(Asking for information. Implying nothing as to
the answer expected.)
2. _Is he not coming?_ (Expecting the answer _yes_.)
3. _He isn't coming, is he?_ (Expecting the answer _no_.)

These three forms are rendered in Latin as follows:

1. Venitne? _is he coming?_
2. Nonne venit? _is he not coming?_
3. Num venit? _he isn't coming, is he?_

_a._ -ne, the question sign, is usually added to the verb, which
then stands first.

_b._ We learned in Sec. 56.b that _yes_-or-_no_ questions are
usually answered by repeating the verb, with or without a negative.
Instead of this, /ita\, /vero\, /certe\, etc. (_so, truly,
certainly_, etc.) may be used for _yes_, and /non\, /minime\, etc.
for _no_ if the denial is emphatic, as, _by no means_, _not at all_.

_211._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 290.

I. 1. Nonne habebat Cornelia ornamenta auri? Habebat. 2. Num Sextus
legatus scutum in dextro bracchio gerebat? Non in dextro, sed sinistro
in bracchio Sextus scutum gerebat. 3. Frustra bella multa ab Gallis
gesta erant. 4. Ubi oppidum a perfido Sexto occupatum est, oppidani
miseri gladio interfecti sunt. 5. Id oppidum erat plenum frumenti.
6. Nonne Sextus ab oppidanis frumentum postulavit? Vero, sed ii
recusaverunt frumentum dare. 7. Cur oppidum ab Sexto deletum est? Quia
frumentum recusatum est. 8. Ea victoria non dubia erat. 9. Oppidani
erant defessi et armis egebant. 10. Num fugam temptaverunt? Minime.

II. 1. Where was Julia standing? She was standing where you had ordered.
2. Was Julia wearing any ornaments? She had many ornaments of gold.
3. Did she not attempt flight when she saw the danger? She did. 4. Who
captured her? Galba captured her without delay and held her by the left
arm. 5. She didn't have the lady's gold, did she? No, the gold had been
taken by a faithless maid and has been brought back.

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Fourth Review, Lessons XXVII-XXXVI, Secs. 513-516

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LESSON XXXVII

CONJUGATION OF _POSSUM_ : THE INFINITIVE USED AS IN ENGLISH

[Special Vocabulary]

/neque\ or /nec\, conj., _neither_, _nor_, _and ... not_;
/neque ... neque\, _neither ... nor_
/castellum, -i:\, n., _redoubt, fort_ (castle)
/coti:die:\, adv., _daily_
cesso:, cessa:re, cessa:vi:, cessa:tus, _cease_, with the infin.

/incipio:, incipere, ince:pi:, inceptus\, _begin_ (incipient),
wit