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142 NUMERALS # Rōmānī saepius quam hostēs vīcērunt, quod meliōra arma habēbant.
 * 1) Inter omnīs gentīs Rōmānī plūrimum valēbant.
 * 2) Hae cohortēs simul atque in aequiōrem regiōnem sē recēpērunt, castra sine ūllā difficultāte posuērunt.

II.
 * 1) Some nations are easily overcome by their enemies.
 * 2) Germany is much larger than Gaul.
 * 3) Were not the Romans the most powerful among the tribes of Italy?
 * 4) On account of (his) wounds the soldier dragged his body from the ditch with the greatest difficulty.
 * 5) He was able neither to run nor to fight.
 * 6) Who saved him? A certain horseman boldly undertook the matter.
 * 7) The rumors concerning the soldier’s death were not true.

LESSON LVIII NUMERALS • THE PARTITIVE GENITIVE 327. The Latin numeral adjectives may be classified as follows:

as, ūnus, one; duo, two; etc. and answering the question in what order? as, prīmus, first; secundus, second; etc.
 * 1) Cardinal Numerals, answering the question how many?
 * 1) Ordinal Numerals, derived in most cases from the cardinals
 * 1) Distributive Numerals, answering the question how many at a time? as, singulī, one at a time.

328. The Cardinal Numerals. The first twenty of the cardinals are as follows:

a. Learn also centum = 100, ducentī = 200, mīlle = 1000.

329. Declension of the Cardinals. Of the cardinals only ūnus, duo, trēs, the hundreds above one hundred, and mīlle used as a noun, are declinable.