-e:s
Abl. co:nsulibus legio:nibus o:rdinibus patribus -ibus

1. With the exception of the nominative, the terminations are exactly
the same as in Class I, and the base or stem is found in the same way.

2. Masculines and feminines with bases or stems in -in- and -o:n-
drop -n- and end in -o: in the nominative, as legio: (base or stem
legio:n-), o:rdo: (base or stem o:rdin-).

3. Bases or stems in -tr- have -ter in the nominative, as pater (base
or stem patr-).

4. Note how the genitive singular gives the clue to the whole
declension. _Always learn this with the nominative._

_237._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 291.

I. 1. Audisne tubas, Marce? Non solum tubas audio sed etiam ordines
militum et carros impedimentorum plenos videre possum. 2. Quas legiones
videmus? Eae legiones nuper ex Gallia venerunt. 3. Quid ibi fecerunt?
Studebantne pugnare an sine virtute erant? 4. Multa proelia fecerunt[1]
et magnas victorias et multos captivos reportaverunt. 5. Quis est
imperator earum legionum? Caesar, summus Romanorum imperator. 6. Quis
est eques qui pulchram coronam gerit? Is eques est frater meus. Ei
corona a consule data est quia summa virtute pugnaverat et a barbaris
patriam servaverat.

II. 1. Who has seen my father to-day? 2. I saw him just now (nuper).
He was hastening to your dwelling with your mother and sister. 3. When
men are far from the fatherland and lack food, they cannot be
restrained[2] from wrong[3]. 4. The safety of the soldiers is dear to
Caesar, the general. 5. The chiefs were eager to storm a town full of
grain which was held by the consul. 6. The king forbade the baggage of
the captives to be destroyed.

[Footnote 1: /proelium facere\ = _to fight a battle._]

[Footnote 2: /contineo\. Cf. Sec. 180.]

[Footnote 3: Abl. iniuria.]

LESSON XLI

THE THIRD DECLENSION : CONSONANT STEMS (_Concluded_)

[Special Vocabulary]

/calamita:s, calamita:tis\, f., _loss, disaster, defeat_ (calamity)
/caput, capitis\, n., _head_ (capital)
/flu:men, flu:minis\, n., _river_ (flume)
/labor, labo:ris\, m., _labor, toil_
/opus, operis\, n., _work, task_
/o:ra:tor, o:ra:to:ris\, m., _orator_
/ri:pa, -ae\, f., _bank_ (of a stream)
/tempus, temporis\, n., _time_ (temporal)
/terror, terro:ris\, m., _terror, fear_
/victor, victo:ris\, m., _victor_

/accipio:, accipere, acce:pi:, acceptus\, _receive, accept_
/co:nfirmo:,