the fatherland was a great task.

[Illustration: Corona]

LESSON XLII

REVIEW LESSON

_240._ Review the paradigms in Secs. 233, 236, 238; and decline all
nouns of the third declension in this selection.

TERROR CIMBRICUS[1]

Olim Cimbri et Teutones, populi Germaniae, cum feminis liberisque
Italiae adpropinquaverant et copias Romanas maximo proelio vicerant. Ubi
fuga legionum nuntiata est, summus erat terror totius Romae, et Romani,
graviter commoti, sacra crebra deis faciebant et salutem petebant.

Tum Manlius orator animos populi ita confirmavit:--"Magnam calamitatem
accepimus. Oppida nostra a Cimbris Teutonibusque capiuntur, agricolae
interficiuntur, agri vastantur, copiae barbarorum Romae adpropinquant.
Itaque, nisi novis animis proelium novum faciemus et Germanos ex patria
nostra sine mora agemus, erit nulla salus feminis nostris liberisque.
Servate liberos! Servate patriam! Antea superati sumus quia imperatores
nostri fuerunt infirmi. Nunc Marius, clarus imperator, qui iam multas
alias victorias reportavit, legiones ducet et animos nostros terrore
Cimbrico liberare maturabit."

Marius tum in Africa bellum gerebat. Sine mora ex Africa in Italiam
vocatus est. Copias novas non solum toti Italiae sed etiam provinciis
sociorum imperavit.[2] Disciplina autem dura laboribusque perpetuis
milites exercuit. Tum cum peditibus equitibusque, qui iam proelio
studebant, ad Germanorum castra celeriter properavit. Diu et acriter
pugnatum est.[3] Denique barbari fugerunt et multi in fuga ab equitibus
sunt interfecti. Marius pater patriae vocatus est.

[Footnote 1: About the year 100 B.C. the Romans were greatly alarmed
by an invasion of barbarians from the north known as Cimbri and
Teutons. They were traveling with wives and children, and had an
army of 300,000 fighting men. Several Roman armies met defeat, and
the city was in a panic. Then the Senate called upon Marius, their
greatest general, to save the country. First he defeated the Teutons
in Gaul. Next, returning to Italy, he met the Cimbri. A terrible
battle ensued, in which the Cimbri were utterly destroyed; but the
_terror Cimbricus_ continued to haunt the Romans for many a year
thereafter.]

[Footnote 2: _He made a levy_ (of troops) _upon_, /imperavit\ with
the acc. and the dat.]

[Footnote 3: Cf. Sec. 200. II. 2.]

LESSON XLIII

THE THIRD DECLENSION : _I_-STEMS

[Special Vocabulary]

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