initimarum sorores in matrimonium dedit. 3. Eorum amicitiam confirmare
voluit quo facilius Romanis bellum inferret. 4. Germani et Galli non
erant eiusdem gentis. 5. Omnes fere Germani erant magnis corporum
viribus.[1] 6. Galli qui oppidum fortiter defendebant saxa ingentis
magnitudinis de muro iaciebant. 7. Cum Caesar ab exploratoribus
quaereret qui illud oppidum incolerent, exploratores responderunt eos
esse homines summa virtute et magno consilio. 8. Moenia viginti pedum
a sinistra parte, et a dextra parte flumen magnae altitudinis oppidum
defendebant. 9. Cum Caesar in Galliam pervenisset, erat rumor Helvetiis
in animo esse iter per provinciam Romanam facere. 10. Caesar, ut eos ab
finibus Romanis prohiberet, munitionem [2]multa milia passuum longam
fecit.

II. 1. Caesar was a general of much wisdom and great boldness, and very
skillful in the art of war. 2. The Germans were of great size, and
thought that the Romans had no power. 3. Men of the highest courage
were left in the camp as (for) a guard to the baggage. 4. The king's
daughter, who was given in marriage to the chief of a neighboring state,
was a woman of very beautiful appearance. 5. The soldiers will construct
a ditch of nine feet around the camp. 6. A river of great width was
between us and the enemy.

[Footnote 1: From /vis\. (Cf. Sec. 468.)]

[Footnote 2: Genitives and ablatives of description are adjective
phrases. When we use an _adverbial_ phrase to tell _how long_ or
_how high_ or _how deep_ anything is, we must use the accusative
of extent. (Cf. Sec. 336.) For example, in the sentence above
/multa milia passuum\ is an adverbial phrase (accusative of
extent) modifying /longam\. If we should omit /longam\ and say
_a fortification of many miles_, the genitive of description
(an adjective phrase) modifying /munitionem\ would be used, as
/munitionem multorum milium passuum\.]

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LESSON LXXVII

REVIEW OF AGREEMENT, AND OF THE GENITIVE, DATIVE, AND ACCUSATIVE

_448._ There are four agreements:

1. That of the predicate noun or of the appositive with the noun to
which it belongs (Secs. 76, 81).

2. That of the adjective, adjective pronoun, or participle with its
noun (Sec. 65).

3. That of a verb with its subject (Sec. 28).

4. That of a relative pronoun with its antecedent (Sec. 224).

_449._ The relation expressed by the /genitive\ is, in general, denoted
in Engli