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EXERCISES 127 288.

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 295.

I.
 * 1) Ego et tū in eādem urbe vīvimus.
 * 2) Iter ipsum nōn timēmus sed ferās saevās quae in silvā dēnsā esse dīcuntur.
 * 3) Ōlim nōs ipsī idem iter fēcimus.
 * 4) Eō tempore multās ferās vīdimus.
 * 5) Sed nōbīs nōn nocuērunt.
 * 6) Caesar ipse scūtum dē manibus mīlitis ēripuit et in ipsam aciem properāvit.
 * 7) Itaque mīlitēs summā virtūte tēla in hostium corpora iēcērunt.
 * 8) Rōmānī quoque gravia vulnera accēpērunt.
 * 9) Dēnique hostēs terga vertērunt et ommīs in partīs fūgērunt.
 * 10) Eādem hōrā litterae Rōmam ab imperātōre ipsō missae sunt.
 * 11) Eōdem mēnse captīvī quoque in Italiam missī sunt.
 * 12) Sed multī propter vulnera iter difficile trāns montīs facere recūsābant et Genāvae esse dīcēbantur.


 * 1) Observe that in Latin we say I and you, not you and I.
 * 2) Not parts, but directions.

II.
 * 1) At Pompeii there is a wonderful mountain.
 * 2) When I was I.that place, I myself saw that mountain.
 * 3) On the same day many cities were destroyed by fire and stones from that very mountain.


 * 1) You have not heard the true story of that calamity, have you?
 * 2) On that day the very sun could not give light to men.
 * 3) You yourself ought to tell (to) us that story.

3. Cf. § 210.

289. How Horatius held the Bridge 4

Tarquinius Superbus, septimus et ultimus rēx Rōmānōrum, ubi in exsilium ab īrātīs Rōmānīs ēiectus est, ā Porsenā, rēge Etrūscōrum, auxilium petiit. Mox Porsena magnīs cum cōpiīs Rōmam vēnit, et ipsa urbs summō in perīculō erat. Omnibus in partibus exercitus Rōmānus victus erat. Iam rēx montem Iāniculum occupāverat. Numquam anteā Rōmānī tantō metū tenēbantur. Ex agrīs in urbem properabānt et summō studiō urbem ipsam mūniēbant.

4. The story of Horatius has been made familiar by Macaulay’s well-known poem “Horatius” in his Lays of Ancient Rome. Read the poem in connection with this selection.

5. The Janiculum is a high hill across the Tiber from Rome.