fecerunt ; dein- 
 de postero die s\ib mentis 
 radicibus, acie e regione 
 inslructa, nova arte, vi 
 summa prselium commis- 
 erunt. Namque arbores 
 multis locis erant stratse, 
 hoc consilio, ut et monii- 
 um tegerentur altitudine, 
 jret arborum tractu equita- 
 ^' tus hostium impcdiretur, 
 i ne mullitudine claudercn- 
 '- tur. Datis, elsi non lo- 
 cum sequum videbat suis, 
 tamen fretus numero co- 
 piarum suavum, conflige- 
 re cupiebat ; eoque ma- 
 gis, quod priusquam La- 
 cedsemonii subsidio veni- 
 rent, dimicare utile arbi- 
 trabatur. Itaque in aciem 
 peditum centum, equitum 
 decctii millia produxit 
 pr^eliumquo commi-iit. 
 
 more backward, when they 
 found they durst engage them 
 with so small a force. 
 
 Chap. V. At this time no 
 state was assisting to the Athe- 
 nians, besides the Plataeensi- 
 ans : that stale sent a thousand 
 soldiers* Wherefore upon 
 their arrival, they weie ten 
 thousand armed men com- 
 plete ; which army was fired 
 with a wonderful desire of 
 fighting : by which means it 
 came tc pass, that Miltiades 
 prevailed more than his fellow 
 commissioners. For the A- 
 thenians, wrought upon by his 
 authority, drew their troops 
 out of the city, and formed a 
 camp in a proper place ; and 
 then the day following having 
 drawn up their army at the 
 bottom of a mountain over a- 
 gainst the enejny^ with uncom- 
 mon art, they joined battle with 
 the utmost spirit. For ther« 
 were trees laid in many places, 
 with this design, that they 
 might be covered by the height 
 of the mountains, and the ene- 
 my's horse might be hindered 
 by the lying of the trees, that 
 they might not be inclosed in 
 their numbers. Datis al- 
 though he saw tJie place was 
 not convenient for his men, yet 
 depending upon the number af 
 his troops, was desirous to en- 
 gage ; and the rather because 
 he thought it convenient to 
 fight before the Lacedemoni- 
 ans came ta their assistance. 
 
144 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIME». 
 
 In quo tanto plus virtute 
 valuerunt, Athenienses, ut 
 decemplicem numerum 
 hostium profligarent, ad- 
 eoque perterruerunt, ut 
 Persaenon castra,sed naves 
 peterent. Qua pugna ni- 
 hil adhuc est nobilius ; 
 nulla enim unquam tarn 
 exigua manus tantas opes 
 prostravit. 
 
 Cap. VI. Cujus victo- 
 riae, non alienum videtur, 
 quale praevium Miltiadi 
 sit tribuium docere ; quo 
 facilius intelligi possit, 
 eande?n omniujn civitatum 
 esse naturam, Ut enim 
 populi nostri honores 
 quondam fuerunc rari & 
 tenues, ob eamque cau- 
 sam gloriosi, nunc autem 
 effusi atque obsoleti ; sic 
 oUmapud Athenienses fa- 
 isse reperimus. Nam- 
 que huic Miltiadi, qui 
 Athenas, totamque Grse- 
 ciam liberavit, talis hones 
 tributusest, in portico, quae 
 Pxcile vocatur, cum pug- 
 na depingeretur Maratho- 
 nia ; ut in decem praeto- 
 rum numero prima ejus 
 imago ponerctur, isque 
 hortarelur milites, praeli- 
 umque committeret. Idem 
 ille populus, posteaquara 
 majus imperium est nac- 
 
 Wherefore he drew out into 
 the field a hundred thousand 
 foot and ten thousand horse, 
 and joined battle. In which 
 the Athenians prevailed so 
 much more by their bravery, 
 that they routed ten times the 
 number of enemies, and so af- 
 frighted them, that the Per- 
 sians did not make lor their 
 camp, but their ships. Than 
 which fight there is nothing as 
 yet more famous ; for no army 
 so small ever routed so vast a 
 force before. 
 
 Chap. VI. For which -vic- 
 tory, it does not seem improper 
 to mention what reward was 
 given to Miltiades ; that it may. 
 be the more easily understood, 
 \ hat the nature of all cities is the 
 same^ For as the honours of 
 our people were formerly rare 
 and small, and for that reas«n 
 glorious, but now extravagant, 
 and worn thread-bare ; thus we 
 find it to have been formerly 
 amongst the Athenians. For,i 
 such was the honour paid to 
 Miltiades, who delivered A- a 
 thens, and all Greece, in the* 
 Piazza which is cal'ed Poecile, 
 when the battle of Marathon 
 was painted there^ that his pic- 
 ture was placed first in the 
 numberof the ten commanders, 
 and he encouraged the soldiers, 
 and began the biittie. The 
 same people, after they got a 
 larger extent of dominion, and 
 wer^ corrupted by the ex- 
 travaj^jance of their own magis- 
 
STE-W LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 U5 
 
 tus, Be largitione magistra- 
 tuum corruptus est, tre- 
 centas slaluas Demetrio 
 Phalereo decrevit. 
 
 Cap. VII. Post hoc prse- 
 lium classem septuaginta 
 navium Athenienses ei- 
 dem Miltiadi dederunt, ut 
 insulas, quee barbaros ad- 
 juverant, bello perseque- 
 retur. Quo imperio ple- 
 rasque ad officium redire 
 coegit ; nonnullas vi ex- 
 pugnavit. Ex his Parum 
 insiilum opibus elatuin 
 quum oratione reconciliare 
 Hon posset, copias c nari- 
 bus eduxit, iirbem operi- 
 bus ciaubit, omniq; com- 
 ineatu privavit ; delude 
 vineis ac testudinibus con- 
 stitulis, propius muros ac- 
 cessit. Quum jam in eo 
 e^set, ut oppido potiretur, 
 procul in continenii lucus, 
 qui ex insulae conspicieba- 
 lur, nescio quo casu, noc- 
 turno tempore incensus 
 est; cujus flamma ut ab 
 oppidanis et oppugnatori- 
 bus est visa, utriusquc vc- 
 nit in opinionem, signum 
 a classiariis rei^iis datum ; 
 quo factum est, ut ct Parii 
 a deditione deter;eren- 
 tur, & Mikiades, .limcns 
 ue classis regiaadvcntaret, 
 incensis operibus^ quae sta- 
 tucrat, cum totidem iiavi- 
 bus atque erat profectus, 
 Athenas magn-i cum offen- 
 *ione civium svlorum redi- 
 N 
 
 trates, decreed three hundred 
 statues to Demetrius Phalc- 
 reus. 
 
 Chap. VII. After this bat- 
 tle, the Atlienians gave the 
 same Miltiades a fleet of sev 
 cnty ships, that he might pros- 
 ecute in war the islands that 
 had assisted the barbarians. 
 In which command he obliged 
 most of them to return to their 
 duty ; some he took by force. 
 Not being able by persuasion 
 to prevail upon one of thefe,- 
 the island Parus, elated by their 
 power, he drew his troops out 
 of his ships, blocked up the city 
 by lines drawn round it, and 
 deprived it of all provisions ; 
 and then having erected his 
 Vineos and T^studos, cai:»e 
 nearer the walls. When he 
 was upon the point of taking 
 the town, a grove at a distance 
 upon the continent, which was 
 visible from the island, by. I 
 knew not what chance, was set 
 on fire in the night-time ; the 
 iiime of which being seen by 
 the townsmen and the besieg- 
 ers, it cnne into the fancy of 
 both, that it was a signal given 
 by thbs« on board the king's 
 fleet ; by winch it came to pass, 
 that both the Parians were dis- 
 «uaded from surrendering, and 
 ISIiitiades, tearing lest the 
 king*s. §eec \7.ts coming, setting 
 iirc JIfciHhc works he h d erect- 
 ed, returned to Athens, to the 
 great ofl'eiTCc of his country- 
 
t46 
 
 TS'EW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ret. Accusatus ergo pro- 
 clitionis, quod cum Parum 
 expugnare posset, h rege 
 corriipius, infectis rebus a 
 pUF^na discessisset. Eo 
 tempore aeger erat vulne- 
 ribus, quae in oppugnamlo 
 oppido acceperat. Itaque 
 qifoniam ipse pro se dicere 
 non posset, verba pro eo 
 fecit frater ejus Tisago- 
 ras. Causa cognituj capi- 
 tis absolutus, pecui'ia 
 mulctatus est, eaq; iis 
 quinqnaginta talentis sesti- 
 mata est, quantus in clas- 
 sem sunitus factus erat. 
 Ilanc pecuniam quod sol- 
 "vere non poteratyin vincula 
 publica conjcctus est, ibiq; 
 <liem obiit supremum. 
 
 Cap. VIII. Hie etsi 
 crimine Pario est accusa- 
 lus, tamen alia fuit causa 
 damnationis. Narnque A- 
 thenienses, propter Pisis- 
 trad tyrannidem, quae pau- 
 tis annis ante fuerat, om- 
 nium suorum civium po- 
 lenliam extimcscebiint. 
 Miiliades nuiltum in im- 
 perils magistraiibusque 
 Tcrsatus, non videbatur 
 posse esse privatus, pree- 
 sertim cum consuetudine 
 $\d imperii cupidibatem 
 trahi videretur. Nam 
 Chersonesi, omnes illos 
 quos habiiarat anuos, per- 
 pctuam ©bunuerat domi-» 
 
 men, with as many ships as he 
 went out with. Wherefore he 
 was impeached of treachery, 
 because, when he might have 
 taken Parus, being bribed by 
 the king oi Persia^ he had quit- 
 ted the siege without doing his 
 work. He was at that time ill 
 of the wounds which he had 
 received in attacking the town. 
 Wherefore, because he could 
 not speak for himself, his bro- 
 ther Tisagoras spoke for him. 
 Upon hearing his cause, being 
 acquitted as to Jifc, he was fin- 
 ed a sum of money, and his fine 
 was set at fifty talents, ivhich 
 was the charge they had been 
 at in fitting out the fiect. Be- 
 cause he could not pay the 
 money, he was thrown into the 
 public jail, and there he ended 
 his last day. 
 
 Chap. V^HT. Altho* he was 
 accused upon his miscarriage 
 at Parus, yet there was another 
 reason of his condemnation. 
 For the Alheniiins, because of |j 
 the usuvpaiion of Fisislratus, ? 
 which had happened a few i 
 years before, dreaded t.hc pow- 
 er of ^11 their own citizens. 
 Miltiadcs, having been much 
 in command, and civil offices, 
 did not seem capable of being 
 a private person, especially 
 since he seemed to be dragged 
 by custom into a fondness for 
 power. For he had held, with- 
 out intermission, the sovereign- 
 ty of the Chersonese ail the 
 years he had lived there, and 
 
;W LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 UT 
 
 »ationem, tyrannutique fu- 
 crat appellatus, sed Justus: 
 non erat enim vi consecu- 
 lus, scd siioriira voluntate; 
 caraque potestutem boni- 
 late retinuerat. Oranes 
 autem et habenlur et di- 
 cuntur tyranni, qui potes- 
 tate sunt perpetua in ea 
 civitate, quae libertate usa 
 est. Sed in Miltiade erat 
 cum gumma humanitas, 
 turn mira comitas, ut ne- 
 mo tarn humilis cssct, cui 
 non ad eum aditus pateret. 
 Magna auctoritas apud 
 omnes civitaies, nobile no- 
 men, laus rei niilitaris 
 maxima. Haec populus 
 respiciens maluit eum in- 
 noxium plecti, quam se 
 diutius esse in timore. 
 
 had been called a tyrant, but 
 ivas a just one : for he had not 
 compassed /lis /loiver by vio- 
 lence, but by the consent of his 
 countrymen, and had kept his 
 authority by his goodness. But 
 all are both accounted and call- 
 ed tyrants, ^vho are invested 
 w'hh power for life, in a state 
 which had belore enjoyed lib- 
 erty. But there was in Miltia- 
 des, both the grcutest humani- 
 ty, and a wonderful complais- 
 ance, that nobody was so mean, 
 to whom access to him was not 
 always allowed. His authority 
 was great amongst all the cit- 
 ies of Greece^ his name ivan 
 famous, and his reputation for 
 military affairs very considera- 
 ble. The people, considering 
 these things, chose rather to 
 have him punished, though in- 
 nocent, tban to be any longer 
 in fear of him. 
 
 M. PORCIUS CATO. 
 Cap. I. 
 CATO ortus municipio 
 Tusculo, Adolescewlulus, 
 priusquam honoribus ope- 
 ram daret, versatus est in 
 Sabinisj quod ibi hseiedi- 
 um ^ patre relictum habe- 
 bat. Hortatu L. Valerii 
 Flacci, quern in consulatu 
 censuraque hab«it colle- 
 gam, ut M. Pcrpenna Cen- 
 sorinus narrarc solitus est, 
 Homam demigravit, in fo- 
 ro esse coepit. Primuin 
 
 M. PORCIUS CATO. 
 Chap. I. 
 CATO nvas born in the Bor- 
 ough Town of Tusculum, and 
 when a very young man, befoi e 
 he made suit for any public 
 posts in the government, lived 
 in the country of the Sabines, 
 because he had an estate there, 
 left him by his father. By the 
 advice of L. Valerius Flaccus, 
 whom he had for his colleague 
 in the consulship and censor- 
 ship, as M. Perpenna Censori- 
 nus used to say, he removed to 
 
r48- 
 
 HEW LATIN PRIME It, 
 
 stipenflium meruit anno- 
 rum decern septemquc, 
 Q. Fabio Maximo, M. 
 Claudio Mareello coss. 
 Tribunus militum in Sici- 
 iia fuit. Inde ut rediit, 
 eastra seculus est C. Clau- 
 dii Neronis, magnique o- 
 pera ejus sesiimata est in 
 praelio apud Scnam, quo 
 cedidit Hasdrubal frater 
 Hannibalis. Qr.?£stor ob- 
 dgit P. Cornelio Scipioni 
 Aliicano consuli, cum quo 
 non pro soriis necessitu- 
 dine vixit ; namqwe ab eo 
 perpelua dissensit vita. 
 jEdiiis plebis facttis est. 
 cum C. Helvio. Prgetor, 
 provinciam obtinuit Sar- 
 diniam,ex qua quaestor su- 
 periore tempore ex Africa 
 deccdens, Qi Ennium po- 
 etam deduxerat; quod non 
 minoris eestimamus, quam 
 quemlibet amplissimum 
 Sardiniensem iriumpb- 
 um. 
 
 Cap. li. Consiilat.um 
 gessit cum L. Valerio 
 Flacco ; sorte provinciam 
 nactus Hispaniam citerio- 
 rem, exque ca triumphum 
 vleportavit. Ibi quum di- 
 utius moraretur, P. Scipio 
 Africanus, consul iterum, 
 cujus in priori ccnsulatu 
 quaestor fucrat, voluit eum 
 de Provinci'^.dcpcUere, & 
 
 Roraerowrf began to appear n 
 the fo! r,m^ He first entered 
 the service of his country in 
 the wsiVSyivhen he ivas seventeen. 
 years of age, under the consuls 
 Q. Fabius Maximus and M. 
 Claudius MarcelJus. He wa& 
 a tribune of soldiers in Sicily. 
 As soon as he came from 
 thence, he followed the camp 
 of e. Claudius Nero, and his 
 service was highly valued in 
 the battle at Sena, in which 
 Hasdrubal, the brother of Han- 
 nibal, fell. He happened to 
 be questor to P. Cornelius 
 Scipio Africanus %vhen consul, 
 with whom he lived not accord- 
 ing to the obligation his chance 
 had brought him under ; for he 
 differed with him all his life 
 long. He was made edile oh 
 the commons with C. Helvius. 
 When prjetor, he got the prov- 
 ince of Sardinia ; out of which, 
 when coming questor some 
 time before out of Africa, he 
 had brought away Q. Ennius 
 the poet ; which we value no- 
 less, than ajiy the noblest tri- 
 umph over Sardinia. 
 
 Ckap. 1L He bore the office 
 of consul with L. Valerius 
 Flaccus ; he got by lot hither 
 Spain for his Province, and 
 brought home from thence a 
 triumph. As he staid there 
 long, P. Scipio Africanus, a 
 second time consul, whose 
 questor he had been in the for- 
 mer consulate, designed to de- 
 prive liim of. his province J ari4 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 149 
 
 ipse ei succedere ; neque 
 hoc per senalum efficere 
 potuii, quum quidcm Sci- 
 pio in civitate principalum 
 obtineret ; quod tum non 
 potentia., sed jure, respub- 
 lica udministrabatur : qua 
 ex re iratus senatu perac- 
 to, privatus in urbe man- 
 sit. At Cato, censor cum 
 eodera Flucco factus, se- 
 vere prgefuit ei potestati ; 
 nam et in complures nobi- 
 les animadvertit, et rnul- 
 tas res novas in edictum 
 addidit, qua. re luxuria re- 
 primerctur, quse jam tum 
 incipiebat pullulnre. Cir- 
 citer annos octoginta, us- 
 que ad extremam selblem, 
 ab adolescentia, reipubli- 
 C8e causa suscipere inimi- 
 citias non desdtit. A 
 multis tentatus, non modo 
 nullum detrimentum ex- 
 isiimationis fecit, sed quo- 
 ad vixit virtu turn laude 
 crevit. In omnibus rebus 
 singulari tuit prudentia & 
 industria ; nam £c agricola 
 solers, & reipublicse peri- 
 tU5, 8c juris consultus, 8c 
 ma^nus imperator Sc prob- 
 abilis orator, 8c cupidissi- 
 mus literarum fuit ; qua- 
 rum studium etsi senior 
 arripuerat, tamen tantum 
 progressum fecit, ut non 
 lacile repeiire possis ne- 
 que de Greecis ncque de 
 Italicis rebus, quod ei fue- 
 rit incognitum. Ab ado- 
 N 2 
 
 to succeed him himself ; but 
 could not effect it by the Sen- 
 ate, though Scipio had the 
 greatest sway in the city ; be- 
 cause the government was then 
 managed not by interest but 
 justice : for which reason be- 
 ing ai>gry, ivhen his consulship 
 ivas expired, he continued a 
 private person in the city. But 
 Cato, being made censor with 
 the same Fiaccus, behaved ve- 
 ry strictly in that post ; for h© 
 punished several noblemen, 
 and put a great many new- 
 things into the edict, whereby 
 luxury might be restrained, 
 which even then began to bud. 
 He never ceased for about four- 
 score yearsi from his y»uth to 
 the end of his life, to engage 
 in quarrels upon the common- 
 wealth's account. Though he 
 ivas attacked by many, he not 
 only sufl'ered no loss of reputa- 
 tion, but grew in fame for hi^ 
 excellent qualities, as long as 
 he lived. In all things he was 
 a man of excellent prudence 
 and industry, for he was both a 
 dextrous husbandman, well 
 skilled in the business of gov- 
 ernment, and a lawyer, and a 
 great commander, and a plausi- 
 ble oiator, and very fond of 
 learning ; the study of which 
 though he took up ivhen old, 
 yet he made so great a progress 
 in it, that you cannot easily find 
 any thing, cither of the Grecian 
 or the Italian affairs, which wa.s 
 unkmjvrn to him. He. made 
 
ISO- 
 
 NKVV LATIN I'RIMER^i 
 
 lescentia confecit oration- 
 ®?; senex historias scribe- 
 re intitiiuit, quarum sunt 
 libri septem : primus con-- 
 tinet res geslas regum 
 populi Romani : secundus 
 & tertius, uncle qussque ci- 
 vitas orta sit Italica, ob 
 quam rem omnes Orlgines 
 videtur appellasse : in 
 quarto autem, bellum Pu- 
 nicum primum : in quin- 
 to, secundum : atque hsec 
 omnia capitulatim sunt 
 «dicta. Reliquaquc bella 
 pari modo persecutus est 
 usque ad pr^turam Ser. 
 Galbae, qui diripuit I^usi- 
 tanos,. Atque horum bel- 
 lorum duces non nomina- 
 vit, sed sine nominibus res 
 nolavit. m iisdem expo- 
 suit quae in Italia Hispani- 
 isque viderentur admiran- 
 da ; in quibus multa inuus- 
 Iria Ecdiligentia comparet, 
 multa doctrina. Cujus de 
 -vita & moribus plura in eo 
 Ubro, perseculi sumus, 
 quern separatim de eo fe- 
 cimus, rogatu Titi Pom- 
 jonii Altici ; quare sludi- 
 osos Catonis ad illud volu- 
 mes reJe-gamus. 
 
 speeches from his youth ; luken 
 old, he began to write history, 
 of which there are seven books: 
 the first contains the actions of 
 the kings of the Roman peo- 
 ple : the second and third cotI' 
 tain an account, from whom ev- 
 ery city of Italy had its rise, for 
 which reason he seems to have 
 called them all Origines : in 
 the fourth, is the first Cartha- 
 ginian war : \a the fifth, the 
 second : and all these things 
 arc summarily related. And 
 he has gone through the other 
 wars, in the like manner, unto 
 the pretorship of Ser. Galba,. 
 who rifled the Lusitanians. 
 And he has not named the gen» 
 eials in these wars, but has set 
 down the actions without 
 names. In the same books he 
 has given an account of what 
 seemed remarkable in Italy^ 
 and Spain ; in which there ap- 
 pears much industiy and dili- 
 gence, and much learning. 
 We have said more concerning 
 his life and raanneis, in that 
 book which we made separate- 
 ly about him, at the request of 
 T. Pomponius Atiicus ; where- 
 fore we refer those that are de- 
 sirous of knowing Cato to that 
 volume.. 
 
 T. P. ATTICI: 
 
 Cap. I. 
 
 POMPONIUS Atticus, 
 
 abo origine ultima stii pis 
 
 iRomopsjfegcneratus?, per«- 
 
 nPOMPOmUS ATTTCUS. 
 Chap. I. 
 POMPONIUS Atticus, de- 
 scended of an ancient Roman, 
 family, kept the equestrian dig- 
 
WE-W LATIN PUIlViER. 
 
 r^r 
 
 peluo a majoribus accep- 
 tam equestrem obtinuit 
 dignitatem. Patre usus 
 est diligente^^ indulgente, 
 8c ut turn erant tempora, 
 diti, imprimisque studioso 
 literarum : hie, prout ipse 
 amabat litcras, omnibus 
 doctriniS) quibus puerilis 
 atas impertiri debet, fili- 
 um erudivit. Erat autem 
 in puero praater docilita- 
 tem ingenii, summa sua- 
 vitas oris ac vocis, ut non 
 solum celeriter arriperat 
 qu3e tradebantur, sed eti- 
 am excellenter prenunci- 
 aret ; qua ex re in pueri- 
 tia nobilis inter sequales 
 ferebatur, clariusque ex- 
 splendescebat, qukm gen- 
 erosi condiscipuli animo 
 aequo fcrre possent ; ita- 
 que incitabat omnes suo 
 studio, quo in numero fu- 
 erunt L. Torquatus, C. 
 Marius filius^ M. Cicero, 
 quos consuetudine sua sic 
 sibi devinxit, ut nemo iis 
 perpetuo fuei^t carior. 
 
 Cap. II. Pater mature 
 decessit. Ipse adolescen- 
 tulus propter affinitatem 
 P. Sulpicii, qui iribunus 
 pi. interfectus est, non ex- 
 pers fuit illius periculi ; 
 namque Anicia, Pomponii 
 consobrina, nupserat, M. 
 Servio fi^atri P. Sulpicii. 
 Itaque interfecto Sulpicio, 
 posteaquam vidit Cinnano 
 tumuUu ciYiUtem ess© 
 
 nity, received by uninterrupted 
 succession from his a.icestors. 
 He had a diligent and ir,dul«^ 
 gent father, and, as the limes 
 were then, rich, and above all 
 things a lover of learning : as. 
 he loved learning hinistlf^ he 
 instructed his son in all that 
 sort of literature that youth 
 ought to be acquainted with. 
 There was in him ivJicti a boy, 
 besides a docility of \i it, a 
 mighty sweetness of mouth and 
 voice, that he not only quickly 
 took in what was taught him, 
 but also pronounced excellent- 
 ly ; upon which account he was 
 reckoned famous amongst his 
 fellows in his child-hood, and 
 shone out more brightly than 
 his noble scliool-fellovvs were 
 able to bear with au patient 
 mind ; wherefore he excited 
 them all by his great applica- 
 tion, in which number was L. 
 Torquatus, C. Marius the son,. 
 M. Cicero, whom he so engag- 
 ed to him by his acquaintance 
 with them, that nobody was all 
 along more dear to them. 
 
 Chap. II. His father died 
 early. He being a very youn.^ 
 man by reason of his affinity 
 with P. Sulpicius, who was 
 slain ivhen tribune of the com- 
 mons, was not clear of that dan- 
 ger ; for Anicia, the cousin of 
 Pomponius, had married M. 
 Servius, the brother of Sulpicii 
 us : wherefore P. Sulpicius be- 
 ing slain, after he found the 
 city mightily disturbed with the. 
 
152 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 pcrlurbatam, neque sibi 
 dari facultatem pro digni- 
 tate vivendi, quin alteru- 
 tram partem offenderet, 
 dissociutis animis civium; 
 cum alii Syllanis, alii Cin- 
 nanis favereut partibus, i- 
 doiieum tcmpus ratiis siu- 
 diis obsequendi suis, A- 
 thenas se conlulit. Ne- 
 que CO secius adolescen- 
 tcm Mariiim hostem, ju- 
 dicatum, juvit opibus suis; 
 cujus fugam pecunia suh- 
 levavit. Ac, ne ilia peri- 
 grinatio detrimentum ali- 
 quod afferet rei familiaris, 
 codem inagnam partem 
 fortunarum trajccit sua- 
 rum. Kic ira vixit, ut u- 
 niversis. Athenicnsibiis 
 meriio /sset carissimus : 
 nam, preter gratiam, qujs 
 }am adolescentuio magna 
 erat, saspe suis opibus in- 
 opiam eorum publicam le- 
 vavit. Cum enim versu- 
 ram facere publice neces- 
 se csset, neque ejus con- 
 ditionem gequain haberent, 
 semper se interposuit, al- 
 que ita, uli neque usuiam 
 unquam ab iis ucceperit, 
 neque lomnus quam dic- 
 tum esset, eos debere pas- 
 sus sit : quod utrumque 
 erat iis salutare: nam ne- 
 que indulgendo inveteras- 
 cere eorum ges alienum 
 patiebatur, neque raulii- 
 plicandis usuris crescere. 
 Auxit hoc ofiiciijm ftlia 
 
 bustle raised by Cinna, and that 
 there was no posbibilily for him 
 to live suitably to his dignity, 
 but he must ofifead one party 
 or the other, the minds of his 
 countrymen being divided ; 
 whilst some favoured Sylla's 
 party, and others Cinnu*s ; 
 thinking it a proper time to fol- 
 low his studies, l>e withdrew 
 himself to Athens. But nev- 
 ertheless he 'assisted young 
 Marius, declared an enemy, 
 with his estate ; and relieved 
 him 171 his . banishment with 
 money. And, lest that his liv- 
 ing abroad should prove a det- 
 riment to his estate, he carried 
 over to the same place a great 
 part of his substance. Here 
 he li"ed so, that he was de- 
 servedly \ery dear to all the A- 
 thenians ; for, besides his in- 
 terest, which was already great, 
 though a very young man, he 
 often relieved iheir public want 
 out of his own estate. For 
 when the government was o- 
 bliged to borrow money to pay 
 off a public det)t, and could 
 have no fair ofl'er for it, he al- 
 ways interposed, and so that he 
 neither ever received any usu- 
 ry of them, nor suffered them 
 to owe him longer than had 
 been agreed J both which things 
 were very good for them : for 
 he neither sufFered their debts 
 to grow old by forbearing, nor 
 to increase by the multiplying 
 of usury. He added to this 
 . kinduess by another /ziVcf . of 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 1^53^ 
 
 quoqud liberalitate ; nam 
 universes frumento dona- 
 vit, ita ut singulis VI. 
 snodii tritici dareniur, qui 
 modus mensuree Medim- 
 nus Athenis appellatur. 
 
 Cap. III. Hie autem sio 
 se gerebat ut communis 
 infimis, par principibus 
 videretur ; quo factum est, 
 ut huic omnes honores, 
 quos possent, publicc ha* 
 berent, civcmque lacere 
 studerent : quo beneticio 
 ille uti noluit : quod non- 
 nulli ita interprctantur, 
 amitti civitatcm Roman- 
 am alia adscita. Quam- 
 cliu affuit, ne qua sibi sta- 
 tua poncretur, restitit ; 
 absens, prohibere, non po- 
 tuii : itaque aliquot ipsi et 
 Piliae, locis sanctissimis 
 posuerunt ; hunc enim in 
 omni procuratione Reip. 
 actorem, auctorcmque ha~ 
 bebant. Igitur primum 
 illud munus fortunae, quod 
 in ea potissimum urbe na- 
 tus est, in qua domicilium 
 orbis terraruni esset im- 
 perii, ut eandem et patri* 
 am haberet^ et domum :, 
 hoc specimen prudentiae, 
 quod cum in earn se ci^vi- 
 tatem contuliasct, qufe- an- 
 liquitate, humanitate, doc- 
 trina prs^staret omnes ei 
 unus ante alios fuerit car- 
 issijnu3^ 
 
 generosity toe ; for he present- 
 ed them all with corn, so that 
 six modii of wheat were given 
 to every man, which kind of 
 measure is called a Medimnus 
 at Aihens. 
 
 Chap. III. He likewise be- 
 haved so, that he seemed upon 
 a level with the lowest, ani/ yet 
 equal to the greatest ; from, 
 whence it was, that they pub- 
 licly conferred upon him all the 
 honours which they couU^ and 
 endeavoured to xiiake him a 
 freeman of their city ; which 
 kindness he \Tould not accept,, 
 because some construe the mat^ 
 ter so, that the freedom of 
 Rome is lost by taking another. 
 As long as he was there, he 
 made such opposition, that no 
 statue was erected for him j, 
 when absent, he could not hin- 
 der it : wherefore they set up- 
 some both for him and Pilia, in 
 the most sacred places ; for in 
 the whole management of their 
 government, they had him for 
 their adviser and agent. 
 Wherefore that was an espe- 
 cial favour of fortune, that he 
 was born in that city, above o- 
 thers, in which was the seat of 
 the empire of the world, that he 
 had the same both for his na- 
 tive place, and his home : this 
 was a specimen of his pru» 
 dencc, that Mhen he withdrew 
 himself into that city, which 
 excelled all others in antiquity, 
 politeness, and learning, he waa 
 singly very deaf to it abav^ alii 
 •ihQrs» 
 
154 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Cap. IV. Hue ex Asia 
 Sylla decedens cum venis- 
 set ; quamdiu ibi fuit, se- 
 cum kabuit Pompoiiium, 
 captus adolesceiitis & hu- 
 manitate 8c doctrina ; sic 
 eniniGrasce loque.batur, ut 
 Athenis naius videretur : 
 tanta autem erat suavilas 
 sermonis Latini, ut appa- 
 reret in co nativum quen- 
 dam leporem esse non ad- 
 scitum. Idem pcemata 
 pronunciabat & Gipece Sc 
 Latine sic, ut supra nihil 
 posset. Quibus rebus fac- 
 tum est, ut Sylla nunquam 
 eum a se demitteret, cu- 
 peretque secum deduce- 
 re ; cui cum persuadere 
 tentarct, ^'b/f oro te (in- 
 quit Pomponius)ac/-y<frswm 
 COS me velie ducere, cum 
 guibus ne contra te arma 
 ferram^ Italiam reliqui. 
 At Sylla adolescentis ofE- 
 cio collaudato, omnia mu- 
 nera ei, quae Athenis ac- 
 ceperat, proficiscens jus- 
 sit, deferri. Hie complu- 
 res annos moratus, cum 
 Sc rei familiaii tantum op- 
 erse daret, quantum non 
 indiligens deberet pater- 
 familias, Sc omnia reliqua 
 tempora aut literis, aut A- 
 theniensium Keip tribue- 
 rit ; nihilominus amicis 
 urbana officio prsestitit : 
 nam & ad comitia eorum 
 ventiiavit, et si qua res 
 uaajor acta est, non defuitj 
 
 Chap. IV. When Sylla wad^ 
 come hither in his departure 
 from Asia, so long as he waa 
 there, he kept Pomponius with 
 him) charmed with the polite-' 
 ness and learning of the youth; 
 for he spoke Greek so that he 
 seemed to have been born at> 
 Athens : but such was the 
 sweetness of his Latin dialect, 
 that it appeared there was a 
 certain natural pleasantness in 
 him, not acquired. The same 
 man pronounced poems both in 
 Greek and Latin so, that no- 
 thing could be beyond it. For 
 which things it was, that Sylla 
 would never part with him and 
 was desirous to take him along 
 with him to Rome; whom when 
 he endeavoured to persuade t&^ 
 that^ Do noty I beseech you (says 
 Pomponius) desire to lead me 
 against those^ ivith ivhom that I 
 might not bear amis against youy 
 J left Italyi But Sylla com- 
 mending the behaviour of the 
 young man, upon his departure, 
 ordered all the presents, which 
 he had received at Athens, to 
 be carried to him. Having 
 staid here several years, whilst 
 he employed as much care up- 
 on his estate as a diligent mas- 
 ter of a family ought to do, and 
 bestmved all the rest of his time 
 either upon books, or the gov- 
 ernment of the Athenians ; 
 notwithstanding he performed. 
 all manner o/'good offices in the 
 city of Rome to his friends : lor 
 he both came frequently to 
 
NEW LATIN PRtMER. 
 
