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Rh tĭmĭdĭtās fŭgŭendă sunt folly and cowardice are to-be-avoided.

(Of different genders) lăbŏr vŏluptāsquē dissĭmĭllĭmă sunt toil and pleasure are most-unlike.

—If the subjects of the Verb are of the same Person, the Verb is kept in that Person.

If they are of different Persons, it is put in the First Person rather than the Second or the Third, and in the Second Person rather than the Third.

(Of the same Person) ĕt terră ĕt fĕrae tremunt both the earth and the wild-beasts quake.

(Of different Persons) ĕgŏ ĕt tū vāpŭlāmŭs you and I are-beaten; tū ĕt illĕ vāpŭlātĭs you and he are-beaten.

§ 123. When one word requires another word to follow it in a particular inflexion, it is said to govern, and the following word to be governed by it. Thus, in nŏcĕt nōbīs he-is-harmful to-me, nŏcĕt is said to govern nōbīs, or to take the Dative nōbīs after it, and nōbīs is said to be governed by nŏcĕt or to be in the Dative after nŏcĕt.

§ 124. take (that is, govern) the Genitive of other Nouns. See § 143.

§ 125. and the Adverbs formed from them take the Genitive, Dative, and Ablative of Nouns.

§ 126. —All Verbs which give a complete sense by themselves, as stō I-stand, do not affect the construction of other words in the sentence.

Transitive Verbs in the Active take the Accusative of their Object, and often a Noun in some other oblique case as well.