f these are the Germans_
Decem milia hostium interfecta sunt
_Ten thousand_ (lit. _thousands_) _of the enemy were slain_
Una ex captivis erat soror regis
_One of the captives was the king's sister_

_332._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 297.

I. 1. Caesar maximam partem aedificiorum incendit. 2. Magna pars
munitionis aqua fluminis deleta est. 3. Galli huius regionis quinque
milia hominum coegerant. 4. Duo ex meis fratribus eundem rumorem
audiverunt. 5. Quis Romanorum erat clarior Caesare? 6. Quinque cohortes
ex illa legione castra quam fortissime defendebant. 7. Hic locus aberat
aequo spatio[1] ab castris Caesaris et castris Germanorum. 8. Caesar
simul atque pervenit, plus commeatus ab sociis postulavit. 9. Nonne
mercatores magnitudinem insulae cognoverant? Longitudinem sed non
latitudinem cognoverant. 10. Pauci hostium obtinebant collem quem
exploratores nostri viderunt.

II. 1. I have two brothers, and one of them lives at Rome. 2. Caesar
stormed that very town with three legions. 3. In one hour he destroyed a
great part of the fortification. 4. When the enemy could no longer[2]
defend the gates, they retreated to a hill which was not far distant.[3]
5. There three thousand of them bravely resisted the Romans.[4]

[Footnote 1: Ablative of the measure of difference.]

[Footnote 2: Not /longius\. Why?]

[Footnote 3: Latin, _was distant by a small space._]

[Footnote 4: Not the accusative.]

LESSON LIX

NUMERALS (_Continued_) : THE ACCUSATIVE OF EXTENT

[Special Vocabulary]

/agmen, agminis\, n., _line of march, column_;
/pri:mum agmen\, _the van_;
/novissimum agmen\, _the rear_
/atque\, /ac\, conj., _and_; /atque\ is used before vowels and
consonants, /ac\ before consonants only. Cf. /et\ and /-que\
/concilium, conci'li:\, n., _council, assembly_
/Helve:tii:, -o:rum\, m., _the Helvetii_, a Gallic tribe
/passus, passu:s\, m., _a pace_, five Roman feet;
/mi:lle passuum\, _a thousand (of) paces_, a Roman mile
/qua: de: causa:\, _for this reason, for what reason_
/va:llum, -i:\, n., _earth-works, rampart_

/cado:, cadere, cecidi:, ca:su:rus\, _fall_ (decadence)
/de:do:, de:dere, de:didi:, de:ditus\, _surrender, give up_;
with a reflexive pronoun, _surrender one's self, submit_, with the
dative of the indirect object
/premo:, premere, pressi:, pressus\, _press hard, harass_
/vexo:, vexa:re, vexa:vi:, vexa:tus