 155 
 
 sicnt Ciceroni in omnibus 
 ejus periculis singularem 
 fidem praebuit ; cui ex pa- 
 tria fugienti I.L.S.CC. & 
 fjuinquaginta millia dona- 
 vit. Tranquil laiis autem 
 rebus Romauis, rercigra- 
 vit Romam, ut q)inor, L. 
 Cotta, & L, Torquato 
 COSS. quem diem sic u- 
 niversa civitas x\thenien- 
 sium prosecuta est, ut la- 
 crymis desiderii futuii do- 
 lorem indicaret. 
 
 Cap. V. Habebat avun- 
 culum, Q. Crecilium, equi- 
 tern Romanum, familia- 
 rem L, Luculli, divitem,' 
 difficillima natura ; cujus 
 sicasperitatem vei iius est, 
 ut qucm nemo fcrre pas- 
 .set, luijus sii^c oflensione 
 ad summam senectiUem 
 •retinuerit benevolendam ; 
 quo facto tulit pietc^tis 
 fructuni. Csecilius enim 
 TOorieus testamcnto adop- 
 tavit' eum, haeredcmque 
 •fecit ex dodrante ; ex qua 
 bsereditnte accepit circiter 
 centies LSS. Erat nupla 
 •soror Atiici Q. Tuilio Ci- 
 ceroni, easque nupti.-.s M. 
 Cicei'o coneiiiar.'vt ; cum 
 quo a condiscipulaiu vive- 
 bat conjunciissijne, mul- 
 to, ctiam fumiliarius quam 
 cum Quinto ; ut judicari 
 possit) plus in amicitia va- 
 
 their elections, and, if any im- 
 portant matter of thdrs was 
 transacted, was not wantiiog ; 
 as he shewed a singular faith- 
 fulness to Cicero in all his dan- 
 gers ; to whom nvhen banished 
 his country, he presented two 
 hundred and fifty thousand ses- 
 terces. But after the Roman 
 affairs were settled, he returned 
 to Rome, as I think, when L. 
 Cotta and L, Torquatus nvere 
 consuls ; which day the whole 
 city of the Athenians did so ob- 
 serve, that they discovered by 
 their tears their sorrow for 
 their future loss. 
 
 Chap. V, He had an uncle, 
 Q. Cecilius, a Roman knight, a 
 friend of L. Lucollus, rich, but 
 of , a very rugged temper ; 
 whose peevisl)ncss he bo^'e so 
 meekly, thdt he kept in his fa- 
 vour, without any offence, to an 
 extreme age, w;.om nobody 
 else was al>le to bear with.; for 
 which he reaped the fruit of 
 his dutiful behaviour towards 
 him. For Cecilius, when dy- 
 ing, adopted him by his will, 
 and made him heir to three- 
 fourths of his estate ; by which 
 inheritance he got about a hun- 
 dred times a hundred thousand 
 sesterces. The siiter of Alli- 
 ens was married to Q, Tuliius 
 Cicero, and M. Cicero had 
 made up the match ; with 
 whom he lived in a very close 
 friendship from the Lime o/'thcir 
 being school-fellows, and much 
 more famiiiyrl)("r than with Quin- 
 
156 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 iere similitudincm morum 
 <iuam affinitatem; Uteba- 
 tur autem intime Q. Hor- 
 tensioi qui iis temporibus 
 principatum eloquentiae 
 tenebat, ut intelligi non 
 posset, liter euni plus dili- 
 geret, Cicero an Horten- 
 sius ; Sc id, quod erat diffi- 
 cillinium, efficiebat, ut in- 
 ter quos tanlae laudis esset 
 ^mulatio, nulla intercede- 
 ret obtrectatio : essetque 
 talium virorum copula. 
 
 Cap. VI. In Repub. ita 
 est versatus, ut semper 
 opiirnarum partium & es- 
 set, Sc existimaretur i ne- 
 quc tamen se civilibus 
 fluctibus committcrct, 
 quod non magls eos in sua 
 poteslate existimabat es- 
 se, qui se iis dedisseni, 
 quam qui maritimis jacta- 
 rentur. Honores non pe- 
 tiit, cum ei paterent prop- 
 ter vel gratiam, vel digni- 
 tatem ; quod neque pcti 
 more majorum, neque ca- 
 pi possent, conscrvatis le- 
 gibus, in tarn eflfusis am- 
 bitus largitionibus neque 
 geri e republica sine peri- 
 culo, corruptis civitalis 
 moribus. Ad bastani pub- 
 licam nunquam acccssit. 
 NulUus rei> neque pr*s, 
 
 tus ; that it may be thereby 
 judged, that a similitude of 
 manners does more in friend- 
 ship than affinity. He was like- 
 wise intimate with Q. Horten- 
 sius, who in those times had 
 the highest reputation for elo- 
 quence, that it could not be un- 
 derstood whether q/'Mf/w loved 
 him more, Cicero or Horten- 
 sius ; and he effected that 
 which was very difficult, that 
 there was no endeavour to les- 
 sen one another passed betwixt 
 those^ betwixt whom there was 
 a rival ly for so considerable a 
 firiz£ o/fame : and he was the 
 instrument of union betwixt 
 those great men. 
 
 Chap. VI. He behaved him- 
 self so in the Commonwealth, 
 that he both always was and 
 was reckoned of the party of the 
 quality ; and yet he would not 
 engage himself in civil broils^ 
 because he did not think them 
 to be more in their own power, 
 who trusted themselves upon 
 those waves, than they who 
 were tossed about by the waves 
 of the sea. He did not sue for 
 any preferment in the state, 
 though it lay ready for him by 
 reason either of his interest or 
 quAiity \ because it could nei- 
 ther be sued for after the man,- 
 ner of our ancestors, nor be at- 
 tkiined, z/ the laws %verc observ- 
 ed, in so prodigious an extrav- 
 agance of corruption j nor be 
 .manag:ed to the service of the 
 comnwnwealth without dan- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 157 
 
 ■cque manceps factus est. 
 Ncminern neque suo nom- 
 ine, neque subscribens ac- 
 cusavit. In jus do sua re 
 nuriquamiit; judicium nul- 
 lum habuit. Multorum con- 
 sulum P' setorunnque prae- 
 fecturas dclatas sic acce- 
 pitjUt neminemin provinci- 
 am sic secutus ; honore fu- 
 eritcontentus,rei faraiJiaiis 
 de?pexerit frnctum ; qui 
 ne cum Q. quidem Cicero- 
 ne voluerit ire in Asiam, 
 cum apud eum le^ali lo- 
 cum obtiiiere posset ; non 
 enim decere se arbitraba- 
 tur, cum Preeturam genere 
 noluisset, asseclam esse 
 prsetoris : qua in re non 
 solum dignitati scrviebat, 
 sed eiiam tranquillitati, 
 cum suspiciones quoque 
 vitarei criminum : quo fi- 
 ebat, ut ejus observantia 
 omnibus esset carior, cum 
 eam officio, non limori, ne- 
 <iue spei tribui vidercnt. 
 
 Gap. VII. InciditCresa- 
 rianum civile beUum,cum 
 haberet ynnos circiier scx- 
 apfinta. Usds est aetatis 
 vacatione, neque se quo- 
 qujim movit *ex u*be. 
 Quae amicis suis opus lu- 
 erant ad Pompciuni piofi- 
 
 h o 
 
 ger, the morals of the city be- 
 ing so much depraved. He 
 never came to public sale. He 
 never became surety for, nor 
 a farmer of, any part of the 
 public revenue. He never ac- 
 cused any one in his own name, 
 nor as a subscriber. He never 
 went to law about any thing of 
 his own ; had no trial. He so 
 accepted of the commissions of 
 several consuls and prsefors, 
 when offered him, that he fol- 
 lowed Bone of them into his 
 province; was content with the 
 honour, and despised the im- 
 provement of his estate ; wh» 
 would not indeed go along witk 
 Q. Cicero into Asia, though h* 
 might have had the post of 
 Lieutenant-General under him; 
 for he did not think it became 
 him, since he would not bear 
 the office of pretor, to be aa 
 attendant upon a pretor: in 
 which thing lie not only con- 
 sulted his dignity, but likewise 
 bis quiet, since he avoided 
 even the suspicion of erimes : 
 from whence it was, that his 
 respect was the more dear to 
 all people, when they saw that 
 it proceeded from kindness, not 
 fear or hepc. 
 
 Chap. W\. Cae^ai's civrl 
 war fell out when he was about 
 sixty years old. He inar!e us9 
 of the pivilcge of his age, nor 
 did he s!.ir any whore oui ol the 
 town. lie gave all t)jij)gs Ihat 
 were ncessary ft)r his iVieiid», 
 ufion their going to P<jinpcy 
 
158 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ciscentibus, omnia ex sua 
 re familiari dedit. Ipsum 
 Pompeium conjunctum 
 non offendit, nullum enim 
 abeohabebatornamentum, 
 ut ceetcri, qui per eum aut 
 honores, aut divilias cepe- 
 rant ; quorum partim invi- 
 tissimi castra sunt secuti, 
 pariim summa cum ejus 
 oifensione domi remanse- 
 runt : Atlici autem quies 
 tantopere Caesari iuit gra- 
 ta, ut victor, ciim privatus 
 pecunias per epistolas im- 
 peraret, huic non solum 
 inolestus non fuerit, sed 
 etiam sorcris £c Q. Cicero- 
 nis filium ex Pompeii cas- 
 tris concesserit. Sic ve- 
 tere institute vitse, effugit 
 nova pericula. 
 
 Cap. VIII. Secutumest 
 illud. Occiso CKsare, 
 cum respub. penes Brutos 
 videretur esse 5c Cassium, 
 ac tota civitas se ad cum 
 converlisse vidcretur ; sic 
 M. Bruto usus est, ut nul- 
 lo ille adolescens eequali 
 familiariuv, quam hoc se- 
 ne ; neque solum eum 
 principem consihi haberet, 
 sed etiam in convictu. Ex- 
 cogitatum est aquibusdam, 
 ut piivatum gerarium Cae- 
 saris interfcctoribus ab e- 
 quitibus Romanisconstitu- 
 eretur : id facile effici pos- 
 se arbrrati sunt, si Sc prin- 
 cipes illius ordinis pecu- 
 nias contulissent. Itaque 
 
 out of his own estate. He did 
 not cflfcnd Pompey, though a 
 friend ; for he had no obliga- 
 tion from him, as others, who 
 by him had got either great 
 posts or riches ; part of which 
 followed his camp very unwill- 
 ingly, part staid at home, to the 
 great offence of him : but At- 
 ticus's keeping quiet was so 
 agreeable to Csesar, that after 
 he ivas conqueror, when he 
 commanded aeveral private 
 gentlemen by letters to furnish 
 him ivith money, he was not on- 
 ly not troublesome to him, but 
 likewise gave him out of Pom- 
 pey 's^ camp the son of his sis- 
 ter aiid Quintus Cicero. Thus 
 by hi?t old way of life he avoid- 
 ed new dangers. 
 
 Chap. VIII. Theii followed 
 this. ^ifrCeesar was slain, when 
 the government seemed to be in 
 the hands of the Brutuses and 
 Cassius, and the whole city was 
 seen to turn themselves to- 
 ward them ; he was so kind to 
 M. Brutus, that that young gen- 
 tleman had more intimacy with 
 none of bis own age than with 
 that old gentleman ; and not 
 only used him as his principal 
 counsellor, but hcd him at his 
 table It was pvojected by 
 some, that a private fund should 
 be settled by ihe Roman knights 
 for the assassinators of Csesar : 
 they thought that might easily 
 be effected, if the leading per- 
 sons of that order would con- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 59 
 
 appellatus est a C. Flavio 
 Bruti familiari, Atticus, lit 
 ejus rei princeps esse vcl- 
 let : at ille, qui ofiu ia ami- 
 cis prsestanda sine factione 
 exislimaret, semperque a 
 lalibus se consiliis rcino- 
 vissct, respoiulit, Si quid 
 Brcilus de suis facultatibus 
 uti voluissct, usui'um, 
 quantum ea paterentuu ; 
 sed neque cum quoquam 
 de ca \e collocuiurun), ne- 
 que C(;iturum. Sic illc 
 cunscensionis glob)is liu- 
 jus unius dissensions dis- 
 jec'.us est. Neque mullo 
 post superior esse coepit 
 Auionius ; ita ul Hruius 
 8c C'^issius, provinci^Ai uii), 
 qviee dicis iis catua data: 
 crant a consulibus, dcspc- 
 ralis rebus, in cxiiium pro- 
 ficisereiUur. Allicus, <|ui 
 pecuniam simul cum cpe e- 
 ris confeM'w iiolucrat llo- 
 venii illi parii,abject() 13ru- 
 to, Itdiaque cedeuli LLS. 
 centum miliia muncri mi- 
 sit ; eidem in lipiro ab- 
 sens CCC. jussit daii ; ne- 
 que eo mai>is potcnii adu- 
 latus est Antonio, neque 
 desperates reliquit. 
 
 Cap, iX Seculum est 
 bellura gcstum apud Mu- 
 tinam ; in quo si tantum 
 eum prudcntem dicam, 
 
 tribule money towards it. 
 Wlierefore Atticus was s[K)ken 
 to by C. Flavins, Brutus*s 
 fiiend, that he would be the 
 beginner of that matter ; but 
 he, who thought t^ood offices 
 were to be performed to his 
 friends without regard to party, 
 and had always kept himself at 
 a distanc£^from such cabi^ls, re- 
 plied, That if Brutus had a 
 mind to make any use of iiis 
 estate, lie might use it, as far 
 as it woiiid bear ; but that he 
 would neither confer, nor have 
 a mectinj^ with any one upon 
 that afi'air. Thus this ball of 
 ai^recnxcnt was dashed in jiieces 
 by the dissent of hini idone. 
 And not long af;er Antony bc- 
 p^an to be uj)pcrmost ; so tlsat 
 Brul-us and Cassius, their case 
 beiui; desperate, went into the 
 provincr.s wluch had l)ccn giv- 
 en them by the consuls, as it 
 were into banifshmcnt, Atti- 
 cus, wlio would not contribute 
 money, toi;rchcr with the rest, 
 to thai parly, luhen ilouiistiing, 
 sent as a present a hundred 
 thousand sesterces to Jiru'us, 
 in (U-^tress, and vctiriuj^ out 
 of Italy ; ordered three hun- 
 dred thousand more lo be (;iv- 
 en him in Kpiius ; nor did he 
 therefore flatter Antony now 
 in power, nor leave those that 
 were in a dcsperate'c-ondilion. 
 
 Chap. IX. Jftcr this fol- 
 lowed the war carried on at 
 Mutina ; in which, if I only 
 style him prudent, 1 shall com- 
 
169 
 
 NEW LATIN PRtMER. 
 
 aninus qi am clebeam pi ge- 
 fiiccm, cum ilie pot i us di- 
 Tinus fuerii, si divinatio 
 appellaiida ect peipelua 
 ■aturalis bonitas, quae nul- 
 Jis casibus aiigetur neque 
 nuiuiitur. Hosiis Anf.o- 
 rius judicatub Italia cessc-- 
 rai ; spes rcstiiueiidi nul- 
 ktcrai; lion solum •ejus 
 iiiifTiici, qui turn cu'ant po- 
 it^niibsimi e.i plurinu, sed 
 • liatii ainici adversanis 
 •JLis se dbb;*ijl, & in eo lee- 
 iendo se aliquani coiisccu- 
 turos Bperabant conisnodi- 
 tateni ; ejus fanuliiircs in- 
 ftccjiiebanlur ; uxoi"tui Ful- 
 viarn ouuiibus rebus spcii- 
 *i'e cuj^det! i!i ; hberos c- 
 lian» cxtin.:ni:!e parabaut. 
 Atiiciis, cuijs Ciccroiiis in- 
 liniii faiijiii.ii Itiite uieretur, 
 aniicisbijTuis essel Bruto, 
 Ijon niodo liihil iis indulsit 
 ad Aiuonium viol.^nduni ; 
 sed e cotitraiio nmiiiiares 
 ejus, ex urbe pronii>ientcs, 
 quantum potuit,texil; qui- 
 biis icbus ifHlieiiC! unt, ad- 
 juvit. P. vcio VoiuiTiuio 
 ea tribuit, ui p!uiM a p t- 
 rcnte proHcisci non potu- 
 eiint. Ipsi autem Fiilviee, 
 cum litiibus (lisiinerctur, 
 niaguisquc icrroibus vex- 
 areiur, Uim^ di iveniia of- 
 ficium euuin i;i?e titit, ut 
 luilluni ilia sieteiit vadi- 
 iiionium sine Attico ; hie 
 spontioi- omnium lerum fu- 
 eiit. Quineliam, cum il- 
 
 mend liitn less than I ought, 
 since he was rather divine, if 
 an uninterrv.pted natural good- 
 ness, which is neither increas- 
 ed nor diminished by any rvcnts 
 of fortiuie^ is lo be caU'ed di- 
 vinity. Antony, being declared 
 an enemy, had quitted Italy ; 
 there was no hope of restoring 
 him ; not only his enemies, 
 who I if en were very powctful 
 and veiy many, but likewise 
 his quondam friends joined 
 themselves with his cDcmies, 
 and hoped they should make 
 their advantage by doing him a 
 mischief ; th.ey pei scented his 
 friends ; sought lo strip his 
 wije h'ulvia of every thing ; 
 and endeavcured too to destroy 
 Jus c)<ildrcn. Auicus, ti)oui;h 
 he had an intimate familiarity 
 with Cicero, and was a very 
 great friend to Brutus, not on- 
 ly complied with them in no- 
 thing for the misusing -of An- 
 tony ; but on the contrary pro- 
 tected, as nuich as he could, 
 his fijcnds flying out of the ci- 
 ty ; and assisted them with 
 what things they wanted. He 
 did these things for P. Volum- 
 liiusj that more could not have 
 come from a father. But he 
 performed his good offices 
 with so much care to i'ulvia 
 herself, when she was embar- 
 rassed with law-suits, and har- 
 rassed with great terrors, that 
 she never appeared upon bail 
 without Atticus ; he was in all 
 cases her bondsman. More®- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 161 
 
 *a fundum secunda fortuna 
 emissct in diem, ncque 
 post calamitatcm vcr.^u- 
 ram facere potuisset, ilie 
 se interposuit, pcciiniam- 
 que, sine foenorc, sineqiie 
 uila siipulationc ei crcdi- 
 dit, maximum exisiimaiis 
 quaestum, mcmorcm (;ra- 
 tumque cognosci ; simul- 
 que aperire, se non foruu 
 nae, sed hominibus solera 
 esse amicum ; quae cum 
 faciebat, nemo eum tem- 
 poris causa facere poieret 
 exislimare. Neminicnim 
 in opinionemreniebat, An- 
 totiium rerum poiiturum. 
 Sed sensus ejus a nonnul- 
 lis optimaiibus rcprehon- 
 dcbatur, quod pa^um odis* 
 se mulos cives videretur. 
 
 Cap. X. Ille autcm sui 
 judicii potius quid sc fa- 
 cer© par essel, inluebaiur» 
 c[uam quid alii Uudaiuri 
 forent. Conversa subiio 
 fortuna est. Ut Antonius 
 lediit in It»\liam, nemo non 
 iT\aii;noin pjiiculo Aiticum 
 futurum putaict, propter 
 inlimam familial itatem 
 Ciceionis 8c Bruti ; itaque 
 ad advenlum impcratoi um 
 de foro decesserat, limcns 
 proscriplionem ; hitebat- 
 que apud P» Volumniuni, 
 cui, ut osiendimus paulo 
 ante, Q^cmtulerat. (Tan- 
 ta varietas iLs temporibus 
 full fortunas, ut iifiodo hi, 
 O 5^ 
 
 ver, when she had bought an 
 estate in licr ])iosperiiy to be 
 fiaid for by a certain day, and 
 could not take up money for 
 it, after this unhappy turn, he 
 interposed, and trusted her the 
 money without usury, or re- 
 quiring any formal promise of 
 repayment, thinkinj; it the 
 greatest gain to be mindful and 
 grateful, and at the same time 
 to shew the world, that he did 
 not use lo be a friend to for- 
 tune, but to men ; which whea 
 he did, nobody could think that 
 he did it for time-serving. For 
 it came inlo nobody's thought, 
 that Antony would ever have 
 the superiority o^«y«. But his 
 conduct was blamed by some 
 of tlie parly of the quality, be- 
 cause he seemed not sufficient- 
 ly >.o liatc bad citizens. 
 
 Chap. X. But he of his 
 own judgment, regarded rather 
 what was fit for him to do, than 
 what others would commend. 
 On a sudden fortune was chang- 
 ed. When Antony returned 
 into Italy, every body thought 
 Atticus wo\ild be in great dan- 
 ger, l)ecause of the intimate 
 familiarity of Cicero :Mid Bru- 
 tus rAth him j wherefore upon 
 the coming of the generals tOf 
 toivn^ he had withdrawn froirii 
 the forum, fearing the proscrip- 
 tion ; and absconded with P.. 
 Volumnius, to whom he had 
 given his assistance, as I have 
 shewn a little above. (So threat, 
 was the variety o£ fortuafi; in 
 
162 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 modoilli, in summoessent 
 aui fusiij^io, aut periciilo ) 
 Hubeb.itqiie secuni Q. Gei- 
 lium Caniuni, gequalem, 
 siniiJIimuiTique sni. Hoc 
 quoqiie sit Auici b<jnitatis 
 excn4])lum, quod cum eo, 
 quern puci urn in ludo cog- 
 lioverai, adco conjuncte 
 vixit, ut ad extremam se- 
 taieni ainicilia corum cre- 
 verit. Amonius autern, 
 ei^i tanto otlio lerebatur 
 in Citcronem, ut iion so- 
 lum ei, sed omnibus ciiain 
 ejus amicis essei iniiuicus, 
 eosque velle proscribere ; 
 mukis hortaniibus t»men, 
 Atiici memor fuit officii ; 
 et ci cum rcquisissel ubi- 
 iiam csset,sua manu scrip- 
 sit, ne limeret, statimque 
 ad se veniret: se eum Sc 
 Gellium Cjnium de pio- 
 scriptorum numero exe- 
 Mfiisse ; ac, ne quod peri- 
 culum inciderct, quodnoc- 
 tu liei at. praesidiurn ci mi- 
 sit. Sic Atiicu^ in summo 
 limore non sohitn sibi, sed 
 etiam ei>quem carissimum 
 habebal,pf sesidio fair : ue- 
 que enim suae so.ilm a 
 qiioquam auxiiium pciiit 
 salvitis, sed conjunclim ; 
 lit cippareret nuilam se- 
 ^untam sibi ab eo velle es- 
 se fortunam : quod si gu- 
 bernator piaecipua laude 
 lertur, qui navem ex hy- 
 eme, mavique scopuloso 
 servat j cur non singularis 
 
 those limes, that one while 
 il.ese, another while those, 
 were either in the gi^atest 
 height oj' graJidcur or the 
 greatest danger.) And he hud 
 with bin) Q dellius Canius, 
 equal in age, and very m\ich 
 like himself. This likewise 
 may be another iiiStance of At- 
 licus's goodness, thiit he lived 
 in such a close union with him, 
 whom he had known when a 
 boy at school, thai their friend- 
 ship grew eve7i to their old age. 
 But Antony, though he was 
 pushed on with so great a re- 
 sentment against Cicero, that 
 he was not an enemy to him on- 
 ly, but to all his friends, and in- 
 tended to prescribe them ; yet, 
 n\\M\y people advising him to tty 
 he was mindful of Alticus*s 
 kindness; i.nd when he had 
 inquired where he was, wrote 
 to him witik his own hand that 
 he should not fear, and that he 
 should come to him immedi- 
 ately ; that he had taken him 
 and Gellius Canius out of the 
 number of the proncribed; and 
 that he might not fall into any 
 danger, which was fJie7i usual 
 in the night, he sent him a 
 guard. Thus Atticus under 
 the utmost apprehension, was 
 not only a security to himself, 
 but also to him whom he held 
 most dear : for he did not de- 
 sire help, i?i order to his own 
 security ow!y, but m conjunc- 
 tion 'ivit/i his friend ; that it 
 might appear that i^e had a 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 63 
 
 5jus existimetur pruden- 
 tia, quiiX tot,tamque gra- 
 vibus procellis civiiibus, ad 
 incolumitatcm perveni I 
 
 Cap. XI. Quibus ex ma- 
 ils lit se eniersit, nihil ali- 
 ud i;git, quam ut pluriinis, 
 quibus rebus posset, esset 
 auxiiio. Cuin prosciiptos, 
 pijrmiis iniperatoium, 
 vuJv^us conquireret, nemo 
 in Epirum venit, cui res 
 wlla dcfuciit: ncniini non 
 ibi perpetuo manendi po- 
 testas facta eot. Quine- 
 tiam, post prjelium Philip- 
 pense, inieriiumque C 
 Cassii, & M. Bruti, L. Ju- 
 lium MocillKui Praeloiem 
 ct filium ejus, Aulumque 
 Torquatum, csetcrosque 
 pari fortmia perculso in- 
 siiluit tueii, atque ex Epi- 
 ro his omnia Samothia- 
 ciam supportaii jussit. 
 Difficile enim est omnia 
 persequi, & non necessa- 
 ria : illud unum intellitji 
 volumus, iliius liberalita- 
 tem neque temporariam, 
 neque callidani luissc ; id 
 ex ipsis rebus ac tempori- 
 bus judicari potest ; quod 
 non florentibus se vendita- 
 vit,sed afflictis semper sue- 
 currit j qui quidem bcrvi- 
 
 mind to have no fortune apart 
 from him : but if a pi ot is ex- 
 tolled with singular ccTmenda- 
 tiori, who saves a ship out of a 
 storm, and a rocky ?< a ; why 
 should not his prudence be 
 thoup:ht singuliir, who, out of 
 so many and such violent civil 
 storms, came to a state of se- 
 curity ? 
 
 Chap. XI. Out of which 
 distress after he had delivered 
 himself, he minded nothintj 
 else but that he might be aid- 
 ing to as many as possible, in 
 what things he could. VVliilst 
 the common people sought af- 
 ter the proscribed, upon the 
 Jiro/niaed rewards of the gen- 
 erals, nobody came into Epire, 
 to whom any thing was want- 
 ing ; every one had a conven- 
 ience given them of staying 
 liiere constantly. Moreover, 
 after the batile of Philippi, and 
 the death of C. Cassius and M, 
 Brutus, he resolved to protect 
 L. Julius Mocilla the Prctor, 
 and his sen, and A. Torqur.tus, 
 and the rest t/iat were borne 
 dcwn by the like ill-ix)rtune, 
 and ordered all necessaries to 
 be carried to them fi om Epirus 
 to Samothrace. But it is diffi- 
 cult to run through all the par- 
 ticulars of this kind^ and not ne- 
 cessary : we would have this 
 one thing understood, that his 
 generosity was neither tempo- 
 rary nor slyly intended ; that 
 may be discerned by the things 
 and times themselves : because 
 
164 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 liam Bruti matrem, non 
 minus post mortem ejus, 
 quani tiorentem, coluerit. 
 Sic liberalitate utens, nul- 
 las inimicilias gessit, quod 
 neque Ifeclebat quenquam, 
 neque si quam injuriam 
 acceperat,malebat ulscisci, 
 quam oblivisci. Iclemim- 
 mortali memoria rccepta 
 retinebat benificia ; quse 
 autem ipse tribucrat, tam- 
 cliu meminerat, quoad ille 
 gralus erat, qui acceperat ; 
 itaque hie fecit ut vei e dic- 
 tum videalur, Sui cuigue 
 ?nores Jingunt for tun am, 
 Neque tamen prius ille 
 fortunam, quam se, ipse 
 finxit, qui cavil, ne qua in 
 re jure pieotcretur. 
 
 Cap. XIL Hisigiiurre- 
 bus efiecit, ut M. Vipsani- 
 us Agrippa, intima famil- 
 iarilate conjunclus adolcs- 
 cenli Csesaii, cum propter 
 suam gratiam, et (^sesaris 
 potentiam, nullius condi- 
 tionis non haberet potesta- 
 tem, potissimum ejus di- 
 ligeret afiinitatem, prseop- 
 t?aetque equiiis R. filiam 
 generosam nuptiis : atque 
 
 he did not make his court to 
 those that were in a flourishing 
 condition, but always succour- 
 ed the distressed ; who treated 
 with honour Servilia the moth- 
 er of Brutus no less after his 
 death, than nvhen in a flourish- 
 ing condition. Thus employ- 
 ing his generosity, he had no 
 quarrels with any body, because 
 he neither injured any one, nor 
 if he had received any injury, 
 did he choose rather to revenge 
 it, than forget it. The same 
 7nan kept in perpetual remem- 
 brance kindnesses received ; 
 but what he himself bestowed, 
 he remembered so long as he 
 was grateful, that had received 
 them ; wherefore this he ef- 
 fected by his behaviour, that it 
 seems lo have been truly said, 
 livery one*s manners make his 
 fortune^ Neither yet did he 
 form hi* fortune before he 
 formed himself, who took care 
 that he should Hot be justly 
 punis'5ed in any case. 
 
 Chap. XII. By these tilings 
 therefoj'C he brouirht it about, 
 that M. Vipsmius Agrippa, 
 united with the youth Cjesaria 
 a close familiarity, when, by 
 reasvm of his own interest and 
 Ceesar's power, he hud a possi- 
 bility of attaining any match 
 whatever, chose his afiinity 
 * above all others, and preferred 
 the daughter of a Roman knight 
 
 
 before the matches of the most 
 iiavum nuptiarum concilia- noble ladies : and the makep 
 tor fuit (non enim est ce- up of this math '^ras (for We 
 
NEW LATIN PRIAiER. 
 
