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132 EXERCISES 298.

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 295.

I. servātus est. fortūna. I.castrīs mānsit.
 * 1) Aliquis dē ponte in flūmen dēcidit sed sine ūllō perīculō
 * 1) Est vērō in vītā cuiusque hominis aliqua bona
 * 1) Nē mīlitum quidem quisquam
 * 1) Sī quem meae domī vidēs, iubē eum discēdere.

potest. cōpiās suās trāns pontem trādūxerat. armātus in fluctūs dēsiluit et incolumis ad alteram rīpam oculōs vertit.
 * 1) Sī quis pontem tenet, nē tantus quidem exercitus capere urbem
 * 1) Urbs nōn satis mūnīta erat et merīdiē rēx quīdam paene
 * 1) Dēnique mīles quīdam

virtūs Rōmānus semper placuit. 1 magna et paene par Rōmae ipsī; nunc vērō moenia dēcidērunt et pauca vestīgia urbis illīus reperīrī possunt. 1 amat, et aliquibus vērō nōmen rēgis est invīsum.
 * 1) Quisque illī fortī mīlitī aliquid dare dēbet.
 * 2) Tanta vērō
 * 1) Ōlim Corinthus erat urbs satis
 * 1) Quisque lībertātem

II.
 * 1) If you see a certain Cornelius at Corinth, send him to me.

unharmed.
 * 1) Almost all the soldiers who fell down into the waves were
 * 1) Not even at Pompeii did I see so great a fire.

one was praising his own work. country? I did not see any one. the bridge with Horatius, the commonwealth will be in the greatest danger.
 * 1) I myself was eager to tell something to some one.
 * 2) Each
 * 1) Did you see some one in the
 * 1) Unless some one will remain on

words.
 * 1) Observe that quīdam and quidem are different

299. How Horatius held the Bridge (Concluded)

Mox, ubi parva pars pontis mānsit, Horātius iussit comitēs discēdere et sōlus mīrā cōnstantiā impetum illius tōtius exercitūs sustinēbat. Dēnique magnō fragōre pōns in flūmen dēcīdit. Tum vērō Horātius tergum vertit et armātus in aquās dēsiluit. In eum hostēs multa tēla iēcērunt; incolumis autem per fiuctūs ad alteram rīpam trānāvit. Eī propter tantās rēs gestās populus Rōmānus nōn sōlum alia magna praemia dedit sed etiam statuam Horāti in locō pūblicō posuit.