the king's sons and many of his men were captured.
2. There was no one who wished[4] to appoint her queen. 3. The grain
supply was always a care (for a care) to Caesar, the general. 4. I think
that the camp is ten miles distant. 5. We marched for three hours
through a very dense forest. 6. The plan [5]of making war upon the
allies was not pleasing to the king. 7. When he came to the hill he
fortified it [6]by a twelve-foot wall.

[Footnote 1: What is the force of /quam\ with superlatives?]

[Footnote 2: /urbs\ or /oppidum\, appositive to a name of a town,
takes a preposition.]

[Footnote 3: What construction is used with numerals in preference
to the partitive genitive?]

[Footnote 4: What mood? (Cf. Sec. 390.)]

[Footnote 5: Use the gerund or gerundive.]

[Footnote 6: Latin, _by a wall of twelve feet._]

LESSON LXXVIII

REVIEW OF THE ABLATIVE

_453._ The relations of the ablative are, in general, expressed in
English by the prepositions _with_ (or _by_), _from_ (or _by_), and _in_
(or _at_). The constructions growing out of these meanings are

I. Ablative rendered _with_ (or _by_):
1. Cause (Sec. 102)
2. Means (Sec. 103)
3. Accompaniment (Sec. 104)
4. Manner (Sec. 105)
5. Measure of difference (Sec. 317)
6. With a participle (ablative absolute) (Sec. 381)
7. Description or quality (Secs. 444, 445)
8. Specification (Sec. 398)

II. Ablative rendered _from_ (or _by_):
1. Place from which (Secs. 179, 264)
2. Ablative of separation (Sec. 180)
3. Personal agent with a passive verb (Sec. 181)
4. Comparison without /quam\ (Sec. 309)

III. Ablative rendered _in_ (or _at_):
1. Place at or in which (Secs. 265, 266)
2. Time when or within which (Sec. 275)

_454._ EXERCISES

I. 1. Galli locis superioribus occupatis itinere exercitum prohibere
conantur. 2. Omnes oppidani ex oppido egressi salutem fuga petere
inceperunt. 3. Caesar docet se militum vitam sua salute habere multo
cariorem. 4. Cum celerius omnium opinione pervenisset, hostes ad eum
obsides miserunt 5. Vicus in valle positus montibus altissimis undique
continetur. 6. Plurimum inter Gallos haec gens et virtute et hominum
numero valebat. 7. Secunda vigilia nullo certo ordine neque imperio e
castris egressi sunt. 8. Duabus legionibus Genavae relictis, proximo die
cum reliquis domum profectus est. 9. Erant itinera duo quibus itineribus
Helvetii domo exire p