 165 
 
 landuni) M. Antoniiis, Tri- 
 umvir rtip. fonsiituendse ; 
 cujus gratia cuti) ougere 
 possessioncs posset suas, 
 tanluin abluii a cupidit: te 
 pecuniae, ut nuli^ in re usns 
 sit ta nisi in deprccandis 
 anucorum aut peiiciilis, 
 aut incononiodis : quod 
 quidem sub ipsam pro- 
 scripiionein peri [lustre 
 fuit : nam cum L. Suufcii 
 cquitis R, secju.dis sui, qui 
 coniplures annos, suidio 
 ductus philosophise, Athe- 
 Ris hjbitabut, habcbatque 
 in It;ilia preiinsas posscs- 
 &iones,Tiiuniviiibony vcn- 
 diclissciit, consuctiidiiic e:i, 
 qua tum res gerebantur ; 
 Aitici labore atque indus- 
 tria factum est, ut codcm 
 nuntio Saufoius fierct cer- 
 tior, se putrinionium ami- 
 siss€,& recuperasse. Idem 
 L. Jiilium Calidium, quern 
 post Lucreiii Cutulliquc 
 morlem, multo clcgantis- 
 simum poetam, nostram 
 tulisse a?iatcm, vcre vide- 
 or posse contendere ; ne- 
 quc minus virum bonum 
 optimisque ambus erudi- 
 tum ; post proscriptionem 
 cquiium, propter magnas 
 c'y.is Afiicanas pobscssio- 
 nes, in proscript.orum nu- 
 merum a P. Volumnio, 
 pfaifecto fabium AntoRii, 
 abscntem relatum,expedi- 
 \it ; quod in praesenti, u- 
 trum ei luboriosius an g;lo- 
 
 must not conceal it) M. Anto- 
 ny, the Triumvir for settling 
 the commonwealth ; by whose 
 interest when he might hav« 
 increased his possessions, he 
 was so far from a greedy desire 
 of money, that he made use of 
 that iiitcrcfit in nothing, but 
 begi^ing tff the dangers and 
 troubles of his friends ; which 
 was very remarkable in the time 
 of the prosciiption : for when 
 t!ie Tiiumviri, according to the 
 way in wiiich things were then 
 managed, had sold the estate 
 of L. S. uffcius a Roman knight, 
 his friend, who, moved by his 
 fancy for phylusophy, lived sev- 
 eral years at Athens, and had 
 in Italy valuubie possessions; 
 it was brouglit about by the 
 pains and industry of Atticus, 
 that SaufciiiS was made ac- 
 qu.intcd by the same message, 
 that he had lost his estate, and 
 recovered it. The same per- 
 son likewive brought oft' L. Ju- 
 lius Calidius, whom, methinks, 
 I may truly affirm our age has 
 produced much the finest poet, 
 since the death of Lucretius 
 and Catullus ; and no less a 
 good man, and skilled in the 
 best arts ; afierthe proscription 
 of the knights, put into the 
 number ot the proscribed, be- 
 cause of his great estate in Afri- 
 ca, by P. Vvlumnius, a direc- 
 tor of Antony's engineers ; 
 which, whether it was more la- 
 borious or more glorious at 
 that time was hard to judge ; 
 
66 
 
 KEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ! 
 
 liosius fuerit, difficile fuit 
 judicare ; quod in eorum 
 pcriculis no» secus absen- 
 tes, quam pisesentcs ami- 
 cos Altico cbse cur^, cog- 
 lutum est. 
 
 Cap. XIII. Neque vero 
 minus ille vir bonus pater- 
 faniilias habitus est, quam 
 civis. Nam cum esset 
 pecuniosus, Kemo illo mi- 
 nus fuit emax, minus tedi- 
 fiCiUor ; neque tamen non 
 in primis bene habituvit, 
 omnibusque opiimis rebus 
 usus est. Nam doiiium 
 hubuit in colle Quirinali 
 Tamphilanavn,ab avuiicDto 
 haereditate relicfam, ctjjus 
 smoenitas non sediricio, scd 
 iylva constabc't ; ipsum e- 
 Mm tectum aniiquitus coH' 
 stiui'um plus sails quam 
 sumpius habebat ; in quo 
 nir.il commutavii, nisi si 
 quid vetusla^e coactus est. 
 Usus est familia si utilita- 
 le judiiandum est,o])tima; 
 si forma vix mediucii ; 
 namque in ea ernnt pueti 
 literatissimi, anagno'-.tae 
 opiimij & plutimi librarii ; 
 lit ne pedissequus quidam 
 quisquam esset, qui non 
 utrumque horum pulchre 
 facere posset. Pari lEodo 
 artifices cseteri, quos cul- 
 tus domesticus desiderat, 
 opprime boni ; neque ta- 
 men horcm quenquam, ni- 
 si domi naium, domiquc 
 factum, habuit ; quod est 
 
 because it was obserred lliat 
 Aaicus*s friends, in their dan- 
 gers were no less his care when 
 absent, than '.n/^e?! present. 
 
 Chap. XITI. Neither was 
 tiiis gentleman reckoned a less 
 good master of a family, than 
 a citizen. For though he was 
 a moiiied man, yet nobody was 
 leijs addicted to buying, nor 
 less a builder ; and yet he had 
 a very convenient dwelling, and 
 had all things of the very best. 
 For he had the Tampliilan 
 house in the Quirinal Hill, ail 
 esute left Jiim by his uncle, 
 tlie pleasantness of which did 
 not consist in the building it- 
 ^elf^ but in a wood ; for the 
 house itself, being anciently 
 buik, had more of neatness 
 than expense ; in which he 
 changed nothing, unless he was 
 forced by theoldness of it. He 
 had a family of servants, if we 
 are to judge by convenience, 
 very good ; if by outward ap- 
 pearance, scarcely indifferent ; 
 for in it were very learned boys, 
 very good readcis, and many 
 transcribers of books ; that 
 there was not indeed any foot- 
 man, that could not do both 
 these very well. In like man- 
 ner other artists, w hich domes* 
 tic use requires, wert- extremely 
 good ; neither yet, had be any 
 of those, but nvhat was born in 
 his house, and instructed in his 
 house J which is a sign not on- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 167 
 
 signum non solum conti- 
 neniiae, sed etiam diligen- 
 tise : nam 8c non intempe- 
 ranter concupiscere, quod 
 » plurimis videas, conti- 
 nentis debet duci ; & poti- 
 us diligentia, quam pretio, 
 parare, non mediocris est 
 industrial Elegans non 
 magnificus ; splendidus, 
 non sumptuosus ; omnia 
 diligentia munditiem non 
 aiRuentem aflfectabat ; 
 
 suppellex modica, non 
 multa, ut in neutram par- 
 tem conspici posset. Nee 
 hoc prseterribo, quanquam 
 nonnullis leve visum iri 
 putcm : cum in primis 
 lautus esset eques Rom. Sc 
 non parum liberaliter do- 
 mum suam omnium ordi- 
 num homines invitaret ; 
 scimus non amplius quam 
 terna millia aeiis^eraeque, 
 in singulos menses, ex 
 ephem.eride eum cxpen- 
 "^ sum sumptui ferre soli- 
 tum : que hoc non audi- 
 tum, sed cognitum prae- 
 dicamus ; saepc enim, . 
 propter familiaritatem, do-, 
 mesticis rebus interfui- 
 mus. 
 
 Cap. XIV. Nemo in 
 convivio ejus aliud ux^oxf^ 
 audivit>quam anagnostem ; 
 qubd nos quidem jucundis- 
 simumarbitramur : neque 
 unquam sine aliqua lectio- 
 ne apud eum coenatum est ; 
 ut nbn minus animo, quam 
 
 ly of moderation, but diligence : 
 for not extravagantly to desire, 
 what you see to be so desired ba 
 many, ought to be accounted 
 i/ie part of a moderate man ; 
 ajid to procure things by dili- 
 gence, rather than purchase, is 
 a matter of no small indusuy. 
 He was elegant, not magnifi- 
 cent ; splendid, not prodigal ; 
 he affected, with all fiossible 
 care^ a neatness that nvas not 
 extravagaBt ; his furniture was 
 moderate, not much ; so as to 
 be remarkable neither way. 
 Nor shall I pass this by,although 
 I suppose it may seem a slight 
 matter to some : though he 
 was a genteel Roman knight, 
 and invited, not a little gener- 
 ously, men of all ranks to his 
 house ; we know that i.e did 
 not use to reckon from his day- 
 book expended more than three 
 thousand asses a month, one 
 with another : and this wc af- 
 firm, not as a thing heard, but 
 a certainty : because we were 
 often, by reason of our intima- 
 cy, actually present at the man' 
 agement o/his domestic affairs. 
 
 Chap. XIV. Nobody ever 
 heard any other entertainment 
 for the ears at his meals than a 
 reader ; which we truly think 
 very pleasant : nor was there 
 ever a supper at his house,wiih- 
 out some reading ; that his 
 guests might be entertained 
 
16B 
 
 N«W LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 ventre, con vi vie delecta- 
 rentur ; namque eos voca- 
 bat quorum mores a suis 
 non abhorrerent. Cum 
 tamae pecuniae facta esset 
 accessio, nihil de quotidia- 
 Bocultu mutavit; nihil de 
 vilse onsuetudine ; tanta- 
 que usus est moderatione, 
 ut neque in sestertio vicies, 
 ^uod a patre acceperat, pa- 
 rum se splendlde gcsserit ; 
 neque in sestertio cenlies, 
 affluentius vixerit, quam 
 instiluerit ; parique fa^ti- 
 dio steterit in utraque for- 
 tuna NuIIos habuit hor- 
 tos, nullam suburbanam 
 aut maritimam sumptuo- 
 sam vill; m ; neq; in Italia, 
 praeter Ardeatinuni & No- 
 mentanum, rusticum prse- 
 dium ; omnisque ejus pe- 
 cuniae reditu s constabat in 
 Kpiroticis, & urbanis pos- 
 sessionibus ; ex quo co^- 
 Bosci potest, eum usum 
 pecunige non magnitudine, 
 sed ratione miliri solitum. 
 
 Cap. XV. MenJacium 
 neque dicebat, neque pati 
 polerat ; itaque ejus co- 
 mitus non sine severitate 
 eii^'t, neque gravitas sine 
 facilitate; ut difficile esset 
 intellectu,utrum eum ami- 
 ci magis vercrentur, an 
 amarent. Quidquid roga- 
 batur^ religiose promittc- 
 
 in their minds, as well as their 
 stomachs ; for he invited those, 
 whose manners were not dif- 
 ferent from his own. And af- 
 ter so great an additioii was 
 made to his estate, he changed 
 nbthing of his» daily way of lite ; 
 nothing of his usual method of 
 living ; and used so much mod- 
 eration, that neither in an estate 
 of twenty times a hundred thou- 
 sand sesterces, which he had 
 received from his father, did 
 he behave himself ungenteely ; 
 nor in an estate of a hundred 
 times a hundred thousand ses- 
 terces, did he live more plenti- 
 fully than he had been used to 
 do ; and stood upon an equal 
 height in both fortunes. He 
 bad no gardens, no magnificent 
 seat near the city, or upon tho 
 sea ; nor any land estate in Ita- 
 ly, besides that at Ardea, and 
 at Nomentur%; and his whole 
 income of money consisted in 
 his possessions in E»>ire,and the 
 city of Rcme ; fi om whence it 
 may be understood that he 
 measured the use of money, 
 not by its quantity, but by the 
 manner of using it. 
 
 CftAP. XV. He neither told 
 a lie himself, nor could he en- 
 dure it; wherefore his com- 
 plaisance was not without a 
 strict regard to truth, nor his 
 gravity without a good degree 
 of compliance ; that it was 
 hard to be understood whether 
 his friends reverenced or loved 
 him raore. Whatsoever he 
 
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 bat ; quod non Uberalis, 
 sed levis arbitrabatur, pol- 
 liceri quod prsestare non 
 posset. Idem in nitendo 
 quod semel admisisset, 
 tanta erat cura, ut non 
 mandatani, sed suam rem 
 videretur ai^ere. Nun- 
 quam susccpli negotiieum 
 pertaesum est ; suamcnini 
 exislimationem in ea re 
 agi pulabat, qua nihil habe- 
 bat carius ;*quo fiebat, ut 
 omnia Marci Sc Quinll Ci- 
 ceronum, Catonis, Horten- 
 sii, A. Torq«ati,multorum 
 prseterea equitum Roma- 
 norum negotia piocuraret : 
 ex quo judical i potei'at,non 
 ineri;a,sed judicio fugisse, 
 Reipub. procuiationem. 
 
 Cap. XVI. Humanitatis 
 vero nullum afferrp majus 
 testimonium possiim,quam 
 quod adolescens, idem se- 
 iii Syllse fuerit jucundissi- 
 mus ; scnex, adolescenti 
 M. Biuto i cum cequalibus 
 autem suis Q. Hortensio, 
 et M. Cicerone, sic vixerit, 
 ut judicare difficile sit, cui 
 aetitti ^erit aptissimus ; 
 quanquam eum pisecipue 
 dilexit Cicero, ut no iVater 
 quidem ei Quinuis carior 
 fuerit, aut famiiiarior. Ei 
 rei sunt indicio, praeter cos 
 P 
 
 was asked he promised scrupu- 
 lously ; because he thought ic 
 the jiart not of a generous but 
 an inconsiderate man, to prom- 
 ise what he could not perform. 
 The same maii was a person of 
 so much application in euaeav- 
 ouring to efftit what he had 
 once promised, that he did not 
 seem to manage an aflf^r re- 
 commended to him by ano'her 
 but his own. He was never 
 weary of a business he had un- 
 dertaken ; for he thought his 
 credit concerned in that mitter, 
 than which he accounted noth- 
 ing more valu \Me ; from, 
 whence it was, that he managed 
 all the affairs of the Ciccios, 
 Marcus and Quintus, of C.ito, 
 Horteusius, A- Torquatus. and 
 many Roman knii^hts besi<;es : 
 from which ii migki be judged, 
 that he declined the business 
 of governmt.ni, not througli la- 
 ziness, but judgment. 
 
 Chap. XVI. But I can pro- 
 duce no greater proof of his 
 pol#teness than that of the same 
 inan^ luhen young, was very a- 
 greeable to Sylla an old m .n ; 
 and when old. ivas the siimc to 
 M. Brutus, a young uictn ; but 
 he so lived wiih his friends of 
 the same age with himself, Q. 
 Horiensius and M. Cicero, that 
 it is hard to judge to what age 
 he was most suited ; though 
 Cicero loved him in a parJJcu- 
 lar manner, so that hid brother 
 Quinius was not mo:© dear to 
 him, nor more familiar av'M hhn. 
 
ir© 
 
 lf«W LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 libros, in quibus de eo fa- 
 cit menlionem, qui in vul- 
 gus jam sunt editi, sexde. 
 cim voiuininaepistolarum, 
 ad consulatu ejus usque ad 
 extremum tempus ad At- 
 ticuiTi missarum ; quae qui 
 Icgat, non multuni deside- 
 ret historian! contextam 
 coru<m lemporum : sic en- 
 im omnia de studiis prin- 
 cipum,viuis (Iucum,ac mu- 
 talionibus Reip. perscripta 
 sunt, ut nihil in iis non ap- 
 pareat : et facile exisiima- 
 ri possit, prudenliam quo- 
 dam modo esse divinaiio- 
 nem : non enim Ciceio ea 
 solum, quae vivo se accide- 
 runt, futura prsedixit ; sed 
 etiam, quse nunc usu veni- 
 unt, cecinit vates. 
 
 Cap. XVII. De pietate 
 autem Attici quid plura 
 commemorem ? cum hoc 
 ipsum vere gloriantera au- 
 dierim, in funeie matris* 
 suge,quam extulit annorum 
 nonaginta, cum esse( sep- 
 tcia & sexaijinta ; se nun- 
 quam cum matre in gra- 
 tiam rediisse ; nunquam 
 cum sorove fuisse in simul- 
 tate, quam prope aequdlem 
 habebat ; quod est signum, 
 a«t nuUam unquam inter 
 eosquciimonium interces- 
 sisse, aut hunc ta, fuisse in 
 suos indulgentia, ut quos 
 amare deberet, irasci eis 
 
 Sixteen volumes of epistles 
 sent to Atticus, from the time 
 of his consulship to the latter 
 end (jf his life, are a proof of 
 that thing; besides those books, 
 wherein he makes mention of 
 him, which are puolished to 
 the world ; which he that reads 
 won't much want a continued 
 history of those times : for so 
 all particulars are put down, 
 relating to the designs of the 
 leading men, the faults of the 
 commanders, and the revolu- 
 tions of the government, that 
 every thing appears in them : 
 and it may be easily thought^ 
 that prudence is in some mea- 
 sure a divine foresight : for 
 Cicero did not only foretel those 
 things would be, which happen- 
 ed nvhilst he was alive ; but 
 likewise predicted, as a prophet, 
 what now comes to pass. 
 
 Chap. XVli. As to Atticus' 
 affection for his relations, why 
 should I say much ? having 
 heard him boast of this, and 
 truly too^ at the funeral of his 
 m.other, whom he buried at 
 ninety years of age, when he 
 was sixly^seven ; that he never 
 returned to a good understand- 
 ing wiih his mother, never was 
 at any diflerence with his sister, 
 which lie had nearly of the 
 same age ; which is a sign, ei- 
 ther that no complaint had pass- 
 ed betwixt them, or that he was 
 a man of so much indulgence 
 for ids relations, that he reck- 
 oned it a crime to be angry 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 in 
 
 nefas duceret. Neque id 
 fecit natura solum, quan- 
 quam omnes ei paremus, 
 sed etiam doctrina: iiLim 8c 
 piincipum philosophoruin 
 ita precepta habuit ut iis ad 
 vitam agendan^, non ad os- 
 tentatiouem, uteretur. 
 
 Cap. XVIII. Moris e 
 tiam majorum sumnius 
 imitator fuit, antiquit bis- 
 que amator ; qijum adco 
 diligenter habuii cogni- 
 tam, ut earn totam in eo 
 volumine exposuerit, quo 
 magistratus ornavit. Nul- 
 la enin^ lex, ntque pax, ne- 
 que bell\im, neque res il- 
 lustri^ est popuii Rom.q«i8e 
 non.it) eo, suo tempore, sit 
 not.'ta ; &♦ quod diffirilli- 
 nmm fuit, sic fcin.iii<4rum 
 orir:inum subiexuii, ut ex 
 eo clurorum virorum pro- 
 paijjines possimus cognos- 
 cere. Fecit hoc idem sc- 
 paratim in aliis libris : ut 
 M. Bruti rogaiu, Juniam 
 familiam a stirpe ad hunc 
 setatem ordine cnuiuera- 
 vit, notans qui, a quo ortus, 
 quos honores, quibusque 
 temporibuscepisset. Pari 
 modo, MarcelliClawciii, de 
 Marcellorum ; Scipionis 
 Cornelii, 8c Fabii Maxinu, 
 de Corneliorum, Sc Fabio- 
 rum, 8c jEmiliprum ; qui- 
 bus libris nihil potest esse 
 dulcius iis, qui aliquam cu- 
 piditatem habent notiiise 
 
 with those whom he ought to 
 love. Nor did he do this from 
 nature only, although we all 
 obey her, but likewise out of 
 principle ; for he had so learn- 
 ed the precepts of the greatest 
 philosopiiers, that he made use 
 ol them for the conduct of his 
 lifL-, and not for ostentadon 
 
 Chap. XVIII. He was like- 
 wise a great imitator of the cus- 
 tom of our ancestors, and a lov- 
 er of anliquiiy ; which he had 
 so diligently»inquired into, that 
 he gave an account of it tho- 
 rougi.ly in that volume, in which 
 he has put down, in order of 
 time, the «c^i^i^ri^/ magistrates of 
 Rome. There is no law, nor 
 peace, nor war, nor illustrious 
 affair of the Roman people, 
 which is not set dov n in it, in 
 i s proper time ; and, what was 
 very difficuUjhc has so interwo- 
 ven the original of families, 
 that we may iearn fVom thence 
 the descents of famous men. 
 He did tliis sanjc thing apart 
 in otiier books •, as at the re- 
 quest of AI. Brutus, he rcckon- 
 eti up in order the Junian fami- 
 ly from their oriii;inal to this 
 age, tuking notice of what of- 
 fices, and at what time, every 
 one, and from whom descend- 
 ed, had borne. In like manner, 
 at the request q/*MarceIlusClau- 
 dius, he enumerated that of the 
 Marcelli ; at the request q/'Sci- 
 pio Cornelius and Fabius Maxi- 
 mus, that of the Cornelii, and 
 the Fabiijand the JEmilii : than 
 
172 
 
 KEW LA.TIN PRIMER. 
 
 Glarorum virorum. Atiigit 
 qtioque poeiicen,credimus, 
 DC cj'i3 expers csset suavi- 
 tfitis. Nam<nie versibus, 
 qui boriore, renimqnc ges- 
 larum .mplitudinc raeieros 
 Romuni populi piaesiite- 
 runt, cxposuii ; ita ut sub 
 singiilonim im iginihus, 
 facta iiiiigisti'atusquc eo- 
 rma non :imi)liL\s qiiater- 
 nisve versibusdtscripserit: 
 quod vix credenduni sit, 
 tanias res tani breviier po- 
 luissc declar,ii i. Est etiam 
 liber, Grssce cnnfectiis, de 
 consulitn Ciceionis. Hac- 
 teniis, Auico vivo, cdita 
 lisec a nobis sunt. 
 
 C\p. XiX. Nunc, qiio- 
 niain faituna nos bupersti- 
 tes ei esse vo)uit, rcliqua 
 pcrsequemur; Ix, quantum 
 poterriiTius reium exem- 
 plis leclores docebimus, si- 
 cut supra sigtiifieavimus, 
 Suos citiaiie moreH jilaruDi- 
 gue conciUare fortunam. 
 Namque hie contentus or- 
 dine eq\ics!.ri, quo erat or- 
 tus, in affinitatem i)ervenit 
 impcratoris, Divi Julii fi- 
 lii, cum j.im ante familiar- 
 itatem ejus esset consecu- 
 tus nuliii alia rc, quam el- 
 egantia vitee, qua cfe'eros 
 ceperat principcs civitatis, 
 di^nitate pari, furtuna hu- 
 
 which books nothing tan be 
 more pleasant to tliose, who 
 have any fancy for the knowl- 
 edge of famous men. He like- 
 wise attempted poetry, that he 
 might not be un-icquuintcd with 
 th:it pleasure we Suppos»:r. lor 
 he has related in verses, the 
 lives of those ^ who excelled the 
 rest of the Koman people in 
 honour, and tlie greatness of 
 their «xploits ; so that he has 
 descriJicd under each of tiieir 
 iinag©s,t!>eii- actions and offices, 
 in no more tlian four or five 
 verses : which is scarcely to be 
 believed that such great tilings 
 couid be so briefly delivered. 
 Thjre is likewise a book of his 
 written in Greek, concerning 
 the consulship of Cicero. Thus 
 lar was published by us, ivhil^t 
 Atticus was living. 
 
 Chap. XlX. Now, since for- 
 tune had a mind that wc should 
 be the survivors of him, we will 
 go through the remainder of 
 hifs Ife } and, as far as we can, 
 will inform our readers by in- 
 stances of fact as we have sig- 
 nified above, That every 7Tia?i*s 
 maimers for the most Jiart make 
 his fortune. For he being con- 
 tent with the cqucstriau order, 
 Ironi whunch he was descended, 
 came into the allirince of the 
 emperor Julius's son, after he 
 had before gained a familiarity 
 with him, by nothing else but 
 the elegance of his lifc,by which 
 he had charmed tlie other great 
 men of the city, of equal qaali- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 i'r3 
 
 railiore. Tanta enim 
 prosperitas Csesaieni est 
 consecuta, ut nihil ei non 
 tribuerit foituna, quod cui- 
 quam aiite detuleratj Sc 
 conciliarit quod civis Ro- 
 inanus quivit consequi. 
 NAta auiem est Attico nep~ 
 tis ex Agrippa, cui virgi- 
 nemfiliamcollocarat: banc 
 Csesar, vix anniculum, Ti- 
 berio Claudio Neroni, Dru- 
 siila nato privigno suo, des- 
 pondit ; quje conjunctio 
 necessitudinem eorum 
 sanxit, familiaritateni red- 
 didit frequentioi em. 
 
 Cap. XX. Quamvisante 
 haec sponsalia, non solum, 
 cum ah urbe abesset, nun- 
 quam ad suorum quen- 
 quam iiteris misit, quia 
 Attico mitterei, quid age- 
 ret ; imprimis, quid legc- 
 ret, quibusque in loais, 8c 
 quamdiu esset moraturus ; 
 sed 8c cum esset in urbe, 
 & propter suasinfinitas oc- 
 capationes, miiuis saepe 
 quam vellet y\ttico fi uere- 
 tur, nullus dies tamen te- 
 mere intercessit quo non 
 ad eum scriberet, quo non 
 aliquid de anuquitate ab eo 
 requireret ; modo aliquam 
 quaestionem poeticara ei 
 proponeret ; intcrdum jo- 
 cans ejus v'irbosiores eli- 
 ceret epistolas ; ex quo ac- 
 cidit cum sedes Jovis Fere- 
 (trii in capitolio, ab Romu- 
 P2 
 
 ty, but a lower fortune than Ca- 
 sar. For so much prosperity 
 attended Caesar, that fortune 
 gave him every thing that she 
 had bestowed upon any one be- 
 fore ; and procured him all that 
 a Roman citizen could accom- 
 plish. Now Atticus had a 
 grand-daughter born of Agrip- 
 pa, to whom he had disposed 
 of his daughter when a virgin : 
 Caesar contracted her, when 
 scarcely a year old, to T. Clau- 
 dius Nero, born of Drusilla, 
 his stepson ; which match es- 
 tablished their friendship, a7id 
 rendered their familiar con- 
 verse more frequent. 
 
 Chap. XX, Although before 
 this match, not only when he 
 was absent from town, he nev- 
 er sent a letter to any of his 
 friends, but he sent one to At- 
 ticus, to acquaint him what he 
 was doing ; especially what he 
 was reading, and in what places, 
 and how long he would stay ; 
 but also, when he was in town, 
 and because of his infinite busi- 
 ness, enjoyed Atticus not so oft 
 as he had a mind, yet no day 
 scarcely passed, in which he 
 did not write to him, in which 
 he did not make some inquiry 
 of him relating to antiquity ; 
 sometimes he would propose 
 some poetical question to him ; 
 sometimes jesting would draw 
 from him a long letter ; from 
 which it happened, when the 
 temple of Jupiter Peretrius,, 
 built in the capital by Romulus,, 
 
174 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 lo consli»\!ta, vetustale at- 
 que incuria detecta prola- 
 berelur, ut Attici ;'clmoni- 
 tu CeesMT cam reficicncLmi 
 curaret. Nequp veioa M, 
 Antonio minus, a'oscr'S, li-- 
 eris colebatur ; «f'to ut ac- 
 curate ille, ex il iinib trt- 
 ris, quid agerct, quid cu]fe 
 sibi inberet ccitiorem fd- 
 ceret Atticum. Hoc quale 
 sit facilius cxistimaliat i!:=, 
 qui judiciiie poterit, quan- 
 tse sit sapientia» eoi um re- 
 tin ere us'jm bcnevo'en- 
 tiamque, inter quos maxi- 
 iTiarum reruni non solum 
 jemulatio, scd o'olrectatio 
 tan^a inlerccdebat, quan- 
 tum fuit ir,cidere necessc 
 inter Cfesarem atque An- 
 tonium ; cuuj sc ulevque 
 principem non so'.u n urbis 
 Komai'fe, s.cd oibis lerra- 
 rum esse cupcrct. 
 
 Cap. XXI. Tali modo, 
 cum scpiein tt 5>er'tuni^in- 
 taannos con)i>l ssct, avqv.e 
 ad cxlrcniam stne-tulcm 
 non i.-iJiius diu;; !ii;if, quajn 
 gratia fui t'Mi.iUua crv.\ issct, 
 (multas c'.jiui i ae.( dit.^'.cs 
 nulla alia ic, qi-a'.-! boniia- 
 ie,esset consccuuis) tanta- 
 que pros]K ritate u^us esset 
 valctudinis, ut annis trigin- 
 ta medii-ina non indigviis- 
 set ; nactus est morbuni, 
 qncm initio et ij)sc et me- 
 tiici centcnipsci unt ; nam 
 j&uiarunt esse rr^^-y^v, cui 
 
 being uncovered through nge 
 and ne.i^iect, w;is coining down, 
 that upon ihe adnioniiion v;f At- 
 ticus, Caesar took cuie that it 
 was rcpared. Noi was he less 
 < ivilly applied to in Irtters oy 
 M. Antony, when absent ; so 
 that he made Atiicus acquainted 
 particularly, from the remotest 
 parts of tlic earth, with Mhat 
 he was doing, what care he had 
 upon him. How considerable 
 this is, he \\i\\ more easily ima- 
 gine, who can judge how great 
 a Jiobit of wi-sdcm it is to keep 
 the friendship and favour of 
 those betwixt whom there pass- 
 ed net only so great an emula- 
 tion upon account o/'itatters the 
 utntost inipo)'iancc;but a mutu- 
 al bti Uj^'gie tw lessen one anoth- 
 er, as was necessary to happen 
 betnixt Ceesar and Antony; 
 whilst eac.of them desired to 
 be the prince, not only of the 
 ciiy of Rome., but of the world. 
 Chap XXI. After lie had 
 completed, in this mani;er scv- 
 cnty-severi years, and iiad ad- 
 Nusiced no less in dignity, than 
 ii/ f .v(Hir and fortune, to at^ ex- 
 treme old i^ge. (for he had got- 
 ten several inheiitances by no 
 otiier tliinf^ than hi; goodness) 
 and had buch a happy state of 
 health that he stood not in need 
 of physic lor thirty years ; he 
 contracted a dist-^n^per, wtiich 
 at first both he and his physi- 
 cians despised ; for tl>ey thought 
 It lo be a tenesmos , lor which 
 speedy and easy remedies "tver© 
 
^ 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 irs 
 
 remedia celeria faciliaque 
 proponobantur. In hoc 
 cuiK "i;^ menses sine ullis 
 dolori'jusj pjseierquam 
 qu'o cxcuraiione cupiebut, 
 coiiS'.iinpsisbct; subilotan- 
 ta VIS ti'orbi in unutn i»- 
 testinum i)i()rupit, ut ex- 
 tremo tempore, per lum- 
 bos fislula p^tris eruperit ; 
 atqnc hoc priusquam ei 
 acciderctjpostquam in dies 
 dt^lorcs accrescere, fe- 
 brcmqje acccssisse sensit, 
 Agiippam c^eneium ad se 
 accersi jusbit, et cum eo 
 L. C(;inclium Balbum, 
 Scxtunique Padiuseurn. 
 Hos ut vciii'»!se vi.'.ii- in cii- 
 bituin innixns, Quanfam, 
 inquit, curam diligentiam- 
 (jue in valritud,n' mcd tuen- 
 da hoc temfiort adhibuerim^ 
 cum vos ttstefi habcam^ 7u- 
 hll necesfiC filwibus verbis 
 comnicmorare : gu'biis quo- 
 niam^ ui ajiero^ sati.sfeciy ni- 
 hilfjue ridiqui ft^ci^ quod ad 
 scmandum me pertincret^ rc- 
 liquum <:^y/, lit egomet mild 
 corifiulam. Id vos ignorare 
 nolai ; nam mihi stat alere 
 morbum dtsinere : namque, 
 ki'S dicbus qutcquid cibi 
 sumfisi^ ita produxi vitam 
 ut auxtrim dolores, sine 
 sp.e salutis, Quare a vobis 
 /letOy firimiim ut consilium 
 firobetis meum ; deindcj ne 
 frustra dehortando conemi» 
 
 ni. 
 
 proposed. After he had pass- 
 ed three months in this distem- 
 per without any p tins, besides 
 what he received from the meth- 
 od taken for his cure ; on a sud- 
 den so great a violence of the 
 distemper broke out upon one 
 of his intestines, that at length, 
 a putrid fistula broke through 
 his loins; and before this hap- 
 pened to him, after he found 
 that his pdn3 grew upon him 
 every day, and that a fever was 
 superadded to tlicm ; he order- 
 ed liis son-in law Agrippa to be 
 called to him, and wit!» him L.. 
 Corneliiis Balhus, and Sexlus 
 Peducjeus. When he snw they 
 Were conic, leanitig upon his 
 elbow, said he, //oit» ^muih care 
 and diligence I have employed 
 to res: ore my health, since J have 
 you for my ivitnest^es^ there is 
 no need to recoujit in many 
 nvords : ivhom since I have satis- 
 fed, as I hope ^ and have lefi no- 
 thing undone that was firofier to 
 cure nip^ it remains that I pro- 
 vide for myself I had no mind 
 ijou should beig7iorant of it ; for 
 my le solution is /ixed^ to give 
 over feeding the distemper : for 
 whatsoever meat I have taken 
 for some days, I have so pro" 
 longed my Ife, that J encreased 
 my pains^ without any hopes of 
 recovery. Wherefore I beg of 
 yoUy in the first place^ that you 
 would approve my resolution ; 
 if not<i that then you would not 
 labour in vain by dissu<iding int. 
 
176 
 
 NEW LATIM PRIMER. 
 
