(ii.) Useful Phrases for Latin Prose.—You should try gradually to put together your own phrase-book. You will find this much more useful to you than any ready-made collection. A good and simple plan is to have a special note-book for this purpose. Mark in the text as you read useful phrases, and in your note-book write the Latin on the right-hand page and a good idiomatic rendering on the left. For example, from this passage you might collect the following:—
| English. | Latin. |
|---|---|
| A chance of achieving a success. | fortuna bene gerendae rei. |
| After completing his term of service. | perfunctus militia. |
| Would make it worth their while. | operae pretium facturum. |
| Up to that time. | ad id locorum. |
| The result was not doubtful. | haud dubia res est. |
| Though the fight was so unequal. | ut in nulla pari re. |
| Some by one death and some by another. | alii alia peste. |
(iii.) HANNIBAL.—Read some good short estimate of Hannibal as a patriot, statesman, and soldier—such as may be found in Mommsen’s or Ihne’s History of Rome. If you have time, you will find much to interest you in the Hannibal (‘Heroes of the Nations’) by O’Connor Morris.
[ Demonstration IV.]
| Sentence | Kind of Sentence | Connective | Subject | Predicate | Object | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | Enlarged | Simple | Enlarged | Simple | Enlarged | |||
| Sentence III. | ||||||||
Pugnatum tamen, ut in nulla pari re, duas amplius horas; concitataet, donec dux stetisset, Romana acie. | Complex | tamen | (THE BATTLE) | — | PUGNATUM (EST) | 1. duas amplius horas (time) 2. ut in nulla pari re (manner) 3. concitata . . . Romana acie (manner) | — | — |
| Sentence IV. | ||||||||
A. Postquam is non pro vetere fama solum, sed etiam metu futuridedecoris, si sua temeritate contractae cladi superesset, obiectans sehostium telis cecidit, fusa extemplo est Romana acies. | Complex | Postquam | ACIES | Romana | FUSA EST | 1. extemplo (time) 2. Postquam is . . . cecidit (time) | — | — |
A1. Postquam is . . . cecidit | Subordinate adv. to FUSA EST in A | Postquam | is | non pro vetere . . . OBIECTANS telis | cecidit | — | — | — |
A2. si sua . . . superesset | Subordinate adv. to OBIECTANS in A1 | si | (he) | — | superesset | — | cladi | sua temeritate contractae |
[14.] Weissenborn and Müller read:—Pugnatum tamen, ut in nulla pari re, diu: duas amplius horas constitit pugna spe concitante, donec dux stetit, Romanam aciem.
[15.] i.e. needless repetition (ταὐτὸ λέγειν = to say the same thing).
[Demonstration V.]
The Happy Life.
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