tens from home_
Galba rure properat, _Galba hastens from the country_
Galba ruri (less commonly rure) habitat,
_Galba lives in the country_

_a._ Names of _countries_, like /Germania\, /Italia\, etc., do not
come under these exceptions. _With them prepositions must not be
omitted._

[Footnote 1: Small islands are classed with towns because they
generally have but one town, and the name of the town is the same as
the name of the island.]

_267._ The Locative Case. We saw above that the place-relation
expressed by _at_ or _in_ is regularly covered by the locative ablative.
However, Latin originally expressed this relation by a separate form
known as the _locative case_. This case has been everywhere merged in
the ablative excepting in the singular number of the first and second
declensions. The form of the locative in these declensions is like the
genitive singular, and its use is limited to names of towns and small
islands, /domi:\, _at home_, and a few other words.

_268._ RULE. Locative and Locative Ablative. _To express the /place in
which\ with names of towns and small islands, /if they are singular and
of the first or second declension\, use the locative; otherwise use the
locative ablative without a preposition; as_,

Galba Romae habitat, _Galba lives at Rome_
Galba Corinthi habitat, _Galba lives at Corinth_
Galba domi habitat, _Galba lives at home_

Here /Romae\, /Corinthi\, and /domi\ are _locatives_, being _singular_
and of the first and second declensions respectively. But in

Galba Athenis habitat, _Galba lives at Athens_,
Galba Pompeiis habitat, _Galba lives at Pompeii_

/Athenis\ and /Pompeiis\ are locative ablatives. These words can have no
locative case, as the nominatives /Athenae\ and /Pompeii\ are_plural_
and there is no plural locative case form.

_269._ The word /domus\, _home, house_, has forms of both the second and
the fourth declension. Learn its declension (Sec. 468).

_270._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 293.

I. 1. Corinthi omnia insignia auri a ducibus victoribus rapta erant.
2. Caesar Genavam exercitum magnis itineribus duxit. 3. Quem pontem
hostes cremaverant? Pontem in Rheno hostes cremaverant. 4. Pompeiis
multas Romanorum domos videre poteritis. 5. Roma consul equo veloci
rus properavit. 6. Domi consulis homines multi sedebant. 7. Imperator
iusserat legatum Athenas cum multis navibus longis navigare. 8. Ante
moe