 Cap XXII. Hue ora- 
 tione habita tanta con* tan- 
 tia vocis atque vukus, ut 
 non ex vita, sed < x donio 
 in domum videretiir mi- 
 grarej cuir» quidemAgiip- 
 pj. eum flens atque oscii- 
 ittiis. oraret, atque obsecra- 
 rel,iie id quodnaturacoge- 
 let, ipsequoqt e sibi accel- 
 craret; et quonium turn 
 quoque posset temporii)us 
 superesse, se sibi suisque 
 resjervaret; preces ejus ta- 
 citurna suaobslinatione de- 
 pressil. Sic, cum biduuju 
 cibo se abstinuisset,subito, 
 febris decessit, leviovque 
 moiiusesse ccEpit ; tamen 
 proposili^m nihilo secius 
 pcrei^it. Itaque die quin- 
 lo postquam id consilium 
 inierat, pridie Kal. April. 
 Cn. Domitio, C. Sosio 
 COSS. deccssit. Elatus 
 est in lecticula, ut ipse 
 prsescripserat, sine ulia 
 ponjpa funeiis, comitanti- 
 bus omnibus bonis, maxi- 
 ma vulgi ftequentiu. Se- 
 pultus e':t juxta viam Ap- 
 piam, ad quintum iapideu-s, 
 in ir.onunTento Q. Csecilii 
 avunculi sui. 
 
 Chap. XXII. Having made 
 this speech, with such a stea- 
 diiiess of voice and counte- 
 nance, that he seemed not to be 
 removing out of life, but out oif 
 one house into another ; when 
 Agrippa, weeping and kissing, 
 begged and entreated him, that 
 he would not hasten that which 
 nature would obligee him to; 
 and since he might live for 
 some time longer, that he would 
 save himself for himself and 
 his friends ; he put a slop to his 
 entieaties by a silent obstinacy» 
 Thus, after he had abstained 
 from food for two days, on a 
 sudden his fever went off and 
 the distempe!' began to be more 
 easy ; yet notvilhstanding he 
 executed his purpose. Where- 
 fore upon the fifth day after he 
 had entered upon that resolu- 
 tion, the day before the calends 
 of April, when Cn. Domitius 
 cmd C Sosius ivcre Consuls, 
 he died» He was carried to 
 his funeral upon a little couch, 
 as he himself had ordered, with- 
 out any pomp of funeral, all 
 good people attending him? 
 with a great crowd ot the pop-^ 
 ul.^ce. He was buried near the 
 Appian way, at the fifth milC' 
 stone, in the monument of Q« 
 Cgecilius his uncle. 
 
 FimS PARTIS SECUNDM. END 01^ THE SECOND FART, 
 
c 
 
 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 177 
 
 PART THIRD. 
 
 BEING THE 
 FIRST FART OF LI.YE'S LATIJ^T FRIMEU- 
 
 GENERAL RULES OF CONSTRUCTION. 
 
 to be learned bv heart, 
 
 Rule \. 
 
 'ONSTRUE the nominative case first (with the words 
 thereto belonging, if any) ; tlien the verb ; then the vord 
 or words governed by the verb ; lastly t)ie preposition (if 
 any) Avith the word depending on it. 
 
 Rule 2. 
 A genitive case is generally construed after anothernoun. 
 
 Rule 3. 
 An infinitive mood is usually construed after another 
 verb. 
 
 Rule 4. 
 An adjective or participle, if no other word depend on 
 it, must be construed before its substantive. 
 
 Rule 5. -'*; 
 
 An adjective or participle governing a word after it, 
 must be construed after its substantive. 
 
 Rule 6. 
 If an ablative absolute construe the participle or odjec» 
 tive last, i, e, after the substantive or word, with which it 
 agrees. 
 
17$ new latin primer. 
 
 Rule 7. 
 If two adjectives or participles agree with the same 
 substantive, they must not be construed one before and the 
 other after that substantive ; but either both before, by 
 Rule 4, or both after, by Rule 5. 
 
 Rule 8. 
 Let the relative and its clause be construed as soon ds 
 possible after the antecedent. 
 
 Rule 9. 
 Certain adverbs and conjunctions are construed before 
 the nominative case and verb ; i. e. they are construed 
 first in their own clause or sentence : so is the relative 
 qui ; and so are cjuis the interro^^ative, quantu^^ quicunque^ 
 and such like Avords, (%vith their accomlianimtnts) ia v/hat- 
 ever case. 
 
 Rule 10. 
 When a question is asked, construe the nom. case (uU' 
 Xess it be the interrogative quia, quotums quantus^ utcr, Sec.) 
 after the verb, or else between the English verb and its 
 auxiliary, expressing the auxiliary ^rst. 
 
 Rule U. 
 After the verb sw?7i, a verb passive, and a verb neuter, 
 a nom. case is sometimes construed ; but then there is 
 usually anot'uer nom. case, expressed or implied, to come 
 before. 
 
 Rule 12. 
 An adverb is not to be construed with a substantive, but 
 rather with a verb, or an adjective, or participle. 
 
 Rule 13. 
 Af'er a preposition constantly look for an accusative, 
 or ablative case. 
 
 Rule 14. 
 The word governed must be construed after (generally 
 immediir< iy after) that word, which governs it ; except 
 sue .. tris If Ruic 9 specifies; and even they must be 
 construed after prepositions. 
 
kew latin primbr» 179 
 
 Rule 15. 
 When in a sentence there is no finite verb, but onlv an 
 infinitive, with a nom. case, expressed or understood, con- 
 strue such an infinitive like an indicative, or some other 
 finite mood, the nonx. being construed in its proper place. 
 
 Rule 16. 
 When there occurs an accusative case and an inf. mood, 
 guod or utj being- left out^ construe the ace. first with the 
 word that before it, because it is there virtually a nomina- 
 tive, and should therefore, with its adjuncts, be construed 
 like a nom. before the verb. 
 
 Rule 17. 
 Words in apposition must be construed as near to one 
 another as possible. 
 
 Rule 18. 
 All correspondent words must be construed as near to 
 one another as possible. 
 
 Rule 19. 
 Generally construe every word in any clause you have 
 entered on after the nom. case, bcfoie you proceed to ano- 
 ther clause ; beginning each clause, as you pass from one 
 to another, with the nom. case and verb, if there be such 
 in it, and finishing it according to Rule 1. 
 
 Rule 20, 
 An oblique case, unless it be an adjunct to the nom. 
 should be construed after the verb; and when more obli- 
 que cases than one depend on the same word, construe ac- 
 cusatives before datives, datives before ablatives, and gen- 
 itives, immediately aft^r the words, which govern them. 
 
 Rule 21. 
 When sum is put for habeo^ th« English nominative is 
 exyressed in Latin by a dative, and the accusative by a 
 nominative. In this eane construe the dative first like a 
 nominative, then ibe verb, as if declir>e(i from habeo^ and 
 then the nominative after the verb, like an accusative. 
 
180 NE\T LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 Rule 22< 
 By a very common ellipsis, the verb sum may be under- 
 stood in any mood or tense : when it is so, it must be sup- 
 plied in construing, as the sense requires. 
 Rule 23. 
 By a most elegant ellipsis, any finite verb may be under- 
 stood, and inferred by reflection from another verb of the 
 like import, actually expressed within the period. 
 
 Rule 24. 
 Adjectives are often elegantly used as adverbs ; and are 
 then joined with verbs in the construction, and rendered 
 adverbially. 
 
 THE 
 
 GENERAL RULES OF CONSTRUCTION 
 
 exemplified 
 
 CHAP. L 
 
 JJVTROnUCTIOA", 
 
 Rule I. 
 CONSTRUE the nom. case first (with the words there* 
 to belonging, if any) then the verb. 
 
 Construe the JVom. Case first. 
 
 The Nom. is in Italics. 
 
 The verb in the aciive voice, Pres. Ind. 
 
 Miles pugnat. J^os amamus. Spirant venti. 
 
 Imperfect Ind. did. 
 
 Tu dormiebas. Ego legebam. Rudebat adnus, Bala- 
 
 bint oves. 
 
 Perf. Ind. have. 
 Ego inveni. PuelU arriserunt. Fratres amaverunt. 
 
 Plup. Ind. had, 
 Gallus cantaverat. Prace^itor docuerat. Pueruli didi- 
 cerant. Vos audiveratis. 
 
N»W LATIN PRIMER. 181 
 
 Fut. Ind. shall or wilL 
 Clamabit Infans. Titubabunt equi. Micabunt enses^ 
 Vendent mercatores. Ltident ignavi, Cadent sufierbi^ 
 vVo* audiemus. Vos dicetis. Regent imfieratores, Gar- 
 rient fiercontatores. Illi monebunt. 
 
 Imp. Mood, let before the nom. case ; as Magister, 
 let the master. 
 
 Laudato Twa^'ia/fr. G2L\iAGnio juvenes. Attendunto rfwci- 
 fiulu Discunto /iwerw/f . ^\\QHio junior es, Pr«ccdunto se- 
 mores. Adoranto omnes. 
 
 Imp. Sub. should. 
 Gloria excitaret. 
 
 Perf. Sub. may have, 
 JVo8 paruerimus. 
 
 Plup. Sub. would have, 
 Vo8 surrexissetis. 
 
 Fut. Sub. shall have, 
 Pastorea venerint. 
 
 The verb in the passive voice, and in the different 
 moods and tenses. Is. were, has been, had been, shall 
 bey t^c, ^c. as in the grammar. 
 
 Fatigatur eguus. Legebantur auctores. Provcctus est 
 humilis. Victi erant hostea. Christua adorabitur. Imfiii 
 punicntur. 
 
 Furta suspenduntor. Sufierbus contemnatur. 
 Inhoneata amoveantur. Rex honoraretur. Leges ob- 
 serviitje sint. Libri perlecti easent. Pueri instituii erunt. 
 V*tia suppressa tuerint. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 CONSTRUE the nom. case first, with the words thcrc- 
 »1 to belonging, \l any ; then the verb. 
 
 The nom. and its adjuncts are in Italics* 
 
 Note-Words of vxnoas denominations may be adjuncts to the nam. 
 and must be construed btfore the verb. Thus adjuncts to the nora, 
 maybe; 
 
 Q 
 
182 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 1 . One or more adjectives agreeing with it, by the sec- 
 ond concord ; as, 
 
 1. A single Adjective to be rendered before the substantive 
 by R. 4. 
 
 Boni fiueri amaiUur. Mali jiueri punientur. Vera vir- 
 tus no'i'itat. Lujiu^ atrox inteificiebatur. Pracefitores 
 no^tri ver.nint Rc^a fiulchra cadet. Mare tu?mdum furit. 
 JVavigia ve^tra ledibunt. 
 
 2. Two &r morr ac'jectivcs with a conjunction^ all to be ren- 
 dercd before the fiub^tanlive, by R. 4. 
 
 Legcsjufsta etinvivlata pn-sunt. Fugit Lynxvcloxetma' 
 culosa. Libri utiles et tngemcsr le^entur. Qurrc's aeria^/ia" 
 tula, et glandjfera nutat. Ssevir luimicus, imfiius et atrox, 
 Adjuvat vita ivnocens et incuifiata Noctt conte-itio [-ractfis 
 et fittulans ct in-^ana, Belium ^gevit u'-Jnzaoria^:.:^ ancc/is et 
 lethale. 
 
 II. Adjuncts to the nom. may be other substantives 
 in the same case, by ;:ipposiiioF»> or by corijunction. 
 
 1. By Afifiosiiiov, 
 
 Princefis Eugenma viriu Cyrus^ lifix Pernicus^ cxpug- 
 navit. Pecunia^ irritamentum UthaLe^ corri-ii!;^^it. Invidia^ 
 triste tormenlum, on^ii. Cicero., vir bonu^' er. firai tantif-simus 
 9rator^ exulab;.r, Ciaret Virgilius^ delicia rma^vir iummus 
 et fioetafere divmus, 
 
 2. Pyy C'l-r junction, 
 
 G'ivisi 5unt vir et uxor. Mcu^i fiarer et mater adorabant. 
 Julius Ccesar^ Pomfieius ct Crassus c<»#iscnticbant. Con- 
 senlleb;tni Casar Ociavianus^Anioniuset Le/iidus^ Jayant 
 panis et (locus, Vtntus et vinum.fallacia ct ebr/.ctas^ vis ires 
 et insidia nocent. 
 
 III. vcljuncts to the nom. m iv be a genitive, or any 
 other oblique case, connected with that nominative. 
 
 I . Genitive, 
 Prodest ^/wor Dci^ S/ies fircsmii sn\siUir, Prtsteritiperi- 
 culi re?nimsccntza oh\er.tB.t, Divitiariun, glories et volufiiat'ts 
 amwr vitiat. Hujufi mundi cures cum ^u.iWdrA. Laitdetur 
 no?nen Domini. Patris met domti-< se'.ificatur. Fallilow/cz- 
 tia malorum. Agrorumviridantium color di^l&Gld^K. Omnium 
 ca^tellorum co/iia transducuntur. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 183- 
 
 2. Other Oblijue Caa^s connected ivilh the nom. 
 
 1 . Mill tee elati afie gaudebant. ( Construe spe after elati, 
 by R, 14 J 
 
 2. Milites elati afie Victoria gaudebant. 
 
 3. Milites elati s^ie celeria victorix gaudebant. 
 
 4* Milites elati afie celeris victoria et hostiiimfuga gau- 
 debant. C^efiar. 
 
 1. Ajfectu^ solicitudine C^sar e rat profcctus. 
 
 2. Magna affectum solicitudine C^e .sar erat profectus. 
 
 3. Magna affcctua aoeicitudine hoc nuncii Ctesar crat 
 profectus. Camr. 
 
 1. Hostcs turrit ruind covimoti fugiant. 
 
 2. Hastes turris re/ientind ruind commoti fugiunt, 
 
 3. Hastes turris re/ientind ruind coJ7imoii^ inojdnato ?nalQ 
 turbati fugiunt. 
 
 4. Hostes turris re/ienti'id ruind commoti, inapinato malo 
 iurbaii, deorum ird Jierculd fugiunt. 
 
 5. Ho8*ea turris reficiitind ruind cominoii, viofiinato malo 
 turbati, deorum irdfierculsiy urbis dire/itione fierterriti fugi- 
 unt. Casar. 
 
 1. lisdem temporioua Caius Curio in Jfricam firofectus 
 ex Citicia, processit. 
 
 2. lisdem t m/ioribusy Caius Curio, in Afi icam firofc ctiis 
 ex Cilicia^ et jam copias Publii Atiii Vari desfii':i<^7is pro- 
 cessit. 
 
 3. Iisde?n tem/ioribus^ Caius Curio^ in Jfricam profectus 
 ex Ciliciay et jam ab initio cofiias Publii Attii Vari dcspici- 
 ensy processit. Casar. 
 
 IV. Adjuncts to the noni. may be a relative witli 
 the constituent piivts of the clause, or even a whole sen- 
 tence ; all to be construed before the prinripal verb ; as, 
 
 Deus, qui novi^s compensabit. Dcusy qui novit cordaet 
 cogitationcsy compensabit, 
 
 Tenuit consuetudo^ qua quotidie magis invalssci:. Ea^ 
 gum necessariii sunt, conquir;intur. 
 
 Fir etf(smina, quos heri videbas, sunt l^norlui. 
 
184 NEW LATI.V PRIMER, 
 
 CHAP III. 
 
 CONSTRUE the nom. case first, with the words there- 
 to belonging, if dny ; thcH the verb; then the word of 
 words governed by the verb. 
 
 ^'ote— In tlHs Chapter, the words in Italics mast be construed after 
 tlie verb. 
 
 Words governed of the verb, and therefore to be con- 
 strued after it may be of various- borts : 
 
 1. \ noun or nouns, in that case which the verb re- 
 quires ; some verbs requiring a nom. after them, otheis 
 an oblique case. 
 
 ji JVom. after the Virb. 
 
 Dcus est summum bonum. Christus est su?nmufn bonum. 
 ^hristus est bonus iile pastor. 
 
 Alexander erat dux forthsimus, Titus, Romanus, lai- 
 perator, appelletus est Amor ac Delicite humar.i generis» 
 
 Vi'tus habetur raiionis human £ jicrfec no ^ et honor est 
 prainium viriutis . 
 
 A Gen, Case after the Verb. 
 
 Ucec domus et hie ager ^mMfratris mei. Mors neminis 
 miscrefur, nee divitis nee fiaufieris. 
 
 Sa-. tgit unusquisque reriim suarum, Vir bonus injuria 
 oblivi^citur ; benefcii reminiscitur. 
 
 Implen'ur veteris Bacchic fiiguisqueferina. 
 
 Note. When there is no nom. case expressed it is implied in the 
 verb, iiu 1 mant, in construing, be supplied by one of these pronouns, I, 
 thouy hdf she, it, we, ye, they ,■ according to the number and person of the 
 rerb ; thus in the example above, Tmplentur, they are filed- 
 
 Dative after the Verb. 
 
 Laus rfr/wi? debctur. Pecunia 7«z^///5 commodat, /2/m- 
 ribus iucornnjodat. 
 
 Rex plus r ifiubli'c<R prodest. Cicero praeluxit majoribus 
 suis. Faremi debetur maxima reverentii. 
 
 Famte mc7idaci quis credit ? Ferocisdmo leoni traditus est 
 I>ysimachu3. 
 
 Accusative after the Verb, 
 
 Gyrus im/ierium protulit, Romani vincebant omnea gen* 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 1S5 
 
 tes. Virtus conciliat ct conservat amicitiam. Vitium vitani 
 tnolsHtam efficit ; et pii it odium ac inimicina-9. 
 
 Bru'um Komanae mdiivow^. defensor e^n suum quasi com.' 
 munem jiatrem luxerunt. Filiam sua?n carrissima7?i ocQidit 
 Virginias, ne stu/irum susiineiet. 
 
 Ablative after the Verb. ^ 
 
 Dhitihy nee minus cutis ;\bundavit Croesus. Curis mor- 
 tuus cxoneratur Morbus guiete^, cura soinno 5p:>Uat. 
 
 Officio 6U0 s'lpieiis fungiiur. Fita ceterna boni fruuntur. 
 Stuitus doctis tt libris abutiiur. 
 
 2 Tn-j word governed by the verb may be another 
 verb in the infinitive mood ; and possibly that inf. also 
 may have certain words governed by it. In such a case, 
 construe the inf. nex' a(»ef the finite verb, and then the 
 words depending]: on tnc li.. 
 
 Scriben: jussit amor. Duo consules coeperunt creari, 
 SiuXtMS fiersevi rare nequit. t\\xc\\X'i detumeacere coeperunt. 
 Cftnhaginiens2s bella refiarare lentabant. Nemo Romano- 
 rum fiacis meniionfni habere dignatus est. 
 
 Note. — From the last example we find, that the word which the inf. 
 mood governs, may like^\ise have another word governed by it. The 
 word governed, according to Rule 1 4. must be construed after that word 
 which governs it ; therefore fiacis must be construed after tnentionem. 
 
 Romani qtianqiiam superati regi fietenti ^lacem firaestare 
 noluerunt. 
 
 ^lery — Mtevnolueruntprastare^ which must be construed first, the da- 
 tive regipetentiy or the accusative />«ce?n, ,• they being bothalike gov- 
 wned 01 prcetare P See the latter part of Rule 20. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 CONSTRUE the nom. case first., with the words there- 
 to belonging, if any ; then the verb ; then the word or 
 words governed by the verb ; lastly, the prepoailion, if 
 any, with the word depending on ii. 
 
 Note. — Prepositions, as we have seen, are sometimes adjuncts to tht 
 nom. but in general they are attacned to the coiiglu^igp^ of UiS SS& 
 
 tence, and to be construed after tlie Y€yb. 
 
 Q a 
 
186 NEW LATIW PRIMER. 
 
 In this Chapter, the words In Italics are prepositions and their adher--- 
 ents, to follow the verb. Bat the learner must know, that tkese are 
 not the only words to be construed after a verb ,• there are other ob- 
 lique cases &c which he must distin.s^uish from the nom. and its 
 adjuncts, and construe them next after the verbs ; then the preposi- 
 tion, &c. 
 
 Romanum imperium a Romulo exordium habet. jE- 
 milius Pan I us conbul de Ptrseo tfiumpUum cgit. Masin- 
 issa cum Scipione amicid.irn fecerat. 
 
 Quintus Pompeius cum JVumantinia pacem ignobilem 
 fecit. Postea Cuius Hostilius Mancmus cum KumaminU 
 pacem fecit infamem. 
 
 Pubiius Scipio Africanus militem vitiosum et ignavum 
 sine aliqua acerbitaU correxit. 
 
 Copias suas Csesar 2>//^rr;x/mMz« co//rwi subduxit, Os- 
 eenes et Calligunitani miltunt ad eum let^alos. 
 
 . hquitalum ad casru mittit, ad fiumen Bragadam. Cu- 
 vio copias esc locis sufierioribus in camjium deducit. 
 
 Phiiiida arao ante alias. 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 Rule 1. 
 
 CONSTRUE thenom. case first, with the words there- 
 to belonging, if any ; then the verb ; then the word or 
 words governed by the verb ; lastly, the preposition, if 
 any, with the word depending on it. 
 
 Note— -The words belonging to any rule are always in Italic. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Fortes/or/Mwa juvat. jidag. 
 
 2. Audentes/or/wna juvat. Virg, 
 
 2. -' Voeal labor uhimus omnes. Id» 
 
 4i Ontnfs eodem cogimur. H.r. 
 
 5. — Ventia agitatur iigens 
 
 Plnus : ei eels a graviore casu 
 Decidunt turra ; feriuiit que summos 
 
 J^^ulmiua monies. Id* 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 187 
 
 Rule 3. 
 A genitive case is usually construed after another noun> 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Proh Deum atqiie hominum Jidem, Ter, 
 
 2. O cur as hominum 1 Pers, 
 
 3. Amantium Ira amoris in tep; ratio est. 
 Amaniium iiae amoris integratio est. 
 
 4. Inteidum Idcrimae Ao?zrfrra Toc/f habent. Ov. 
 
 5. Non ignara malt, miseris sucurrere disco. Virg, 
 
 Rule 3. 
 
 An infinite mood is generally construed after another 
 verb. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Non ignara mali miseris succurrcre diaca. Virg, 
 
 2. — (^Kxi% fuller e fioasit amantem ? Id, 
 
 3. ?o's>%\M'\\.i <\\\\A fiosae videntur. Id. 
 
 4. — — — Qui tiniide rogat, 
 
 Docct negare. Sen. 
 
 5. P'ortuna, opes auferre^ non animum;/io/<fsr. Id, 
 
 Rule 4. 
 
 An adjective or participle, if no other word depend oil 
 it, must be constrwed before its substantive. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1, ■■ Fudacia 
 
 Ai:a ^iiam ti Uuii. 7tr 
 
 2. Ommum rerum^ heu.s, vicissitudo est ! Id. 
 3 Summum jui -ge">e summa est malitia. Idm 
 
 4. JVuUa fialus beiio. f^i'g, 
 
 5. — — — Vocat labor uUimus omnes. Id, 
 
 Rule. S* 
 
 An adjective or participle, governing a word after itj 
 must be construed after its substantive» 
 
188 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Vis ron(>il>i t'xfiers mule mit sua. Hor, 
 
 2. Kes est ,s tiviti jUena timorix dimov. Ov. 
 
 3. Invia viri -ii imilji C'it via. Id, Ent nulla via. 
 
 4. ■ Lmt 
 
 Q'ii->quis <ib eventu facta notanda pu*at. Id, 
 
 5. Versua inojas reruni, nniraeque cunorge. Hor, 
 
 Rule 6. 
 
 In an ablative absolute construe the participle or ad- 
 jectivi last, that is, atier the subbtantiv^e or word, with 
 •which it agrees. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Deo volente^ ridet ei fl-jt quiJibet. Adag, 
 
 2. Auro lequentCy sermo inanis omnis est, Adag, 
 3 Arbore dejecta^ quivis lii^rict colligit. Adag. 
 
 4. Etiarn sanato vulncre^ cicatrix manet. Laber. 
 
 5. Via exactd viaticum qusereru. Cic» 
 
 KULE 7. 
 
 If two adjectives or partciples arjree with the same 
 substantive, they must not be construed one befoie and 
 the other after that subsiantive, but cither both before by 
 Ruls 4. or both after by Rule 5. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. ■ Prosfitrum ac felix scmIus 
 
 Virtus vocatur. -SVw. 
 
 2. ■ Nee me tua fervida torrent 
 
 Dicta^ fcrox : Dii me terrent. Virg. 
 3 Vir bonus ei.p.rudens versus leprehendet inerles. Hor, 
 4. M '6 vcju^n cXAnunat omnis 
 
 iZomifitu-s judex Id 
 5. — — — Nobiiitas sola est at que unica virtus, Juv, 
 
 Rule 8. 
 
 
 Let the relative and its clause be construed as soon as 
 possibito after the antecedeot. 
 
^EW LATIN PRIMER. 18f 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Lex universa est, qua jubet nasci et mori Lab, 
 
 2. Gravior t^sltnimicumy qui lacet in fitctore. Id. 
 
 3. Homo^ qui in homine calamicoso est miatricorsy meminit 
 
 sui. Id 
 
 4. Mino»' est quam servus do?Hinus^ qui servos timet. Id, 
 
 5. Animum rege, qiii^ niaifiaret, 
 Im/ierat. Hor> 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 Rule 1. 
 CONS i RUE the nom. ci;se firbt, 8cc. 
 
 EXAMFLKS. 
 
 1. Di^s adimi' aeojritudinem hooinibus, Ter. 
 
 2. — . J r 'lit sua quernquo volufiias* Virg. 
 
 3. Quiii enim moduft *.d:^il amori ? /t/. 
 
 A. O nri. , » • ' atas^ aijimum qvs'.quc. Id, 
 
 5. Whuv vitium^ vivi>qu» letjcnHo. Id. 
 
 6. %g£vit^ uc animis ignobiie vulgus. Id» 
 
 7. Furor anna Hunistrut. Id, 
 
 %. — Dabit Deus iiis quoque finem. Id, 
 
 Rule 2. 
 
 A genitive case is usually construed after another noun. 
 
 examples. 
 
 1. Omnium reruniy heub, x>/a5o2iWf/o est I Ter, 
 
 2. Sat Ijubet faviforum semper, qui tecte facit. Plaut, 
 
 3. ''Vi unique iitsiswC doni.mdl, 
 
 D im facilcs animijuvenum^ dam mobilis jetas. Virg, 
 
 4. V'incet amor fiutrix laudum'j^nQ iiurnenia cu/iido. Id, 
 
 5. Seevet amorferriy et sceierata znjawm belli. Id. 
 
 6. Pallida mors aequo pnhsii pcde paufierum tabertias^ 
 Kegumque turres. Hor. 
 
 7. (Equa tellas 
 
 Pauperi recluditur, 
 ^egurnqMc /lueris. Id» 
 
19^ NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 8. Breve et irrepirabile temfiua 
 
 Omnibus est vita ; sel faniam extendere faclis, 
 Hoc virtulis opu8. Virg^ Hoc e^t o/ius, ^c» 
 
 Rule .3. 
 An inf. mood is generally construed after another verb. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Truditur dies die ; 
 
 Novaequc fiergunt interire lunge. Hor. 
 
 2. (^iw \um Vital pec care y cum possit, j abet. Sen. 
 
 3. i?ef/?><?, rum perit, 7zc5c?V pudor. Id 
 
 4. Ai!ior iimere neminem verus /20/^6^- Id. 
 
 5. Q.jid Romae faciam ? Mrrmiri nescio. Juv. 
 i. Disinat elatis quisquam conjidere rebus : 
 
 Omnia niors aequut, Claudian. 
 7. ^Tunc omnia jure tenebis^ 
 
 Cum poteris rex esse tui. Id. 
 8. Nee, tihi qaid liceat, sed quidyi'cf ist" decebit^ 
 
 Occurrat. Id. Jsiec occurratj quid liceo* , <:rc. 
 
 Rule 4. 
 An adjective or participle, if no other word, $cc. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Ut saepe summa ingeni.i in oc-culto latent ! Plaut, 
 
 2. Tr:»hit sua quemqae t^o/w/i^a*. Virg. 
 
 3. Labor omnia vincit 
 
 Iw./irobusy et duris urgens in rebus cgestas. Id. 
 
 4. — — Saevitque animis ignobiie vulgus. Id. 
 
 5. Degeneres animos limor arguir. Id. 
 
 6. Nunc animis opus, jEuea, wane fiectorcjirmo. Id. 
 
 7. Imfirobe amor., quid non mortalm fiectora cogis ? Id' 
 
 8. ' Quid non mo rtalia fiectora cogis, 
 
 A\xt\ sacra fames? Id, 
 
 Rule 5. 
 If an Adjective or participle govern a word, &c. 
 
HEW LATIV PRIMER. If I 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Labor oa ni.i vinrit 
 
 Improbus et duria urgenn in rebus egfs'as. Virg, 
 
 2. Conscia mens reci fan ee !i'eiid".ci: jkI; t. Ov. 
 
 3. .11 . • — Mc'us sibi cojisdc- r r { Virg-. 
 
 4. J\fc» ia mt) 8 i'j^nnioy.mja'i s r tuque J\*inr(B. Id. 
 
 5. Fortuna sao'j ixt-i negcti //or, 
 6. C rfius onubtu r 
 
 H st-rrdsviiiia I'.imu»:. qu qn*. p. aef^"oVf>t. Hor» 
 
 7. Ai !>i>i: i^.r* : 'Miiii/urn dccc^ita (U/ it iff »aisa. 
 
 Nil saus iii^.i i- quit. Id, At bona p.>ir8 h-mvum^ \Jc, 
 
 8. Suntite materiam vistri^, qui scribiub, ce-^na/n 
 
 Viribus, Id. 
 
 In an ablative absolute, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. .Pf.nurttqnc fercri.i Poeni 
 
 2. H-u I lii'ii i.n.iiis Ut qnrniq'inm fidere Divia ! Id, 
 
 3. Et>i Do.iis in »io.)is, a^-j «?///" caK:-' imus illo Ov, 
 4. M" dx.'Ce 'xv *"t. eris /-s?. 
 
 The participle exi^tentc is implied in duce ; duce then must follow me* 
 
 5. >. i- 'Uv j:^fi : d'l ■• . T uvro duae^ ■ r / isfict T\ c cvj, l:or. 
 The same participle existente is a.^a.in implied in duce and in auspice, 
 
 6. Ji-.dt:" :,u. V-. n >r.,i,/^J/;^^^ ; quii:.u*tu^ b-onorcs asepc 
 dm indiujnia. Id, 
 
 7. Per Vciios Ci-sii'-: arte»-^ expe'-ie- Ua fecit, 
 Exem'ilo mons^ranre viarii. Mcmiiius. 
 
 8. Imfierante August o ^ ve,X.\is est Christus. 
 
 RULR 7. 
 
 If two abjectives or participJes agree with the same sub- 
 stantive, 8cc. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. '- Varium et muiabile semper 
 
 FcE'-f'ina. Viri'. 
 Varium and ^nutabile both agree with negotinm. 
 2. '>i It sua cuiquc dies : breve ti irreftarabile tcmfiut 
 
 Omnibus est yitse. Id, 
 
192 ^EW LATIN PHXMEK. 
 
 3. Udum ct molle lutum es. Pen. 
 
 4. Mobilis et i^flr/a est ferme natura malorum, ^/«v. 
 
 5. In amore /^cec om;7£a insunt vitia ; injurisi, 
 
 Suspiciones, inimicitise, inducise, 
 Belium, pax rursus Ter. 
 g. — — Tot rebus in iniquis 
 
 Paruimus victi. J.ucan, 
 
 7, Hoc reges habent 
 Maif7,i/i,um. Gtitigens (nulla quod rapict dies) 
 PrriHesse niheiis Sen. 
 
 The substantantive negotium,^ English fA/n^, is here understood 
 after hocj magnif, et ingens. 
 
 8. SoWiic, njofaits. animos ; curamque Icvate, 
 
 7^0/quc su/iervacuis vitam deflere guerelisy 
 Fata reguntorbein ; certa slant omnia lege. MarHL 
 
 Rule 8. 
 Let the relative and its clause, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. yii^trvivtiiL fortuna cs\.^ qucB inimico caret» P. Syr. 
 
 2. Nulla est tarn bona fcrtuna, de qua nil ficasis queri. Id, 
 
 Note — The antecedent is frequently imderstood, and may generally 
 be supplied by some pronoun, as in the following examples : and re- 
 member, that in thus supplying the antecedant, it must be rendered 
 immediately before the relative. 
 
