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 DRILL EXERCISES 119

A learned teacher is sometimes not dcar to hoys. Our teacher is learned. Boys are not learncd. My aunt is not learncd. 15ut we boys love our teacher. And my aunt likes to hsten when a learned man tells about the ancient P>ritons. There-were^ great forests in ancient Britain. But thcre-were not many beeches in the British forests. So Gaius JuUus afifirms. There were niany wolves and bears in the great forests of ancient Britain.

§ 17. {Agfyement.o/ AJjectives co?itinued.)

Were the Roman sailors lazy? Gaius Juhus does not blame (§ 14) the Roman sailors. He praises'^ the courage of his sailors. Roman farmers were active, as a Roman poet affirms. There were niany Roman sailors (say tfiany sailors Roman') on the vessels of Gaius^ Julius. Roman vessels were-able to sail to Britain and round the British coast. The rains of Britain were hideous then/ as they are now.* The small pearls of the British ocean were mostly (§ 13) dark or blue.

§ 18. {Past Jm-perfect Indicative 0/^ sum' and the ist Conjuga- tion.)

Proximo anno in Cantio eram. Proximo anno in Cantio eras. Proxiino anno in Cantio erat. Proximo anno in Cantio eramus. Proximo anno in Cantio eratis. Proximo anno in Cantio erant.

exercise ar« those which luwe actually occurred in ihe lext of the slory.
 * The only forms of ihe ['ai^t Iiii|jerrect needcil fur this and the foUowing

" Use the verb laudu, ' I piaise ' {Preparatiotis § 13). " (jaius forms Gen. Gai, Dat. Gai5.


 * Remember that ' then ' and ' now ' are Adverbs.