r.

_260._ Masculine nouns end in -us, neuters in -u:. The genitive ends
in -u:s.

_a._ Feminine by exception are /domus\, _house_; /manus\, _hand_;
and a few others.

PARADIGMS

[Transcriber's Note:
The "Stems" are missing in the printed book. They have been supplied
from the inflectional table in the Appendix.]

adventus, cornu:,
m., _arrival_ n., _horn_
STEMS adventu- cornu-
BASES advent- corn-

SINGULAR TERMINATIONS
MASC. NEUT.
Nom. adventus cornu: -us -u:
Gen. adventu:s cornu:s -u:s -u:s
Dat. adventui: (u:) cornu: -ui: (u:) -u:
Acc. adventum cornu: -um -u:
Abl. adventu: cornu: -u: -u:

PLURAL
Nom. adventu:s cornua -u:s -ua
Gen. adventuum cornuum -uum -uum
Dat. adventibus cornibus -ibus -ibus
Acc. adventu:s cornua -u:s -ua
Abl. adventibus cornibus -ibus -ibus

1. Observe that the base is found, as in other declensions, by
dropping the ending of the genitive singular.

2. /lacus\, _lake_, has the ending -ubus in the dative and ablative
plural; /portus\, _harbor_, has either -ubus or -ibus.

3. /cornu:\ is the only neuter that is in common use.

_261._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 293.

I. 1. Ante adventum Caesaris veloces hostium equites acrem impetum in
castra fecerunt. 2. Continere exercitum a proelio non facile erat.
3. Post adventum suum Caesar iussit legiones ex castris duci. 4. Pro
castris cum hostium equitatu pugnatum est. 5. Post tempus breve
equitatus trans flumen fugit ubi castra hostium posita erant. 6. Tum
victor imperator agros vastavit et vicos hostium cremavit. 7. Castra
autem non oppugnavit quia milites erant defessi et locus difficilis.
8. Hostes non cessaverunt iacere tela, quae paucis nocuerunt. 9. Post
adversum proelium principes Gallorum legatos ad Caesarem mittere
studebant, sed populo persuadere non poterant.

II. 1. Did you see the man-of-war on the lake? 2. I did not see it
(_fem_.) on the lake, but I saw it in the harbor. 3. Because of the
strong wind the sailor forbade his brother to sail. 4. Caesar didn't
make an attack on the cavalry on the right wing, did he? 5. No, he made
an attack on the left wing. 6. Who taught your swift horse to obey?
7. I