 3. Absentem laedit (Hie) cum ehrio qui litignt. 
 
 4. Ab aHo expe- t^s ,^f7/Mf/J alttriqw^dftctria. 
 
 5. Feras. non culpas (istud) quod -oitarinon fiotest. 
 
 6. l!jvi'^;^t ciilpanr» (iilr) qui pficctum fir(Et>rit, 
 
 7. M»??ti.^ minaiur f^zV ) ui faritwUnjuriam, 
 
 8. Qui Bf-rifim non odiCj^iu >. tua carmina, Moevi. Firff. 
 JL^et himy quiy whoy non odity ^c. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 195 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 Rule 1. 
 CONSTRUE the nom. case first, Sec 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Fata reguntorbcm ; certa stant omnia lege. MamU 
 
 2. Lingua mali pars pessima servi. Jwv, 
 
 3. Lingua est maliloquax mentis indicium malae* 
 
 4. J^emo repente fuit turpissimus. Juv* 
 
 ■ ingenium res 
 
 jidversx nudare solent. Hor, 
 
 6. Amicos res ofitimce pariunt ; adverse probant. 
 
 7. Enervant animos ciiharx^ cantusgue^ lyreque. On, 
 
 8. Forsan miseros meliora sequentur. Hrg, 
 
 9. Neglectis urenda Jilix mnascitur agris. Hor, 
 10. Fortes creantur ibrtibus et bonis. 
 
 Est in juvencis, est in equis fiatrum 
 Virtus : nee imbcllem/frycf^ 
 Progeneraiit aquila columbam. ITor, 
 
 Rule 2. 
 
 A genitive case is usually construed after another noun^ 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, 
 
 Auri sdcra/ames I Virg, 
 
 2. ftta^ mmma brevis spem nos vetat inchoare loiv 
 gum. Hor. 
 
 3. Y'v^consilii ^xfiers mole rait sua. Hor. 
 
 4. At bona/za7^5 hominum decepta cupidine falsa, 
 Nil sdtiscst, inquit. Id» 
 
 5. Stat magni nominis umbra, Lucan, 
 
 6. Res est solid li filana timoris amor. Ov* 
 
 7. Concia mens recti fa7na niendacia ridet. Id, 
 
 8. Pejor est bello timor ipse belli» Sen. 
 
 9. Serum est cavendi temfius in mediis malis. Id. 
 10. Kix tdt, qui posuit met us, 
 
 Et dirl mala fiectoris. Id, 
 R 
 
194 MEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Rule 3. 
 
 An infiniiive mood is generally construed after another 
 verb. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Quid sitfuturum cv&^yfuge guar ere, Hor, 
 
 2. Quod adest, 
 
 McmcTito comfionere sequus. Id» 
 
 3. -^quam memento rebus in arduis 
 Servare meniem. /of. 
 
 4. Valet ima summis 
 
 Mutarcy et iosignem attenuat Deus. Id. 
 Note — Deus is the nom. case. 
 
 5. Nec vero lerrae/erre omnes omviV^ fwssunt. Virg, 
 Vera nec omnes terra Jiossunty JVor are all soils able 
 
 tOy \!fc. 
 
 6. Felix, qui /lo^Mz/ rcrum co^noscer^ causas. Id. 
 
 7. Wo/j, amabo, -verberare lapidem, ne perdas manum, 
 Amabo (an interjection) /d^seecA you, [Flaut. 
 
 7. — —Intra 
 
 Fortunam debet quisque manere suam. Ov» 
 
 9. ■ Exeat aula, 
 
 Qui vult esse pius. Lucan. 
 10. Sero recw5ar/<?rr^, quod subit jugam. Sen, 
 
 __^ 'i 
 
 ' J 
 
 Rule 4. 
 
 An adjective or participle, if no other word depend 
 on it, must be construed before its substantive. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Quern ferret, ^i parent em non ferret suum? 
 
 2. Nulla est tarn facilis rtf5,quin difficilis fiet, 
 Quam invitus facias. Id, 
 
 3. Vitse summa brevis ; sfiem nos vetat inchoare longam. 
 
 Hor. 
 
 4. Pallida mura aquo pulsat/z^f/c paupcrum tabernas, 
 Regumque turres. Id, 
 
 5. — '■ Nil sine magno 
 
 Vita lahore dedit mortalibus. Id, 
 
 6. -Male verum examinat omni* 
 Corru/itus Judex. Id. 
 
 7. Jejunwi ito77iachu^ rai^ vulgaris temnit. Id. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, IS5 
 
 S. Multa fidem provmse levant. Id, 
 
 9, Hie murus a'e'neus esto. 
 
 Nil conscirc sibi, nulla pallescere culfid. Id. 
 
 10, Doctrina sed vim promo vet inaitam» 
 Paulum sefiultcs distat inertix 
 Celata virtus. Hor. 
 
 Rule 5. 
 If a» adjective or participle govern a word, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES, 
 
 \. Q,TQ^Q.lX.iridulgcns aibiiViYXiti hydrops. Hor. 
 
 2. ' " Quod violtnciutt aure tyranjii ? Jnv* 
 
 The substantive after which violentius is to be construed, is thing 
 implied in ^wic/. So in the next example, ^Aew^ is implied in aliquid, 
 and dignwm to be construed after it. 
 
 3. Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et careevc dignu7n, 
 
 Si vis esse aliquid : probitas laudatur <et aiget. Juv, 
 
 Gyara — an island, one of the Cyclades in the jEgeanSea, whither 
 tfie Romans banished obnoxious persons. 
 
 4. JMl dictufxdum visuque haec limina tangat, 
 
 Intra quse puer est. Id. 
 
 5. Aude, hospes, contemnere opes ; et te quoque di^- 
 num. Finge Dec. Virg. 
 
 €. Quid terras alio calentes 
 
 Sole mutamus ? Hor. Alio sole. 
 Rara avis in terisy nigra que similliina cygno, Juv, 
 Avis rara in terris^ S^c. 
 
 8. Vive memor lethi i fugit hora. Pcrs. Vive tu mc^ 
 
 mor-i Isfc. 
 
 9. Ille fiotens sin 
 Lgetu.sque deget, cui licet in diem 
 
 DixiEse, " Vixi." Hor. I'le degi-t fiotenssuiyi^c. 
 
 10. Justum et tenacem firojiosid virum 
 
 Non civium ^idor firavajubeniium, 
 Non vultus instantis tyranni 
 Mentc quatit solida. Id. 
 
 ITon ardor civium jubentiun prava, nun vultus instantis tyrannif 
 quatit (d) solida onente viruvi justum et tenacem propositi. 
 
 Note. — As tenacem in this example is construed after virmn 
 l»y the present rule,so ;!/*?um is construed after it by the 7lhrule. 
 
1.96 new latin primer. 
 
 Rule 6. 
 In an ablative absolute construe the participle, Sec. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Formldabilior cervorumexercitus, c/Mte /d-o^zejquam 
 leonumy cervo, Adag, \_Leone duce, Cervo duce : the 
 participle exisCente being understood. 
 
 2. Imfierante Augusta^ natus est Christus; imfierante 
 TiberiOy crucifixus. 
 
 3. Deofavente^ livor baud quicquam potest. 
 
 4. Interea gustus elementa per omnia quaerunt, 
 Nunquarn animo pretiis obsiandbu^. Juv. 
 
 5« .Prima est hsec ulrio, quod, se 
 
 JudicC) nemo noceas absolvitur. Juv. 
 The participle being is mjudice. 
 
 6. Pan etiam Arcadia mccum sijudice certet, 
 Pan etiam Arcadia dicut sejudice victum. Virg, 
 
 7. Te que adeo decus hoc oevi, tr consule^ inibit, 
 PoliJo ; et incipient magni procedore menses. 
 Te duce. si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostti, 
 Irriia perpettia solveBt formidinc terras. Virg. 
 Adeoque hoc decus (Cviimbit, te FoUio^ te cousulej isfc, 
 
 5. Sero resplcitur tellus, uhi^fune soluto^ 
 Currit in immensum p.nda carina suhim. Ov. 
 
 9. Qui statuit aliquid, /2arti? inaudi^a altera, 
 .^Squum licet st^taerit, baud sequus fuit. Sen. 
 iO. Deflete viruni, 
 Quo non alius 
 Potiiit ciiius 
 Discere causas, 
 Una tan Cum 
 Pur: I" audita, 
 Ssepe et neutia. Id. de Claudo. 
 
 
 Rule 7. 
 
 If two adjunctives or participles agree with the same sub- 
 stantive, Sec. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1 . Dulce et decoru7n est pro patria mori. Hor, 
 
 I'lie substantive is thing understood. 
 
NftW LATIN PRIMER. Vf^ 
 
 2. . . I Ille fiotens Fui 
 Latusque degct, cui licet in diem 
 
 Dixisse, ' Vixi/ Id. Hie represents the substantive. 
 
 3. Felices quos Hit timorum 
 
 Maxinms baud urget, lethi melus. Lucan. 
 
 The full phrase is ille maxhnus thnor timorum. 
 
 4. Turn denique omncs nostra iiitelligimus bonay 
 Quum, quae in potestate habuimus, ea amisimus. 
 J^ostra bona for nostras bonus res, \_Plaut\ 
 
 5. Tsedet ^juoddianarum harumformarum Tcr, 
 
 6. ■ Olii» 
 
 Religio peperit sceltrosa atque imfiiajacta. Lucrct, 
 Religio /aba sciL 
 
 7. Monstrujn horrtndutn^ informe^ ing-ens, cui lumen 
 ademptum. Firg'. 
 
 8. Solum ttnum hoc vitium affcrt senectus hominibus. 
 Attentiores sumus omnes ad rem, quam par est. Ter. 
 
 9.Errat lunge tnea ^uidem senteniia, 
 
 Qui impterium credai gravius esse ant stahilius^ 
 Vi quod fit, quam illud, quod amicitia adjungitur, 
 
 Ter, 
 
 10. Parvula (nam exempio est) m2^^n\ formica lahoris 
 Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addil acervo, 
 Quern struii, h udignara ac no7i incauta futuri. Hor. 
 
 Fonnica (^nam, exempio est J parvula \_se(r\ tnagm laboris, trahit ore 
 quodoinqw: potssty atque addit acervo, quern struit, hand ignara, ac non- 
 incauta futuri. 
 
 The adjective incauta mnst thus follow Its substantive formica, hj 
 Riile 5. and tlierefore by the present rule, ignara, and W&ew'iae parvula, 
 must be construed after ytir??..;ca The beitutiful antithesis between 
 I parvula- .inrl mign'i laboris, is thus best preserved in the construction ;. 
 The ant {for this is their example) small in size, but of great ittdustry^ 
 
 Rule 8. 
 Let the relative and its c ause, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES* 
 
 1, Parvula (nam exem >io est) magni formica laboris 
 O^c irahi qio irunqu'v: potest, atque addit acervo^ 
 Quern siruit^ :»aud ignara ac Hon incAUta futuri. 
 
 R2- 
 
19$ NEW LATIN PRIME». 
 
 2. Nil agit exemfilwriy litem quod lice vesohit. Id, 
 
 3. _— — -Leve sit, quod benefertur^ o?ius, Ov. 
 0?iuSf quod, ^c. 
 
 4. Ast egOj qua divuiu incedo regina^ Jovi'ique 
 Et soror et conjux^ una cum gente tot annos 
 Bella gero. Virg. 
 
 5. Heu 1 quam miseium est ab eo Isedi, de quo TionfiossU 
 queru 
 
 6. lUe potens sui 
 Lae'-usqiie flc:^et, cut licet in diem 
 Dixisse * Vixi.* Hor^ Hie. cui licet^ ilfc. 
 
 7. Ira qua tegitur^ nocet. Sen, 
 
 8. Mjle vivunt (iUi) qui se semfier victuros putant, 
 
 9. Pi^L'petuo >'incit (iile) qui utitur dementia. 
 
 10. Bis viacit (ille) qui sevincit in victoria. 
 
 CHAP. VIIL 
 Rule 1. 
 
 CONSTRUE the nom. case first, Sec. 
 ^ote— Though sometimes, as we have seen, there is no nominative 
 expressed in the Latin, yet there is one always impHed in every per- 
 sonal verb, and may be supplied by one of the pronouns, according to 
 tlie number and person of the verb. Let the learner attend to this 
 ellipsis, both because it frequently occurs, and because it is elegant in 
 its use, the pronoun in Latin being very rarely expressed, unless for 
 distinction or energy in speaking. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 The verb, in which the nom. is implied, and the words, wliich, for 
 reasons to be seen hereafter, must precede the verb in construction, (if 
 tliere chance to be any such) will be in Italics. When the verb is the 
 only word in ItaUcs, construe that first then the woixl governed of itj 
 and so on. 
 
 Ellipsis of S-go, I. 
 
 1. Persicos odi. puer, apparatus. Hor, 
 
 2. Subiimiyi?r2am'3idera Venice. Id. 
 2. Phyllida amo ante alias. Virg. 
 
 Tu<i thou or you. 
 \. Quod si me Lyricis valibus insere^^, 
 Subiimi feriam sidera vertice. Har. 
 
K»Yr LATIN PRIMER. l§f 
 
 2. Audita multa , loquere pauca. 
 
 3. Ante omnia venar are ^uvtitn Parentes reverere, 
 Voluptaistn coerce. Le^ibus/iare. Inimicuiain^o/i;^. 
 
 Ille; Ilia; IlJud He; she ; It. 
 
 Ilk, he, 
 
 1. Kamfuii hoc vitiosus ; in hora sxfia ducentoS) 
 
 Ut magnum, versus dictabat stana fxede in uno. Hor'^ 
 Ilia-) she. 
 
 2. Phyllida amo ante alias; warn me di seed ere ^ei^iV, 
 Et longam formose, vale, vale, inguity lola. Firff. 
 J^amjievity me discedtrc. ^c. 
 
 It 
 
 3. Juvat ire sub umbras. Tua re/e?*/ teipsum nosse 
 Sfiectat adomnes bene vivcre. 
 
 JVos, we. 
 
 1. Quid brevi fortes jaculamur cevo 
 
 2. Multu? QmiV/ terras alio caleiites 
 Sole mutamuK ? Pairise quis exvsul 
 Se quoque fugit ? Hur. 
 
 Q^uid nos, fortes brevi avo^ iJfc. Why do we^ who Jiouriah 
 but a little while^ iP'c, 
 
 Fos, ye or you 
 1. Dianam leneias dicitc virgines : 
 2.Inlonsum, pueri, dicite Cynthium. Hor, 
 
 They. 
 1. Qualis apes seatate no^a per florea rura 
 Exercet sub sole labor ; cum gentis adullos 
 Educiint faetus, aui: -urn liqueiiliu mcUa 
 Stifianty et du!ci di^tetidu .t 'lectare cej]^«, 
 Aut oncra acci/iiwit vcnentiiim ; aut agmine factQ^ 
 Ignavum fucos pecus a praes^MJibus arcent, Virg. 
 Talis labor^ qualis exercet afies nova c^statCyiier Jiorea ru- 
 ra sub sole ; cum, ilfc. 
 
 Aut^ agminefactOy arcent, i^c. Agminc facto^ an abldlive 
 absolute. See Rule 6. 
 
 Rule 2. 
 A genitive case is usually construed after another noun . 
 
2fd NE.W LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Crescit amor nummi^ quantum ipsa pecunia crt scit. 
 
 Juv, 
 
 2, curas hominum 1 O quantum est in rebus inane I 
 
 Per*. 
 3* ■ I Finis alterius mali 
 
 Gradu* Qh^.futuri. Sen. 
 4. Multos in summa pericula misit 
 
 Venturi timor i^iae mali. Lucan^ 
 
 5. Non domus aut fundus, non aris acervus et auri 
 K^roto domini deduxit corpore febres, 
 
 Non animo curas. Hor. 
 
 6. Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam, 
 Husticus expectat, dum dcfiuat amnis ; at ille 
 Labitur, et labetur, in omne volubiii^ gevum. H^r. 
 
 7. Esliie Dei sedeh-^ nisi tcrra,et pontus, ' aer, 
 
 El coelum, et virtus ? Superos quid quiCi imus ultra ? 
 Jupiter est, quodcuaque vides, qaocunque moveris. 
 
 Lucan, 
 
 Rule 3» 
 
 An infinitive mood u generally construed after another 
 yerb. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Nec retina socium/ffre', ncc foelee f>ciufit. Sen. 
 Regna/\. e. Reges Tadcef'i.e Conjitges. Socimn, hoc tst, fiartl- 
 
 pern sui juris, a copartner in their lights. 
 
 2. Ferrc, ^uam sGnem paaiiniur omncs. 
 
 Nemo recusat. Id, 
 
 3. J£ra nitcnt usu ; bona vestis quaerit habcri. Ov, 
 
 4. Quod cavere fiosJs^^iwXiXiVO est admittere. Tcr, 
 
 5. Nt scio, qua natale solum dulcedine cunctos 
 DuciL; ct imsnemores non sinit esse ?>\xi. Ov» 
 
 6. i\urum per medios ire satelhics, 
 "Ex perrum/itre amat siiKi^. Jfor, 
 
 7. — Quid miiniRi, nosctre mundunfi 
 
 Si i'oadnt htimi'aes quihus est et mundus in ipsis ; 
 Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine p;ii va ? 
 
 MaviL 
 Qiubiis est et ?nundus,ior Qui hctbenf et mundum.Ste H. 1 2 , 
 
ne\t xatin primer. 2® i 
 
 Rule 4. 
 An adjective or participle, if no other word depend on 
 it, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Ira furor brevia est ; animum rege. Hor, 
 2, Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam, 
 
 Rusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis ; at ille 
 
 Labitur, et labetur, in omne volubilis cevum. Id, 
 3. Virtus est vitium fugere ; et sapientia firima 
 
 Stultitia caruisse. Id. 
 4» Latius regnes, avidum domando 
 
 Sjiiriiumy quarn si Libyam remotla 
 
 Gadibiia ynn^dk^ ; et utcrque Panua 
 Serviat uni. Id. 
 
 5. — ■ ^ ' n\\i(io%vicinunifunua ut segros 
 Exanimat. Id, 
 
 6. . — Teneros an'imos aliena opprobria saepe 
 Absterrent vitiis, Hor. Aliena efifirobria 8apefi:fc, 
 
 7. F/AeAi\fugaees, Pasthume, Posthume, 
 Labuntur ajini : nee pietas moram 
 
 Rug is et instnnfi asnectx 
 
 Afferet, indomitaque morti. Id. 
 
 Rule 5. 
 If an adjective or participle govern a word after it, &c. 
 
 examples. 
 
 1. I<ortuna novo Icsta negatio^ ct 
 LuOum insoleniem ludere pertinax^ 
 
 Transmutut incertos honores, 
 
 Nunc mihis nunc alii benigna, Hor, 
 
 2. Exoiorant adversa viros ; pt ique aspera duro 
 Nidtur ad laudem virtus internta clivo. Sil. Ital. 
 Virtus interita duro clivo nititury ifc, 
 
 2,- Blandoque ventno 
 
 Desidise f tjvw* paulatim evicta senescit. Id^ 
 
 Que virtus fiaulatim evicta blandoy l3'c. 
 4, • -Puer Cut savis firojectus ab undis 
 
 JVavitaJ nudus humi jacet, infans i?idigus omni 
 
 Vitai auxilio. i^ucret. 
 Puer Cut navita firoj. ab sav. und.J ja, nud. hu, infind. 
 (m, aux, ^f . Vitai ts here used /or VitcB) the gen, of Vita, 
 
202 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 5. Fecunda culfia secula nuptias 
 
 Primum inqiainavere, et genus et domos. 
 Hocfonte derjvata eludes 
 
 In patriam populumque fluxit. Hor. 
 $, Damnoso quid non imminuit dies ? 
 JEla» parentum, /it'Jor avis, tulit 
 Ms nequiores, mox daturas 
 
 Progeniem viiiosiorem. Id, 
 jStas fiarentutn, /lejor avis, tulit nos nequiores (quam pa- 
 rentes) moo8 daturas firogeniem vitiosiorem (quam nos.) 
 7. Virtus refiulsce nescia sordidae, 
 Intaminalis fulgit honoribus. Id. 
 
 Rule 6. 
 In an ablative absolute construe, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. — — — Quid fas 
 
 Atque nefas, tandem incipiunt sentirc, fieractit 
 
 Criminibus. Juv. 
 2. Cur tamen hos tu 
 
 Evasisse putes, quos diri conscia facti 
 
 Mens habet attonitos, et surdo verbere csedit ; 
 Occultum quatiente amino tor tore flagellum ? Id. 
 Tortore animo quatiente occultum, Isfc, 
 
 3. Beatus ille, (\v\\, firocul negotiis^ 
 Ut prisca gens mortalium, 
 Paterna rura bobus exercet suir», 
 
 Solutus omni foenore. Hor. 
 
 4. O fortunatos nimium, bona si sua norint, 
 Agricolas ; quibus ipsa, firocul discordibus artnis, 
 Fundithumofacilemvictum justissimatellus I Virg, 
 
 agricolas nimium fortunatos, si norint, t^c. 
 
 5. Imberbis juveiiis, tandem custode remoto^ 
 Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine campi ; 
 Cereus in viiium flecti, monitoribus asper, 
 Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, 
 Sublimi;*) cupidusquc) et amata relinquere pernix. 
 
 Hor, 
 
MEW tATIN PRXMKH: 203 
 
 S. Conversis studiis, setas animiisque virilis 
 Quserit opes et amicitias : inservit honeri ; 
 Commisisse cavet, quod mox mutare laboret. IdJ 
 
 7. Multa senem cii cumveniimt incommoda ; vclquod 
 Quaerit, et in vends miser abstinet, ac timet uti ; 
 Vel quod res omnes timide geiideque ministrat; 
 Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidasquc futuri, 
 Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti, 
 Se puero, censor, casiigatorque minorum. Idi 
 
 Rule 7. 
 
 If two adjectives or participles agree with the same 
 substantife, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1 . Justum et tenacem propositi v'lrwn 
 Non civium ardor prava jubentium, 
 
 Non vultus instantis tyranni 
 Mente quatit solida. Hor, 
 
 2. Stultus et imfirobus hie amor est c/2^nM<quenotari. Id, 
 
 3. Qua -virtus et quanta^ boni, sit vivcre parvo, 
 
 (Nfcc meus hie sermo est ; sed quem praecepit Ofellut 
 
 RusticuSi abnormis'sapicns^ crass&que Minerva) 
 
 Discite. Id, 
 Discite, o boni^ qua et quanta virtus sit, Iffc, 
 Ai. Nam veluti, pueris absinthia terra medentes 
 
 Cum dare conantur ; prius oras pocula circum 
 
 Contingunt mellis dulci JLa-voque liquore ; 
 
 Sic ego • 
 
 ■ — Volui tibi suaveloquenti 
 
 Carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostcam. Lucret, 
 
 Nam veluti cum med. con . dare4erra absin, pueris pr. con. or cir.poc. &c. 
 
 Rationem exponere nostram,. Cfc to propound iny mnhod of Philosophy 
 {or^ to explain my principles) to yoUy in s'v^est Pierian strains, that if 
 in verse. 
 
 5. Ponitc inflatos tumidosque vultus. Sen, 
 
 6. — ■»— Porro puer (ut ssevis projectus ab undis 
 Navita) nudus humi jacet, infans indigus omni 
 Vitui auxilio 
 
 At variae crescunt pecudes, armenta, feraeque ; 
 Nee crepltaculis opvis est ; n&c cuiquam adhibenda &st 
 
2#4 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Almse nutricis blanda atque infracta loquela. JLucr^t. 
 Nee blanda atque infracta loquela alina nutriciSf Sec. Nor is the soft 
 find lisping language of a nurse to be applied to any of them. 
 
 Rule 8. 
 Let the relative and its clause, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Cui fir ode St scelus, 
 
 Is fecit. Sen. Isy cui sceluS) i^c. 
 
 2. Quo s€7nel est iinbuta recens, scrvabit odorem 
 Testa diu. Hor, Testa diu servabit^ Is'c. 
 
 3. Ira fvror brtvis est : animum rcge, qui nisi paret, 
 Imfitrat Id, 
 
 4. Judice, quem nosti^ fiofiulo^ qui) stultus h§nores 
 
 Safie dat indig-nis. Id. 
 
 5. Die mihi, Musa, virum, cupt® post tempora Trojse 
 Qui mores hon-jinum multorum vidit et urbes. Id, 
 
 6. Nil admirari, pi ope res est una, Numici, 
 Solaque, qua posset facere et servare beatum. Id, 
 
 7. Red i.ere qui voces jam sen puer^ et pede cerro 
 Signat Immura, gestit paribus colludere, et iram 
 Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas. Id, 
 
 It may be adviseable for the learner to read the preceding eight chtipfers 
 twice or thrice, before he e?iters on Chap. IX. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 Rule 9. 
 
 CERTAIN adverbs and conjunctions are construed 
 before the notmnative case and verb ; i, e. they are con- 
 strued first in their own clause or sentence ; so is tlif rela- 
 tive qui ; and so are quis the interrogative', quant-ir, qui» 
 cunquc^ and such like words (with their accompaniments) 
 in whatever case. 
 
 jjote — The accotnpaniments ofqui,quis,qua7itus, &c, may be sub- 
 stantives, with which qui, quis, he. agree ; or substanlives g'ovevnedby 
 them / or other adjectives annexed to them ; or prepositions, by whick 
 they are governed. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 205 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Ut safie summa ingenia in occulto latent I Phut, 
 
 2. Quod cavere possis, stultum est admittere. TVr. 
 
 3. Quern ferret, d parentem non ferret suum? Id, 
 
 4. JSTam deteriores omnes sumus licentia. Id, 
 
 5. Dii immortales I homini homo quid prsestat I Stul- 
 
 to intelligens 
 Quid interest ! Id, 
 
 6. Quo fata trahunt retrahuntque, sequamur, 
 
 Virg,^ 
 
 7. Sincerum est nisi vas, guodcungue infundis acescit. 
 
 Jlor, 
 
 8. Quo semel est imbuta recenS) servabit odorem 
 Testa diu. Id, 
 
 9. Quicquid praecipies, esto brevis. Id, 
 
 10. Heu \ quam difficile est crimen non proderc vultu ! Ov. 
 
 11. Infelix ! Quanta Aowxxxiyixti virtute parasti I Lucan, 
 
 12. Sed quo fata trahunt, virtu» secura sequetur. Id, 
 
 13. Quicquid gerimus, fortuna vocatur. Id, 
 
 14. O quam miserum est nescire mori ! Sen, 
 
 Rule 10. 
 When a question is asked, construe the nominative 
 case (unless it be the interrogative quis^ quoCus, quantusyov 
 uter) after the verb, or else between the English verb and 
 the auxiliary, expressing the auxiliary first. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 I. Ut saepe swnma ingenia in occulto latent, Plaut, 
 2« O q»;aai miserum eat nescire mori I Sf^n. 
 The nom. is it understood. Mo'vj lurttched is ity Cfc, 
 
 3. Infelix 1 Quar.iadominum virtute/zara^^i .' Zucan, 
 
 4. Heu ! quam diffi cil- est crimen non prodere vultu ! 
 
 Ov, 
 
 5. Dii immortules ! Komini homo qnid /irastat J Stulto 
 
 intelligens 
 Quid interest I Ter. 
 
 6. Qu°in /erre/, si parentem non ferret suum ? Ter, 
 
 7. Pueri inter sese quam pro le vibus noxiis iras geruntf 
 
 Id, 
 
 8. An, qui amant, itid sibi somnia,/n^w?ir ? 
 
306 NEW LATIW PRIMER. 
 
 9. Improbeamor I Quid non mortalia pectora co^r«<? Id. 
 
 10. ■ Quid ron mortalia pectora cogis, 
 
 Auri Slid a fames ? Id, 
 
 11. (^y\iA facias ? Ut homo est Ita morem geras. Ter. 
 
 12. Damnosa qui'.'» non imminnU dier,? Hor, 
 
 13. Quid Ron; 86 /ac/am? Mcniiri r,escio. Juv. 
 
 14. Imfiiu;y :£er tarn cultu novaiia 7727*/^« habebit ? 
 Barbarus iias segctes ? en ! quo discordia cives 
 Produxit miseris? En! qucis consevimua agros? 
 
 Vir. 
 
 EXCEPTIONS TO RULE 10, 
 
 ^/j, quae, quid or quod,quotus, quantus ana uter^Cfc.viith their adjuncts, 
 do not conform to this rule. In an interrogative sentence, they and 
 their adjuncts must be construed before tlie verb, by Rule 9. 
 
 EXAMPLES, 
 
 1, Quis enim tfludus adsit amori ? Virg, 
 
 2, L Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste icquirit? Id. 
 
 3. O curas hominum I O quantum est in rebus inane! 
 
 Pers. 
 
 4. Quisnatn igitur liber ? Sapiens, sibique imperiosua. 
 
 Hor. 
 
 ^isnatn igitur est, Cfc. Sapiens, &c. the man that is wise, and severe 
 to himself. Sapiens and imperiosus, both agi'ee with the same subs. 
 Hotno understood, must both be rendered after it by Rules 5 and 7. 
 
 'Quis fuIJere pos-iit amantem ? Virg. 
 
 If it had been Numquisfallerepossit amantem ? ^is would be con- 
 strued after the verb, because in such a phrase, quis, by aphaeresis, 
 stands iov aliquistany one, very different from quis{\hQ interrogative)wAo.? 
 
 Rule 1 i. 
 
 After the verb swm, a verb passive, and a verb neuter, a 
 nom. case is sometimes construed ; but then there is usu- 
 ally another nominative case expressed or implied, to 
 come before. 
 
 examples. 
 
 1, Nam doli non doli, sunt, nisi astu colas. Plant. 
 JVisi Q,olaSf unless tjou manage them^ i^c* 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER* 207 
 
 2. Est profecto Deus^ qui, qu« nos gerimus, auditque 
 
 et videt Id, 
 
 3. Magnum hoc vitium vino est ; pedes capiat primum ; 
 
 Luctator dolosus est. Id» 
 
 4. Omnium rerum heus, vicissitudo est ? 2>r. 
 
 5. Sumnoum jus baepe su?nma est malitia, Idi 
 
 6. Percontatorem fugito ; nam garrulus idem est. Hon 
 
 7. Nil mortalibus arduum est. i<i. 
 
 8. Ira /wror drd-T^fs est : animum rege. Id. 
 
 9. Virtus est medium vitiorum,et utrinque reductum. Id, 
 
 10. Omne solum forti /za/na est, utpiscibus »quor. Ov, 
 
 11. Cr<?f/M/rt rf« amor est. /rf. 
 
 12. Res est soUiciti plena timoris amor. Id» 
 18, i_ — A/d-wswraque juris 
 
 Vis erat. Lucian. 
 
 14. Owwfa Caesar erat, /rf. 
 
 15. Ilia solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat ; 
 
 Nee magis incepto vultum sermone movetur, 
 Qua in si dura si/ex aut stet Mar/iesia cauiea, Virg, 
 
 Rule 12^ 
 
 An adverb is not to be construed with a substantive, 
 but rather with a verb, or adjective or participle. 
 
 ( 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Sat habet favitorum ^emfier^ qui rectefacit. Plant. 
 
 2. Feliciter is aafiit^ qui periculo alieno sapit. Id. 
 
 3. Summum jus safie summa eat malitia. Ter. 
 
 4. O foriuna I ut nunguam perpetuo es bona ! Id. 
 
 5. n Forsan miseros meliora aequentur, Virg. 
 
 6. Ulttrius ne tende cdiis. Id, 
 
 7. Jej unus stomachus raro vulgaria teinjiit. Nor. 
 
 8. Male verum examinat omnis 
 Corruptus judex. Id, 
 
 9. Safie stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint, 
 Scripturus. Id. 
 
 10. Juoice, quern nosti, populo : qui stultus honorcs 
 Safie dat indignis. Id. 
 
 11. Percontatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est ; 
 'Ntc rff^zwfw; patulae commissa^c/e/fVer aures. Id. 
 
208 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 12. Versate diu, quid ferre recusant, 
 
 Quid valeant humeri. Id. 
 h3. Quam temere in nosmet legem &anci?nus iniquam I 
 
 Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur. Hor. 
 14. Facile omnes, cum valcmus, recta consilia segrotis 
 
 damus, 
 1 5. Tu, si /iic eis, aliter se72ii2s. Ter. 
 
