ans used /liberi\ either as an
adjective, meaning _free_, or as a noun, meaning _the free_, thereby
signifying their _free-born children_. The word was never applied to
children of slaves.]

[Footnote 3: /in\ with the accusative.]

_218._ THE FAITHLESS TARPE'IA

Sabini olim cum Romanis bellum gerebant et multas victorias
reportaverant. Iam agros proximos muris vastabant, iam oppido
adpropinquabant. Romani autem in Capitolium fugerant et longe periculo
aberant. Muris validis et saxis altis credebant. Frustra Sabini tela
iaciebant, frustra portas duras petebant; castellum occupare non
poterant. Deinde novum consilium ceperunt.[4]

Tarpeia erat puella Romana pulchra et superba. Cotidie aquam copiis
Romanis in Capitolium portabat. Ei[5] non nocebant Sabini, quod ea sine
armis erat neque Sabini bellum cum feminis liberisque gerebant. Tarpeia
autem maxime amabat ornamenta auri. Cotidie Sabinorum ornamenta videbat
et mox ea desiderare incipiebat. Ei unus ex[6] Sabinis dixit, "Duc
copias Sabinas intra portas, Tarpeia, et maxima erunt praemia tua."

[Footnote 4: /consilium capere\, _to make a plan_. Why is the
_perfect_ tense used here and the imperfect in the preceding
sentences? Explain the use of tenses in the next paragraph.]

[Footnote 5: Dative with /nocebant\. (Cf. Sec. 154.)]

[Footnote 6: /ex\, _out of_, i.e. _from the nuumber of_; best
translated _of_.]

[Illustration: TARPEIA PUELLA PERFIDA]

LESSON XXXVIII

THE RELATIVE PRONOUN AND THE INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN

_219._ Sentences are _simple, compound_, or _complex_.

_a._ A _simple sentence_ is a sentence containing but one statement,
that is, one subject and one predicate: _The Romans approached the
town._

_b._ A _compound sentence_ is a sentence containing two or more
independent statements:
_The Romans approached the town_ | and | _the enemy fled._

NOTE. An independent statement is one that can stand alone; it does not
depend upon another statement.

_c._ A _complex sentence_ is a sentence containing one independent
statement and one or more dependent statements:
_When the Romans approached the town | the enemy fled._

NOTE. A dependent or subordinate statement is one that depends on or
qualifies another statement; thus _the enemy fled_ is independent, and
_when the Romans approached the town_ is dependent or subordinate.

_d._ The separate statements in a c