w_ _lower_ { i:mus, -a, -um }
_lowest_
posterus, -a, -um, (posterior, -ius, { postre:mus, -a, -um }
_next_ _later_) {(postumus, -a, -um) }
_last_
superus, -a, -um, superior, -ius { supre:mus, -a, -um }
_above_ _higher_ { summus, -a, -um }
_highest_

_313._ /Plu:s\, _more_ (plural _more, many, several_), is declined as
follows:

SINGULAR PLURAL
MASC. AND FEM. NEUT. MASC. AND FEM. NEUT.
Nom. ---- plu:s plu:re:s plu:ra
Gen. ---- plu:ris plu:rium plu:rium
Dat. ---- ---- plu:ribus plu:ribus
Acc. ---- plu:s plu:ri:s, -e:s plu:ra
Abl. ---- plu:re plu:ribus plu:ribus

_a._ In the singular /plu:s\ is used only as a neuter substantive.

_314._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 296.

I. 1. Reliqui hostes, qui a dextro cornu proelium commiserant, de
superiore loco fugerunt et sese in silvam maximam receperunt. 2. In
extrema parte silvae castra hostium posita erant. 3. Plurimi captivi
ab equitibus ad Caesarem ducti sunt. 4. Caesar vero iussit eos in
servitutem tradi. 5. Postero die magna multitudo mulierum ab Romanis
in valle ima reperta est. 6. Hae mulieres maxime perterritae adventu
Caesaris sese occidere studebant. 7. Eae quoque pluris fabulas de
exercitus Romani sceleribus audiverant. 8. Fama illorum militum optima
non erat. 9. In barbarorum aedificiis maior copia frumenti reperta est.
10. Nemo crebris proeliis contendere sine aliquo periculo potest.

II. 1. The remaining women fled from their dwellings and hid themselves.
2. They were terrified and did not wish to be captured and given over
into slavery. 3. Nothing can be worse than slavery. 4. Slavery is worse
than death. 5. In the Roman empire a great many were killed because they
refused to be slaves. 6. To surrender the fatherland is the worst crime.

LESSON LVI

IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES (_Concluded_)
ABLATIVE OF THE MEASURE OF DIFFERENCE

[Special Vocabulary]

/aditus, -u:s\, m., _approach, access; entrance_
/ci:vita:s, ci:vita:tis\, f., _citizenship; body of citizens, state_
(city)
/inter\, prep, with acc., _between