 Rule 13. 
 
 After a preposition constantly look for an accusative or 
 ablative case. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Quam temere in. nos?net legem s?ncimu3 iniquam! 
 Nam vitiis nemo sine nnscitur. Hi.r. 
 
 2. Conscia mens recti Dinae mendacia ridet: 
 At nos in xitium credula turba sumus, Ov. 
 
 3. H .mo sum : humani a me nil alitnum puto. Ter, 
 
 4. Taciturn vivii sub fiecfore vulnus. Virg, 
 
 5. Pulchramque petunt /if r -yu/nera mortem. Id. 
 
 6. Post equitcm sedet atra cura Hor, 
 
 7. Dulce et decorum ^si /iro fiatrid mori. Id. 
 
 8. Magnas inter cfies inops. Id. 
 9. >J|j gifip magna 
 
 Y'lalabore dedit mortaiibus. Id. 
 10. Naacentes morimur : finisque ab origine pendet. 
 
 1 1 . ^Intra [^Manil. 
 
 Fortunam debet quisque manere suam. Ov. 
 12. Cantabit vacuus coram /c/rowe viator. Juv, 
 
 . 13. Cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus ? 
 
 14. Tange^ miser, venas; et pone injiectore dextram. 
 
 Per%. 
 
 Rule 14. 
 
 The word governed must be construed after (generally 
 immediately after ) the word which governs it ; such words 
 excepted, asRule 2. specifies ; and even they must follow 
 prepositions. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 Note. — ^The word governed, and that which governs it, will be distin- 
 guished by letters prefixed, «, b^ c, d, &c. and here understand tw© 
 things, viz. 
 
Uew latin primer. 209 
 
 1. Of these letters, that which is prior in the alphabet will denote 
 the leading or governing word ; and that letter w hich :s immediately 
 next in the alphabet will be prefixed to the word governed ; thus, a, 
 b. — c, d. b is governed of a, d is governed of c, &c. 
 
 2. When two or more words have the same leading word to depend 
 on. it will be seen that they both depend on one word, by their having 
 the same letter before them ; thus, a, h, b ; both 6, 6, are governed of 
 a- Again, a, ^, c, c. b depends on a, but c, c, on b. 
 
 1. ''Trahit sua ^quemque voluptas, Virg, 
 
 2, -^— Fallacia. 
 
 Alia ^aliam "irudit. Ter. 
 
 3 *Omnia «fert se^as, ^aninium quoque. Virg, 
 
 4, Adeo'^in'^teneris^consuescerc multunT'est. Id, 
 
 5. Pi fiecipuum jam inde '^a ^teneris «impende ^laborem. 
 Prcecifivnm laborem. [/cf, 
 
 6. ^Ssevirque *animis ignobile vulgus. Id, 
 
 7. Seindiiur incertum *siudia «in contraria vvlgus. Id, 
 In contraria studia, 
 
 8. Judice, quern nosti, populo, qui stultus ^honores 
 Ssepc "dat ^indignis. Hor. 
 
 9. . Forsan et^haec olim ^meminisse^'juvabit. 
 10. Non ''ignara ^niali, /^miscris ^succurrere ''disco. Id, 
 1 1. ''Timeo ^Danaos, et 'dona ''ferentes. Id. 
 
 12. Una ''salus ^victis nullam «^sperare ^salutem. Id. 
 13. «'Intra 
 
 'Fortunam '^debei quisquc ^tnanerc suani. Ov, 
 14. Mea 
 
 ^Virtute *me ^involve. Hor, 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 Rule 9. 
 
 CERTAIN adverbs, &c. are construed before the 
 nom. &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Damnosa, quid non imminuit dies ? Hor, 
 
 2. Quid non mortuJia peciora cogis 
 Auri sacru fames? Firg. 
 
 3. Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis ? 
 
 Firg, 
 S2 
 
210 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 4, Vivite, felices, guibus est fortuna pcracta 
 Jam sua ! Id, 
 
 5. Quemcuncjue miserum viderisj homiiiem scias. Sen. 
 
 6, Quemcungue forlem videris, miserum neges. Id, 
 
 7, Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, 
 Tantano habot et fidei. Juv. 
 
 8. Quern dies vidit veniens superbum, 
 Hunc dies vidit fiigiens jacentcm. Sen. 
 
 9. Nil habet infelix puupertas durius in se, 
 Quam guol ridiculos homines facit. Juv. 
 
 10. Quanta parentes sanguinis vinclo lenes, 
 Natura ! Sen. 
 [\\, Qmig^^wzg? patimurmortale genus, 
 
 Quidguid facimus, venit ex alto. Sen. 
 
 12. Nil ergo optabunt homines? Si consilium i^is, 
 Permittes ipsis expendere Numinibus, guid 
 Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris. Juv. 
 
 13. Quid sit futurura eras, fuge quserere: 
 Quern- sors dierum -cungue dabit, lucre 
 Appone. Jfor 
 
 ^emcunque dierum. ^e^n- -cunque is no more than one word, here 
 divided by tmesis ; of which see more instances in Chap. XII. Rule 
 18. 
 
 14. Perngit tranquilla potestas, 
 
 Quod violenta nequit ; mandatag'we fortius urget 
 Imperiosa ^uies Claudian» 
 
 KULE 10. 
 When a question is asked, construe the nominative 
 case, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLFS. 
 
 1. Non vires alias, conversaque Numina sentis ? 
 Cede Deo. Virg, 
 
 2. 'Cur ante tubam tremor occufmt artus ? Id. 
 
 3. Tantxne ai.imis caelestibus 2r<e.? Id. 
 JSPum sint tanta^ Isfc. 
 
 4. Cur omnium Jit culfia paucorum scelus ? Sen. Or, 
 
 Cur omnium j^^ culpa //awcorw/zz scelua? 
 
 5. Mortem aliguid ultra est? Vita, si cupias mori. Id. 
 
 6. Imperia dura tolle ; quid virtus erit ? Id, 
 
 7» Eheui quam bx^yibvisfiereunt ingentia cahsisi Claud, 
 
NEW LATIK PRIMJE^. 2 1 1 
 
 8. Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, 
 Cum facias pejora senex ? Juv. 
 
 Unde sumis tibi^ l^c. How do you assume^ i^c. 
 
 9. Dicite, Poiitifices, in sacro quid/acit aurum? Pers. 
 
 10. O Fortuna, viris invida fortibus, 
 
 Quam non sequa bonis prsemia dividis ? Sen, 
 
 11. Quam bene defiositum terris, ut dignus iniqui 
 Fructus consiiii primis auctoribus instet ? Claud. 
 
 12. Ut valeas animo, quidquim lolerare W(?5"a6w.? Ov, 
 
 13. Quid enim ratione timemusf 
 
 Aut cupimus ? Juv, 
 
 14. Nil ergo ofitabunt homines ! Si consilium vis, 
 Perraittes ipsis expendere Numinibus, qfiid 
 Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris. Id. 
 
 EXCEPTIONS TO RULa 10. 
 
 The learner must remember that the interrogatives quis, quantix» 
 quotus, and wfer, are exceptions to this rale : and so (it may be added 
 here) are other interrogatives derived from these, as, cujus, quotutnust 
 quotuplex, quotusquisquet quantulust qualis, utrubij cVc. viith their ad- 
 juncts 
 
 1. Quid mirum, noscere mundum 
 
 Si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis; 
 Lxcmpl unique Dei quisque est in imagine par- 
 va? Ma7iii. 
 
 2, Vir bonus est gu'f; ? 
 
 Qui consulta patrura, qui leges juraque Sijrvat. Hor, 
 
 3. Nora quota est ? Id. 
 
 4. Quotumce sunt adts ? Plaut 
 
 Quotuma adiS inte'^'jacent ? How many houses are bc' 
 tween? or, as we commonly say, How many hrusts off? 
 
 5. Quotus- enim -quisque reperietur, qui, impunitate 
 et i.£;noratione omnium proposita, absiincre possit 
 injuria? Cic. 
 
 Quotus- quisque^ Istc What man in a thousand will be 
 found? Isfc. 
 
 The reason of all these exceptions may be found in the ninth rule, 
 where «v^e are told, that ali such words, in whatever CASe, must be 
 «onstrued first in their own clauses. 
 
2i% NMr LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Rule 11. 
 
 After the verb sum, a verb phssivc, and a verb neuter, 
 a nom. case is sometimes consirued, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Meus mihi, suus cuique est cams. Plant. 
 
 2. Nemo solus satis safiit. Nam ego multos ssepe vidi 
 Regionem fugere consilii, prius quam repertam 
 habere. Plant 
 
 3. Amz.ii\\\im.\^9t 2>moYi?> integratio esti Ter, 
 
 4. In amore hcsc omnia insunt -vitia^ injurixy 
 Suspiciones, inimicitia, inducia^ 
 Bellum^ fiax rursum. Id. 
 
 5. Tanius amor laudum, t^ntse est victoria ciirae. Virg. 
 
 6. Sua cuique dens Jit dira cupido. Id. 
 
 7. Hcbus angustis animosus otgue 
 For is afifiare. Hvr, 
 
 %, . J . Ule iiotenh £ui 
 
 Latusque deget, cui licet in diem 
 
 Dixisscj < Vixi.' Id. 
 9. Quiy?^, Msecenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem 
 
 Seu ratio d^sderit seu sors objecerit, ilia 
 
 Contentus vivat ? Id. 
 
 10. Nimirum insanus paucio videatur, co quoJ 
 Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatu-eodcm. Hor. 
 
 1 1. Eximia est yirtus pi sestare silcntia rebus : 
 
 Atconi a gravis cul^^i a tactmlsi loqui. Ov, 
 
 12. Qt seritur- M i-Ahus quMc it Jacius ndulttr .^ 
 
 In promp(U causa est, deddiosus trat. Id, 
 
 13. Qui non \\i\\Jiefi dcsUioHUs^ avc\q.\. Id, 
 
 14. Cede repugnanii ; ztCi^wAot victor abi bis. Id. 
 
 Rule 12. 
 An adverb is not to be construed with a substantive, 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1 . Vehemens in utramque partem, Mcnedeme, es nimis, 
 
 2Vro 
 
 2. C) Fovtuna, ut nunqumm /lerjif^titd es bona ! Id. 
 
 3. O fort una/- OS rimium bon • si su:i norint ! Virg. 
 
 4. Dm aiii(^rvisum. Id, Visum est. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 2l3 
 
 5. Safiius ventis agitatur ingcns 
 Pin us. Hor, 
 
 6. Quern res filut-nimio deleciavere secundse, 
 Mututae quc*tiunt. Id, 
 
 ^lus-nimio, strictly two neuter adjectives, here used adverbially, 
 too much. 
 
 7. Omnes eodem cop^imur, omnium 
 Versittur urn^ serius ocyus 
 
 Sors exitura. Hor, 
 t. Sperat in testis, mt^tuii sccundis 
 
 Alteram soriemi bent fircefiaratum 
 
 Pectus. Id, Btne prcsfiarafum fiectua sfierat^ijfe, 
 §. Vivice» felices, quibua c.s/ ioviwndi fif^ra eta 
 
 Jam sua. Nos alii ex aliis in fata vocamur : 
 
 Vobis parta quies. Vlr^, 
 
 Tobis quies est parta. See Rule 22. 
 
 10. Continuo culpam terro row«/je5C<?, priusquam 
 Dira per incautum bcrptrJU contagia vitigus. Id, 
 
 1 1. JVon tu «as, cum ex alto puteo euraum ad summum 
 
 ascendcria, 
 M. xiinui.i periculam inde ease, a summo ne rursum 
 cadas ? Plant, 
 
 12. Certo acio^ 
 
 Oppidum quodvis videtur posse expugnari dolls. Id, 
 
 Rule 13. 
 
 After a preposition constantly look for an accusative, 
 or ablative case. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. ' Id arbitror 
 
 Apprime in vifd esse utile, ut ne quid nimis. Ter, 
 S. V ehemen^ in utramque /lar tern iVIenedeme,es nimis. 
 
 Id, 
 S. Ingentes animos anguato in fie c tore vcrsant. Virg, 
 
 4. Srinditur incertum atudiain contra^ia vulgus. Id, 
 
 5. Contir u6 culpam fcrro compesce, piiusquim 
 Dira fier incautum serpant contagij vulgus. Id. 
 
 6. ' ideo in teneria ronsuesce<e multum est. Id„ 
 
 7. Praecipuum jam inde a teneris impende laborem* Id, 
 
214 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 8. Tutatur favor Euryalum, lacryraaeque decora ; 
 Gratior 2^0 pukhro veniens de cor/iore vii'tu«. Id. 
 
 9. — — Laudas 
 
 Fortiinari> et mores antiq.iae plebis; et idem, 
 
 Si quis ad ilia Deus subiio te agat, usque recuses. 
 
 10. Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam, [//or. 
 
 Kusticus expectat, dum defluat amnis ; at iUe 
 Labitur, et labetur, in omne volubilis avum. Id, 
 
 11. Per varios car.us artcm experientia fecit, 
 Exemplo monstrante viawi. Manil. 
 
 12. F^rtilis assiduo si non renovetur aratro. 
 
 Nil nisi cum sfiinis gramen habebit, ager. Ov. 
 
 13. Udum et molle lutum es; nunc, nunc properandusj 
 
 et acri 
 Fingendus ninejine voXk. Pers. 
 
 14. Nil dictu fcedunn visaque haec limina tangat, 
 Intra qua puer est. Juv* 
 
 Rule 14. 
 
 The word governed must be construed after {generally 
 immediately after) the word which governed it ; except, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 It may be necessary for the learner to revert to Rule 14. Chap. IX. 
 for the use of the single letters prefixed to certain words hereunder. 
 
 1. Nil *dictu ''loedum ^visuque hsec *limina «^tangat 
 ''Intra *qu3e ;>uer est. Juv. 
 
 2. *Vi;ae asunfjma brevis/spem 'nos '^vetat 'incohare 
 lonj^am. Mur. 
 
 3. Omnium '^rrrum. heus! ^vicissitudo «est ! Ter. 
 
 4. *Aniantium «i' ae /:in>oris ^integratio <^est. Id, 
 5, *Vian'.que ''insiste «^domandi, 
 
 Uom faciles «aninu ^juvenum, dum mobilis getas. 
 
 Firg. 
 
 6. Continuo *culpam feno ''compesce, priusquam 
 Uifc *'i> 1 incaut'jm serpent contagia ^vulgus. Id, 
 
 7. — .— — «^ln,^enium res 
 
 A ivc;f 86 * uiaic ''Solent, celare secundse. Hor, 
 
 8. ''Orfti,. a- '^iKniiinnm *mentes! ''O *pectora caeca ! 
 Qtiiiibu-. a'lv * . nehris <^vV8e- quantisque periclis 
 Degaur «hoc *2evi, quodcunque est I Lucret, 
 
MEW LATIN PRIMER. 215 
 
 9. ^Omnia prius ^verbis ^experiri, quam carmis, ^sApi- 
 entem «decet. Ter. 
 
 10. Nonne *id *0agitium ^^^cst, te *<»liis ^cooailium ''dare, 
 
 Foris sapere, "^libi non ''posse /'auxiliarier ? Id. 
 
 luxiliarier by the figure paragogS for auxiliari, the infinitive of aux' 
 ilior. 
 
 1 1 . Pallida mors aequo '^pulsat ^pede <^paupcrum ^tabernas 
 
 ^Regumque «lurres. Hor. 
 
 12. Omnes ^eodem '^cogimur; ^onnium 
 ^Versatur ^'urna serius ocyus 
 
 «^Sors tixitura. Id. 
 
 13. Jam Ate apremet rox. Id 
 
 14. Karo antecedentem ^scelcstum 
 
 '^Deseruit Apedc '^psena claudo. Id, 
 
 .Pede daudo is an ablative of the quality, and annexed to p<ena. 
 
 CHAP. XI. 
 
 Rule S^ 
 
 CERTAIN adverbs and conjunctions are construed 
 before the nominative case, 8cc. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Qzarf aeternis minorem 
 CoPiiiliis animum fatigas ? Hor, 
 
 2. — — Levins fit patieniia, 
 Qwcguid corriyrere est ncfas Id. 
 
 3. Minimum dccet Ubeie, cut n.ultum licet. Sen. 
 Decec eum lidcre minimum^ i!fc. 
 
 4. Latius regnes, avidum domando 
 Spiritum, quafn si Libyam remotis 
 Gudibus jungas; et uterque Psenus 
 
 Serviat uni. Hor, 
 
 5. MuU^, pelcntibus 
 
 D ^tiat ariulta. Bene esi, cui Deus obtulit 
 P i(^ gu<jd iatis est, manu Id, 
 Bene est ilii| h^'ell is it to him : Well is he. 
 
21^6 WRW LATIN FEIMERv 
 
 $, Quid brevi fortis jaculamur aevo 
 Multa ? Quid terras alio calcntes 
 Sole mutamus ? Patrice quis exul 
 Se quoque fugit ? Id, 
 
 7, nie potens sui 
 Lsetusque deget, cui licet in diem 
 Dixisse, * Vixi * Id. 
 
 8, I — Quid nos dura refugimus 
 ^tas ? Quid intactum nefasti 
 Liquimus ? Id, 
 
 9, Quid tristes querimoniae, 
 
 Si non supplicio culpa rcciditur ? 
 Quid leges sine moribus 
 
 Vanae proficiunt ? Id. 
 Quid profit^iunt tristes querimoniae^ Isic. What avail 
 sad complaints? ^c. 
 
 Thus according to Rule 23. the ellipsis or omissions of a verb in one 
 tlause or period tnay oftentinves be supplied by the verb, nuhich is expressed 
 in the next, the verb expressed being of like import viith that to be sup- 
 plied; ivhich is the case here. 
 
 10. Esme ei sedes, tzisz, terra, et pontus, et aer, 
 
 Et caelum} et virtus ? Superos quid quaerimas ultra ? 
 Jupiter est, quomungue vides, quocunque moveris. 
 
 Luc, 
 
 11. Sensit Alexander, testa cum vidit in ilia 
 Mat^num habitatoru»n, quanta /elicior hie, qui 
 
 Ni' cuperet,5'Wflw qui lotum sibi posceretorbem.«/Mv. 
 
 12. Qii* fit» Maecenas, w^nemO) quam sibi sortem 
 i>eu ratio dederit, scu fois objccerit, ilia 
 O'ntcMtus vivai ? Hor. 
 
 13; Qvimam igitur liber ? Sapiens, ^ihique imperiosus, 
 Quew neque pauperies, ncquc mors, neque vincula i 
 jirrent. Id. I 
 
 14. Qualem commendes, etiam atqutetiam inspice ; ne\ 
 
 in ox 
 IncuiJ iUt aliena tibi peccata pudorem. Id. 
 
 15, Falliiuv, egreHo quisquts «ub principe credit 
 Serviiium. Nunqu <r> li icrtaa gratior extat, 
 Q^<zm subrege pio. Claud, 
 
 RVLK 10. 
 
 When a question ib asked; Sec. 
 
\ 
 
 NEW LATIN PKIMER. 217 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 Mene salis placidi vultuiu, fluctusque quietos 
 
 l^no' -Are jubes ? Mene huic contidere mosntro ? 
 Jubesne, Dost thou, i^c. [^«V^*. 
 
 2. Si lion peccassem, quid tu conccdtre /losses ? 
 Mdteriarn >eni8e sors libi nestia dedit. Ov. 
 
 3. O miseras hominum mentes ! O pectora caeca ! 
 Qiuiibus in tenebris viiae, quanusque periclis 
 Dtgitur hoc avi, quodcunque est. Lucret. 
 
 4. Si ubi nulla siiim finiret copia lympbae, 
 Nairares medicis. Q^sod quanto plura parasti, 
 Ttnto plura cupis, nul'iiie faterier audes ? Hor, 
 
 jiudesme^ Do you dare^ Can you brar^ Is'c, 
 
 5. Qsam temerein nosmct legem sa72 c/mw« iniquam ? 
 Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur. Jd. 
 
 6. Estne Dei sedes^ nisi terra, et pontus, et aer, 
 
 Et coelum, et vinus ? Superos quid quarimus ultra ? 
 Ju;jiierest, quodcunque vides, quocufique movcvis. 
 
 7. An noceat vis ulta bono ? Id. ^Lucan, 
 9. Cur ego te nun novi? Quia mos oblivisci hoiya-iiiius. 
 
 Flaut, 
 9. — — — Cur taxnen hos tu 
 
 Evasibsc /luies, quos did conscia facti 
 Mens habet altonitos, et surdo verbere caedit, 
 Occultum quatiefite animo lortore flageUum ? Juv, 
 
 10. Quid nos dura rtfugimus 
 
 Mjtas ? Quid intactum neiasti 
 luU-unniifi ? Hor. 
 
 11. Quia brevi fortes jacutamur avo 
 Multu ? Quid terras alio calentcs 
 Sole mutamus ? Patriae quis cxul 
 
 Se qii-quc fiii^ii ? Id. 
 
 Patrice quis exul, &c. is an instance of the exception to this rule. 
 
 12. QuJ'J trfs t'S querimGnix^ 
 
 Si non supplicio culpa reciditur .? 
 Quid leges sin.^ moribus 
 Vana firo rfici u n t ? Id» 
 
 13. Si quis t-mat ■ itnuras, eajptas comportetin unum, 
 Nee cithaige .tu<liis nee musae ikdiiu> ulli: 
 
 Si sculpra et formas non sutor ; naulica vela 
 Avc.i;us mercaturis ; dcliriis ei au.tns 
 Unuique dicatur meriio* Qui £/?*cr^/ia^ istis,. 
 T 
 
218 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 Qui nummos aurumque recondit, nescius uti 
 Compositis, mcttiensque v^lut coniingere sacrum ? 
 Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, c6 quod 
 Maxima parshominum morbo jactalureodem. Hor» 
 
 The frequent ellipses in this long example demand some extra- 
 «rdinary assistance for the young scholar. 
 
 Si quis emat citKaras^ et comfwrtet eas emfitas in unum^ 
 deditus nee studiis ciihara nee uUi nnux: s? aliquis, qui won 
 est sutor, emat scalfira et fortjias; hi homo aversus mer- 
 caturis, emdii nautica vela; ille undigue et meritd dicatur 
 delirus et amens ; qvt discrefiat istis illc, qui recondit ntini' 
 tnoa aurumque^ nescius mi his rebus compositiuf inetuens* 
 que contin^ere velut sacrum ? Sec. 
 
 EXCEPTIONS TO RULE 10. 
 
 1. — — — Patria quis exul 
 
 Se quoque lugit ? /ior. 
 
 2. Hue ades, O Galatea, Quis est nam ludua in undis ? 
 3. — — Cujavox ^oxi-^x'i Piaut. {J^i'^'lS' 
 
 4. I/^rw^z accunibamus ! Id, 
 
 Which of us shall sit in this place or that? 
 
 5. — — — — — — — Uterne 
 
 Ad casus dubiosy?f/f^ sibi certius ? Hic, qui 
 Pluribus assuerit mentem corpusque superbum ? 
 An, qui contentus parvo, metuensque futuri, 
 nl pace, ut sapiens, aplarit idonea bello ? Hor. 
 
 The exception here is in uterne f tvhich of the tivo P Uterne fidet sibi 
 certius, Vihich of these two ivill rely on himself Kvith more confideiice? Hie 
 is an instance of the rule itself: Hie-, ixiill he? And so is ille, implied 
 in the interrogative an, in the third question ; an ille, or ivill he ? O'c. 
 
 Rule 11. 
 After the verb suTn, a verb passive, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1, Est aliquid prodire tends si non datur ultra. Hor, 
 Si non datur ire ultra, 
 
 2, Paufier cnim nori est^ cui rerum suppelit usus. Id, 
 Cui rerum su/i/ietit vsus^ Who has a sufficiency, 
 
 3, ■ Hic murus a'e'ni us estOy 
 
 Nil conscire sibi, null4 pallesccre culpa. Id, 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 219 
 
 4. £xem/ilumq\iQ Dei quisque est in imagine parva» 
 
 Mami, 
 
 5. Qui dabit, is magno7?e^ mihi major Homero. 
 
 Ode mi'ii, res eat ing-emosa dare. Ov. 
 
 6. — — Medio tulifiiimus ibis. Id. 
 
 7. Ut amevis> amabilis esto. Id* 
 
 8. E.^t modus in rebus : sunt cent deniquey^'^e*, 
 
 Qn >s ullVA citraque nuqoit cunsistere rectum. Hor, 
 
 9. Pi-osperum ac i'tlix scelus 
 
 Vzr us voca'ur Sen» 
 
 10. — « Nam dives i\\iiji. ri vult, 
 
 Et ci'o vuit ficii. Juv, 
 
 11, — Ultima semper 
 
 Exfiectanda dies hon.ini est : diriqwc beatun 
 
 Ante obitmn nenjo siipremiiquc funera debet. Ov. 
 
 12. Vidis nemo sine nascilur. O/iiimua ille esty 
 
 Qwi mini;viis urgeiur. Hor. 
 
 13. Fiue 7nemor [eihi : tugit hora. Pers. 
 
 14. Saej) :; rog-are soles, qunlis sin, Pri-sce, futurus, 
 
 S\ Jiain locufiles^ s/mqiie repente /2u^e'«s. 
 Queiiiquam posse piitas mores tiarrare futuros? 
 Die mihi, si Jias lu /co, quaiis eris .? Mart, 
 
 Rule i2. 
 An adverb is not to be gov si rued \vith a substantive, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 1. Id arbiiior 
 
 Jfifirime in vita esse utiles ut ne quid nimis. Tcr, 
 
 2. Veiuin iilud veibum est» vulgd <\woi\ c/^cjsolet, 
 Omnes sibi irvalle melius esse, quani aluri. Id. 
 
 Omnes malle, esse meihis, &c. That all men ixotdd rather^ that it 
 shoidd be wellivith, &c. 
 
 3. Hoc puirium GSi/ictius consuffacere filium 
 
 Sua sponie recte faccrcy quam alieno jnelu. Ter, 
 
 4. - Adto in teneris consuescere muUum est. 
 
 Virg. 
 
 5. _— , Forsan et-lieec o/z.'wmeminisse jnvabit. Id. 
 
 6. Kebus angustis animosus atque 
 Fortis appare ; safiicnter idem 
 Contrahcsf vento nimium secundoy 
 
 Turgida vela. Ho?-, 
 
 Idem, you also. Thus according to the person of the verbf Idem and 
 Kadem are often rendered; I also y Toti also, He also, &c. 
 
220 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 7. Doctrina scd vim promovet insitam : 
 Paulum sepuUae distat inerlias 
 
 Celata virtus. Id. 
 
 8. Quid iristes querimonise, 
 
 Si non supplicio culpa reciditur ? Id. 
 
 9. S patio brevi 
 
 Spemlongam reseces. Dum loquimur,fugefitinvida 
 jEtas : carpe diem, guam viinimum credula postero. Id. 
 
 ^lam nntnhnutn credida, relying as little as possible on, &c. ^am 
 Tnini'rnii^n. as tittle as possible. Thus quani ^iiaxitnus, as large as pos- 
 sible : quani minimus, as little as possible: quam o-ptinius, as good as 
 possible : and after this manner is the conjunction ^uani to be always 
 rendered, when attached to a word in the superlative degree. 
 
 !0. — Vivendi rede qui pforogat horam, 
 
 Rusticus expeoraUduni dcfluat am? is ; at ille 
 l-dbitur, et labetur, in omne voiubilis sevum. Id, 
 
 Rui E 13. 
 
 After a preposition constantly look for an accusative or 
 ablaiivfc esse. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. ^quam menrienvo rebus i?7 arduis 
 Scrvure mentem. Hot. 
 
 2. Ar»; urn per medios ire sareliirrs 
 Et perrumperf. aniat si<xa Id. 
 
 3. Virtutern incoluiiaeip odimus: 
 Sublaiam ex oculi.^ quae ■inun^ iKvidi. Id. 
 
 Invidif Wt: i7n'i<ii(.us morials^ Odimus virtutem^^c, 
 
 4. bst moous in rebus ; sunt ce«\i deniqvie firitb, 
 Quos ut'^-a ci:raquewe.<i[U\\ consisieve rectum. Id. 
 
 5. Qtiid mirum, n'scerc muncium 
 
 Si possunt. homines, quibns esi et mundus i7i i/uis : 
 Exemplumque Dti quisque est in imagive pa- va ? 
 
 Ma nil, 
 
 6. Est Deus in nobis ; agitante calescimus islo. 
 
 Impetus hic sacrse sfmina mentis buret. Ov, 
 
 7. Sit pis^er ad panas princtps, ad pramia velox ; 
 
 Et dolftut, quoties roeitur esse fercx. Id, 
 ». Paseitur in vivis iivcr ! po.^i fata qui<:scit: 
 
 Tunc suus ex men to quemque tuetur honor. I/l, 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 221' 
 
 9. Sero respicitur teilus, ubi, fune soluto, 
 
 Curnt in immensum panda carina salum. Id. 
 10. . Tolliintur in altum^ 
 
 Ut lapsu j^raviore ruant. Clauclian. 
 1 1. Failitur, egregio quisquis sub fir in ci fie credit 
 
 Servitium: nunquani libertas gratior extat, 
 
 Quam sub rege /do. Claud, 
 12. Ultima semper 
 
 Expetrandc. dies homiiii est; diclque beatU3 
 
 Ante obitum nemo sufii emaque funera debet. 0~o, 
 
 Rule 14. 
 The word governed must ue construed after, See. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Quid sit futunim eras, '^t ige ^quaerere; 
 
 «Q.iem- sors *dicram -cunque dabil, ^lucro 
 
 '^A-iponc. H r, 
 2. Hie *potens <^sui 
 
 Lse'u^quc ^rlcs^et, cui ^licet 'in ■'diem 
 
 /"t^ixisse. '^Vixi.* Id. 
 
 3. Privaius *iilis '^censub '^erat ^brcvis ; 
 Commujie magnum Id, 
 
 rUis census, for illorufn census 
 
 4. Plerun.qufc '^'irraige ^livitibus vices : 
 Muncisequft parvo ^^ub *!arc ^pauperum 
 
 "^Cse^jae. ^si m 'v.U'seis et ostro, 
 Soii'itani j. K\/li> ueie, *f ontem; 
 
 5. Non enim gazse, neque consularis 
 «Su nmovet Ucior miNCios ^tumiillus 
 <^Mtrn*is, el ^curas lique.tiv '^citcum 
 
 ^Tecta V'.ilintes. H^r 
 
 6. Non domus uut fuiulus, n-.n ^aeiis «acervus et ^auri 
 jEgioto «^domiiii ^dtduxii ^corpore ^febres, 
 
 Nor» animo cuias. Id» 
 JEgroto corfioTQ domini. 
 
 7. ^Dcsinat eiaii^ quisquAm ^confidere <^rebus; 
 ^OniTiia mors ^se pi .t. Ciaudian. 
 
 8. Scnsii Alexinder «le-. a c.u<n «vidil ^in ilia 
 Mci^num *habiiatorem, quanto fclicior i»ic, qui 
 *Nil '^ciiperet ; qu im qui toium ^sibi «posceret ^op- 
 
 bem. Juv. 
 
 T2 
 
2^2 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 9. flVivitur ^exir^uo melius : natura beatis 
 
 ^Omnibus ^esse «dedit, si quis '^cognoverit iuti. 
 
 aaud. 
 
 10. Fallitar, egregio quisquis '^su^ ^principc ceciit 
 Servitium: nmuiuam lihertas <{»;., ratior «exiat, 
 Quam «siiV> ^rge pio. Id 
 
 1 1. Si mettiis. si hpr.wn ^cupis, si «ducoiis 6?; a, 
 <^Servitii ^p.tiere ^jueuu ; «trler.ibi> iniqi-as 
 Interius b\ ges. Tunc Z» jmnii ^jure ^tenebis, 
 Cun> ^poteris «^r^-x 6 sse ^mi //. 
 
 12. Nee Z'libi, quid liceat, scd q\iid ^fecisse ^decebit, 
 ^Occurrat; ^mentemque '^ciomet^respeclu^ ^'hr.nesti. 
 
 Claud/an, 
 13 Qiaere, quid est virtus ; ct «ponce ^exemplar ^hones- 
 ti. Lucan. 
 
