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I90 GENITIVE, DATIVE, ACCUSATIVE 451. The accusative case corresponds, in general, to the English objective. It is used to express
 * 1) The direct object of a transitive verb (§ 37).
 * 2) The predicate accusative together with the direct object after verbs of making, choosing, falling, showing, and the like (§ 392).
 * 3) The subject of the infinitive (§ 214).
 * 4) The object of prepositions that do not govern the ablative (§ 340).
 * 5) The duration of time and the extent of space (§ 336).
 * 6) The place to which (§§ 263, 266).

452.

I.
 * 1) Mīlitēs quōs vīdimus dīxērunt imperium bellī esse Caesaris imperātōris.
 * 2) Helvētiī statuērunt quam maximum numerum equōrum et carrōrum cōgere.
 * 3) Tōtīus Galliae Helvētiī plūrimum valuērunt.
 * 4) Multās hōrās ācriter pugnātum est neque quisquam poterat vidēre hostem fugientem.
 * 5) Virī summae virtūtis hostīs decem mīlia passuum īnsecūtī sunt.
 * 6) Caesar populō Rōmānō persuāsit ut sē cōnsulem creāret.
 * 7) Victōria exercitūs erat semper imperātōrī grātissima.
 * 8) Trīduum iter fēcērunt et Genāvam, in oppidum hostium, pervēnērunt.
 * 9) Caesar audīvit Germānōs bellum Gallīs intulisse.
 * 10) Magnō ūsuī mīlitibus Caesaris erat quod priōribus proeliīs sēsē exercuerant.

II.
 * 1) One of the king’s sons and many of his men were captured.
 * 2) There was no one who wished to appoint her queen.
 * 3) The grain supply was always a care (for a care) to Cæsar, the general.
 * 4) I think that the camp is ten miles distant.
 * 5) We marched for three hours through a very dense forest.
 * 6) The plan of making war upon the allies was not pleasing to the king.
 * 7) When he came to the hill he fortified it by a twelve-foot wall.