 Now let the learner read the first eight Chapters once, and the last 
 three twice, be/ore he proceeds to Chap Xll. 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 
 Rule i5. 
 
 WHEN in a sentence there is no finite verb, but only 
 an ii fiiuUve, wiih a nominative case, expressed or un- 
 derstood construe such an infinitive Hke an indicatives, 
 or sonjc oLber finite mood, the nominative being con- 
 strued in its proper place. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. —_ Ego iJlud stdulo 
 
 J\/'<gar' t'urium. Ter. JVi garr as if negabam. 
 
 2. Nine semptr Ulys^-es. 
 
 Cimmibus t^rrere novis : hinc spargere voces 
 In valgum anibiguas ; et quarcre conbcius arnia. 
 
 Fzrg. 
 
 2. — ■■ --^^ Sic omvia fatis 
 
 In peyv'i> mere, et retio sublapsa rvjerri. Id» 
 
 4. Ire p^ic^i Pullas. Id. 
 
 5. Sol\m nam perjidusille 
 
 Te cQlcre s arcanos ctiam tibi cred^rs sensus. Id, 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 223 
 
 6. Solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo 
 
 S(je/ii queri; et loiigiis in fle u n du ^re voces. /(/, 
 
 7» Instant ardentes Tyrii. Pa^-n due re rnuios, 
 MJirique arcem, et nnaniuu> subvolvtre sjixu ; 
 Par>i afi'are locum tecto, et conclwhre sulco. /c/, 
 
 8. Turn fiiiia Mnran hwmen'iabficindrre vestem, 
 Aiixiliof/?^^ vocarr D'^o:-, ct tendiVc palmus. Id, 
 
 9. __— . Omncs omhia 
 
 B'-tit dicerCf ^:' ^uM'/are* toi tunas meas« 
 
 Qui gnuiuni habe cm t.ili in^cnio pfseditum. 7>r. 
 
 10. 1^ acile omnes /zer/Jrrc \ic fiai, 
 
 Cum quibus- erat -cuiique ui a; iiis se dedtre^ 
 Lorum obsr'qui studiis. Ter 
 
 1 1, ■. . -.m Tot usque movcri 
 
 Moris cucij»;", ct mugire adytis rortina reclusis. Id, 
 Cortina f i. e. The canopy over the Tripod ; saj, the Oracle, 
 
 Rule 16. 
 When there occurs an accusative case and an infinitive 
 mood, quod Or ui being left outy construe the acc. firsi. with 
 the word that before it, becaus:.; it is there virtually anom. 
 and should therelorc, with its djuncts, be construed like a 
 nom. before the verb. 
 
 EXAMPLFS. * 
 
 1. In causa facili qnernvis licet esse disertura. Ov, 
 
 2. Quod non vclat lex, hoc velai Jiei pudor. Sen. 
 
 3. Ars prima re}i;ni cat- /io^sf te iiiviniam pati. Id. 
 
 4. Scire tuum nihil est, ni-^i te scire et hoc sciat .Jter. 
 
 Pers. 
 
 Scire tuum for scientia tua A verb in the inlinitve mood is fre- 
 quently used as a noun, ii-> all cases. 
 
 5. — . Errat 
 
 Qui quis ■•b eveniuyac^a notarida putat. Ov,. 
 
 6. Aiium, siUre quod voies, piimtib sile. Sen. 
 Frimus sile, hejirst silent yourself of that, quod, &c. 
 
 7, Si vis mejiere^ dolenUum est 
 
 Prin.u-:> ip^i tibi. Hor. 
 Dolendwrn est pritawrn ti^^ ipsi, you must first nueep yourself,. 
 
 8. iEquum est, 
 
 Pcccacis veniani fioscentem reddere rQrsus. Id. 
 ^oscentem, that he ij: ho requires veniain pardon f Cft, 
 
224 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 2. Nimio prgestat, impendiosum ie quam ingratum t/i- 
 cier. Flaut. 
 
 Rule 17. 
 
 Words in apposition must be construed as near to one 
 another as possible. 
 
 Note. — Two or more words are said to be in apposition when the 
 same thing- or person is intended by them : thus, Marcus Tullius Cice- 
 ro : here are three distinct words ; but they are all names of the same 
 person, and are therefoi-e said to be in apposition ^Voids of this de- 
 scription must be construed as near to one another as possible. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Kffotliuntur o/^e^ /r/zVam^M.'a malorurn. Ov* 
 
 2. li^niavum fucoa fircuH d praeb< pib is ^rccnt. Virg, 
 
 3. Quoad vixit, credidii ingens 
 
 Pauficiiem uitium. Hor. 
 
 4. Ehcu I fugaces- Posibumc, Posthumey 
 L^^bujittir jnni \ Id 
 
 5. Quid terras alio calentcs 
 
 Soie mutfsmus? Patrige quis exul 
 Se quoqiie fui^it? Id. 
 ^lis, tvhat 7na7ii exul, though an exile, patriae, Crc. 
 6 M.gnuj7i lumlicries opjirobiium jubet 
 Q i'lvis < t face re et pati. Id. 
 
 7. Qvid nis dura refugimus 
 
 Jttas? Quid intacum nei'usti 
 Liq\,nmus? Id. 
 
 ^ids ivhat, comes first, by Rule 9 then nos dura estas, have %ve an 
 hardened age, &c. where the auxihaiy, have, stands before the nom. vu^, 
 by Rule 10. 
 
 ^id mfastif elegantly for quid nefastutn,vihatvjicJiednesi. 
 
 KULE 18. 
 
 All correspondent words must be construed as near to 
 one another as possihif 
 
 Note —By correspondent ivords are meftnt such as these: Talis^— 
 qnalis : Tantus — quartus : Sic — ut : Itu—ut: Jceo~ut: Aner — usque.' 
 JSuc— usque: Ad'^-usc/ue : Pt.tius — qu(,Vc: Flus—quum: Magis — ciuon.' 
 
 Frius — quam > -^''«m connected with the superlative degiee : ^dcun- 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 225 
 
 que (in whatever case) divided by the figure tmesis: y amende : Sc' 
 cus — ac : Perinde — ac: Idem — ac : Idem — atque : Mque — ac : Eo — quod: 
 Hue — illuc : Serius — ocyus^ <jfc. Cfc 
 
 These and other such words, may perhaps in postion be so separated 
 each from its fellow, as to be in different clauses; but in construing, the 
 idiom of the English language requires that they be rendered as near 
 to each other as the natui*e of the sentence will permit ; and, in order 
 to effect this, the general way is, not to construe the former of two cor- 
 responding words till we can conveniently construe tlic latter. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Usque adeon^ mori ndserum est ? Virs^i 
 £stne, is it; usque adeo, so very, so completely, so entirely, O'C. 
 
 2. Pisecipuumy'am?'/ a ncris ivnpciKU; lahorem. /cf« 
 yam, inde, immediately ; jatn inde a, imm^ediately froirii &c, 
 
 3. Tale tunn» carman nobis, divine poeti, 
 Quale sopor fossis i»- gr^.minr^. Id. 
 
 To render this example according to the rule, mind the direction 
 above, not to construe t'>e former word tale,X\\\ you may lake the lat- 
 ter quale : jfius, tale — quale, such as, immediately before sopor. 
 
 4. Ai boHii part, hominum, decepu t upidine i.ls*, 
 >;il saris ost, inquit, quia i<mfi quantum habeas sis. 
 
 Quia sl^ faniis ^c, -c \^Hor» 
 
 5. Niixi-'um insanus paiicis videatur, o o^ 
 Maxiin-i p»rs hoTtinu!n mo; bo j.*ct lo- eodem. ffor. 
 
 £o-quod, for this reason, that, or in one word, because. 
 
 6. Contin'jo culpum fcrro conipi.sce,//rz«v quani 
 Dim per incaiuiun strpant contagia vu gus. Vir^. 
 
 7 — More homiimm evenit, ut, quod sim nactus 
 
 fi; di, 
 
 P u rescisceres tu, qiiamt^o^ tibi quod evenit boni. 
 
 Ter^, 
 
 Evenit tnore hominum, ut tu recisseres quod mali nactus sim priuSj 
 quam, &c. 
 
 8, Ego vitam Deorum firefiterea scmpiternam esse 
 arbitior. 
 
 Quod voluptates eorum proprias sint. Id, 
 
 9, Ca pe diem, gvam mi'imum credula postero. Hor. 
 
 ^am m,inim,u7n, as little as possible. 
 
 10, Oiiines eodc'iT) cf.gimiir ; omnium 
 Versatur urna </^r///5 ocyua 
 
 Soi s exitura. Id. 
 
226 NEW LATIW PRIMER." 
 
 11, iEquam memento rebus in arduis 
 
 Servare mentem ; 7iofi secus in bonis 
 Ab insolenti temperuiuin 
 Lctiti^. Id 
 
 Non secus, not otherivise, in like tnanner, liieviise, also. 
 
 12. Quid sit futurum eras, fuj^e quserce ; 
 Quern- sors diurum -cunque dabit, lucro 
 Appone Hor. 
 
 Remember Rule 9 in qiiem- cunque, 
 
 is. Qwj- nos cunque i'erct neiior fortuna parentea 
 
 Ibimus, O socii. Id. 
 14 O mdtre pulcbia fiU* puiciuior. 
 
 Quern- criminosii^ -cunque voles modiim 
 Pof!e>=i iav/ibi'j. Id 
 OJiliapulchriorf &c. by Rule 5. 
 
 15. Qiidac 'Lunque turcns iH^dio lulit ag;nine virgo, 
 Hdc f\\'\\\,-: ai!blt Virg. 
 
 Here not only qua and -ctinqua are two correspondent parts of the 
 same woi-d to be reunited in construction ; but moreover, qua-cunqve 
 and hoc have relation to one another, standing-, as we observed before 
 of tantum-quantimi ('hap X Rule 9) under Uke circumstances of 
 government and construction ; and therefore, though these two cor- 
 responding* words cannot be so immediately united as serius-ocyus,non 
 -secus, eo-qiiody yet, as the rule says, they must be brought as near to 
 one another as possible, which is to be effected by construing hac the 
 first in its own clause, as quacunque must be construed first in it's ; 
 thus the correspondence between them will be duly maintained and 
 that entirely by making hac the leading word in one clause, as quacun- 
 que by rule 9. must be in the other. 
 
 .16, Nulla dies p.iCf^m Kane I» alls nee foedera rumpet 
 Quo res -cunque cadeut. Virg. 
 
 17. Qui- le cunque nianenf. isto certamine casus, 
 Et 'lie, TurRe,.manent. Id. 
 
 18. Ergo apje, care Pater ; cervici imponere nostrae : 
 Ipse subibo humeris, nee me labor ista gravabit. 
 Quo- rcs-cunque r.adunt,unum et commune periclum, 
 Unasilus aii^bobus erii. Firg". 
 
 19. Nascere; /iraquQ diem veniens age, Lucifer, almum. 
 
 Virg, 
 
 Free and veniens here are one compound word,thus divided by tmesis: 
 PravenienSf coming before. 
 
new latin primer. 227 
 
 Rule 19. 
 
 Generally construe every word in any clause you have 
 entered on after the nom. case, b{;fore you proceed to ano- 
 ther clause ; beginning each clause, as you pass from one 
 to another, with the nom. case and verb, if there be such 
 in it, and finishing it according to Rule 1. 
 
 In other words, finish one clause generally before you go to anodier ; 
 and construe each clause in the order prescribed by Ride 1 . 
 Note. — A clause is a part of a sentence contained between two stops. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 Here the words in Italics must be construed first in the clause. 
 
 1. Verum iUud vtrbum est, vuigo juod dici solet, 
 Omnes sibi matle melius esse, gudm altcri- Ttr, 
 
 2. Omnia prius verbis exfitriri^ quam armis, sapientem 
 
 decet. Id 
 
 3. JVulla eM tarn fucilis res^ quln difficilis fiety 
 Quam invitus facias. Id, 
 
 4. ■ — Labor on.ir.ia vincit 
 
 Im/irobus^ et duris uigcns in rebus <°.(r<°«^cs. Vir^, 
 
 5. Continuo cuLlmm fcrro coinfiesce^ priusquum 
 Dira per incauium sei p*ni contai;ia vulgus Id, 
 
 6. Forsan et haec olim n\t\)'\x\is^GJuvahi' ; 
 
 Duratc ; et vosmct rebus scrvate secundis Id. 
 
 7. Optima quaque dies miseris mortalibus» cevi 
 Prima fugii ; subeunt morbi^ Wi^Wsqus scnectus 
 Et labor, et durse rapit inclementia mortis. Id, 
 
 8. Stat sua cuiquc dies: breve et irreparubile teinpus 
 Omnibus est vita : scd farnam extendere factis, 
 Hoc virtulis opus. Id, 
 
 9. .— — Si)alio brevi 
 
 Spem Ion gam resecei : dum loquimur, fugerit invida 
 Mtasy carjie diem quam mininuim credula {losttro, 
 
 Hor, 
 
 10. Est modus in rebus ; sunt cerii denique fines, 
 
 Quos nltra citraque nequit coniiricie rectum. Id^ 
 
 11. At bona pars hominum. decejita cupidine caeca, 
 Ml satis est, inquit. Id. 
 
 12. Qz^/fit, Maecenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sorcem 
 Seu ratio tiederit, seufor-^- ooject rit, ilia 
 Contcntus vivat^ laudet diversa scquentes ? Id, 
 
^2B NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Rule 20. 
 An oblique case, unless it be an adjunct to the ndm. 
 should be construed after the veib ; and when more ob- 
 liqiie cases than one depend on the same word, construe 
 accusatives bef)re datives, datives before ablatives, and 
 goiitivts immediately iter the words, whi^h govern them. 
 
 Note — By aii oblique case is meant any case, except the nominative, 
 which grammarians call tlie right case. 
 
 KXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Trahit ;--.ua quemque voluptas. Virg, 
 
 2. — — — Non omnia possumus omnes. Id. 
 
 3. An qui aniant, ipsi dbi somnia fingunt ? Id. 
 
 4. Owwfa fcrt aeias, tz^/zwzf^w quoque. Id. 
 
 5. Omnia vincit amor : ct nos cedamus cwzon. Id, 
 
 6. — Labor oinnia vincit 
 
 In.probiis. Id, 
 
 7. Nee ve- 6 terrae ferre omnes omnia possunt. Id, 
 
 8. Prcecifmum jam i7idc a teneris impendc labofem. Id, 
 9, Viamque insiste domandi, 
 
 D um i'^cilis dnimi J uvenu7n J dum mobilis aetas. Id, 
 10 . — Ssevitque animi^ i.^nobile vuii;us. Id. 
 
 11. . Furor ar7wa ministrat Id. 
 
 12. S( inciitur incerium fitudia in contraria vulgus. Id, 
 
 13. Conti'. ]o cul/iamf err com\fescc, p.'iusqiiam 
 Dira fitr incautum serpant contagin vulgus. Id, 
 
 KuLfc, 2i. 
 When sum is put for habto^ the Enelish nominative is 
 expressed in Litin by a dative, and the accuscitivt by a 
 noniinidve ; in this case constfue the dative fi st iiU'^ a 
 nominative, then ihe verb, as it dccUncd tVor.» habeo^ and 
 then the nom. after the vjrh. like an accusative. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Es^ m'hi namque (iomi fiat cr ; est injusta novrrca. 
 
 Vir§, 
 Ego habro fiatrrm^ Ijfc 
 
 2. -' — — Sunt noHs mif'ia fioma^ 
 
 Castanx mol/rsy el p; Cb' i cojda lactis. Id, 
 
 J\^os haheiims t^c 
 
 3. — — -Cuf nunc cognomen lulo. Id. 
 
 Qui ?mnc /tabetf i^c. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 229 
 
 4. Est mild dispirabus septcm comfiacta ciculis 
 
 Fistula Id, 
 JEgo habeo Jisiulam comfiactam^ isi'c. 
 
 5. Acldarn cerea prunu ; et /lonos erit huic quoque fiomo, 
 Et hoc pomum quoque habebit honorem, \_Id, 
 
 6. Talis amor tencat ; nee sii mihi cura mederi. Virg, 
 JVec ego habtam curain medendi. 
 
 7. Sunt mihi bis sefitem pi asaianti corpore nympha. Id. 
 Ego habeo bis scfitem nymfihas^ iD'c. 
 
 8. En prianius i Smit iiic etiarn suaprcemialaudi. Id. 
 Utc (itiam laus (virlub) /?a6f^ nuapramia, 
 
 9. Uii ! quibus imperium est aniiiiarum» Id. 
 O vos I)H ! qiiihabelis iinpciiumy is'c. 
 
 Rule 22. 
 
 By a very common ellipsis, the verb sum may be un- 
 derstood in any mode or tense ; when it is so, it must 
 be supplied in construing, as the sense requires. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 The verb to be supplied will sometimes follow the example ; and the 
 , after which it is to be construed, will be in Itahcs. 
 
 1. Cwt nunc cognomen luio. Virg. 
 
 Est (Ml habet» 
 
 2. Diis aliier visum. Id, 
 
 Est. 
 
 5. Nul]a salus bello. Id. 
 
 Eist nulla, ^c. 
 
 4. Varium et mutabile semper 
 
 Fc^mina» Id. 
 Est. 
 5. Omne solum forti pairia est, ut piscibus xquor. Ov, 
 
 6. — — — — ^— — Errat 
 
 Quisquis ab event u/c^c/a notanda puial. Id. 
 Esse. 
 
 7. Amicus Plato ; amicus Socrates ; sed msgis ami- 
 
 cus Veritas. Adag. 
 Est thrice ire. plied. 
 
 8. Pol quideu;, meo animo, ingrato animo nihil irsn' 
 p e 1 1 s i 1 1 s , /"t r. ^ Virg, 
 
 9. Taiiius anioi lauduni ; tantae est victoria cur^e. 
 
 10. Una salub licis nuilam sperare salutem. Id. 
 
 U 
 
230 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 11. Tantsen.: animi? rselestibns irae i Id, 
 
 Sint ne, or JVufn Jios int esse tantte if a, Isfc. 
 
 12. Dolus an virtuf3, quis in hoste requirii ? Id, 
 An df dolus an "Anus. 
 
 13. In tenui labor ; at tenuis non gloria. Id. 
 
 14. — Viamqufc insisle doniandi, 
 
 Dum faciles animi juvenum^ dum mobilis tsta%, 
 
 lid. 
 
 Rule 23. 
 
 By a most elegant ellipsis any finite verb may be un- 
 derstood, and inferred by reflection from another verb of j| 
 like import, actually expressed within the period. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Impius hsec tarn cuitu noTalia miles habebit ? 
 ^ar^^arM."? has segetes ? Virg, 
 
 From habebit expressed in the first questiorii it Ttiay be ascertained 
 that habebit is implied in the next. 
 
 3. — — — Te nostrce^ Vale, myricte ; 
 
 Te i>emas omne canet. Id, 
 
 The verb m.ust necessarily be rendered tivice in the construction, because 
 of the repetition of te ; arid canet expressed in the second mcm.ber shc^s 
 that a like verb is to be supplied in the first, viz. canent, in the plural 
 number^ because its notninative myricae is so. 
 
 3. Cui non risere Parentes, 
 
 JVec Dfus hunc men?a; Dq\x nee dignata cubili 
 est. Id, 
 
 After Deus is implied dignatus est, to agree nvith Dens, us may be 
 iriferredfirom dignata est, expressed in tbe last clause to agree vjith Dea^ 
 
 4. . I/i.s-a te, Tityre, fiinus 
 
 Ifisi te f antes ^ ipsft i.aec arbusta vocabant. Id. 
 
 5. Hunc socii morem sacrorum. hunc ipse teneto. Id, 
 
 From teneto agreeing with its notn. ipse in the last clause is infer- 
 fed teneant to agree nxith the now,- socii in the clause preceding. 
 
 6. Hos libi dant c<?lamos (en accipe) Mubse ; 
 Ascraeo qucs ante seni. Id 
 
 Here the verb is implied in the last member of the sentence, Dant 
 sheius that it may be derived from, do» to give ; and ante shevis that it 
 ■must be in the past fe??^-e.— Ascraeo seni, to old Hesiod of Ascrae in 
 ©reece. 
 
 I 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 231 
 
 7. Ny mphae, noster amor, Libethrides,aut mihi carmen, 
 
 Quale meoCodrO' coiieec/ice. Id. 
 
 The verb implied after the accusative Quale must be inferred from 
 concedite ; and it must be in such a m,ood and tense as the sense requires- — 
 Nyniphje Libethrides, O ye Lihethrian Nymphs ; the Muses so callid 
 from, their fountain Libethra, in Greece. 
 
 8. JVt'c iu/iu.y insidias pecw ; nee rclia ctrvis 
 U!la dolum meditantur, 
 
 Meditatur to a^ree viith lupus 
 
 9. Hxc nos, " Formosum Corydon ardcbat Alexin :'* 
 Hasc eudem docuic, " Cuju:« pecus I An Mclibaei?" 
 
 Hjcc, i. e. h(ec cicuta^ this shepherd's reed. 
 10. Carrnin.i, quae vultis, coj»noacite ; Carmtna vobis ; 
 Huie aliud mercedis eric. Id. 
 
 Hereerii is an instance of sum used for habeo ; and from, it must b^ 
 supplied a proper verb for carmina vobis. 
 
 Rule 24. 
 
 Adjectives are ofien elei^anily used as adverbs ; and 
 are then joined with verbs in the construction, and ren- 
 dered adverbially* 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 •Ostroque insignis et auro 
 
 Stat sonipes, ac frxna fcrox spumantia mandit. 
 
 Virg. 
 
 2. Mnestliea,Ser^stumquevocat,forlemq; CJoanthum, 
 
 Classem aptent fac/^/, sociosque ad litora cogant. Id. 
 
 Mnesthea the Greek accusative o/" Mnestheus — Before aptent supply 
 the conj. ut, that which is often understood before subjuiictive verbs, ivhcn 
 it m,ay be strongly inferredfrom the sense. 
 
 3. Ocyus omnes 
 
 Imjierio Uti fiarent, ac jussa facessunt. Id, 
 
 4. Dissimuiare etium spcrasti, pcrfide, tantum 
 Posse ncfas, tacitusque mca discedert terra ? /i/. 
 
 5. ' Nullis iile movetur 
 
 Fktibus ; aut voces uU.js rrac/aAi7x« awrfrV. Id, 
 ' 6. Tu seer eta pyram tecto interiore sub auras 
 
232 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 7. Pracifiites vigiiate, viri, et consistite transte:is : 
 
 Solvite vela citi. Id» 
 8. . Ite: 
 
 Ferte citi^\xmm'A%: date vela : impelliteremos. Id, 
 9. Testor, cara, Deos, et te, gerniana, tuumque 
 
 Dulce caput, maj^icas invitam accingier artes. Id. 
 
 Cara germana, dear Sister. Invitam accingier, that I unwillingly 
 have recourse to. Jccitigier, inf. m. for accingi. 
 
 10. En quid agam ? Kursusne procos inisn priores 
 
 Experiar ? Nomadumque/zc/a7n con:uibia sufi/ilex ? 
 
 Id. 
 
 Hi Sequimur tc, sancte Deorum, 
 
 Quisquis es ; iinperioq ; xx^vwv^i par emus ovanies : 
 A(}s\s o /Uijcidu^gue j\}\"^&. Id. 
 
 Sancte Deorum, holy God. So Ennius calls yuno Sancta Dearum, 
 Holy Goddess. 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 Rule 15. 
 
 WHEN in a sentence there is no finite verb, but only 
 ?.n inSniiivej Sec. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Turn sic cjffuri^ et curas \\i^ demere dxzii^. Virg. 
 
 Affatiir, or affantur. Deinit, or de^niint ; the noon, understood, being 
 either Creusa, {JEn.2. 775.) or Deus Tyberinus {JEn. 8. 95.) or Phry- 
 gii Penates, as in JEn 3. 153. 
 
 2. ' Turn fumlda lundnaful'O 
 
 IivoLviy ac toii:? YU cainjin sfmrgere tectis Id. 
 
 Then she \ Lavina) wrapped in smoke, was involved, &c. Vulcanum 
 h. e. ignen^. Involuta est. Sparsit. 
 
 3. Turn s>\^Yi\tsexurerc Sirius agros ; 
 
 Artb:»nt herbge el victum seges aegra negabat. Id, 
 
 4. Tyrrhenusque tub X 7nugirc \)izV'£i\\GV A clangor. Id, 
 
 5. — — — 'i'elorum eff under e contra 
 
 Orane genus Tt-ucri, ac duris dttrudere contis. Id. 
 
 6. 'Trots contra defendtre saxis, 
 
 Pcrq ; cay^is densi tela ?^i^c/r<?wer^ fenestras. Id. 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 233 
 
 7. Turhafi ircfiida^ti iatus, frustraque malorum 
 
 VcUe lu ^v- '5^' . ^^ 
 
 8. •Turnut \n\x\x\.in\ excederc pugr-^, 
 
 ii'/! R'lviuut p ure ap jjartcm, quae viijii» uranrini. irf. 
 
 9. Ji Kuiulo n gi aucibubquc ea luliu videri 
 Ansoiiiis. Id. 
 
 10, Fa.scenie'< il!(e uivum /iro/ii'e vol'.»ndo, 
 
 Qiujniii.n acic poobeiu oculi sei vare sequentum. Id, 
 Illae culumbx. 
 
 11 Jtrnqvieclies iriLnda adcral ; mihi «acra /zara»/ ; 
 E' siisae fiui^vs, ct circu'ii tempore ^iuse. Id, 
 12. Ex il"; 7?«' r-f, cl rclro subiupSA rcf'crri 
 
 S/ies Dunuum. Id, 
 Ex illo tem/iore. 
 
 RuLt l6. 
 
 When there occurs an accusative case and an infini- 
 tive mood, quodoi ut being ictt out, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLFS. 
 
 1. Verum illuvl verbum est. quod vulyo dici solet, 
 Omncs sibi malle nficlius e.v«r, q\,a \\ aiteri. Ter. 
 
 Omnes 7naUe^ ntgotium et-ae mt^liun sidif i3^c. 
 
 2. Ita comfiaratam ease nauram omnium^ 
 AlirBu ut melius viatunt et dijuJicent, 
 
 Q a n sua ! Id. Oh that the nature of all metij ijfc. 
 Oh JVjiuram omnium esse ica comparatam^ ^c, 
 3 JV fiilne e.\se propriurn cuiquam ! Id. 
 O! JsTihilne esst^ \:fc. that nothings ijfc. 
 
 4. Omnemcvndc diem tibi diluxisse supiemam t 
 Grata supervcnifjt, quae non sperabitur hora. Hor,. 
 
 5. Quis credit, tantan ojierum sine Numine moles i 
 Et minimii csecoque erratum foedere mundum? 
 
 Si fors ista dcdii nobis, fors ipsa gubernet. Manila 
 Tantas motes o/ierum existere si^e, i^c. 
 Mundum creatum esse ex mi/d.nzs from atomSf ctscoqs 
 feeders and their uncertain concu rence, 
 
 6. ■' (liuncti ae scire fuentur 
 Quid fortuna ferat populi ; sed dicere mussant. Vir] 
 
 7, Cur tamen hos tu 
 
 JEvasisse putes, quos din conscia facti 
 Mcna habet attonitoa, et surdo verbere caedit? Jtwv 
 U2 
 
234 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 8. Nor. facile invenics multis in miliibus unum, 
 
 VirtuCem prctii qui putet esae sui; 
 Ipse decor recti iacti, si prsemia desint, 
 
 Non movit, et g;rdri5 paeaiiet es^e probum. Ov. 
 Pretii suiy of intrinsic value, valuable in itself. 
 
 9. Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum : 
 Cuncla ferit, dum cunctt timet ; dessevit in omnes, 
 Ut se fios^e patent. Claudian. 
 
 Humili, than a mean spirited person. Se posse, that he is possess- 
 (rd of poiuer, 
 
 10. Id esse rcgni maximum pignus putant, 
 
 Si quidquid aliis non licet, solis licet. Sen. 
 
 Solis ipsis, to themselves only. 
 
 1 1. Nonnc id flagiiium est, te uliis consilium dare^ 
 Foris safiere^ tibi no7i /losse auxiliarier ? 
 
 Auxiliarier for auxiliari. 
 
 Rule 17. 
 
 Words in apposiiion must be construed as near to one 
 another as possible. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Non dccet seperbum e^%G hominem servum. Plant, 
 
 2. Enimvero Dii non quasi pilas homines habent» Id. 
 
 3. Seqiiitur superbus ultor a tergo Deus. Sen. 
 4. Nee me tua fervida torrent 
 
 Dicta, lerox. Di'i me ievrent, eiJu/ii'^er /ws.'is. Fir. 
 
 5. Si non Euryulus Rutulos cecidisset in hosies^ 
 
 Hijrtacida JVlsi gloria nulla foret. Ov, 
 
 6. Livor, iners viiiu?nj niores non exit in altos ; 
 
 Ulque liitens ima vipera serpit humo. Id. 
 Iners vitium, a groveling vice. Non exit, does not rise up, 
 
 7. Grave fiondus ilium magna nobilitaa premit. Sen. 
 
 Rule 18. 
 
 All correspondent words must be construed as near 
 to one another as possible. 
 
 examples 
 1. Flurls cstoculatus testis urus, guam auriti decern. 
 
 IPlauU 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 235 
 
 2. Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento hue illuc 
 
 impellitur. Ter. 
 
 3. Omnia priu"! verbis expend, quam armis, sapien- 
 
 tem decet. Id, 
 
 4. Jta comparatam esse naturam omnium, 
 Aliena ut melius videant et dijudicent, 
 Quavi sua I Id. Ita-ut. Alelius-quam. 
 
 5. Fertiiis assiduo si non renovctur arairo. 
 
 Ml nlst cnm spinis gramen habebit ager. Ov. 
 Si fertiiis ager non renovetur, &c. 
 
 6. Iia vita est horniuum, quasi cum ludas lesseris. Ter* 
 
 7. Nulla fides pietasque viris, qui castra sequuntur, 
 Venalesque manus j ibi fas, u5i maxima mercea. 
 
 Lucan, 
 
 8. Discit enim cidus, meminitque libcntius illud, 
 Quod quii dviridet, qua'u quod ptobai et veneratur. 
 
 Hor. 
 9 Hoc patrium cst^ /lotiiis consuefacere filium 
 Sua sponte recte faccre, quam alieno raetu. Ter, 
 
 Rule 19. 
 Generally construe every word in any clause, Sec. 
 
 EXAMPLES, 
 
 1. J\onne id flagitium est^ te aliis consilium dare^ 
 Foris safiere^ tibi non posse aiixiliurier ? 7Vr. 
 
 2. Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere Jilium 
 
 Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu. Id. 
 
 3. J\i^c me tuafervida ter rent 
 
 Dicta, ferox ; Dii me terrcnt, et Jupiier hostis, 
 Ulleriua 7ie tende odiis. Vir^\ 
 
 4. TuVdiuvfivor Euryulum, lai^rymeeywe decora, 
 Gralior«c pulcliro veniens de corpore virtus. Virg. 
 
 5. Latius regnes, avidum doviando 
 Spiritum, quam si Lybiam remotis 
 Gjidihyxs juntas ; et uterquc Psenus 
 
 Serviat uni. Hor. 
 
 6. Crescit indulgens aibi dirus hydrojisy 
 JVec sitim pellit, nisi causa morbi 
 Fugcrit venas, et aquosus albo 
 
 Corpore languor. Id,. 
 
236 UIW LATIN PRIMRR, 
 
 7. Auream guUguis mediocritatem 
 Diliqjit, tutus caret obboleii 
 sordibus lfc»i, caret invidencla 
 
 Sobriu% aula Id. 
 
 8. Ssepiu^ ventis agiiatui ingtns 
 Fi)iU8 ; et celscs pravioic casui 
 Decidunt turres ; feriuntywf» summos 
 
 Fulmina montes. Id, 
 9 -Squam memento rebus in arduis 
 Servare montcni, i2on secus in bonis 
 Ab insolenli tem/ifruram 
 
 Laetitia, moriiure Deli Id. 
 10. ^/^rwe ^<fc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, ^'«^ea pos- 
 sidfct : 
 Qui uti scit, ei bona ; illi, qui non utitur reciC; mala. 
 
 Ter. 
 
 Rule 20. 
 
 An oblique case, unless it be an adjunct to the nom* 
 iaative, 8cc. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1, Contmno culfiam ferro compesce, priusquani 
 
 Dira jK^r incautum serpant cont.igia vulgua. Virg. 
 
 2. Irigentes antmos angusto in fiectorc versant. Id. 
 3. — Diibit Dcua his quogue Jinem, Id, 
 
 Accusatives before Datives, 
 
 A. Forsan et hxr olim memitiisse juvabit i 
 
 Durate,«t vosmet rehus servule secundis. Id. 
 
 5. Non ignwra maii miseris succurrere disco. Id. 
 
 6. Ponunique Jeroczu Pfccni 
 
 Corda, voknte Deo. Virg. 
 
 7. _ — —_ Timeo Danaoa^ et dona ftrentea. Id, 
 Mtt ev'fn. 
 
 8. L'iis aliter visum. Id» 
 
 9. Degentres animos timor arguit. Id. 
 10. — — Quisfallerepossita/wa/zrerm .? Id^ 
 
 11. Littus jma ; 
 
 Altum alii tcneant. Id. 
 
 12. Docuinti sed vim prQixioyct mitam, Hon 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 237 
 
 Rule 21. 
 
 When sum is put for Kabeo^ &c. construe the dative 
 first, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES, 
 
 1. Et me feccre poetam 
 
 Pierides. Sunt ct mild car mina. Virg. Ego habeo^lstc* 
 
 2. Carmina, quae vultis, cog:<oscite. Carmina vobis ; 
 Hide aliud mercedia vrit. i'/. 
 
 Carmina vobis erunt, i.e. Vos habebitis carmina. 
 Hac -Egle habehit aliud mercedis. 
 
 Aliud mercedis ; eleg-ant Latin, and better than cJiam mercedeml 
 
 3. Sunt et sua dona fiarenti. Id. 
 
 Et fiarcns meus habet sua dona. 
 
 4. Unde fia:c, O Pulinurc, t^bi tarn dira cufudo? Virg, 
 Unde est tibi, <>c. for Ua.le habcs tu hanc tarn diram cupidinetn. 
 
 5. JSTuUi certa domus : lueis habitnmus op5.cis ; 
 Kiparumque toios, et prata recentia rivis 
 Incolimus. Jd. 
 
 Nulli est, Cfc. as if it were, Nullus habet certam domum» 
 
 6. Ftlius huic^ fjio Divom, /^ro/e^f/wt' virilia 
 JVuUafuit. Id. 
 
 Hide, fato Diiom, fuit nulla filiiis proksque virilis ; i. e. HiCf fato 
 Divoruin, habuit nullam {nnlhim) Jiliu7n prolemque virilem. 
 
 Note — Filius and proles are of different genders ; the adjective 
 nulla belongs to both ; and should, according" to the" rule on such 
 occasions, be expressed in the masculine, nullus. But this rule is 
 not always regarded : in Cicero we find this exception to it. Nan 
 omnis ERROR stultitia dicenda est. Whence it sccmtis that, if two 
 substantives, with which one adjective agrees, though they be of 
 different genders, do yet mean the same thing, the adjective may 
 in gender agree with either. 
 
 7 Omnes u d. amor iate roj^ant Hbi? Virg. 
 Unde est tibi, O'c. i e. Unde habes tu istwrn am,orem- ? 
 
 8. Prae^ctea cjuo nee luia mi/d valle rtfierti 
 Cafircoli. Virg 
 
 Prxterea sunt mihi, &c, i. e. Prceterea ego habeo duos capreolosrepcrtds 
 in periculosa valle. 
 
 9. Nunc e^o (namque aiifier tibi erunt, qui dicere laudeSj 
 Va.r, tuas cupiant, et tristia condere bella) 
 Agresiem lenui meditabor arundine musam, Vir^, 
 
238 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 Rule 22. 
 By a very common ellipsis the verb sum may be un- 
 Ueratood, is'c, 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Stat sui cuique dies, breve et irrcparabile lempus 
 OTinibus est virse : ?ed tamam cxtendere factis, 
 Hoc viriutis opus. Firff, 
 
 2. Nesci.i mens /icminum f^ti, fortisque futurae, 
 
 ht srrvure modum, rebus sublata secundis, Id, 
 
 3. Id aibitror 
 
 Apprin'd it vita esse utile ut rie *'(/mdmn)U, Ter. 
 
 4. Bene uLi 'quid dis< iuius consilium accidisse, homi- 
 
 'lem cautum eum 
 E; s^ dtviiiramus ; stultum autem ilium, cui vorlit 
 nv'lh. Plant. 
 
 5. Duruin : sed levius fit paticnti4, 
 Quicquid corriijorc, est nelas, Hor. 
 
 6. Quisnam igiiur liber ? Sapiens, sibique imperiosus ; 
 Quern viequK paupcries, neque mors, neque vincula 
 
 ttrient. Id 
 
 7. Virtus est vitiam fugcre ; et safiieniia prima 
 Stultilia caruisse. Id, 
 
 8 Qais credat ti ntas cfierum sine Numine moles ; 
 Kx minimis cae oqiie crcatum foedere mundum ? 
 Si fois ista deiJit nobis, fors ipsa gubernet. Manil. 
 
 9. Quid mirum, noscere mundum 
 
 Si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis ; 
 
 Exemplumque Deiquisqueestin imagine parva? Id, 
 
 10 Nulla fides pietasque viris, qui castra seqiiuntur ; 
 
 Vei^alesque 772a?m«f/ ubiya«,ubi maxima werc^*. Luc» 
 
 11. Mille hominum species,en^zf<^ discolor usus. Pers. 
 
 12- Serpens, sitis, ardor arenx 
 
 Dul?:ia virtuti : gyiudct patientia duns. Lucan, 
 
 13, Hi mores; hsec duri immoti^ Catenis 
 
 Sect I fuit i sei vare modum, finemque tenere, 
 
 Natu'-amque sequi, patrjaeque impendere vitam ; 
 Nee sibi sed toti genitum se credere munc!o. Id. 
 
 14. Cevtd populi, quos despicit Arctos, 
 
 Felices errore suo ; quos ille timorum 
 Maximus haud urget, letbi mctus : inde mendi 
 In ferrum mens prona viris^ anlmaequ« capaces 
 Mortis. Id, 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 2S9 
 
 Rule 23. 
 By a most elegant ellipsis any finite verb may be un- 
 derstood, and inferred, Sec. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Dum juga mentis ap,er^ fluvios dum piscis amabit, 
 Dumq ; tbymo fiascentur apes, dum rorc cicada ; 
 Semper honos nomenq; tuum laude.sq; manebunt. 
 
 2. O mihi sola mci super Astyanactis imago! [^Virg» 
 Sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebai. Id. 
 
 3. Hic tantum Borese curamus frigora, quantum 
 Aut numerum lufius^ aut torrentiajlumina ripas. Id, 
 
 4. Hos CorydoTiy illos refer ebat in ordine Ihyrsis. Id, 
 
 5. Prtsiorum musam Damonis et Alphesibgei, 
 (Immemor herbarum quos est \nirata juvcnca 
 Certantes ; quorum stupefaclse carmine lynccs ; 
 Et mutata suos reqtiierunt flumiua oursus) 
 Damonis musam dicemus et AJphcsibaei, Id* 
 
 6. Hic magnos /ioiiu> lilumphos, 
 
 Hic ames dici Paler atque Princeps. Hor, 
 
 7. -— Me fiascunt olivae, 
 
 Mf. -ir/ureoy levesq; malvse. Id, 
 
 8. ■ Non, #male nunc et olim 
 Sic erit. Id. 
 
 Si sit m le nunc, non crit, &c. 
 
 9. Quo bruta iellun et vaga Jiumina ; 
 Quo Styx, el invibi horrida Taenari 
 
 Sedes, Atl^inteusque finis 
 Concwitur» Id. 
 
 10. Te pauper ambit sollicita prcce 
 Runs co!onus ; te dominam aequoris, 
 
 Quicungue Bithijnd lacesnt 
 
 Carfiathium ficlagus carina. Id, 
 
 1 1. Te Dacus asfier ; te piofugi Scyr»»», 
 Urbesque genlesque et Latiuni ferox, 
 
 Regurtique niatres burbarorum, et 
 Purpurei metuunt tyranni. Id, 
 
 Rule 24, 
 
 Adjectives are often elegantly used as adverbs ; and 
 are then joined with verbs in the construction, &c. 
 
240 NEW LATIN PRIMER, 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. I soror ; atque hostem aufi^ilex affare supcrbum. 
 
 2. Ipse arnens animi, et rumore accensus pmaro, 
 Dicitui ante aras, media inter numina Divuoi 
 Multu Jovem ni-nibus nupplex ora^se supinis Id. 
 
 3. Improbe Amor, quid non nior^&lia peciori\ c( gis ? 
 Ire iterum in lacrynias, itevum teniare pi cCiindo 
 Cogitur, et aujifilex animos submif.art' amori ; 
 Nequid mcxperlum IVust va nioritura relinquat. Id. 
 
 4. Id quidcm ago ; et tacitu^^ Lycido, mecum ipse 
 
 voluto^ 
 Si valeam meminisse. Id. 
 
 5. Giatutur reduces, et gaza Icztus agresli 
 Excipit. Id. 
 
 6. »' Sa/ii^vs linire moiyiento 
 
 Trisiiti;m viiseque labores. Hor. 
 
 7. Te minor. latum rcget aquus orbem. Id. 
 
 8. Vgs Iv'^ne CGnsilium et daiis, et dato 
 Gaudetis almce. Id. 
 
 9. Serus in cjelum redeas, diuque 
 Latus intersis populo Quijini. Id, 
 
 10. Peccare doccntes 
 
 Faiiax historias movet. Id. 
 
 11. Nee quisquam citus seque 
 Tus,o denatat alveo. Id. 
 
 12. Dona pisesentis cape Utus horse, et. 
 
 Linque severa. Id. 
 
 CHAP. XlV. 
 
 Rule 15. 
 
 WHEN in a sentence there is no finite verb, bat only 
 an intiaitivej &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. Hinc exaudiri gemitict ; ct sara sonare] 
 
 Verbera : lum stiidor ftrn^ traciiaeq; catenae. Firg". 
 
 2. Hvic exaudiri gcmitufi^ira:,; Iconum 
 Vinehi recusantum, et seia nocte rudentum : 
 
NEW LATIK PRIMER, 241 
 
 Setigerique suesy atque in firasefiibus ursi 
 
 Satire ; ac forma magnorum ululare lufiorum» Id, 
 
 3. At matres tirimo ancijdten^ aculUq ; malignis 
 Ambiguas sfiectare rates. Id. 
 
 4. Ecce auiem, primi sub lumine solis et oniis, 
 Sub pedibus mugire solum. Id, 
 
 5. Discessu mugire boves ; atq ; omne querelis 
 Imfileri nemus ; et collea clam ore relinqui. Id. 
 
 6. lile inter cadcsy Rutulorum eia/i&us in agros 
 Confugere^ e^ Turnio'e/e/zc/rVr hospius armis. Id» 
 
 7. Ut viderc virum fulgentiaq ; armu per umbras, 
 Inp:enti trefiidare metu : fiars veriere terga, 
 Ceu quondam petiere rates : pars tollere vocem 
 Exiguam. Id. 
 
 8. JVos fiavidi trefiidare metu, crinemq ; flagrantcm 
 E-^cutere^et sa ctos rcstingu re iontibus ignes. Id. 
 
 9. A''os procul indc fugam trcjddi celerare^ recepto 
 Supplicc, sic merito, tacitique incidere funem. Id, 
 
 10. Sequitur (neLs) ^gypliii coujux. 
 
 Una omnes mere ; ac r.otnm sfiumare reductis 
 CoTivulsum remis, rostrisq ; fideiuibus <P<7Mor. /d. 
 
 11. Conclam-it ab agmiue V'olsccns, 
 
 <* St It viii, Q' ae causa viae : Qiii.e cstisin armis \ 
 " Quove tenctis iter ?" Nil itU tendere contra : 
 Sed ceterare tugam in sylvis, etjidere nocti. Id. 
 
 12, Interea ^Eneas socios de puppibus ahis 
 Pontibus exponit. Mulii aervure recursus 
 Langucntis pel igi^ et brevibus se credere saltu : 
 Per remos alii. Id. 
 
 13. Quae talia postquam 
 
 Effvtins Tarchon, socii consurgere tonsis, 
 Spumantesque rates arvis inferrc Lalinis. Id, 
 
 Rule 16, 
 
 When there occurs an accusitivecase and an infinitive 
 fnood, qujd or ut being Ictl oui, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 ti Unum lioc scito, nimio celerius 
 
 Vtnir-2. qiiod moltstum est, quam id, quod eupide 
 petas. Plant 
 
 X 
 
24;2 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 2. Bene ubi ^m;V/ discimus consilium accidissej hominem 
 cautem eum 
 
 Esse declaramus ; stultum autem eumy cui vortit 
 Mule. Flaut. 
 
 3. Et errat longe mea quidem sententia, 
 
 Qui imfierium credat gravius esse et stabilius, 
 Vi qui/d fit, quam illud, quod amicitia adjungi- 
 Uir. Tcr. 
 
 4. .— Laudas 
 
 Foriiinam et mores aniiqiise plebis ; et idem, 
 
 Si quis ad ilia deus suibro te agat, usque recuses : 
 Aut quia non sentis. quod clamus, rectius esse^ 
 Aut quia non firmus rectum defcndis. Hor 
 
 5. Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas : 
 Hac ego contcntos auguror esse deos. Ov. 
 
 Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere filium 
 Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu. 
 Hoc pater ac dominus interest ; hoc qui nequit, 
 Fateatur, se nescire imperare liberis Ter, 
 
 Gmnes, quibus res sunt minus secundse, magis 
 sunt (nescio quomodo) 
 
 Suspiciosi ; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis ; 
 Propter suam impotentiam se semper cvbdwainegligi. 
 
 Id, 
 
 Rule 17. 
 Words in apposition must be construed as near to one 
 another as possible. '^ 
 
 EXAMPLES). 
 
 1. Hie mihi ?nalorum maximum fructum abstulit» 
 JVil timer e. Sen. 
 
 2, Certe populi, quos despJcit Arctos, 
 
 Felices eri ore suo, ^uos ille timorum 
 Maximus baud urget, lethi metus, Lucan, 
 
 3. — — Cur tamen hoi» tu 
 
 Evassisse putes, quos dira conscia facti 
 Mens habet attonitos> et surdo verbere csedit ; 
 Occultum quiliente aniino tortore llagellum ! Juv, 
 
 4. Justum et tenacem propositi virum 
 Non civium a? dor prava jubendum, 
 
 Non vultws instanlis tyrnnni 
 
 Menti quatit solida j ncque Auster 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 243 
 
 JQux: inquieli turhidus Adrise, 
 
 Nee fulminaniis magna Jovis manus. Hor, 
 
 Rule 18. 
 
 All correspondent words must be construed as near to 
 one another as possible. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. —^- Unum hoc scito, nimio celevius 
 
 Venire, q\iod molestun» est, quam id, quod cupide 
 petas Plant. 
 
 2. Atque hsec iieri7ide sunt, ut ililus animus, qui ea 
 
 possidct ; 
 Qui lui scit, ei bona ; il)i, qui non utitur recte, 
 HKila. Ter. 
 
 3. Et ctral loage .uca quidem sentcntia, 
 
 Q:i impcriurn credat i^ruviui esse aut stabilius, 
 Vi quod fit, quihn illud, quod amicitia aiijuugitur. 
 
 Id. 
 
 4. JVil aj^imus, nin sponte Dei. Lucan. 
 
 5. Hoc viuu'n affcrt senectus hominibus ; 
 
 Attenciorcs sumus omnesad rem, qudm purest. Ter. 
 
 6. Piiupci- enim non est, cui rt^rum sui>peut usus. 
 Si venliibcnc, ^\ lateri est, pedibusque tuis. nil 
 Divitise potcrunt rei;ales addcie jnajus. Hor, 
 
 7. Omne animi viti\nn tantb consfieciiuH in se 
 Crimen habet, qiianto mujcr, qui peccat, habetur. 
 
 Juv\ 
 
 8. Nam velu.ti pueri trepidant, atque omnia csecis 
 In tenebvis meiuunt ; bic nos in luce timemus 
 Intcrdum iiihilo quse sunt mctuenda 7wa§"2s, quam 
 Quge pucri in trnebris pavitant metuuntque futura. 
 
 Lucret. 
 9. Componitur orb is 
 
 Reikis i.d exempUim : nee sic inflectere sen&us 
 
 Humanos edicta valent, quam vita rei^eniis. Claude 
 10. Fallilur, et^regio quisquis sfib prinripe credit 
 
 Serviliuni. Nunquam libcrtAs ^'^«^ZC'?' extat, 
 
 ^ua?n sub rege pio. Id, 
 
244 NEW LAriN^ PMMEIV. 
 
 Rule 19. 
 Generally construe every word in any clause, 8cc. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. JStcudquam officium liberi esse hominis }iutOy 
 
 Cum is ni'iil promereat, fiostulare id gratia^ apponi 
 sibi. Ttr. 
 
 2. Sic, vita erat, facile omnes jierfcrre ac pati, 
 Cian (julbus erat cunque una ; las se dedere ; 
 Eoi am obsequi studiis ; advtrsus ncmini ; 
 JStunquam prisfionens se alii^, Itafacillime 
 
 Sin< invi-'a faulem invcnias, et anucos pares. Id, 
 
 The infinitives perferre- pati, (j-c, in this example, are to be con- 
 strued by Rule 15. 
 
 S. Justiim ct tenacem propositi virump. 
 J^Ton civiuin ardor pr?-va jiibcritium, 
 J\/*C/', vnltus iriiUanii'' tyranni 
 
 Menu,- qua it soiida ; 7ieque Aiisler, 
 Dux inquieti turtidus AUriae, 
 Jfec KilminHntis magna Jovis manus. 
 Sifracius ilbt'iiur ordis^ 
 Inipavidiim I'ciicnt riiin^s^ Hor, 
 4. QuaJn tcmtve in nosmet leg-cm sanrimus initiuam 1 
 Mnn viiiis nemo smc nascitur, OjithnuH iiic tst, 
 Q-d niinimis urgetur. Amicus duLiis^ui ^quuni est, 
 C«'f? mea co .-pcnset villi 3 bona, piijribus Idnce 
 ('Si mcrio pluri ?ni/ii bona, -ntnt) incliriei, aviiari 
 Si volet : f^ac le^e, in truti; a /lonctiir ca 'em. Id. 
 
 5. Pf.rro pac- (ut ssevis projcctus ..b vaidis 
 
 jYavfta) niulus ^^mv'ijacet infans indiuus omni 
 Vil ii awxiiio ; cu'n firimum in lumini^ oias 
 >Jixibns ex alvo m^:.ris Naiura proCu-iit ; 
 Vaciiu^we locum lugubri comjikidt ; z^iTs^quum Cbt, 
 Cut tantum in s'w^restet iransiie maiorum, 
 A' varise nrcscunt pecudes, armenta, f<^\2t(jue ; 
 JVcc crepuacillis opus esr. ; nee ouiquam udhibenda 
 
 €8t 
 
 AUr.ae nutricis blanda af.que vfracta loquela: 
 JVcc Vi.rias qiutrunt vesies pro tempore ceeli. 
 Denique non anv.is op is est, 7zo?? iijgenibu.^ -^^Itis, 
 " Qudn ■sua tutenf.ur ; quando o-nnibus 0!T,ni.i large 
 Tcllus ijiaa paiit, natura^w^ dsedaia revum. LucreC, 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER. 245 
 
 6. Quid tarn sollicitis viiani cor.su.'nimus annis ? 
 Tonjucmurque metu, cse^ayMt* cu'jidine -eium^ 
 Altcrnibywc sf^^jf curis, dam q<i£e' imus gevum, 
 Perdiinus ; et nullo voioruui fine 6ta?j, 
 Victuro^ arfimus aem/iGr^ nee vivirtiu^ unqaam. 
 Vin^QviQvque bonis qni (/ue esi, y?^/ plur^ requirit; 
 A'^'c quod habet vumerat., tautuii quo I iifin liaDct ohtat, 
 Cumque sibi parvos usus natura reposcit, 
 Muterium struimus m^'.gnge [)c'^ voia I'ui ise : 
 Luxariam(7«e lucris emimus ; tuxuyw^ ra,ninas : 
 Et simmum ceriiU, preUuni -jsi, cftuiidere censum. 
 
 ManiL 
 
 Rule 20. 
 
 An oblique case, unless it be an adjujict to the nomina- 
 tive, &c. 
 
 F.XAMPLES. 
 
 1 Exfierto creditc. Fir. 
 
 2 Ucus ipscyact'5 fl;/i.vzMm<7we -niinistrat. Vlrg» 
 
 3. Tii na cede 7nulis ; scd contra auden'iur iio. Id, 
 
 4. ParCerc auojectis, et debcllure su/ierdos. Id. 
 
 5. Vocul Kibor ulumus omnes Id 
 
 6 Puic/iramqu<^ \)eiunt /ler viilnera mortem, Id^ 
 
 7. I^'orsai) ?n:seros meiiora sequeiitur. Id, 
 
 8. Aoa vires alias conversaque A*awiwa semis ? 
 Cede Deo. Id. 
 
 9 Felix, qui pwtuit rerzim cognoscere causas ; 
 Aique tnetus omnes ct inyxjrabite fatam 
 SuDJecii fiedibus sirejdtumque Acherontis avari. Id^ 
 10. Stii sua cuiqu- dies: i):cve et irrei)ar-ibile tempus 
 Omnibus est vuaj : iycd/ama?n ex Mndarc/atis, 
 Hue viituds «.pus. Id. 
 " 11. Audc, nospr-b, conttjnnere ofiea^ et te quoque dignum 
 Finero Deo, Id. 
 
 The vocative is properly an absolute case, and therejwe not alvHiy^ 
 confined to any otiepurt of a sentence in the construction» 
 
 Rule. 21. 
 When sum is put for habeo^ &c» 
 
 X 2 
 
246 NEW LATIN PIUMER. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 1, Omnia absiinl bong,, quem ;»enes est virtus. Phut. 
 
 2. Tecum habita, ct nosoes, (juam ait libi cuna sufiiiel- 
 
 lex. Ftm, 
 3. — Quid miium nosccre mundum 
 
 Si |)os^uril h amities, (juibr.s est viundus in ipsis ; 
 
 Exunipluir.que D^i quibque est in imagine parva ? 
 
 [^Manii. 
 4. Swit mihr Scniid'i ; sunt rnsiica A^umiim- jSfum^ihce, 
 
 Fan dqun^ Satifrujur:, ct monticoioi Si/ivmi. Ov. 
 
 5. . '■ Fictoribuf; atque fioetis 
 
 Qui ilibet aiukn'ii sen^pcr/Mz^ acjua fiotestas. Hot. 
 ■ 6. NiM) mihi si Ungues centum sinty oraquc centum^ 
 
 Ftrre.a xiojc, ornnes scclerum compi endere tcmas, 
 
 Omni I i'Seiariim percurrcre nominu possum. Virg^ 
 7. V(^lle auum cuique caty nee voto vivitur uno. Fers,. 
 
 Quisque hahet suum ivtile, \. e. sua/n x^olmitatem, 
 8, Gene populi, quos despicat Arctos, 
 
 Felices errore *iuo ; quos ille timorum 
 
 Maximus baud urget-, lelhi inelus : inde ruendi 
 
 In icrtum ;«e«.v firona viris^ animceque ca/iaces 
 
 Mollis. Lucan. 
 
 Sometimes contingo and siippeto are thus used for habeo ; and then 
 this same rule applies, 
 
 9. Quod s >lis est, cuf contingit, nil amplius optet. Hor, 
 10. Pauper enim non cj-a, cui rcrum i^uppetit usus. Id. 
 
 Rule 22, 
 
 By a very common ellipsis the verb sujp. may be un- 
 derstood, Sec. 
 
 examples. 
 
 1. Rcgiam hoc i/isum reor, 
 Ad versa cape re. St72. 
 
 2. Fronti null a fi'Jcs. Juv. 
 
 2. Udum et molle I^tuni cs ; Runcj nunc properandus, 
 et ac^i 
 Fir.gendus sine fine rota. Fers. 
 
 4. ' S'jd /uid viok ntius aure tyranni ? Juv» 
 
 5. Karus enim fernie se7ii:U3 communi.% ia iLa 
 Fortuna. Jd, 
 
-^, NEW LATIN PRIMER. ' 247 
 
 6. Nam lingua m:\li pars pessima servi. Id. 
 
 7. SeiupC'- inops, quicunque cm pit. Claud. 
 
 8. Ipsa quidein virtus piedum bibi. Id. 
 
 16. 
 
 Pretium sibi, h. e. sul pretii, explained above Chap, xiii R. 
 
 9. Sennit Alexander, testa cum vidi: in iiia 
 M.'.gnum habitatorem, qudnlo fclicior hie qui 
 Nil cupcret, qudm^ qui totum sibi posceret orbeni. 
 
 Rule 23. 
 
 By a most elegant ellipsis any finite verb may be under- 
 stood asd inferred, &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1, Stc te Diva fiotens Cyfiri ; 
 
 Sicfratres Iitlcn<Ey lucida ddera^ 
 Venlorumq ; regat paler. Hor. 
 
 2. Quern mortis timuil gradum, 
 
 Qui dccis oculis monstra natantia ; 
 Qui vidii mate turbidum, c\ 
 
 Infamea scopulos Acroceraunia ? Id. 
 Quid iaCet iit marince 
 
 Fiiiuni dicutU Thetidis sub lacrymosa Trojae 
 Funera ; ne viiilis 
 
 Culiusin cse'lcm ei Ly» iis proriperetcatervas. Id. 
 
 4. Mi' dulces dominx Musa Licymuiee 
 
 Canius ; me voluit dicerc iucicluni 
 Fulgentes oculos, et bene njutuis 
 Fidum pecius amoribus. Id. 
 
 5. — ~ Eccc, furit te rcperiie airox 
 
 Tydides melior patre : 
 Que in tu (cervus uti vallis in altera 
 Visum parte iupurn graminis immemorj 
 Sublimi/w^'/e.5 moiiis anheiitu. Id. 
 
 Lo, brave Dlomedes, son of Tydcus superior to his father, ragres to 
 find thee : from whom thou effemiriate widi panting breath shalt flee ; 
 as a hurt unmindful of its pasuire (f'^g'^t here obviously inferred froTti, 
 fugles) flies from a wolf seen in the other part of a yaUey. 
 
248 NEW LATIN PBIMER. 
 
 6. ■ — Niviia Bosphorum 
 
 Pie i.'-s fitrh.. r s it, neqae ultra 
 
 Caecu limei i. i-.t'ide f.itA ; 
 Mies 3agilt^set ce<<\''l^m fup-am 
 PATihi i cue .ds Pl^r/ius ei Italuin 
 
 kooiir Id 
 
 7. O'lU'U Divos ro.^al in pUe»ti 
 Prensn^ iE. se >, sini'd itra nubes 
 Cuijclidii Luii Aiu, neq'ie ecru fulgent 
 
 Suieiv. njutis ; 
 Olium beilj /n i sa Thrace ; 
 Otiuai Mdi fi/iure ra dccori, 
 
 Giosphe, noil geniuih nt;({uc purpura veiiale, nee 
 auio. Id. 
 
 8. Mcntemq ; lyniphalum Mareotico 
 Rt 'legit in veros timorf.s 
 
 Cgesar, ab Iiaii» v ;kiTUem 
 R -uis adurgc'vs ; a iiilter veluC 
 M 'U'j? columb.i^ -, aut lepoi'i m ciius 
 
 Venator, in cam pis nivaHs 
 iEiiioiiiae. /::/. 
 
 Cassar brought down her f Cleopatra's J m\niS.\nio\iCdXeCi with Ma- 
 reotic wine to real tears, pursuing her wkIi his gallies, &o. Here the 
 verb h twice inferred from the participle adurg'ens. 
 
 9. Maecenas a! avis ccUte regibub, 
 
 (.> e'. Pi assidium ct dulce (iecus rneum : 
 
 Sunt, quois curriculo puiver^m Oiyaipicurn 
 
 CoUegihseyi^-ya?. metaq ; ftrvidis 
 
 EutAta rotis, p .Im-q ; nobilis 
 
 Te'Taium domitios eve he re ad Decs : 
 
 Hunc^ si niobiiium turbct Q si ilium 
 
 G t:it terj^e minis tol'erc honoiibus : 
 
 lHunis si proprio ccndidii horico 
 
 Qiicquid du Libycis veriiiir ..reis. Id. Od, 1. L 
 
 10. Ilk- ei ncf.isi s it fiosuit die, 
 Q-dcunque hri.-vu n ; cl sacriUi^a manu 
 
 Procuxit, arbos in nepo'um 
 
 Pe.ni'.ieiii uppiobniimq ; pagi. Id» 
 11 Hum 6 u«fvsi.o le posiat die 
 Quiounque prinium; et sacriiegii muaiL 
 
NEW LATIN PRIMER, 24,9 
 
 Produxit, arbos, in nepotum 
 
 Perniciem, opprobriumque pagi ; 
 Ilium et parentis crediderim sui, 
 Fregisse cervicem, et penetralia 
 Spardsse nocturno cruore 
 Hospitis. O. 2. 13. 
 
 Rule 24. 
 
 Adjectives arc often elegantly used as adverbs ; and 
 are then joined with verbs in the construction) &c. 
 
 EXAMPLES. 
 
 1. At tu, nauta, vagge ne jiarce malignus arense 
 
 Ossibus et capiti inhumato 
 Pardculan^ dare. Hor. 
 Dare particulam vag-ae arense ossibus et, Sec. 
 
 2. Mon hoc jocosee conveniet iyise : 
 Quo, Musu, lencUs ? Ocsine jiervicax 
 
 Rcferre sermoriCS Deoruni. Id. 
 
 3. Mcrcari, thcunde nepos Atabiiiis, 
 Qui feros cultus hominum recentum 
 Vo^e forma^ti cuiwi. e* dcco; ee 
 
 Mtsre pjigestrae. Id 
 
 Construe voce et decorae more palaestree last of ally or immediately 
 mfter Qui, before catus fonnasti, 
 
 4. Ke^ulum et Sruu* os, animaeqne magnae 
 P-orii^^uni, Pge/io superunle, Paulum 
 Gratus m'^>\^^^l refer am Camsena, 
 
 Fabriciumque. Id 
 
 I will gratefully sing- in lofty strains of Regulus, and the Scauri, 
 and PauluS) prodigal ot" Ills great Csay useful J life, the Carthaginian 
 Hannibal conquering him at the battle of Cannce, and Fabricius. 
 
 5. Quid, quo 1 usque proximos 
 
 ReveUis agri terminos, et ultra 
 Limires clientium 
 Sails avaruf! ? Id. 
 
 Quid, what %\iiU you say ; quod usque revellis^ that you are evei: 
 plucking up, &c. 
 
259 NEW LATIN PRIMER. 
 
 6. Utcunque mecuni vos eiiiis ; liben» 
 Insanientem navita Bosphorum 
 
 Tentabo, et artniis artnles 
 Liitoris Assyrii vi:»tor. Id. 
 
 7. Fertur pudicse conjugis osculum, 
 Parvosque na :os, ut capiiis minor, 
 
 A se removisse, £t virilcm 
 
 To7'vus huimi fioauisHC vul^um. Id, 
 
 Caput here is a term of Icnu, and means the honourable condition of 
 a Roman Citizen : hence slaves ivere sai i non 'Habere cajjiit. becaiise 
 they --Mere not in that condition, and therefore ivere net potUd in the ce?i* 
 ius or tissess7Jient ,- so that ut capitis minor here tncans, as though he 
 were no long-er a Roman Citizen, hut a 7nere slave. 
 
 8. Redius vives, Licini, ntique altum 
 Senipei' ur^cndo ; ncque ditm procellas 
 Caurus horrfscis, nirnium premendo, 
 
 Linns iniquum. Id. 
 
 §, ■ Vivas in amore jocisque : 
 
 Vivt, .ule Si quid novisti rectius istis, 
 Canaidus im/iej-n : si non, his utere mecum. Id. 
 10. I, puer : alque meo ciius hjec subscribe libeJlo. Id. 
 
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